TGF-beta, originally identified as a transforming growth factor with similar properties, is now known to exist as a family of factors with similar properties. These factors promote cell proliferation in some tissue types or conditions and induce cell differentiation in others. Features the latest information on the TGF-beta family and its receptors. Describes correlations between TGF-beta and certain cancers, including glioblastomas. Also contai ...
Presents state-of-the-art applications in hyaluronan research, from hyaluronan's physicochemical properties to its clinical role as a connective tissue marker and its surgical implications, particularly in ear, eye and orthopaedic surgery. Covers hyaluronan's synthesis and catabolism, its role in cells, its interactions with specific binding proteins, and its role in the embryonic nervous system. ...
Developed as a one-stop reference source for drug safety and toxicology professionals, this book explains why mitochondrial failure is a crucial step in drug toxicity and how it can be avoided. • Covers both basic science and applied technology / methods • Allows readers to understand the basis of mitochondrial function, the preclinical assessments used, and what they reveal about drug effects • Contains both in vitro and in vivo methods for ana ...
There has been dramatic growth in the community of researchers and industrialists working in the area of Green Chemistry. There has been an increasing recognition by a wide-range of scientists and engineers in the chemical enterprise that the framework of Green Chemistry is relevant and enabling to their work. There has been a significant body of work that has accumulated over the past decade that details the breakthroughs, innovation and creati ...
This monograph provides foundations, methods, guidelines and examples for monitoring and improving resource efficiency during the operation of processing plants and for improving their design. The measures taken to improve their energy and resource efficiency are strongly influenced by regulations and standards which are covered in Part I of this book. Without changing the actual processing equipment, the way how the processes are operated can h ...
Band 3 eines Klassikers! Kein anderes Werk der Makromolekularen Chemie hat jemals sechs Auflagen erlebt. Die Anderung der Produktion und des Verbrauchs von Polymeren ist ein Ma?stab fur die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung. Dieser Band gibt eine Ubersicht uber Synthese und grundlegende Eigenschaften der technisch und wissenschaftlich wichtigsten Polymere, geordnet nach ihren Kettenstrukturen, was in den meisten Fallen auch einer Ordnung nach Rohstoff ...
Ein Buch fur Ingenieure, Chemiker und Techniker die sich mit Fragestellungen rund um die richtige chemische Vorbehandlung von Oberflachen vor dem Lackieren, Emaillieren oder Kleben beschaftigen. Es spricht Praktiker im Betrieb an, die Losungen suchen, ohne mit chemischen oder mathematischen Formeln belastet zu werden. Naturlich kommt es auf die Qualitat der Beschichtungsstoffe an – aber alle Muhe ist vergebens, wenn die Oberflache nicht optimal ...
Process simulation is playing an increasingly important role in process engineering. Nowadays, process simulation is applied during all phases of process lifetime: the work of engineers is more often accompanied by simulations, from the development, planning and construction of plants to the operation. Computers are becoming cheaper to use and progress in the fundamental sciences of modelling and mathematics are favouring the extended applicatio ...
