Product Description: This volume is intended to complete the Cell Chemistry and physiology module. It is about how the traditional boundaries of cell chemistry and physiology are being erased by molecular biology. We do not think it necessary to elaborate on this theme, particularly since the body of core knowledge found in this volume brings us a stage closer to answering the question, "what makes cell biology into a new discipline?"The first part of the volume deals with the chemistry of actin and myosin and is followed by chapters on cell motility, ATP synthesis in muscle, and contraction in smooth and skeletal muscle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Biochemistry: The Chemical Reactions of Living Cells, Second Edition provides a reliable source of information about the fascinating chemical reactions taking place in the human body and in the living world around us. Enlarged, updated, and improved, this second edition, like the first, will be widely regarded as the most comprehensive of all biochemistry texts...read more

Product Description: Book by Curtis, A. S. G.

Product Description: Once again, the text is fully illustrated with high quality color and black-and-white photographs, and carefully organized so as to aid both the newcomer and the established researcher to extend his or her field of expertise. Key Features* in situ hybridization for the detection of cellular products* low temperature techniques and their applications* silver enhancement technology* immunocytochemistry of excitatory amino acids in the brai...read more

Product Description: Book by Chayen, J., Bitensky, Lucille

Product Description: This work contains a concise exposition of the different immunocytochemical methods for identifying tissue constituents, discussing ways of preparing tissues according to the antigen to be localized and the most commonly used methods...read more

Product Description: The student of biological science in his final years as an undergraduate and his first years as a graduate is expected to gain some familiarity with current research at the frontiers of his discipline. New research work is published in a perplexing diversity of publications and is inevitably con­ cerned with the minutiae of the subject...read more