Cell Biology

Instant Notes in Physiological Psychology provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of the key topics in physiological psychology, providing easy access to the core information in the field...

Instant Notes Sport and Exercise Biomechanics provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts in exercise and sport biomechanics...

A compilation of state-of-the-art papers on key topics in bryology from invited speakers at the Centenary Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 August 1996...

An indispensable guide to buffers and to understanding the principles behind their use. Helps the user to avoid common errors in preparing buffers and their solutions...

This fully revised edition focuses on those processes that generate calcium signals, to offer the first comprehensive exploration of calcium signaling research from a methodological standpoint. Several new chapters have been added and in many cases, where chapters from the first edition were retaine..

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters._x005F_x000D_ Cell signaling is a field that studies how cells communicate to control basic activities and respond to their environment. When looking specifically at cancer cells, researchers can gain a better understanding of cancer on a cellular..

Over the past ten years, sophisticated in vitro test systems based on epithelial cell cultures have been introduced in the field of drug delivery. These models have been very useful in characterizing the permeability of drugs across epithelial tissues, and in studying carrier systems for improved dr..

This important publication addresses intercellular communication in health and disease...

Bacteria and plants produce powerful toxins that can cause a variety of diseases, some of which are lethal for many animal species. Understanding the mechanisms of action of protein toxins will open new avenues for the design of novel therapies for the treatment of toxin-related diseases, but their ..

Chromosome Techniques..

Plasma membrane-associated channels known as gap junctions, along with their protein building blocks—connexins—have an important functional role in a range of immunological processes. This volume assembles and synthesizes four decades of the most important research carried out in this field. The con..

This two-volume set will be useful to the established continuous culture operator, as well as the researcher, teacher, and student who is interested in learning how the technique of continuous culture could be useful in answering both basic and applied questions in microbiology and cell biology...