Advances in biological and medical physics. Volume IV /
Advances in Biological and Medical Physics, Volume IV, provides an overview of the state of knowledge in biological and medical physics. The book contains eight chapters and opens with a discussion of the application of X-ray diffraction to crystalline proteins. This is followed by separate chapters...
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Academic Press Inc.,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | 1956. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00652245/4 |
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Advances in Biological and Medical Physics, Volume IV, provides an overview of the state of knowledge in biological and medical physics. The book contains eight chapters and opens with a discussion of the application of X-ray diffraction to crystalline proteins. This is followed by separate chapters on the relationship between the chemical information which can be stored in the nucleic acid molecule and the sequence of amino acids found in polypeptides and proteins; materials for the biophysical and biochemical study of cell division; and the action of high and low temperatures in the destruct. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781483281773 1483281779 |
Index Number: | QH505 |
CLC: | Q6 |
Contents: |
Front Cover; Advances in Biological and Medical Physics; Copyright Page; CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME IV; FOREWORD; table of Contents; Chapter 1. X-ray Diffraction Applied to Crystalline Proteins; I. INTRODUCTION; II. CRYSTALS; III. X-RAY DIFFRACTION BY A CRYSTAL; IV. SYMMETRY OF CRYSTAL LATTICES; V. DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR WEIGHTS; VI. THE SOLVENT CONTENT OF PROTEIN CRYSTALS; VII. THE DENSITIES OF PROTEIN CRYSTALS; VIII. THE INTENSITIES OF THE BRAGG REFLECTIONS; IX. THE PATTERSON FUNCTION; X . PATTERSON FUNCTIONS OF PROTEINS; XI. THE ELECTRON DENSITY OF A CRYSTAL; XII. RESULTS; REFERENCES Chapter 2. The Problem of Information Transfer from the Nucleic Acids to Proteins1I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE RELATION OF THE NUCLEIC ACIDS TO PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; III. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; IV. NUCLEIC ACID-PROTEIN CODING SCHEMES; V. VARIOUS STATISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS; VI. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Materials for the Biophysical and Biochemical Study of Cell Division; I. THE PROBLEM OF CELL DIVISION-INTRODUCTION; II. PATTERNS OF CELL DIVISION; III. PROBLEMS OF THE STIMULATION OF MITOSIS; IV. THE PREPARATION FOR MITOSIS; V. BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS OF MITOSIS VI. CYTOKINESIS: DIVISION OF THE CELL BODYVII. THE INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS WITH ANTIMITOTIC AGENTS; REFERENCES*; Chapter 4. Lethal Effects of High and Low Temperatures on Unicellular Organisms; I. INTRODUCTION; II . HEAT INACTIVATION; III. COLD INACTIVATION; IV. CONCLUSIONS AND DESIRABLE EXTENSIONS OF EXISTING WORK; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Infrared Spectrometry ; I. INTRODUCTION; II. INTERPRETATION OF INFRARED SPECTRA; III. INSTRUMENTATION; IV. INFRARED MICROSPECTROMETRY; V. EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; VI. APPLICATIONS I N BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY; VII. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES Chapter 6. Kinetics of Iron Metabolism ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. The Gross Composition of the Body1 ; I. INTRODUCTION; II. BODY WATER; III. MEASUREMENT OF TOTAL BODY WATER; IV. MEASUREMENT OF EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; V. FAT; VI. MEASUREMENT OF FAT; VII. PROTEIN AND MINERAL; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. A Special Consideration of the Aging Process, Disease, and Life Expectancy1 ; I. LIFE SPAN AND AGE-SPECIFIC DEATH RATE; II. INTERNAL HOMOGENEITY OF POPULATIONS WITH REGARD TO SUBPOPULATIONS, PHYSIOLOGIC AGE, AND TENDENCY TOWARD DISEASE; III. MAJOR DISEASE GROUPS IV. THE ONSET OF DISEASE AND LIFE EXPECTANCYV. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; DEMOGRAPHIC SOURCES:; Author Index; Subject Index |