Cell and Tissue Destruction: Mechanisms, Protection, and Disorders provides an overview of the main mechanisms responsible for degradation in human beings and summarizes important strategies to counter these mechanisms. This book details the properties and limits of protective mechanisms, along with disturbances to systematic physiological functions. It provides examples of disease states resulting from the limits of protective systems. Three sections consider the physical and chemical reasons for destruction in living systems, protection against cytotoxic components, and the development of pathologic states.
This book provides neuroscientists, cancer researchers and physicians with robust, overall coverage of the interrelated processes involved in cell and tissue destruction in living structures, and concomitant protective mechanisms and their limitations.
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Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
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Clinical researchers including neuroscientists, cancer researchers, histologists; Physicians, biologists, chemists, and scientists from related fields interested in the interrelationship between destruction of biological material and protective mechanisms ensuring the homeostasis in cells and tissues, including systems biologists, developmental biologists, microbiologists, and specialists in cell science. Pharmaceutical industry scientists, graduate students and academic researchers in pharmaceutical science.
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 191 mm
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978-0-12-816388-7 (9780128163887)
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Juergen Arnhold was an Associate Professor in the Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics at Leipzig University in Germany. He currently researches the underlying chemical processes during oxidative stress response in biological systems and investigates adaptive mechanisms against stress.
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Associate Professor, Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, Leipzig University, Germany
I. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REASONS FOR DESTRUCTION IN LIVING SYSTEMS1. Cells and Organisms as Open Systems2. Role of Reactive Species in Destructions3. Oxidation and Reduction of Biological Material
II. PROTECTION AGAINST CYTOTOXIC COMPONENTS AND DESTRUCTIONS4. Disturbances in Energy Supply5. Mechanisms of Cell Death6. Immune Response and Tissue Damage7. Acute-Phase Proteins and Additional Protective Systems
III. AGEING PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT OF PATHOLOGICAL STATES8. Aging in Complex Multicellular Organisms9. Cell and Tissue Destruction in Selected Disorders10. Organ Damage and Failure11. Conclusions
Appendix: Some Basics About Redox Reactions in Living Systems
