Biochemistry

Much of the recent spectacular progress in the biological sciences can be at- tributed ot the ability to isolate, analyze, and structurally characterize proteins and peptides which are present in cells and cellular organelles in only very small amounts.

This book the second volume in the "e;Springer Series in Biophysics"e; col- lects together contributions to the conference on "e;Biophysics and Syn- chrotron Radiation"e; held in July 86 at Frascati.

Arachidonic acid metabolites are known to playa regulatory role in a number of biological systems, in which they function as microenviron- mental hormones and intracellular signal mediators.

All life is based on big molecules, scientifically called "e;mac- romolecules"e;.

On three occasions and at different locations, conferences were held to honor the eightieth birthday of Professor Herbert Frohlich: on the 18th December, 1985, in Liverpool, England; on the 14th February, 1986, in Stuttgart, Germany; and on the 8th March, 1986, on the Palm Coast, Florida.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Gangliosides and Modu- lation of Neuronal Functions"e; was held at the University of Stutt- gart-Hohenheim, Federal Republic of Germany, on October 20 - 24, 1986.

This book brings together various contributions aimed at the elucida- tion of the structural and functional organization of the bacterial nucleoid.

The Editorial Board and the Publishers of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology wish to express their profound grief at the untimely death of Professor Peter Baker.

This volume is a continuation of two prior books on advanced electron microscope techniques.

The strong trend in the Biological Sciences towards a quantitative characterization of processes has promoted an increased use of thermo- dynamic reasoning.

The 12th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances was held from 26th to 31st August 1985 in Heidelberg, F.

The close association between blood glucose control and the well-being of the patient, as well as the risk for the development of the "e;late"e; complications of 3 diabetes, make it necessary to attain near normalisation of blood glucosel- ).

The organization of genomes in higher organisms has been studied extensively in recent years.

Cells do not normally live as single entities but are grouped together in specific functional and structural configurations in various tissues.

The subject of this book is the physico-chemical theory of the origin of life.

This book should be regarded as the continuation to my previous book Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin Embryo, edited by the Academic Press in 1973, rather than as a new edition.

The aim of this book is to give a comprehensive description of the basic methods used in the ultraviolet spectroscopy of proteins, to discuss new trends and development of these methods, and to analyze their different applications in the study of various aspects of protein structure and dynamics.

During the past decade we have witnessed not only an increase in knowledge of the "e;traditional"e; biophysical problems, but also an understanding of the molecular basis of various biological phenomena.

During its short 20 year history High Performance Liquid Chro- matography (HPLC) has won itself a firm place amongst the instrumental methods of analysis.

Until some years ago serum or crude tissue extracts were used pre- dominantly or exclusively as media supplements for the cultivation of cells.

The topic of this Mosbach Colloquium was meant as a question to begin with.

This book contains the invited papers of an international symposium on synergetics; which was held at Schlol3 Elmau, Bavaria, FRG, April 27 to May 1, 1981.

The essential features of constitution, configuration, and conformation in carbo- hydrate chemistry, so well established in the .

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In 1958, a single volume in the original series of this Encyclopedia adequately summarized the state of knowledge about plant carbohydrates.

To comment at length on the importance of the benzodiazepines seems superfluous within the scope of this preface.

Herbicides are part of modern agricultural production systems and therefore contribute significantly to the economy of agricultural products.

The purpose of the present volume, the first of two on the pharmacology, biochemistry, and physiology of cyclic nucleotides, is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology on the nature and role of these important chemical regulators.

The growing interest in the field of biological membranes in recent years is documented by the very large number of articles, reviews, journals and books which are appearing in this field.

No one has counted the enzymes in the human organism, and probably their profuse number can only be estimated from the restrictions the finite mass of genetic material imposes.

This book contains the invited papers of the interdisciplinary workshop on "e;Stochastic Nonlinear Systems in Physics, Chemistry and Biology"e; held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), University of Bielefeld, West Germany, October 5-11, 1980.

In a number of recent biology meetings, plant growth factors have been a favorite topic.

Nitrogen and sulfur compounds are continuously synthetized, degraded and converted into other forms in nature.

Proceedings of the Meeting on Theory and Application of Ion Selective Electrodes in Physiology and Medicine, held at Dortmund on July 28-30, 1980

This is the first of the set of three volumes in the Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, that will cover the area of the hormonal regulation of plant growth and development.