Cellular biology (cytology)

Follow an arctic fox through its day as it eats, sleeps, and cares for its young.

The grass is eaten by a mouse, that's eaten by a snake, that's eaten by a hawk.

This book explores the science behind flight.

This book explores the science behind growth.

This book looks at electricity, examining what it is, how it works, and how we use it in our daily lives.

This book looks at electrical conductors and insulators, examining what they are and how we use them.

This book looks at homes, and why living things - i.

This book looks at food, and why living things - i.

This book looks at air, and why living things - i.

How are amphibians born?

What is an invasive species?

Do you see that insect, crawling on the ground?

Have you ever seen a caterpillar?

Legs, legs, and even more legs!

What is that you can see zooming around in the sky?

Can you hear that strange noise?

What are these creepy crawlies?

Do you think a spider is an insect?

To find this creepy crawly, trying looking under a log in the park.

Let's meet a creature it's good to have around.

Whether you're watching a seed sprout, an egg hatch, or a puppy grow, the process of a new life starting is endlessly fascinating.

Introduce readers to the five senses through these colorful titles.

These titles explore the function, appearance, and purpose of some important parts of the human body.

Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is a highly prevalent condition in developed countries and is a cluster of several risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease that includes increased body mass index/waist circumference, visceral obesity, insulin resistance, hyperclycaemia, dyslipidaemia and hypertension, which are all major causes of morbidity and death.

Although research on carcinogenesis has focused more on cellular proliferation than on cell death, yet understanding the mechanism of apoptosis may have important implications for cancer therapy.

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The writing of this book is based on: 1.

Apoptosis: Involvement of Oxidative Stress and Intracellular Ca2+ Homeostasis, presents a concise synthesis of the current knowledge and recent advances in the mechanisms of apoptosis in different cells and the role of oxidative stress and Ca2+ signalling.

Phagocytosis has been at the forefront of cell biology for more than a century.

Essential processes in biology such as cell and nuclear division, development, intracellular transport and physiological response, rely on the perception of environmental and intracellular signals and their transduction to subcellular targets.

This book presents the latest findings in mechanosensitivity of the nervous system.

Phase transitions occur throughout nature.

This volume contains the lectures and seminars given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Sensor Systems for Biological Threads: The Algal Toxins Case"e;, held in Pisa, Italy in October, 2007.

Oxidants, like other aspects of life, involves tradeoffs.

It is now becoming very clear that the development and progression of tumor towards the malignant (metastatic) phenotype depends tightly on the interaction between the tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment.

Much of our knowledge of stem cells has been inferred from studies of remarkable few species.

In recent years a growing number of proteases have been identified that catalyse peptide bond hydrolysis in the plane of the cellular membrane.

Kary Mullis was awarded a Nobel Prize for inventing the PCR technique more than 15 years ago in 1993.

Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue of our body.

Cancer cells are continuously interacting with the immune system of the host.

Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond is a collection of papers presented at the XIth international congress of the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology (IAPTC&B).

Programmed cell death (PCD) plays pivotal roles in tumor progression, cancer therapeutics and resistance of tumor cells to therapy.

Few would have predicted 20 years ago that myosins constitute a superfamily with at least two-dozen classes and that these molecular motors are involved in a multitude of intracellular activities including cell division, cell movement, intracellular transport and signal transduction.

This publication was initiated on the occasion of the NATO-Advanced Study Institute (ASI) meeting "e;Stem Cells and their potential for clinical application"e; which took place from August 23 - 25, 2006 in Kyiv and from August 26 - 31, 2006 in Simeiz, Ukraine.

A volume within the Subcellular Biochemistry series is an appropriate setting for the first multi-author book devoted to the new family of antioxidant and cell signalling proteins, the peroxiredoxins.

Cancer may constitute the most extensively studied functions constitute a second line of defense that disease entity of our time.