This book aims to understand the inherent circadian cycles of biological processes and their role in maintaining health and healing a variety of diseases.
Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer in Response to Chemotherapy, Volume 158 of the Advances in Cancer Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting chapters on timely topics, including Epigenetically Programmed Resistance to Chemotherapy and Promotion of Immune Evasion in Cancer, A Role for the Epigenome in Cancer Cell Drug Tolerance, Histone Methylation and X Chromosomal Genes in Metastasis of Breast Cancer, Targeting Epigenetic Regulation Using Small Molecule Inhibitors, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors as Sanguine Epigenetic Therapeutics against Pugnacious Lung Cancer, From ecology to oncology: To understand cancer stem cell dormancy, ask a Brine shrimp (Artemia), and more.
T cells play a vital role mediating adaptive immunity, a specific acquired resistance to an infectious agent produced by the introduction of an antigen.
This book examines detailed experimental and computational approaches for the analysis of many aspects vital to the understanding of membrane protein structure and function.
This volume focuses on the recent advances in understanding plasma membrane organization and function beginning with simple systems and extending to specialized membrane domains of vertebrate cells.
International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology presents comprehensive reviews and current advances in cell and molecular biology, and includes articles that address the structure and control of gene expression, nucleocytoplasmic interactions, control of cell development and differentiation, and cell transformation and growth.
The Immunological Synapse, Part A, Volume 173 in the Methods in Cell Biology series provides state-of-the-art methods for the study of the immunological synapse.
Revealing Uncharted Biology with Single Cell Multiplex Proteomic Technologies: ApplicationsHealthy tissues and organs rely on the precise coordination of diverse cell types, each responding to external and internal signals.
Pulmonary diseases are the major cause of human morbidity, taxing the health care system due to disease prevalence, chronicity, and social and fiscal costs.
This volume features up-to-date protocols for the isolation, preservation, and validation of various cell sources comprising large and small animal models, examining the impact of cell transplantation on acute and chronic liver diseases.
Jan Hormann zeigt am Beispiel von Cyclen-basierten Kupferkomplexen die Neuentwicklung und Optimierung von künstlichen Nucleasen, wobei besonderer Fokus auf die synthetische Arbeit und biochemischer Evaluation der Nucleasen gelegt wird.
Originally published in 1982 The Awakening Earth explores the idea of the Earth as a collective, self-regulatory living organism, and considers in this context, the function of the human race.
Introduces Groundbreaking Approaches for Assessing Lectin Function Lectins and their ligands are under quite a heavy microscope due to their potential applications to pharmacology, immunology, cancer therapy, and agriculture.
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are proteolytic enzymes believed to be involved in many physiological and pathological processes associated with inflammatory reactions.
TGF-beta, originally identified as a transforming growth factor with similar properties, is now known to exist as a family of factors with similar properties.
Sterol Regulation of Ion Channels, Volume 80, the latest in the Current Topics in Membranes series provides outstanding content to the scientific community on relevant topics that relate to the broad field of membranes.
Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 110, the latest release in this renowned series that provides a comprehensive and authoritative review in microbiology, includes updated chapters on Multi-species biofilms for resource recovery from wastewater, Chemical imaging of biofilms with luminescent sensors, Advances in yeast fermentation biotechnology, Bacterial evasion of host defense systems, A genomic analysis on stress-responses in C.
Inflammation, once considered a physiological response to foreign pathogens, is now recognized as a crucial pathological player in the initiation and progression of several chronic diseases, including diabetes, obesity, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and many others.
Since the first Handbook of Cell-Penetrating Peptides was prepared in 2001, the wealth of new information on the use of these peptides as transport systems has in fact served to confound the field.
This volume intends to provide a comprehensive overview on the mecha- nisms of muscle contraction and non-muscle cell motility at the molecu- lar and cellular level, not only for investigators in these fields but also for general readers interested in these topics.
This book, now in an extensively revised second edition, describes the crucial role of zinc signaling in biological processes on a molecular and physiological basis.
The Molecular Biology of Cancer, Stella Pelengaris & Michael Khan This capturing, comprehensive text, extensively revised and updated for its second edition, provides a detailed overview of the molecular mechanisms underpinning the development of cancer and its treatment.
There continues to be intense interest in the microtubule cytoskeleton; the assembly, structure and regulation of microtubules; and the numerous motors and accessory proteins that control cell cycle, dynamics, organization and transport.
A major update of a best-selling textbook that introduces students to the key experimental and analytical techniques underpinning life science research.
