Springer, 2018. — 156 p. This book focuses on important interfacial phenomena, such as interfacial potential and interfacial multi-functionality, responsible for determining the fate of nanoparticles inside the biological milieu. Additionally, this book explores the role of surface defects in photocatalytic nanoparticles in defining the nanoparticle interaction to biological...
Plenum Press, 1973. — 595 p. The problem of electron transfer phosphorylation was first formu lated in 1939 by Belitser and Tsibakova I who introduced the "P: 0" criterion and showed that this ratio is more than 1. The authors noted that such a high value of the phosphorylation coefficient suggests a fundamental difference in the mechanisms of A TP formation coupled with...
1 edition - Ventus Publishing ApS, 2009. - 96 p. The micro- and nano- transport of biomolecules is of interest to a wide range of scientific and engineering communities. Application areas include miniaturized technology that will support and advance key sectors, including healthcare, food provisioning, environment services, etc. This e-book is generally intended for...
Wiley, 2018. - 296 p. Reversible Ligand Binding: Theory and Experiment discusses the physical background of protein-ligand interactions — providing a comprehensive view of the various biochemical considerations that govern reversible, as well as irreversible, ligand binding. Special consideration is devoted to enzymology, a field usually treated separately from ligand binding,...
New York: Humana Press, 2016. — 245 p. The volume aims at providing an overview of cutting-edge methods and protocols used in neuroscience and neurological research. Neurotransmitter Transporters: Investigative Methods will be of interest to scientists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates who seek an overview of methods and protocols in this field of neuroscience. It...
Humana Press, 2018. — 603 p. — (The Receptors). This book traces the history of adenosine receptor research from molecular biology to medicinal chemistry to behavior, including their implications in disease and potential strategies as therapeutic targets. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the adenosine receptors that includes information on all subtypes -...
Springer, 2016. — 126 p. This book has been conceived as a brief introduction to biomembranes physical chemistry for undergraduate students of sciences, and it is particularly dedicated to the lipid-protein membrane interactions. A general introduction is presented in Chapters 1 and 2. The following Chapters, 3 and 4, describe the most accepted theories on lipid-membrane...
Wiley, 2013. - 789 p. - The current state of the science supporting new research in lysophospholipids The study of lysophospholipids exploded with the discovery of cell surface receptors on both lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P). Since then, thousands of original research reports — ranging from fundamental cell signaling to the physiology and...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015. — 488 p. — ISBN10: 1118858808. Describes experimental methods for investigating the function of pumps, channels and transporters Ion-transporting membrane proteins, which include ion pumps, channels, and transporters, play crucial roles in all cellular life forms. Not only do they provide pathways linking the extracellular medium with the...
Academic Press, 1999. - 443 p. - Volume 48 of Current Topics in Membranes. - Membrane permeability is fundamental to all cell biology and subcellular biology. The cell exists as a closed unit. Import and export depend upon a number of sophisticated mechanisms, such as active transport, endocytosis, exocytosis, and passive diffusion. These systems are critical for the normal...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015. – 351 p. – ISBN: 3319190598 This book is about the importance of water in determining the structure, stability and responsive behavior of biological membranes. Water confers to lipid membranes unique features in terms of surface and mechanical properties. The analysis of the hydration forces, plasticiser effects, controlled...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. — 176 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-79728-9, e-ISBN: 978-3-540-79729-6, ISSN: 1862-2461. DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-79729-6. Recent Advances in Ion Channel Screening Technologies. Role of Kv7 and Cav3 Ion Channels in Pain. Potassium Channels: Oncogenic Potential and Therapeutic Target for Cancers. Pharmacological Rescue ofMutant CFTR Function for the...
B.: Springer, 2007. — 610 p. In this fast moving field the main goal of this volume is to provide up-to-date information on the molecular and functional properties and pharmacology of mammalian TRP channels. Leading experts in the field have written 35 essays which describe properties of a single TRP protein/channel or portray more general principles of TRP function and...
New York: Academic Press, 2002. - 437 p. This volume draws together studies on the diverse group of calcium-activated chloride channels (CaCCS) in one comprehensive format. The characteristics of CaCCs identified in a number of different systems are described by experts in the field. Channels discussed include those described in cardiac, neuronal, endothelial and epithelial...
Springer-Verlag New York, 1989. - 549 p. - New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity. Some fields like basic biochemistry, organic reaction mechanisms, and chemical thermody namics are well represented by many excellent texts, and new or revised editions are published sufficiently often to keep up with progress in research. However, some areas of...
Wiley, 2012. — 348 p. Innovative and forward-looking, this volume focuses on recent achievements in this rapidly progressing field and looks at future potential for development. The first part provides a basic understanding of the factors governing protein-ligand interaction, followed by a comparison of the four key experimental methods (calorimetry, surface plasmon resonance,...
New York: Springer, 1988. - 442 p. Cellular neurobiology has been transformed in the past decade by new technologies and fundamental discoveries. One result is an enormous increase in our understanding of how ion channels function in nerve and muscle cells and a widening perspective on the role of ion channels in non-neuronal cell physiology and development. Patch clamp...
Wiley, 2017. — 333 p. — ISBN: 9781119271055, 9781119278412, 1119278414 Invaluable to biochemists, biophysicists, and pharmacological scientists; this book provides insights into the essential principles required to understand why and how electrochemical and electrophysiological tools are fundamental in elucidating the mode of ion transport across biomembranes. • Describes the...
Springer, 2012. — 89 p. With the aim of providing a deeper insight into possible mechanisms of biological self-organization, this thesis presents new approaches to describe the process of self-assembly and the impact of spatial organization on the function of membrane proteins, from a statistical physics point of view. It focuses on three important scenarios: the assembly of...
Oxford University Press, 2001. –358 p.– ISBN: 0198508204. The Biochemistry of Cell Signalling deals in depth with the principles of cell signalling, concentrating on structure and mechanism. It will serve as a reliable map through the maze of cell signalling pathways and help the reader understand how malfunctions in these pathways can lead to disease. The book is divided into...
Sinauer Associates, Incorporated, 2001. — 814 p. Ion channels underlie a broad range of the most basic biological processes, from excitation and signaling to secretion and absorption. Like enzymes, they are diverse and ubiquitous macromolecular catalysts with high substrate specificity and subject to strong regulation. This fully revised and expanded Third Edition of Ion...
Academic Press, 2019. — 230 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-814635-4. This book serves as the first volume to offer a cohesive and unifying picture of the critical functions of paracellular channels (tight junctions) in different tissues. This new class of ion channel utilizes a completely different mechanism to create ion passage pathways across the cell junction. This volume outlines...
Academic Press, 2017. - 189 p. The Elsevier book series Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly (previously titled Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes), provides a global platform for a broad community of experimental and theoretical researchers studying cell membranes, lipid model membranes, and lipid self-assemblies from the micro- to the nanoscale....
Academic Press, 2016. - 212 p. The Elsevier book series Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly (previously titled Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes), provides a global platform for a broad community of experimental and theoretical researchers studying cell membranes, lipid model membranes, and lipid self-assemblies from the micro- to the nanoscale....
Academic Press, 2016. - 214 p. The Elsevier book series Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly (previously titled Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes), provides a global platform for a broad community of experimental and theoretical researchers studying cell membranes, lipid model membranes, and lipid self-assemblies from the micro- to the nanoscale....
Rijeka: InTech, 2012. - 368 p. This book deals with the understanding of endogenous mechanisms of cells and their receptors as well as advantages of using this technique. It covers the basic principles and preparation types and also deals with the latest developments in the traditional patch clamp technique. Some chapters in this book take the technique to a next level of...
Springer, 2019. — 324 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-11595-1. This book compiles the fundamentals, applications and viable product strategies of biomimetic lipid membranes into a single, comprehensive source. It broadens its perspective to interdisciplinary realms incorporating medicine, biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, as well as engineering and pharmacy at large. The...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 457 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library). — ISBN10: 0691628939, 13 978-0691628936. Pursuing the questions of how we learn and how memory is made, Edward Kosower introduces a novel and rich approach to connecting molecular properties with the biological properties that enable us to write and read, to create culture and ethics, and to think. Here he...
5th, Completely Revised Edition. — Wiley, 2014. — 845 p. Originally based on a graduate course taught by the author, this true classic has once again been extensively updated to incorporate key new findings in biological signaling. With over half of the content re–written, plus 70 brand new and 50 revised figures, this is the most up–to–date textbook on signaling available...
N.-Y.: Wiley-VCH, 2014. - 815 p. Originally based on a graduate course taught by the author, this true classic has once again been extensively updated to incorporate key new findings in biological signaling. With over half of the content re-written, plus 70 brand new and 50 revised figures, this is the most up-to-date textbook on signaling available anywhere. Thanks to its...
Springer, 2017. - 409 p. This book describes the newest discoveries on calcium signaling happening at the cellular and intracellular membranes, often exerted in so called microdomains. Calcium entry and release, its interaction with proteins and resulting events on proteins and organelles are comprehensively depicted by leading experts in the field. Knowledge about details of...
New York: Academic Press, 1999. — 486 p. This book is the first to focus on potassium ion channels and covers the recent remarkable progress made in research on these proteins. Many diseases are caused by the abnormalities of potassium ion channels. They include diabetes mellitus, life-threatening hereditary cardiac arrhythmia, epilepsy, neural degeneration, and renal...
Humana Press, 2009 — 302 p. Due to the importance of potassium channels in cellular function, researchers have been challenged to develop tools and experimental procedures to probe the function and identify chemicals that modulate the behaviour of this super-family of ion channels. In Potassium Channels: Methods and Protocols, experts in the field present a range of...
Elsevier. 2008. 283 p. Stabilization of Hydrophilic Pores in Charged Lipid Bilayers by Anisotropic Membrane Inclusions Rapid Purification and Reconstruction of recombinant Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels into Planar BLMs Insights in the Organization and Dynamics of Erythrocyte Lipid Rafts Interactions of Erythroid and Nonerythroid Spectrins and other Membrane-Skeletal Proteins...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 339 p. - Membrane Structural Biology brings together a physicochemical analysis of the membrane with the latest structural biology on membrane lipids and proteins to offer an exciting portrayal of biomembranes. Written with remarkable clarity, this text appears at a time when membranes have moved back into the scientific spotlight and will...
2nd Edition. - Cambridge University Press, 2014. - 436 p. - This textbook provides a strong foundation and a clear overview for students of membrane biology and an invaluable synthesis of cutting-edge research for working scientists. The text retains its clear and engaging style, providing a solid background in membrane biochemistry, while also incorporating the approaches of...
The Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, 2014. — 938 p. — (RSC Metallobiology Series No.2) — ISBN10: 1849735999 Metal ions play key roles in biology. Many are essential for catalysis, for electron transfer and for the fixation, sensing, and metabolism of gases. Others compete with those essential metal ions or have toxic or pharmacological effects. This book is structured around the...
Humana Press, 2005, Pages: 214, ISBN: 1588293548 Cutting-edge articles review our current understanding of lipid microdomain signaling mechanisms and their physiological and pathological importance. The book describes the role of lipid rafts in learning, memory, and cancer, presents the emerging evidence that lipid rafts play critical roles in signaling pathways and the...
Dordrecht: Springer Science Business Media, 2013. — VII+199 p. — ISBN: 978-94-007-5892-6, ISBN: 978-94-007-5893-3 (eBook), DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5893-3. Furthers the reader's understanding of the problems associated with developing artificial cells Optimizing systems for minimal cells Developing synthetic transport systems Understanding the general laws of an effective system...
Wiley, 2008. - 412 p. This text is a concise and accessible introduction to the dynamic but complex field of signal transduction. Rather than simply cataloguing all signalling molecules and delineating every known pathway, this book aims to break signalling down into common elements and activities – the ‘nuts and bolts’ of cellular information exchange. With an emphasis on...
Springer, 2014. — 724 p. In this fast moving field the main goal of this volume is to provide up-to-date information on the molecular and functional properties and pharmacology of mammalian TRP channels. Leading experts in the field will describe properties of a single TRP protein/channel or portray more general principles of TRP function and important pathological situations...
Springer, 2014. — 569 p. In this fast moving field the main goal of this volume is to provide up-to-date information on the molecular and functional properties and pharmacology of mammalian TRP channels. Leading experts in the field describe properties of a single TRP protein/channel or portray more general principles of TRP function and important pathological situations...
Springer, 2018. — 179 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering). — ISBN: 4431568395. This book describes how biologically available free energy sources (ATP, chemical potential, and membrane potentials, among others) can be used to drive synthetic reactions, signaling in cells, and various types of motion such as membrane traffic, active transport, and cell...
Wiley, 2010. — 558 p. The first book on the innovative study of biointerfaces using biophysical chemistry. The biophysical phenomena that occur on biointerfaces, or biological surfaces, hold a prominent place in the study of biology and medicine, and are crucial for research relating to implants, biosensors, drug delivery, proteomics, and many other important areas. Biophysical...
Springer, 2018. — 724 p. — (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering). This book is the first to be entirely devoted to the challenging art of handling membrane proteins out of their natural environment, a key process in biological and pharmaceutical research, but one plagued with difficulties and pitfalls. Written by one of the foremost experts in the field,...
6th Edition. — Elsevier, 2016. — 599 p. Biochemistry of Lipids: Lipoproteins and Membranes, Volume Six, contains concise chapters that cover a wide spectrum of topics in the field of lipid biochemistry and cell biology. It provides an important bridge between broad-based biochemistry textbooks and more technical research publications, offering cohesive, foundational...
Springer, 2014. - 295 p. - A number of techniques to study ion channels have been developed since the electrical basis of excitability was first discovered. Ion channel biophysicists have at their disposal a rich and ever-growing array of instruments and reagents to explore the biophysical and structural basis of sodium channel behavior. Armed with these tools, researchers have...
ITOe, 2017. — 298 p. — ISBN: 9535133624. This is a very interesting book on the most ancient neurotransmitter, hormone and trophic factor serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT). This unique chemical is present in all living cells including plants and animals. This book will take us through a serene journey of the evolutionary history of serotonin and its role from man to...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2011. — 1120 p. Transient Receptor Potential Channels offers a unique blend of thoughtfully selected topics ranging from the structural biology of this fascinating group of ion channels to their emerging roles in human diseases. This single book covers TRP channels of yeasts, flies, fishes frogs and humans. And from the biophysics of primary thermo-sensory...
Humana Press, 2017. — 275 p. — (Springer Protocols Handbooks). — ISBN: 1493968351. This practical volume brings together a broad range of topics related to membrane biology research with particular emphasis on novel approaches, technology platforms, and emerging tools in this area of study. Beginning with chapters pertaining to artificial or designer membrane mimetics that can...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0521112087. This text provides a comprehensive overview of recent discoveries and current understandings of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Recent advances include the first mammalian non-rhodopsin GPCR structures and reconstitution of purified GPCRs into membrane discs for defined studies, novel signaling features...
4th ed. Elsevier. 2002. 624 p. The first edition of this book was published in 1985. The content of the 4th edition reflects the enormous advances that have occurred since that time in the field of lipid biochemistry. This publication is unique in that it represents a bridge between the superficial coverage of the lipid field found in basic biochemistry text books and the...
Elsevier Science; 5 edition (May 12, 2008) 624 p. ISBN10: 0444532196 Research on the biochemistry and molecular biology of lipids and lipoproteins has experienced remarkable growth in the last 20 years, particularly with the realization that many different classes of lipids play fundamental roles in diseases such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative...
Wiley, 2008. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-51664-5. G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are membrane proteins that transduce a vast array of extracellular signals into intracellular reactions ranging from cell-cell communication processes to physiological responses. They play an important role in a variety of diseases from cancer and diabetes, to neurodegenerative, inflammatory...
Mdpi AG, 2019. — 584 p. — ISBN10: 3038974617, 13 978-3038974611. At no other time in its history has humankind been as concerned about good health. Lifestyle habits are promoted as indispensable allies for the daily prevention against so-called metabolic diseases. Paradoxically, the world has never been so obese, while the beauty canons have never been so skinny! However, there...
Springer, 2017. — 385 p. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the basic principles, concepts, techniques and latest advances in the field of biomembranes and membrane-associated processes. With new emerging technologies and bioinformatics tools, this is a promising area for future study and research. The book discusses the composition, fluidity and dynamic nature of...
Berlin: Springer, 2014. — 725 p. Calcium ions represent Mother Nature’s ‘ion-of-choice’ for regulating fundamental physiological functions, as they initiate a new life at the time of fertilization and guide subsequent developmental and physiological functions of the human body. Calcium channels, which act as gated pathways for the movement of calcium ions across the membranes,...
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2015. — 672 p. — ISBN: 1466551402 Throughout their long scientific history, the concepts of cellular electricity and ion-permeable pores have been principally the province of scientists with a physical orientation who often called themselves biophysicists.* Only in the last three decades have ion channels become accessible to a much broader range of...
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