Cell Fusion
Published on 14. September 2009
256 pages
978-0-470-71854-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
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Ciba Foundation Symposium 103 - Cell Fusion
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12/1984
Wiley
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Content
- Intro
- Cell fusion
- Contents
- Introduction
- Lessons for the study of membrane fusion from membrane interactions in phospholipid systems
- Discussion
- Fusogenic mechanisms
- Discussion
- Non-bilayer structures in membrane fusion
- Discussion
- Electro-fusion of cells: principles and potential for the future
- Discussion
- Molecular aspects of sperm-egg fusion
- Discussion
- Myoblast fusion and inositol phospholipid breakdown: causal relationship or coincidence?
- Discussion
- Plant-animal cell fusions
- Discussion
- Transfer of plasma membrane proteins between cells using reconstituted membrane vesicles as shuttle vehicles
- Discussion
- Insertion of EGF receptors into target cells in the absence of fusogenic agents
- Discussion
- The use of specific antibodies to mediate fusion between Sendai virus envelopes and living cells
- Discussion
- What determines the degradation rate of an injected protein?
- Discussion
- Degradative fate of transplanted proteins
- Discussion
- Expression of mRNAs microinjected into somatic cells
- Discussion
- Immunospecific vesicle targeting facilitates fusion with selected cell populations
- Discussion
- Liposomes for gene transfer and expression in vivo
- Discussion
- Final general discussion
- Comments on the status of the bilayer concept of biomembranes
- Mode of action of polyethylene glycol
- Microinjection and protein degradation studies
- Mechanism of cell fusion by viruses
- Physiological cell fusion
- Index of contributors
- Subject index
