Product Description: The way she connects the dots in Have You Ever Wondered…will surprise or even shock you. If you want an intriguing book of stunning answers that are spiced with personal illustrations you won’t be disappointed.

Product Description: Atherosclerosis which accounts in Western Europe for more than 40 % of deaths, is a generalized disease that develops slowly and is symptomless until lesions have become sufficiently severe to cause myocardial or cerebral infarction...read more

Product Description: Atherosclerosis leading to coronary heart disease and to cerebrovascular disorders is the number one cause of death in industrialized societies. For the last two decades, great ad­ vances have been made in understanding the pathogenesis of those disorders...read more

Plasma lipoproteins constitute a unique macromolecular system of lipid-protein complexes responsible for the transport of lipids from their sites of origin to their sites of utilization either as metabolic fuel or as structural components of cell membranes. Although studies on the role of lipoproteins in the mechanism of lipid transport are meritorious in their own right, the ever-increasing interest in chemical and functional properties of this remarkable class of conjugated proteins stems from the impressive evidence of their direct involvement in the genesis and develop­ ment of atherosclerotic lesions. The initial emphasis on neutral lipids and phospholipids as the most characteristic constituents of operationally­ defined lipoprotein classes has shifted in recent years to their protein moieties or apolipoproteins. The discovery of a number of apolipoproteins and characterization of familial hypolipoproteinemias as apolipoprotein deficiency disorders indicated that apolipoproteins play an essential role in maintaining the structural stability and integrity of lipoprotein particles. In addition to their role in the formation of lipoproteins, apolipoproteins were shown to perform a variety of functions in metabolic conversion of lipoproteins and their interactions with cellular surfaces. Results from several laboratories have demonstrated that the chemical and metabolic heterogeneity of operationally-defined lipoprotein classes is due to the presence of several discrete lipoprotein particles with similar physical properties but different and characteristic apolipoprotein composition. Thus, the apolipoproteins have emerged not only as essential structural and functional constituents of lipoproteins but also as unique chemical markers for identifying and classifying lipoprotein particles.

This is the third edition of this advanced textbook, written with two major objectives in mind. One is to provide an advanced textbook covering the major areas in the fields of lipid, lipoprotein, and membrane biochemistry, and molecular biology. The second objective is to provide a clear summary of these research areas for scientists presently working in these fields.The volume provides the basis for an advanced course for students in the biochemistry of lipids, lipoproteins and membranes. The book will satisfy the need for a general reference and review book for scientists studying lipids, proteins and membranes. Excellent up-to-date reviews are available on the various topics covered. A current, readable, and critical summary of these areas of research, it will allow scientists to become familiar with recent developments related to their own research interests, and will help clinical researchers and medical students keep abreast of developments in basic science that are important for subsequent clinical advances.

Product Description: This simple and straightforward book provides an introduction to phospholipid chemistry. Graduate students and practicing research scientists who are encountering these compounds for the first time will find this an excellent primer explaining the methodology for recovering lipids intact from cells and tissues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: General Description of the Volume:This volume presents the best techniques and strategies for the study of lipid modified proteins, with particular emphasis on methods which evaluate the functional significance or biological impact of lipid modification...read more

Product Description: The interest in the carbohydrates of glycoproteins has greatly intensified in the past few years. The recent development of recombinant glycoproteins for therapeutic purposes necessitates the understanding of the structure-function relationship in glycoproteins...read more

Product Description: The only comprehensive one-volume work describing protein-bound lipidsLipid Modifications of Proteins is the first single-volume publication to provide a comprehensive discussion of the five major kinds of protein-bound lipids. The book examines the biochemical activities involved in covalent attachment of different kinds of lipids to proteins, and it indicates the extent of lipid modifications to proteins...read more

Product Description: Lipid modifications of proteins play important roles in cellular signalling, protein targeting and cell growth and differentiation. The enzymes which catalyze these reactions are already seen as novel therapeutic targets. This book is a guide to the latest methods in use in this discipline...read more

Product Description: Lipoproteins play an important role in maintaining the normal distribution of lipids in the body and in the transport of lipophilic compounds. They are also implicated, however, in some of the major diseases of the Western world including atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke...read more

Product Description: Lipoprotein disorders are among the most common metabolic derangements encountered in industrialised countries. Figures for the United States of America, for example, reveal that more than half of the adult population have too high plasma cholesterol levels...read more

Product Description: This latest addition to the "clinical tests services" will cover lipids in plasma; total plasma cholesterol and triglycerides; free cholesterol, cholesterol esters, phospholipids and free fatty acids; plasma lipoproteins; lipoprotein analysis and quantitation; hyperlipoproteinaemias; hypolipoproteinaemias; treatment...read more