This book is one of a series of brief fundamental texts for junior under graduates and diploma students in biological science. The series, Molecular and Cell Biochemistry, covers the whole of modern biochemistry, integrating animal, plant and microbial topics. The intention is to give the series special appeal to the many students who read biochemistry for only part of their course and who are looking for an all-encompassing and stimulating approach. Although all books in the series bear a distinct family likeness, each stands on its own as an independent text. Many students, particularly those with less numerate backgrounds, find elements of their biochemistry courses daunting, and one of our principal concerns is to offer books which present the facts in a palatable style. Each chapter is prefaced by a list of learning objectives, with short summaries and revision aids at the ends of chapters. The text itself is informal, and the incorporation of marginal notes and information boxes to accompany the main text give a tutorial flavour, complementing and supporting the main narrative. The marginal notes and boxes relate facts in the text to applicable examples in everyday life, in industry, in other life sciences and in medicine, and provide a variety of other educational devices to assist, support, and reinforce learning. References are annotated to guide students towards effective and relevant additional reading.

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Molecular and Cell Biochemistry)

Science & Math

Smith, C. A.

Wood, E. J.

Biological Sciences

Springer

9. 2 Cell walls of flowering plants 287 Algal and protist cell walls 301 9. 3 9. 4 Fungal cells walls 304 Overview 305 9. 5 10 Animal hormones and local mediators 309 10. 1 Introduction 309 10. 2 Structure and classification of animal hormones and local mediators 309 10. 3 Structures of receptors in the cell membrane for hormones and local mediators 311 10. 4 Cyclic AMP as a second messenger 313 10. 5 Signalling by cyclic GMP: atrial naturetic peptides and nitric oxide 321 10. 6 Inositol trisphosphate and diacylglycerol as second messengers 322 10. 7 Receptors signalling through tyrosine phosphorylation 328 10. 8 Steroid hormones penetrate the cell membrane 330 10. 9 Overview 335 11 Plant hormones 339 11. 1 Introduction 339 11. 2 Biosynthesis and general effects of major plant hormones 342 11. 3 Mechanisms of plant hormone action 346 11. 4 Second messengers 351 11. 5 Other plant growth regulators 352 11. 6 Interactive effects of plant hormones 357 11. 7 Overview 358 12 Nerves, neurotransmitters and their receptors 361 12. 1 Introduction 361 12. 2 Resting potential 363 12. 3 Action potential 364 12. 4 Synaptic transmission, neurotransmitters and receptors 370 12. 5 The generation of action potentials by sensory stimuli 380 12. 6 Overview 388 13 Muscle contraction 391 13. 1 Introduction 391 The cell biology of skeletal muscle 392 13. 2 13. 3 Other muscle types 396 13. 4 Structural proteins of muscle 398 Energetics of muscle contraction 410 13.

Cell Biology (Molecular and Cell Biochemistry Series)

This text covers the practice of automatic process control and the fundamental principles of control theory. Throughout the book, the authors base the understanding of process dynamic response on the principles of material and energy balances, fluid flow, heat transfer, separation processes and reaction kinetics. Included are a generous number of case studies, problems and examples taken directly from actual professional experience.

Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control

Corripio, A.B.

John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Xeethra

Literature & Fiction

Necronomicon Pr

Witchcraft of Ulua

The Book of Eibon, the creation of Clark Ashton Smith, ranks behind Lovecraft's Necronomicon as a shunned repository of mystical horrors surviving blasphemously from elder eons. Not content with his own and Lovecraft's citations of the Book, Smith actually wrote two chapters of it, his famous stories "The Door to Saturn" and "The Coming of the White Worm." Lin Carter knew a good thing when he saw it and decided it would be fun to write and to read the remaining Eibonic chapters. So he took in hand to write a number of them, intending to finish the book one day. This he did not live to do, but others took up the fallen banner, supplying more of the droll yet frightening episodes, as well as various liturgical and magical arcana the Book of Eibon was said to contain. The result is truly impressive, much more so than any previous attempt to compose such a Mythos grimoire, a work of horror, humor, and genuine poetic power. Many will be seriously tempted to use this volume as a working occult resource.

The Book of Eibon

Carter, L.

Genre Fiction

Chaosium

This is a A level Biology book which uses a innovative format, consisting of a series of annotated diagrams with linking text, to make biology an interesting and easily accessible subject for pupils. Biological principles and their applications in commercial, medical, ecological and physiological contexts are explained in the book. The text covers information for the newly proposed A-level Biology syllabuses, but is equally useful for students of vocational life-science courses.

Life Chemistry & Molecular Biology

Pickering, W.R.

Portland Pr

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