Published December, 2010
By Guntram Seltmann and Otto Holst
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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The bacterial cell wall represents a very complex structure disconnecting the interior of single-cell organisms from the environment, thus protecting, but also enabling, them to interact with the surrounding milieu and to exchange both substances and information.

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Published December, 2010
By Peter L. Lutz, Goran E. Nilsson, Howard M. Prentice, P.L. Lutz, G.E. Nilsson and H.M. Prentice
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The Brain Without Oxygen: Causes of failure - Physiological and molecular mechanisms for survival, Third edition, discusses the mechanisms of brain hypoxia tolerance in these exceptional vertebrates, which include diving marine mammals, high altitude dwellers and the hibernating mammal.

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Published December, 2010
By Sara Amancio and Ineke Stulen
Publisher: Springer
Series: Plant Ecophysiology
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Yield improvement and accumulation of essential nitrogen compounds is relying on selection and gene technologies.Research on the uptake, acquisition and assimilation of nitrogen, as well as the synthesis and storage of reserve and defence N-compounds, therefore, is essential.

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Published December, 2010
By Sadao Mori and Howard G. Barth
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Laboratory
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Although size exclusion chromatography (SEC) is perhaps the most popular and widely used technique for determining the molecular weight distribution of polymeric materials, there have been very few texts written on this topic.

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Published December, 2010
By Hillel Rubin, Nava Narkis and Judith Carberry
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The Water Research Institute at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) is proud to have initiated and sponsored the International Workshop "Soil and Aquifer Pollution: Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids - Contamination and Recla- tion", held May 13th-15th, 1996, on the Technion campus in Haifa.

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Published December, 2010
By R.L. Phillips and Indra K. Vasil
Publisher: Springer
Series: Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants
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With the new techniques described in this volume, a new gene can be placed on the linkage map within only a few days. Leading researchers have updated the earlier edition to include the latest versions of DNA-based marker maps for a variety of important crops.

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Published December, 2010
By R. Hausmann
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In each chapter, the development of a particular aspect of modern biology is described in a historical and logical context, not missing to take into account human aspects of the protagonists of the story.

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Published December, 2010
By Susan Bardocz and Ann White
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The importance of polyamines for all living cells has been recognized since spermine was discovered in human semen more than 300 years ago.

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Published December, 2010
By N. L. Vekshin, Nikolai Vekshin and Nikolai L. Vekshin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Photonics of biopolymers discusses the processes of energy transformation in photoexcited proteins, nucleic acids, membranes and model systems. The author addresses, among other topics: Light absorption, screening and reabsorption; Much of the information stems from the author's own wide experience in the field.

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Published December, 2010
By Elissavet Kardami, Larry Hryshko and Nasrin Mesaeli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Developments in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
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Cardiac cell biology has come of age. Cardiac gap junctions, intercellular communication channels that allow electrical and metabolic coupling and play an important role in arrhythmogenesis are now understood to be exquisite sensors of cardiac change.

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