Recent years have witnessed an avalanche of new knowledge implicating free radicals in virtually every aspect of biology and medicine. It is now ax...

Prions, probably the most fascinating proteins ever studied, have been in the spotlight for the last 30 years. However, their history is much older...

Pro-inflammatory cytokines co-ordinate immune, physiological, metabolic and behavioural responses that are collectively termed the acute phase reac...

Procyanidins are phenolic compounds from plants and they are abundant in our diet. Research studies on procyanidins have shown that they have many ...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the biology, characterisation and potential clinical application of progenitor c...

Both autophagy and programmed cell death (PCD) are fundamental processes of cellular maintenance that are closely interrelated in plant and animal ...

Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, including the biotic and abiotic components. There are at l...

Like coal and petroleum, biomass is a form of stored solar energy. The energy of the sun is "captured" through the process of photosynthesis in gro...

A cell cycle is an ordered and highly controlled set of events that leads to cell growth and proliferation. Cell cycle progression is driven by cha...

When used in the context of reproduction of living cells the phrase "cell growth" is shorthand for the idea of "growth in cell populations by means...

The given compilation is devoted to such anniversary of Professor Gennady E Zaikov. His scientific biography (with social impregnations) you can re...

This book presents the latest research on DNA damage, which due to environmental factors and normal metabolic processes inside the cell, occurs at ...

This book presents new and important research on environmental microbiology which is area of interaction that studies the interaction of microorgan...

Food chemistry is the study of chemical processes and interactions of all biological and non-biological components of foods. The biological substan...

The explosion of research activity in the field of neuropeptides has led to the identification of numerous naturally occurring endogenous peptides ...

For thousands of years, mankind has both used bacteria and suffered from them without actually being aware of them, until 340 years ago when Anton ...

Proline might be the most studied amino acid in nature. Many authors have reviewed its many functions in cell homoeostasis. Not only it is essentia...

J. curcas L. is a small or large shrub tree, up to 5–7m tall, belonging to the Euphorbiaceae family which consists of around 800 species and belong...

This book is devoted to the study of physiological properties of a living axoplasm, which, as it turns out, is hardly studied as a single organ. Th...

A prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the ani...

Proteases or proteinases have a wide application in different industrial processes including cheese production, meat tenderization, production of p...

Life has evolved in an extraordinary way to deal with the most extreme physical and chemical conditions. Extremophilic (extreme-loving) organisms h...

Protein aggregation is the aggregation of misfolded proteins, and is thought to be responsible for many degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's....

Protein biosynthesis (synthesis) is the process in which cells build proteins. The term is sometimes used to refer only to protein translation but ...

Protein structure is the characteristic 3-dimensional shape of a protein, imposed upon it by the secondary and tertiary structure of the peptide ch...

Protein engineering is the process of developing useful or valuable proteins. It is a young discipline, with much research currently taking place i...

Protein engineering is the process of developing useful or valuable proteins. It is a young discipline, with much research currently taking place i...

Proteins are an important class of biological macromolecules present in every biological organism. Proteins are synthesised on ribosomes as a linea...

Proteins are one of the most basic components of all living cells and therefore serve a vital purpose in the cells of animals, plants and bacteria....

Protein research continues to be an intriguing area of research: the field spans the range from quantum to system, and requires some knowledge of n...

In this collection, the authors aim to provide information the preparation of marine protein hydrolysates and their main bioactive properties such ...

In this compilation, the authors review the structural basis of PKC isozymes and focus on the C1 domain, as well as the plausible binding mechanism...

Proteins occasionally exhibit the potential to adopt alternate folds under natural or artificial conditions. These conformational changes can lead ...

Protein purification is vital for the characterisation of the function, structure and interactions of the protein of interest. This book presents c...

Proteins are large organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and a...

To understand the functions of proteins at a molecular level, it is often necessary to determine their three-dimensional structure. A protein may u...