Cell and Tissue Destruction: Mechanisms, Protection, Disorders

by Jurgen Arnhold

Overview

Cell and Tissue Destruction: Mechanisms, Protection, and Disorders provides an overview of the main mechanisms responsible for degradation in human beings and summarizes important strategies to counter these mechanisms. This book details the properties and limits of protective mechanisms, along with disturbances to systematic physiological functions. It provides examples of disease states resulting from the limits of protective systems. Three sections consider the physical and chemical reasons for destruction in living systems, protection against cytotoxic components, and the development of pathologic states. This book provides neuroscientists, cancer researchers and physicians with robust, overall coverage of the interrelated processes involved in cell and tissue destruction in living structures, and concomitant protective mechanisms and their limitations. - Describes the destruction of biological material as a consequence of the highly ordered nature of living structures - Specifies the main strategies used by cells to overcome destruction, including antioxidative systems, self-repair and growth - Highlights basic mechanisms of immune regulation - Considers the development of selected disease scenarios, from the perspective of destructive processes in cells and tissues - Details organ damage by cytotoxic components as well as septic conditions and multiple organ failure

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128167359
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	08/13/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Jürgen Arnhold was an Associate Professor in the Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics at Leipzig University in Germany. He currently researches the underlying chemical processes during oxidative stress response in biological systems and investigates adaptive mechanisms against stress.

Table of Contents

I. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REASONS FOR DESTRUCTION IN LIVING SYSTEMS1. Cells and Organisms as Open Systems2. Role of Reactive Species in Destructions3. Oxidation and Reduction of Biological Material II. PROTECTION AGAINST CYTOTOXIC COMPONENTS AND DESTRUCTIONS4. Disturbances in Energy Supply5. Mechanisms of Cell Death6. Immune Response and Tissue Damage7. Acute-Phase Proteins and Additional Protective Systems III. AGEING PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT OF PATHOLOGICAL STATES8. Aging in Complex Multicellular Organisms9. Cell and Tissue Destruction in Selected Disorders10. Organ Damage and Failure11. Conclusions Appendix: Some Basics About Redox Reactions in Living Systems

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Provides an overview of the mechanisms and relationships involved with cell and tissue destruction, relating them to living organisms