Biochemie & Biophysik

Biomimetics

Bharat Bhushan

<p>This book presents an overview of the general field of biomimetics - lessons from nature. It presents various examples of biomimetics, including roughness-induced superomniphobic surfaces...

Hepatobiliary Transport in Health and Disease

<p>One major function of the liver is the uptake of endo- and xenobiotics from the bloodstream and their excretion into bile. The transport systems involved in hepatobiliary transport have b...

Medizinphysik in Übungen und Beispielen

Dieter Suter / Hans Georg Krojanski / Wieland Alexander Worthoff

<p>Das Lehrbuch Medizinphysik ist für Bachelor- und Masterstudenten geeignet und hebt sich besonders durch zahlreiche Übungsbeispiele von anderen Werken ab. Durch die rasanten technischen ...

Concepts in Vaccine Development

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Bicentennial of the first vaccination by Edward Jenner -- Contents -- 1. The Need for New Vaccines -- 1.1. Vaccines as Evolutionary Tools: The Virulence-Antigen Strategy ...

Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury

Due to injuries sustained in sports and in combat, interest in TBI has never been greater. Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury will fulfil a gap in our understanding of what is occurring in the ...

Molecular Conformation and Organic Photochemistry

Rasmus Y. Brogaard

Rasmus Brogaard's thesis digs into the fundamental issue of how the shape of a molecule relates to its photochemical reactivity. This relation is drastically different from that of ground-stat...

Nano-Bio Probe Design and Its Application for Biochemical Analysis

Bang-Ce Ye / Min Zhang / Bin-Cheng Yin

<p>In this volume, Prof. Ye and his coworkers propose and review the concept of nano-bio probe design for biochemical analysis on the basis of their recent published works. A unique biochemi...

Optical Coherence Tomography

Optical Coherence Tomography represents the ultimate noninvasive  ocular imaging technique although being in the field for over two-decades. This book encompasses both medical and technical devel...

Radioactivity Transfer in Environment and Food

Fokion K Vosniakos

The book deals with various consequences of major nuclear accidents, such as in 1986 in Chernobyl and in 2011 in Fukushima. The public is extremely interested in learning more about the movements ...

Handbook of Marine Natural Products

"Handbook of Marine Natural Products" takes a fresh approach to describing the major themes of research in this rapidly developing field. This two volume reference work begins with a sect...

The Cellular Response to the Genotoxic Insult

Genotoxic carcinogens can lead to DNA mutations with the potential to cause cancer. Typically, a series of mutation events are needed before malignancy occurs so a single, small exposure may not r...

Molecular Theory of the Living Cell

Sungchul Ji

<p>The book presents the first comprehensive molecular theory of the living cell ever published since the cell doctrine was formulated in 1838-1839. It introduces into cell biology over thir...

Physico-Chemical and Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery

Molecular modeling and simulation play a central role in academic and industrial research focused on physico-chemical properties and processes. The efforts carried out in this field have crystalli...

Selenoproteins and Mimics

<p>Selenium has a long history of association with human health and disease. This essential trace element exerts its important biological role in selenoproteins. "Selenoproteins and Mimi...

Designing Multi-Target Drugs

Multi-target drug discovery (MTDD) is an emerging area of increasing interest to the drug discovery community. Drugs that modulate several targets have the potential for an improved balance of eff...

Radiation Protection at Light Water Reactors

Robert Prince

<p>This book is aimed at Health Physicists wishing to gain a better understanding of the principles and practices associated with a light water reactor (LWR) radiation protection program. T...

Bioluminescence: Chemical Principles And Methods (Revised Edition)

Shimomura Osamu Shimomura

Challenges in Molecular Structure Determination

Manfred Reichenbächer / Jürgen Popp

Taking a problem-based approach, the authors provide a practice-oriented and systematic introduction to both organic and inorganic structure determination by spectroscopic methods. This includes m...

Feinstrukturelle, cytochemische und biochemische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung und Welke des Teeblattes (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze)

Claudia Hepper

Schwarzer, grüner und roter Tee zählen zu den am meisten konsumierten Getränken der Welt. Sie werden vor allem aufgrund ihres besonderen Aromas und ihrer stimulierenden und gesundheitsfördernd...

Chemical Genomics