Biochemistry

Sulfurtransferases: Essential Enzymes for Life stands as the first comprehensive resource on this increasingly important class of enzymes.

The second edition of Metal Ions in Biochemistry deals with the multidisciplinary subject of bio-inorganic chemistry, encompassing the disciplines of inorganic chemistry, biochemistry and medicine.

Industrial activities like textile processing and mining are typical sources of heavy metal-rich wastewaters.

This comprehensive book presents a modern concept in biophysics  based on recently published research.

Marine Ecotoxicology: Current Knowledge and Future Issues is the first unified resource to cover issues related to contamination, responses, and testing techniques of saltwater from a toxicological perspective.

Profiles of Drug Substances, Excipients, and Related Methodology, Volume 49 provides timely and pertinent information on a variety of timely topics, including Physical Profiles of Drug Substances and Excipients; Analytical Profiles of Drug Substances and Excipients; ADME Profiles of Drug Substances and Excipients; Methodology Related to the Characterization of Drug Substances and Excipients; and Methods of Chemical Synthesis.

Neurotoxicity of Halogenated Organic Compounds, Volume 10 covers three groups of Halogenated Organic Compounds (Chlorinated, Brominated, and Fluorinated Compounds) that are legacy and emerging contaminants, providing background information, characteristics, physicochemical properties, environmental contamination, and human exposure.

Interest in the biological effects of ionising radiation closely followed the identification of such radiation.

The perfect biochemistry study tool for the classroom and examinations!

This detailed volume explores methods of examining gangliosides, membrane amphiphilic lipids that are deeply involved in the modulation of the overall properties of cellular membranes, as well as of the functions of membrane-associated proteins.

Select Agents are defined in regulations through a list of names of particularly dangerous known bacteria, viruses, toxins, and fungi.

Extracellular Vesicles from Basic Research to Clinical Applications, Volume 94 covers theses lipid bilayer particles containing proteins, glycoproteins, mRNA, other small RNA species, and lipids formed and released by various pathogens.

Ecotoxicology, New Challenges and New Approaches provides the latest in new challenges for research in ecotoxicology.

This detailed volume covers diverse aspects of P2X7 receptor analysis, ranging from its molecular structure to related pharmacological and immunological tools, via its analysis in heterologous expression systems as well as assays using primary cells and whole animal models.

The identification and quantification of material present and collected at a crime scene are critical requirements in investigative analyses.

The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems.

Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, Second Edition, Volume 1: Aspartic and Metallo Peptidases is a compilation of numerous progressive research studies on proteolytic enzymes.

Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins comprises a comprehensive review of significant developments at this biology/chemistry interface.

The field of steroid hormone action has continued to expand into the realm of molecular biology at a pace even faster than most of us ever imagined.

Introduction to Systems Biology is an introductory text for undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in comprehensive biological systems.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dipeptidyl Aminopeptidases, held September 26-28, 2002, in Berlin, Germany.

Cutting across traditional subject boundaries, Principles of Ecotoxicology, Fourth Edition gives readers an integrated view of ecotoxicology, from molecules to ecosystems.

This class-tested textbook examines the basic elements of living systems: energy, chemistry, solvents, and habitats in crucial depth.

The aim of the book is to discuss the application of molecular pathology in cancer research, and its contribution in the classification of different tumors and identification of potential molecular targets, as well as how this knowledge may be translated into clinical practice, and the huge impact this field is likely to have in the next 5 to 10 years.

Phytohormones are very much involved in directing plant growth, in a coordinated fashion in association with metabolism that provides energy and the building blocks to develop the form that we recognize as plant.

The Physical Basis of Biochemistry: Solutions Manual to the Second Edition offers solutions to the problem sets from the second edition of The Physical Basis of Biochemistry.

This significantly updated and expanded new edition presents the scientific foundations of inhalation research essential to the design and conduct of toxicologic studies.

The first comprehensive book focusing on synthesis and applications of macrocyclic polyamines and their derivatives Macrocyclic polyamines are a class of widely used important compounds.

Explores the benefits and limitations of the latest high-throughput screening methods With its expert coverage of high-throughput in vitro screening methods for toxicity testing, this book makes it possible for researchers to accelerate and streamline the evaluation and risk assessment of chemicals and drugs for toxicity.

Advances in biochemistry now allow us to control living systems in ways that were undreamt of a decade ago.

This book describes the events of primary energy transduction in life processes.

This book provides essential information on improving protein folding/stability, which is a result of the balance between the intra-molecular interactions of protein functional groups and their interactions with the solvent environment.

This book presents an overview of various aspects of chromosome research, written by leading experts of the respective fields, combining classic and recent molecular biological results.

Hormones, Regulators and Hippocampus, Volume 118 in the Vitamins and Hormones serial highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters, including Thyroid hormone regulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis - putative molecular and cellular mechanisms, Synergistic gene regulation by thyroid hormone and glucocorticoid in the hippocampus, Oxytocin and vasopressin in the hippocampus, Steroid hormones and hippocampal neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain, Steroidogenic enzymes in the hippocampus: transcriptional regulation aspects, Ectonucleotidases in the hippocampus: spatial distribution and expression after ovariectomy and estradiol replacement, and much more.

energy production, environmental management, transportation, communication, computation, and education.

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) have been shown to produce changes in the endocrine system of organisms, leading to increases in cancers and abnormalities in reproductive structure and function.

"e;Its continuity of pertineence, excellence, and authority remains unbroken - a tribute to the skillful editing and writing involved.

The search for new producers of biologically active substances (BAS) against human and animal diseases continues to be an important task in biology and medicine.

A look at the methods and algorithms used to predict protein structure A thorough knowledge of the function and structure of proteins is critical for the advancement of biology and the life sciences as well as the development of better drugs, higher-yield crops, and even synthetic bio-fuels.

The cyanogenic glycosides, here defined as glycosidic derivatives of iX-hydroxynitriles, represent a rather limited class of natural products, which are widely distributed in the plant kingdom and, to a small ex- tent, even in animals.

Given the essential role that primary producers play in aquatic ecosystems, it is imperative that the potential risk of pesticides to the structure and functioning of aquatic plants is adequately assessed.

Biomedical EPR - Part B focuses on applications of EPR techniques and instrumentation, with applications to dynamics.

This book review series presents current trends in modern biotechnology.

This book covers many facets of plant selenium (Se) accumulation: molecular genetics, biochemistry, physiology, and ecological and evolutionary aspects.

This book highlights the multifunctional role of the ubiquitous molecule, melatonin, in crop plants.

Now in its thirteenth edition, Dreisbach's Handbook of Poisoning is long established as the definitive handbook of poisoning for all physicians, nurses, crisis and hotline workers, paramedics, and students.

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes volumes cover a broad range of topics, including main arrangements of the reconstituted system, namely planar lipid bilayers as well as spherical liposomes.

This book explains both the basic science and the applications of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on their clinical uses.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in and activity at the interface between physics and biology, with the realization that both subjects have a great deal to learn from and to teach to one another.