Biology, life sciences

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In order to provide a functional organisation of the various biochemical processes, the intracellular environment is subdivided into compartments formed by organelles.

Cytochromes c are haemoproteins which carry out electron transfer in a wide variety of biological systems, necessitating different kinds of cytochrome c to fulfill different biological roles.

The present new version of this popular laboratory manual is at the same time the first one of this text in the English language - and this makes me even a little proud, as it reminds me of probably the first collection of monoclonal recipes in English, written by myself, which circulated for a couple of years in many laboratories.

Oral immunization has a fascinating and frequently successful history, yet it has been largely overshadowed by other immunization methods.

An overview of speciation theory reveals an increasingly held view that many events leading to the origin of new species occur in transient, unstable populations.

The plasma membrane forms the living barrier between the cell and its surroundings.

Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology helps biologists, physiologists, and biochemists keep track of the extensive literature in the field.

The concept of controlled release has attracted increasing attention over the last two decades, with the applications of this technology proliferating in diverse fields in- cluding medicine, agriculture and biotechnology.

I have spent less time in the arid zone in the last few years than I did during the 1960's, 1970's and early 1980's.

Properly treated sewage effluent becomes an alternative source of irrigation water, and at the same time it provides a convenient means of sewage disposal through land treatment to prevent potential health and environmental hazards caused by uncontrolled flow of wastewater.

The aim of electron probe microanalysis of biological systems is to identify, localize, and quantify elements, mass, and water in cells and tissues.

Fascinated by the diversity of living organisms, humans have always been curious about its origin.

It is common practice to publish conference papers in books or monograph series.

In March, 1983 a workshop on Pollutants in Porous Media was hosted by the Institute of Soils and Water of the Agricultural Research Organi- zation in Bet Dagan, Israel.

In his lectures my teacher Karl Magdefrau used to say that one only becomes a real plant scientist when one enters a tropical rainforest.

Hypersaline environments are the principal habitats of petroleum deposition.

Hepatic cells are involved in the metabolization and elimination of a variety of endogenous and exogenous substances.

Not everyone is a friend of the manifold abbreviations that have by now beCome a part of the scientific language of medicine.

Protein engineering has had considerable impact on basic and applied research in biochemistry and molecular biology.

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The acetylcholine nicotinic receptor is an ionic channel whose aperture is directly controlled by acetylcholine.

Mechanisms of resistance to plant viruses are diverse, and probably involve different types of recognition events.

This NATO Advanced Research Workshop held 25-30 September, 1988 at the Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy, was the first international meeting of its kind to be devoted solely to cell separation in plants.

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After the discovery of the function of MHC molecules, namely to provide the context for T cell recognition of foreign antigens, in 1974 Zinkernagel and Doherty made the first drawing of MHC+X (Fig.

Natural product chemistry has undergone an explosive growth during the latter half of the current century.

In dem Buch wird ein neues Verfahren, die elektromagnetische Artikulographie (EMA), vorgestellt, das erstmals eine direkte, medizinisch ungefährliche Untersuchung der Mundmotorik beim Sprechen erlaubt.

In this volume the contributions of the 2nd International EBSA (European Biophysical Societies Association) Symposium devoted to the biophysical and biochemical aspects of the structure and interaction of cytoskeletal and extracellular proteins are presented.

This is the first book to summarize experimental results from the new, rapidly expanding field of research into the calcium channel in cell membrane.

Der Band 8 des bewährten und erfolgreichen Laborhandbuches für Analytiker stellt aktuelle Methoden der chemischen, klinisch-chemischen und Umweltanalytik praxisnah dar.

This manual on "e;Dynamics of Membrane Proteins and Cellular Energetics"e; is the result of a FEBS-CNRS Course held in Grenoble and Besanc;{on in September 1987.

As in other volumes in the series, this newest volume conveys up-to-date knowledge in a clear and straightforward manner.

Neural networks are not rigidly wired but rather highly plastic structures, the functional architecture of which can be actively reorganized in response to external or internal events.

This volume arises from an International Symposium on Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment held in Canberra, Australia, in September 1987.

Die Spektroradiometrie hat durch die Verfügbarkeit empfindlicher Strahlungsempfänger und neuartiger Strahlungsquellen in den letzten Jahrzehnten für alle Spektralbereiche an Bedeutung gewonnen.

"e;Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis - 1988"e; - contains selected contributions on modern protein- analytical techniques as presented by speakers at the Seventh International Conference on "e;Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis"e;, held from July 3rd to July 8th, 1988 in Berlin.

Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization.

Environmental pollution raises serious concern worldwide about effects on human health.

Pathologie, Klinische Zytologie, Histochemie, Onkologie, Hämatologie, Medizinische Informatik Das Buch beschreibt die Grundlagen und wichtige Anwendungen stereologisch-morphometrischer Methoden sowie der rechnergestützten Bildverarbeitung auf dem Gebiet der klinischen Zytologie und Histopathologie.

In view of the increasing problems of waste disposal in the Netherlands, plans were made to pipeline the waste to the Ems-Dollard estuary.

If you want practical information on how to use this book please refer to "e;Note to the Readers"e; p.

Traditional Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years by a large population.

Cellular glycoconjugates and their specific receptors, e.

Biological membranes are often effected by diseases.