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Elsevier's Life Sciences collection helps researchers get comprehensive coverage and up-to-date information on the study of living organisms, their processes, and interrelationships, spanning disciplines like biology, genetics, and biochemistry, and addressing emerging trends such as genomics, biotechnology, and sustainability, essential for advancing knowledge and driving innovation in the field.

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    • Extraretinal Photoreception

      • 1st Edition
      • May 18, 2014
      • Michael Menaker
      • English
      • Paperback
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    • Horizons of Bioenergetics

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • Anthony San Pietro + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Horizons of Bioenergetics provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of bioenergetics. This book covers a variety of topics, including oxidative phosphorylation, energy conservation, ATP formation, metabolic regulation, glycolysis, and photosynthesis efficiency. Organized into five sessions encompassing 23 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the major landmarks in biochemical evolution that are most relevant to the discussion on bioenergetics. This text then reviews the knowledge about ATP generation by substrate level phosphorylation by anaerobic bacteria that ferment organic compounds. Other chapters consider the resolution and reconstitution of oxidative phosphorylation. This book discusses as well another energy-requiring activity associated with electron transport in mitochondria that may take primacy over oxidative phosphorylation. The final chapter deals with the possibility that conformational change can induce major shifts in electro-chemical potential and provide a mechanism for energy storage and conversion. This book is a valuable resource for biochemists, scientists, and research workers.

    • Supramolecular Enzyme Organization

      • 1st Edition
      • May 20, 2014
      • Peter Friedrich
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Supramolecular Enzyme Organization: Quaternary Structure and Beyond provides a comprehensive discussion of enzyme interactions. It attempts to place conceptually related phenomena in a common perspective by first scrutinizing enzyme interactions at the quaternary level and then moving on towards higher orders of organization. The book begins with a discussion of the hierarchy of enzymes, covering the structure of monomeric enzymes, enzyme structures beyond the monomeric stage, and protein-protein interactions. Separate chapters cover the chemistry of protein associations; the quaternary structure of enzymes; multienzyme systems; multienzyme complexes and conjugates; the association of enzymes with cellular structures; and metabolite compartmentation. The final chapters discuss trends in the study of enzyme systems and the dialectics of enzymology. This book is intended, not for the specialist, who knows much more about the individual questions than the text offers, but rather for the general biochemical reader interested in enzyme organization. There is practically no mathematics involved. Instead, quite elementary things are described, so that students and biologists with less background knowledge on enzymes will be able to join in.

    • Enzyme Chemistry of Phenolic Compounds

      • 1st Edition
      • May 16, 2014
      • J. B. Pridham
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Enzyme Chemistry of Phenolic Compounds documents the proceedings of the Plant Phenolics Group Symposium held at Liverpool on April 11-12 1962. This book focuses on the interaction of enzymes and phenolic compounds, oxidation-reduction systems in plants and microorganisms, and phenolase complex. Other topics discussed include purification of phenol oxidases; enzyme-substrate specificity in potato polyphenol oxidase; tocopherols; and role of ubiquinone and plastoquinone in plant metabolism. Hydrolytic enzymes; enzyme inhibition by phenolic compounds; tannin inhibition of plant mitochondria; and aromatic acid-reducing systems in fungi are also deliberated in this selection. This publication is beneficial to students and biochemists researching on enzyme and phenolic compounds.

    • DNA - Recombination Interactions and Repair

      • 1st Edition
      • May 20, 2014
      • S. Zadrazil + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      DNA: Recombination, Interactions and Repair presents the result of the proceedings of the FEBS Symposium on DNA, which focuses on DNA recombination in vivo and in vitro, DNA interactions, and DNA repair. This book presents problems involving topics on DNA that have been studied intensively using methodological approaches and developed techniques for cloning, physical mapping, and sequencing of DNA. This text also notes that this approach has provided a basis for further genetic studies at the molecular level. The problems related to the genetic complexity of higher organisms and the relationships between the structure of genetic material and the regulation of expression of genetic information, as well as genetic engineering of micro-organisms, which become amenable to experimental investigation, are also presented in this text. This book notes that these problems are closely associated with endeavors to understand the molecular foundations of living processes to create a rational basis for treating genetic and viral diseases. This text will be a valuable source of information for students studying in the field of genetics, especially those conducting extensive research on DNA.

    • Major Methods of Peptide Bond Formation

      • 1st Edition
      • May 10, 2014
      • Erhard Gross + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Peptides: Analysis, Synthesis, Biology, Volume 1: Major Methods of Peptide Bond Formation provides comprehensive and critical reviews of important developments in three major areas of peptide research—analysis, synthesis, and biology. This book discusses the nature of the peptide bond, coupling between amino acid residues, and catalysis of active ester reactions. The formation of hydrazides, reactions of carbodiimides with amines, and mixed carbonic anhydride method of peptide synthesis are also elaborated. This publication likewise covers the control of racemization during peptide synthesis, strategies for minimizing racemization during amide-forming steps, and assays for chiral purity. This volume is suitable for students, specialists, and scientists from a broad range of disciplines concerned with peptides.

    • Thrombosis and Bleeding Disorders

      • 1st Edition
      • June 28, 2014
      • Nils U. Bang + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Thrombosis and Bleeding Disorders compiles the laboratory and research aspects of thrombosis and hemorrhagic disorders in humans. This book presents reviews of the underlying theory, physiology, and biochemistry of hemostasis and thrombosis, including the enzymology of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis. This compilation is divided into three levels of specific purposes. First is to provide the most reliable and widely accepted laboratory assays of undisputed diagnostic clinical value, which provides newcomers in the field and experienced workers in the coagulation laboratory with a reference manual to everyday work in a clinically-oriented environment. Second is to review and sketch in outline the theoretical sections focusing on mechanisms. Finally, this text aims to include a systematic review of the most successful purification techniques for individual coagulation factors and moieties of the fibrinolytic enzyme system. This publication is beneficial to medical students and clinicians concerned with human blood coagulation.

    • Advances in Biomedical Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • May 9, 2014
      • J. H. U. Brown + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Biomedical Engineering, Volume 2, is a collection of papers that discusses the basic sciences, the applied sciences of engineering, the medical sciences, and the delivery of health services. One paper discusses the models of adrenal cortical control, including the secretion and metabolism of cortisol (the controlled process), as well as the initiation and modulation of secretion of ACTH (the controller). Another paper discusses hospital computer systems—application problems, objective evaluation of technology, and multiple pathways for future hospital computer applications. The possible information paths of an orthotic or prosthetic systems using computing ability include the following components: signal sources, transducers, signal processors, output systems, feedback receptors, and local feedback. Ultrasound energy is a powerful diagnostic tool since it is nondestructive and has asertainability characteristics. The medical technician or researcher can also use gas-phase analytical instruments and analytical systems in investigative chemical methods involving microgram, nanogram or pictogram amounts of individual organic compounds. The collection is suitable for biochemists, microbiologists, bio-engineers, and investigators whose works involve biomedical engineering and physiological research.

    • Advances in Lipid Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 14
      • June 28, 2014
      • Rodolfo Paoletti + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Lipid Research, Volume 14 is a five-chapter text that covers other important aspects of lipid chemistry, including an enzyme controlling cholesterol biogenesis, fatty acid activation, and lipid synthesis. The first chapter concerns with the control of activity of ?-hydroxy-?-methylgl... coenzyme A reductase. The second chapter deals with the specificity, localization, and function of fatty acid activation. The third chapter describes the interaction between polyene antibiotics and sterols. This chapter specifically tackles some antibiotic activity to understand membrane function and in vivo hypolipidemic activity. The fourth chapter focuses on the lipids in plant cultures, while the fifth chapter looks into the methods of synthesis of acylglycerols and phosphoglycerides. This book will prove useful to lipid chemists, biochemists, and researchers.

    • Protides of the Biological Fluids

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 32
      • November 26, 2014
      • H. Peeters
      • English
      • eBook
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      An International Review Series Devoted to Proteins and Related Studies, Volume 32: Protides of the Biological Fluids documents the proceedings of the 32nd Colloquium held in 1984. This compilation is organized into three parts. Part I begins with an introduction to the defense mechanism of immunoglobulins, followed by a description of enzymes and proteins, such as lactoperoxidase and lactoferrin. The secretions that include CSF, colostrum, milk, female and male genital secretions, saliva, gastrointestinal juice, nasal and bronchoalveolar secretions, tears and synovial fluid are also elaborated. The tumor markers, which include ferritin, CEA, and TPA are dealt with in Part II. The immunotoxins, tumor imaging, and lymphoid malignancies are also covered. Part III is devoted to the advances in the separation of protides, including the staining procedure for protein detection, two-dimensional electrophoresis, and HPLC and affinity chromatography. This book is valuable to biology students and clinicians of disciplines related to advances in the protein field.

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