It has been acknowledged that the physiological effects of dietary fiber are an exceedingly complex matter which requires a multidisciplinary research effort.
The present volume originated from the workshop "e;Transduction in Biological Sys- tems,"e; held at the Marine Biological Station of the Universidad de Valparaiso, Mon- temar, Chile, May 23-30, 1988, and contains contributions from most of the partici- pants in the workshop.
When we were setting the theme of "e;infection control dilemmas and practical solutions"e; for this symposium, we asked ourselves a basic question: What are some of the most vexing problems and situations facing the hospital microbiologist- epidemiologist team in today's world of opportunistic and new infectious diseases unheard of as common pathogenic occurrences 10 years ago?
Perhaps no scientific field in recent years has gained in techniques and applications as much as molecular biology, and it is certainly no ex- aggeration to*say that among all the applications of molecular biology, hematology in general, and hemopoiesis in particular, have benefited most.
The characterization of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that mediate inflammation provides a foundation that supports future studies that will de- fine mechanisms more intimately.
Platelet-activating factor (PAF) is the commonly used name for a group of potent biologically active, ether-linked phospholipids, the alkylacetylglycerophospho- cholines.
This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio- medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate system of cells and molecular moieties derived from those cells which constitute the RES.
The modem microbiologist is often a real specialist who has difficulty under- standing and applying many of the techniques beyond those in his or her own immediate field.
It has been known for a long time that the majority of plant viruses contain RNA and in the past decade and a half it has been realized that many have genomes consisting of three molecules of single-stranded RNA with positive polarity.
In the first edition of The Enzymes of Biological Membranes, published in four volumes in 1976, we collected the mass of widely scattered information on membrane-linked enzymes and metabolic processes up to about 1975.
This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio- medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate system of cells and molecular moieties derived from those cells which constitute the RES.
In the mid-sixties, John Robson and Christina Enroth-Cugell, without realizing what they were doing, set off a virtual revolution in the study of the visual system.
The tissue culture approach to the study of membrane properties of excitable cells has progressed beyond the technical problems of culture methodology.
Since the publication of the second volume of Comparative Psychology by Warden, Warner, and Jenkins (1940), there has not been a comprehensive review of invertebrate learning capacities.
The Infant Primate Research Laboratory at the University of Washington was conceived in 1970 as a small research Wlit primarily for support of two individual's interests in early develop- ment of nonhuman primates.
