More than 10 years ago, the discovery of cyclin-dependent ki- nases (Cdks) ushered in a new era in the understanding of cell proliferation and its control.
This book contains all invited contributions of an interdisciplinary workshop of the UNESCO working group on systems analysis of the European and North American region entitled "e;Stochastic Phenomena and Chaotic Behaviour in Complex Systems"e;.
This book has a similar subject content to the author's previous Flow in Wood but with substantial updating due to the abundance of research in the wood science field since 1971.
Die Dekors auf den Gehäusen tropischer Meeresschnecken sind nicht nur beeindruckend schön, sondern sie erzählen auch ein Stück biologischer Entwicklungsgeschichte.
With one new volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of botany.
Currently, the cellular and molecular mechanisms governing the development and regulation of the vasculature are studied in- tensely and the field is rapidly progressing.
Mucosal immunity encompasses a broad field of research that includes areas of epithelial cell and molecular biology, molecular and cellular immunology, microbiology, virology, and vaccinology.
In addition to the traditional cytogenetics still used as the basic methodology for everyday clinical diagnosis, new molecular cytogenetic techniques provide a useful basis for routine diagnosis.
Interest in the study of the biology of aging especially as it relates to humans has increased steadily in the last 50 years and continues today to be at the forefront of experimental biology.
Researchers may find themselves confronted with proteases, either because they play an essential role in a particular process they are studying, or because they interfere with that process.
Standard molecular biology techniques are used widely in biomedical re- search and have had a major impact on the understanding of physiologic processes and disease mechanisms.
The essence of combinatorial chemistry or techniques involving "e;molecular diversity"e; is to generate enormous populations of molecules and to exploit appropriate screening techniques to isolate active components contained in these libraries.
It is important, indeed necessary, we believe, that the study of the higher brain func- tions be introduced by a brief account of the evolution of the philosophical thinking and scientific researches on cognition.
"e;Protein Structure Analysis - Preparation and Characterization"e; is a compilation of practical approaches to the structural analysis of proteins and peptides.
This book begins with the physical and biological characterization of the four North American deserts and a description of the primary adaptations of plants to environmental stress.
Novel molecular motifs named Immunoreceptor Tyrosine-based Inhibition Motifs (ITIMs) have recently been recognized in the intracytoplasmic domains of a still-increasing number of receptors which control cell activation and proliferation.
Proper development and differentiation of B lymphocytes is es- sential to ensure that an organism has the ability to mount an effective humoral immune response against foreign antigens.
Since antibodies tagged with markers have been developed, immunocytochemistry has become the method of choice for identifying tissue substances or for the localisation of nucleic acid in tissue by in situ hybridisation.
New techniques and updated protocols for the detection and analysis of biomolecules - proteins, glycoproteins and nucleic acids - are presented in the second edition of this successful laboratory manual.
Pore-forming toxins are virulence factors produced by a great variety of pathogenic bacteria ranging from the Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus to the Gram-negative Helicobacter pylory.
Die menschliche Gesellschaft ist durch moderne wissenschaftliche Verfahren der Klimamodellierung in der Lage, Vorhersagen des zukünftigen Klimas zu treffen.
Craniofacial development is a multistep and intricate process initially involving a number of inductive interactions that control neural and neural crest development, which are followed by a series of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions that control outgrowth, patterning, and skeletal differentiation.
The last one or two decades have witnessed an increased interest in to- pographic Rossby waves, both from a theoretical computational as well as an observational point of view.
Modern molecular technology in the so-called life sciences (biology as weil as medicine) allows today to approach and manipulate living beings in ways and to an extent wh ich not too long aga seemed Utopian.
The volume is divided into four sections, the first of which, Genome Sequences and Beyond, illustrates the impact of genome-based information and techniques on research ranging from model organisms like yeast to less-studied basal fungal lineages.
This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the work- shop "e;Modelling of Patterns in Space and Time"e;, organized by the 80nderforschungsbereich 123, "e;8tochastische Mathematische Modelle"e;, in Heidelberg, July 4-8, 1983.
With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.
Recovery of mimic function after facial nerve transection is poor: the successful regrowth of axotomized motoneurons to their targets is compromised by (i) poor axonal navigation and excessive collateral branching, (ii) abnormal exchange of nerve impulses between adjacent regrowing axons and (iii) insufficient synaptic input to facial motoneurons.
