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Simmons, J |
Conservation of Threatened Plants |
I00557 |
1976 |
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Hidalgo, Cecilia |
Physical Properties of Biological Membranes and Their Functional Implications |
I00429 |
1988 |
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| Title | Conservation of Threatened Plants |
| Author(s) | Simmons, J |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1976. |
| Description | XVI, 336 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | During the last hlO hundred years man has changed from living in equilibrium with the natural world which sustained him, to a new position in which he is now its undisputed ruler - and very often out of equilibrium - able in a matter of hours to reduce miles of forest to devastated, potential desert. This destructive and wasteful ability has increas~d dramatically over recent years. At the same time however the need for conservation, particularly of plants as a resource for the future, has also become apparent, along with the realisation that advanced technologies can produce more from existing agricultural and forest regions. This may to some extent relieve the heavy pressure on the vulnerable areas where short term over-exploitation leads to permanent destruction of whole ecosystems, and the attendant loss, for ever, of many of the animals and plants which originally lived there. There still remains today a vast number of plant species whose potential is unknown. Maybe they will never have more than aesthetic value to mankind. But who knows where, for example, the next anti?? cancer agent may be found. And anyway future generations may not be ready to accept such anthropocentric values, and the options should be kept open for the philosophical concept that all life on earth has a right to exist and that man has none to exterminate |
| ISBN,Price | 9781468425178 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. BOTANY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. PLANT SCIENCE
5. Plant Sciences
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| Item Type | eBook |
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| Title | Physical Properties of Biological Membranes and Their Functional Implications |
| Author(s) | Hidalgo, Cecilia |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1988. |
| Description | XI, 236 p. 111 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book was originated from a series of lectures given in a course on the physical properties of biological membranes and their functional implica?? tions. The course was intended to allow students to get acquainted with the physical techniques used to study biological membranes. The experience was valuable and we feel that a detailed description of the procedures used and of various examples of the results obtained allowed many students to become familiar with a theme that is not often part of regular courses on membrane physiology or biophysics. This book is designed as a tutorial guide for graduate students interested in understanding how physical methods can be utilized to study the proper?? ties of biological membranes. It includes first a detailed description of applications of physical techniques-such as X-ray fiber diffraction methods (Chapter 1), 2H and 13C NMR spectroscopy (Chapter 2), and calorimetry (Chapter 3)-in the study of the properties of lipid model membranes. A description of how to measure molecular mobility in membranes (Chapter 4) follows, and the book concludes with three chapters in which biological membranes are the subject of study. Chapter 5 deals with the acetylcholine receptor and its membrane environment; Chapter 6 discusses how fluorescence techniques can be applied in the study of the calcium ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum; and Chapter 7 explains how protein?? lipid interactions modulate the function of the sodium and proton pumps |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461309352 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Animal anatomy
2. Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology
3. Animal Physiology
4. BIOCHEMISTRY
5. Biochemistry, general
6. Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
7. BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS
8. BIOPHYSICS
9. BOTANY
10. EBOOK
11. EBOOK - SPRINGER
12. PLANT SCIENCE
13. Plant Sciences
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