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This volume gives a 'state of the art' description of our current knowledge of the relation between the known properties of some of the protein components of the cytoskeletal system, the manner in which they assemble and interact within the cell, and the detailed characteristics of the cell movements that occur.

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Intended for use by advanced undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology is a fascinating study of the unique biochemical and physiological properties of neurons, emphasizing the molecular mechanisms that generate and regulate their activity. There have been enormous advances in neuroscience in the five years since the first edition was published. and the authors have revised all their chapters to keep abreast of the progress. What was formerly the first chapter has been expanded substantially and divided into two separate chapters to emphasize features of the cell biology of neurons and glia and their commonalities with other kinds of cells. The section on intracellular communication has also been expanded and reorganized. The authors introduce the concept of ion channels as specialized membrane proteins at an early stage, making it easier to understand the idea of selective membrane permeability in terms of the properties of particular ion channel proteins. In addition, they emphasize the astonishing diversity of the voltage-dependent ion channels that has become evident in recent years, and discuss the implications of this diversity for neuronal physiology. In the section on intercellular communication, the chapter on secretion of neurotransmitters has also been rewritten to reflect the new level of understanding of secretion that has resulted from identification of many of the molecular players in vesicle fusion and exocytosis. Here again, information from many kinds of cells, including lower eukaryotes, has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of secretion. The remaining chapters in the section on intercellular communication have also been revised thoroughly to include new information resulting from the cloning and characterization of the multitude of glutamate receptors as well as to describe novel elements of intracellular signaling pathways in neurons and other cells. Finally, the last section has been substantially revised since molecular studies of development and plasticity have also been exceptionally fruitful during the last five years. As more and more of the molecular entities that are essential for neuronal development and adult plasticity are identified and characterized, phenomena that previously could be studied only at the descriptive level can now be explained in greater depth.

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Word reaches Jessie and Ki that someone has staked a claim on Starbuck land in the Sierras, and when they investigate, they discover that the town is infested with double-dealing confidence men

Product Description: * This is a used boook in great condition. A desktop companion to the three-volume Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, the recognized leader in bioscience laboratory manuals. This edition contains over 220 protocols from leading laboratories worldwide...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to help students interested in biomedical engineering learn the essential concepts of biology and molecular biology. Serving as a practical guide to molecular engineering, the book will help students realize the unique approach they can take to tackle modern biomedical problems and challenges, given their training in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and other quantitative topics...read more

Product Description: This book serves as an introduction of the off-diagonal Bethe Ansatz method, an analytic theory for the eigenvalue problem of quantum integrable models. It also presents some fundamental knowledge about quantum integrability and the algebraic Bethe Ansatz method...read more

Neurochemical Techniques in Insect Research properly emphasizes the insect. It only scratches the surface of the exploding repertoire of general neuro­ chemical techniques that can be applied to insect research in 1985. But it al­ so presents the advantages of using insects for studying certain biological questions that are approachable by neurochemical techniques. Even more so, it summarizes the long list of unique problems encountered in attempting to study insects by neurochemical techniques. As in other volumes of this series, the contributors to this volume are the authorities in the field. They themselves have developed much of the material presented. Thus the sum effort provides a true description of the state of the art; and, pleasantly, it does so in a very complete and clear manner. Readers of this series will not need to be reminded that, despite the fact that vertebrates make up only about 3% of all animal species, research in in­ vertebrates such as insects has lagged behind that on vertebrates, at least in the neurochemistry area; the relative simplicity and large cell size of the in­ sect nervous system has always provided incentive for work in neurophysiol­ ogy and neuroanatomy. Toxicology interests will always stimulate a certain amount of work on insect neuropharmacology, and insects are extremely suitable for several areas of toxin research. Last but not least, the insects are beautiful organisms for which the applications of genetics can be made to the study of nervous system function.

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Product Description: This outstanding overview sets a new standard for a methods book on pathogen detection. The first chapter provides an outline of currently used routine methods, including their background, strengths and weaknesses, as well as comparing them to newer methods...read more

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