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Functional Metabolism: Regulation and Adaptation

ISBN: 978-0-471-41090-4
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616 pages
August 2004
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Preface.

Contributors.

Chapter 1: Principles of Metabolic Control (William C. Plaxton).

Chapter 2: Enzymes: The Basis of Catalysis (Stephen P.J. Brooks).

Chapter 3: Enzymes in the Cell: What's Really Going On? (Stephen P.J. Brooks).

Chapter 4: Signal Transduction Pathways and the Control of Cellular Responses to External Stimuli (Justin A. MacDonald).

Chapter 5: Tyrosine Phosphorylation and the Control of Cellular Information (Justin A. MacDonald).

Chapter 6: Control of Transcription in Eukaryotic Cells (William G. Willmore).

Chapter 7: Translational Controls and Protein Synthesis in Eukaryotic Cells (William G. Willmore).

Chapter 8: The Mitochondria: Powerhouse of the Cell (Kyra J. Cowan).

Chapter 9: Human Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease (Steven C. Greenway).

Chapter 10: Hormones in Human Metabolism and Disease (Steven C. Greenway)

Chapter 11: Skeletal Muscle Metabolism and Plasticity (Denis R. Joanisse).

Chapter 12: Oxygen in Biology and Biochemistry: Role of Free Radicals (Marcelo Hermes-Lima).

Chapter 13: Oxidative Stress and Medical Sciences (Marcelo Hermes-Lima).

Chapter 14: Biochemical Adaptation (Kenneth B. Storey).

Chapter 15: Oxygen Limitation and Metabolic Rate Depression (Kenneth B. Storey and Janet M. Storey).

Chapter 16: Mammalian Hibernation: Biochemical Adaptation and Gene Expression (Kenneth B. Storey and Janet M. Storey).

Chapter 17: Cold Hardiness and Freeze Tolerance (Janet M. Storey and Kenneth B. Storey).

Chapter 18: Aspects of Blood Cell Biochemistry: Erythrocytes, Platelets, and Stem Cells (Jean E. Grundy).

Chapter 19: Organ Preservation for Transplantation (Thomas A. Churchill).

Chapter 20: Metabolic Evolution and the Origin of Life (Tolga Bilgen).

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