Membrane Structure in Disease and Drug Therapy / Edition 1

by Svante Cornell

Overview

This study asserts that cellular and intracellular membranes are active in every aspect of the body's physiology and pathophysiology. It compares secondary through to quaternary structures and protien sequences and guages their influence on health, disease and drug therapy. The book highlights the importance of correlations, homologies and categorizing multifunctionality by domain and complex.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824703615
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2000
Pages:	556
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Antibacterial actions. Part 2 Dermatology. Part 3 Drug transporters, oxidative stress. Part 4 Inflammation/infection. Part 5 Neurology. Part 6 Oncology. Part 7 Polycystic diseases. Part 8 Pulmonary physiology and diseases.

Editorial Reviews

". . .excellent and well illustrated. . . .supported by ample references and a comprehensive index."
—-Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

From the Publisher

...excellent and well illustrated. "...supported by ample references and a comprehensive index.
—Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Publisher

Contributors in biochemistry and related fields from around the world demonstrate how cellular and intracellular membranes take active part in every aspect of the body's physiology and patholophysiology. They compare secondary through quaternary structures and protein sequences; gauge their influence on health, disease, and drug therapy; highlight the importance of correlations and homologies; and categorize multifunctionality by domain and complex. Their main areas of discussion are antibacterial actions, dermatology, drug transporters and oxidative stress, inflammation and infection, metabolism, neurology, oncology, polycystic diseases, pulmonary physiology and diseases, and transport events. More specific topics include the antibacterial and hemolytic activity of amphipathic helical peptides, environmental effects on skin lipids and impairment of barrier function, tetra-ether lipid liposomes, the effect of cholestasis on biomembranes, the regulation of glucose transport by insulin in muscle and fat cells, and using monoclonal antibodies to clone and identify membrane antigens. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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