Mikrobiologie

Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates

<P>This is the first work to focus on microbes in gut systems of soil animals. Beginning with an overview of the biology of soil invertebrates, the text turns to the gut microbiota of termit...

Tropical and Parasitic Infections in the Intensive Care Unit

<P>In the past, many tropical and parasitic infections were confined to tropical areas of the world located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. However, with the increa...

Antibiotic Policies

For 50 years, antibiotics have been dispensed like sweets. This must not be allowed to continue. This unique book assembles contributions from experts around the world concerned with responsible u...

Cell Membrane

Yoshihito Yawata

This publication presents the structure and function of biological membranes to improve the understanding of cells in both normal and pathogenic states. Recently, vast amounts of new information h...

Novel Vaccination Strategies

The protection mode of most available vaccines is based on antibody responses. Since efficient immune responses to many pathogens rely on activating all arms of the immune system, traditional vacc...

Malaria: Drugs, Disease and Post-genomic Biology

Despite rapid increases in knowledge, malaria continues to kill more than a million people each year and causes symptomatic disease in a further 300 million individuals. This volume brings some of...

Mast Cells and Basophils

The book presents recent advances relating to the factors and mechanisms that regulate the growth, differentiation and function of mast cells and basophils; discussion of new technologies used to ...

Gap Junctions in Development and Disease

<P>Communication between cells via intercellular channels – gap junctions – appears essential to certain developmental processes and appropriate organ function. <STRONG>Gap Junctio...

Protein Folding Kinetics

Bengt Nölting

<P>First methods book which includes many detailed descriptions</P><P>Absolutely needed and thus timely for the scientific community</P><P>Comprises 15% more content ...

Functional Ultrastructure

Margit Pavelka / Jürgen Roth

The period between 1950 and 1980 were the golden It also provides unique insights into how pathological years of transmission electron microscopy and pro- processes affect cell organization. duced...

Green Fluorescent Protein

Since the discovery of the gene for green fluorescent protein (GFP), derived from jellyfish, this protein that emits a green glow has initiated a revolution in molecular biosciences. With this too...

Nanotechnologie heute - morgen - übermorgen

Volker Halstenberg

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Biologie - Mikrobiologie, Molekularbiologie, Note: sehr gut, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Nanotechnologie (Nano = griech.: Zwerg) i...

Signalling Networks in Cell Shape and Motility

This book features contributions from experts in cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, immunology and structural biology.  The unifying element is that they all study processes of cell shape chan...

Freshwater Microbiology

David C. Sigee

This unique textbook takes a broad look at the rapidly expanding field of freshwater microbiology. Concentrating on the interactions between viruses, bacteria, algae, fungi and micro-invertebrates...

Stem Cells

Understanding stem cells at the molecular level is essential to understanding their behaviour in a physiological context. This volume in our acclaimed Novartis Foundation series features animated ...

Bestimmung von androgenen und antiandrogenen Substanzen in wässrigen Umweltproben mit biologischen und chemischen Methoden

Stefan Spathelf

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1999 im Fachbereich Biologie - Cytologie, Note: 1,1, Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Akademie Isny im Allgäu, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zur Untersuchung von Substanze...

Biocalorimetry 2

Over the last decade, high-sensitivity calorimetry has developed from a specialist method used mainly by dedicated experts to a major, commercially available tool in the arsenal directed at unders...

The hERG Cardiac Potassium Channel

This book draws together contributions from basic, pharmaceutical and clinical sciences aimed at a better understanding of the structure and function of hERG and the molecular basis for compound b...

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises a group of idiopathic diseases of the intestine characterized by chronic inflammation of the bowel with periods of exacerbation and remission. Although t...

Biology of IGF-1

An invaluable book containing a series of interdisciplinary discussions between clinical and basic scientists.  <i>Biology of IGF-1: Its interaction with insulin and health and malignant st...