Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques

This book is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular functions.

This books provides up-to-date reviews on current advances of the role of HSP in veterinary medicine and research.

This edited book is a compilation of findings on the molecular and cellular toxicity of nanoparticles (NPs) in animal cell, human cells, invertebrates.

This book is written to help and enable students in how to observe biological specimens in terms of viscosity, mass, elasticity and work producing elements.

This book highlights the role of the Translationally Controlled Tumor Protein (TCTP) in cell signaling, cell fate and the resulting connection to disease development.

This new volume reviews current progress on different approaches of in vivo reprogramming technology.

This volume provides an integrated account of our current understanding of the functions of D-type cyclins during development and tumorigenesis, with special emphasis on the kinase-independent functions of these proteins.

This book includes descriptive keys for identifying every stage of all the species of ticks reported in Europe and northern Africa.

This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology.

While sponges represent a very simple group of organisms, which are represented by over 8000 species, there is considerable interest in the increasing role they may play in future marine ecosystems.

This book presents the latest advances concerning the regulation of chromosome segregation during cell division by means of centromeres and kinetochores.

This essential volume presents comprehensive information on cell death and autophagy in liver diseases, including the role and molecular signaling pathways of cell death in alcohol and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, bile acids, hepatitis C virus and drug-induced liver injury.

This book critically evaluates the causal link between cell division machinery and disease.

This book presents all Malacostracan cructaceans occurring in the Baltic Sea in water salinity from 2 to 15 psu.

The content of this book is intended to provide the toxicologist in drug development in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with a broad understanding of bone and its interactions with other organ systems in safety assessments.

This book covers recent advances in the study of structure, function, and regulation of metabolite, protein and ion translocating channels, and transporters in mitochondria.

This book discusses cancers and the resurgence of public interest in plant-based and herbal drugs.

This volume has gathered together some of the world's experts on cell death in liver diseases, covering topics on a variety of types of liver injury.

This book provides readers with an overview of the frequent occurrence of asymmetric cell division.

This book provides comprehensive information on the alternative (non-animal) dermal toxicity test methods currently available for industrial, regulatory, and academic use and also explores potential future developments.

This book provides essential molecular techniques and protocols for analyzing microbes that are useful for developing novel bio-chemicals, such as medicines, biofuels, and plant protection substances.

This book highlights the most significant diseases for humans and their dogs, cats and horses.

This book is an up-to-date, technically detailed yet easy-to-read reference book on current clinical applications of MDCT in small animals.

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated.

This thesis describes novel substrate embedded physical sensors that can be used to monitor different types of cell-based assays non-invasively and label-free.

The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals.

This volume covers the current knowledge base on the role of signaling and environmental pathways that control the normal development of germline stem cells, meiotic progression of oocytes, events of oocyte maturation and fertilization, and the birth of an embryo.

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Fungi are distinct eukaryotic organisms renowned for their remarkable biodiversity and extensive habitat range.

This book introduces updated information on conservation issues, providing an overview of what is needed to advance the global conservation of freshwater decapods such as freshwater crabs, crayfish, and shrimps.

This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology in plant sciences, particularly its potential to improve food and agricultural systems, through innovative, eco-friendly approaches, and as a result to increase plant productivity.

This volume reviews the current metabolic engineering tools and technologies from a practical point of view, and guides researchers as they overcome challenges at various stages of organism and bioprocess development.

Pancreatic islets make up the endocrine pancreas and they contain the only source of insulin in the body, beta cells.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview on the diverse strategies invertebrate animals have developed for nitrogen excretion and maintenance of acid-base balance and summarizes the most recent findings in the field, obtained by state-of-the-art methodology.

This book addresses microinsects, their structure and their differences from larger relatives.

This order once encompassed all insects with a complex network of wing veins, regardless of whether their metamorphosis was incomplete or complete.

The Kingdom fungi encompass a massive diversity of taxa with wide-ranging ecologies, life cycles, and morphologies ranging from unicellular aquatic chytrids to large mushrooms.

This edited volume covers new ground by bringing together perspectives from symbolic legislation theory on the one hand, and from biolaw and bioethics on the other hand.

The content covered encompass not only the theoretic and methodological aspects for culturing human pluripotent stem cells, but also the establishment of induced pluripotent stem cells and their differentiation into specific cellular subtypes.

This textbook provides a basic introduction to ethnobiology with key concepts for beginners.

This book focuses on the analysis of cancer dynamics and the mathematically based synthesis of anticancer therapy.

This book is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods.

This atlas presents the basic concepts and principles of functional animal anatomy and histology thereby furthering our understanding of evolutionary concepts and adaptation to the environment.

Wetlands are among the world's most valuable and most threatened habitats, and in these crucially important ecosystems, the invertebrate fauna holds a focal position.

This book gives an overview of recent developments in RS and SERS for sensing and biosensing considering also limitations, possibilities and prospects of this technique.

Epstein Barr virus (EBV) was discovered as the first human tumor virus around 50 years ago.

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This book is dedicated to the channels and pores that belong to an eclectic and ubiquitous class of unconventional - perhaps at times strange - pore-forming molecules, which nevertheless play fundamental roles in various organisms.

This book is focused on Sertoli cell physiology and its role in the spermatogenic event.

This book reports significant progress of scientific research on horseshoe crabs, including aspects of evolution, genetics, ecology, population dynamics, general biology and physiology, within the recent 10 years.