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Biological inorganic chemistry : a new introduction to molecular structure and function created by Robert R. Crichton

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Amsterdam Elsevier 2012Edition: SecondDescription: 460 pages ill. 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780444537829
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QP531
Contents:
1. An Overview of Metals and Selected Nonmetals in Biology 2. Basic Coordination Chemistry for Biologists 3. Structural and Molecular Biology for Chemists 4. Biological Ligands for Metal Ions 5. An Overview of Intermediary Metabolism and Bioenergetics 6. Methods to Study Metals in Biological Systems 7. Metal Assimilation Pathways 8. Transport, Storage, and Homeostasis of Metal Ions 9. Sodium and Potassium - Channels and Pumps 10. Magnesium-Phosphate Metabolism and Photoreceptors 11. Calcium - Cellular Signalling 12. Zinc - Lewis Acid and Gene Regulator 13. Iron 14. Copper - Coping with Dioxygen 15. Nickel and Cobalt 16. Manganese - Oxygen Generation and Detoxification 17. Molybdenum, Tungsten, Vanadium, and Chromium 18. Non-metals in Biology 19. Biomineralisation 20. Metals in Brain 21. Metals and Neurodegeneration 22. Metals in Medicine and Metals as Drugs 23. Metals in the Environment
Summary: An increasing understanding of the importance of metals in biology, the environment and medicine, and the multiple roles of metal ions in biological systems, has given rise to biological inorganic chemistry as a field of study. The book begins with an overview of the concepts, chemical and biological, required for the analysis which follows
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf QP531 PRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 149986 Available BK135806
Book Book Medical School Open Shelf QP531 CRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 151136 Available BK138193

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. An Overview of Metals and Selected Nonmetals in Biology 2. Basic Coordination Chemistry for Biologists 3. Structural and Molecular Biology for Chemists 4. Biological Ligands for Metal Ions 5. An Overview of Intermediary Metabolism and Bioenergetics 6. Methods to Study Metals in Biological Systems 7. Metal Assimilation Pathways 8. Transport, Storage, and Homeostasis of Metal Ions 9. Sodium and Potassium - Channels and Pumps 10. Magnesium-Phosphate Metabolism and Photoreceptors 11. Calcium - Cellular Signalling 12. Zinc - Lewis Acid and Gene Regulator 13. Iron 14. Copper - Coping with Dioxygen 15. Nickel and Cobalt 16. Manganese - Oxygen Generation and Detoxification 17. Molybdenum, Tungsten, Vanadium, and Chromium 18. Non-metals in Biology 19. Biomineralisation 20. Metals in Brain 21. Metals and Neurodegeneration 22. Metals in Medicine and Metals as Drugs 23. Metals in the Environment

An increasing understanding of the importance of metals in biology, the environment and medicine, and the multiple roles of metal ions in biological systems, has given rise to biological inorganic chemistry as a field of study. The book begins with an overview of the concepts, chemical and biological, required for the analysis which follows

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