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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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    • Molecular Basis of Bacterial Pathogenesis

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 1990
      • Barbara H. Iglewski
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Molecular Basis of Bacterial Pathogenesis focuses on the molecular mechanism of disease associated with bacterial pathogens. Topics covered include the population genetics of bacterial pathogenesis; environmental modulation of gene expression in gram-negative pathogens; and bacterial invasion and intracellular growth. Bacterial toxins are also discussed. This volume is comprised of 20 chapters and begins with an overview of pathogenesis, paying particular attention to common elements and genetic mechanisms of regulation. The discovery that many bacterial pathogens are clonal, with individual clones often having a greater virulence than others, is then considered. The next section deals with the regulation of synthesis of surface components and their role in colonization of the host and/or evasion of the host immune defense systems; antigenic variation and its role in evasion of the host immune response; and the role of iron acquisition systems in the colonization of the host. Subsequent chapters explore the invasion and intracellular growth of facultative and obligate intracellular parasites. The last section is devoted to studies on the role of bacterial toxic products in pathogenesis. Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (endotoxins) and exotoxins are described. This book should be of interest to molecular biologists, physiologists, clinical specialists, pathologists, and geneticists.

    • Theory of Simple Liquids

      • 2nd Edition
      • September 24, 1990
      • Jean-Pierre Hansen + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      This book gives a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the theory of "simple" liquids. The new second edition has been rearranged and considerably expanded to give a balanced account both of basic theory and of the advances of the past decade. It presents the main ideas of modern liquid state theory in a way that is both pedagogical and self-contained. The book should be accessible to graduate students and research workers, both experimentalists and theorists, who have a good background in elementary mechanics.

    • Domestic Animal Cytogenetics

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 1990
      • Richard A. McFeely
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances in Veterinary Science and Comparative Medicine, Volume 34: Domestic Animal Cytogenetics aims to provide a comprehensive review of the status of domestic animal chromosomes. The book starts by giving an overview of domestic animal cytogenetics and the terms chromosomes, chromosome abnormalities, genes, and molecular genetics. The text then discusses chromosome preparation and identification; the chromosomes of the cow and bull, pig, sheep and goat, horse, chicken, and fish; and chromosome abnormalities and pregnancy failure in domestic animals. Gene mapping in the cow and the pig is also encompassed. Veterinarians, cytogeneticists, veterinary pathologists, those studying these fields of science, and those involved in animal husbandry will find the book useful.

    • Aging and Cognition

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 71
      • October 9, 1990
      • T.M. Hess
      • English
      • Paperback
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      During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in interest in the study of aging-related changes in cognitive abilities. In this volume researchers from a variety of theoretical perspectives discuss adult age differences in a wide range of cognitive skills. Of special interest is the extent to which aging effects on performance are related to variations in the representation, organization, and utilization of knowledge, broadly defined. Recent research and theory in the field of aging has emphasized the need to examine such processes more closely in order to provide a more complete understanding of aging effects on cognitive behavior.

    • Molecular Biology

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 1989
      • Abraham Marcus
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Biochemistry of Plants, Volume 15: Molecular Biology presents information pertinent to gene expression, cytoskeletal proteins, and hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein. This book discusses the specific gene systems and examines the regulatory regions within the genes. Organized into 17 chapters, this volume starts with an overview of the important mechanism for regulating gene expression, which is significant in the selective turnover of gene products. This book then proceeds with a discussion of the concept of protein degradation and the extracellular carriers of genetic information. Other chapters review the viral and plasmid systems, which are relevant to plants. This text discusses as well the phenotypic changes in plants, including plant genetic tumor and habituated plant tissues that exhibit hormone autotrophic growth. The final chapter examines the importance of genetic manipulation at the cellular level via protoplast fusion, cell selection, and transformation. Biologists, biochemists, enzymologists, biophysicists, and plant scientists will find this book extremely useful.

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