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Biological inorganic chemistry : a new introduction to molecular structure and function /
The importance of metals in biology, the environment and medicine has become increasingly evident over the last twenty five years. The study of the multiple roles of metal ions in biological systems, the rapidly expanding interface between inorganic chemistry and biology constitutes the subject call...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Oxford, UK ; Boston [Mass.] :
Elsevier,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An overview of metals and selected nonmetals in biology
- Basic coordination chemistry for biologists
- Structural and molecular biology for chemists
- Biological ligands for metal ions
- An overview of intermediary metabolism and bioenergetics
- Methods to study metals in biological systems
- Metal assimilation pathways
- Transport, storage and homeostatis of metal ions
- Sodium and potassium : channels and pumps
- Magnesium : phosphate metabolism and photoreceptors
- Calcium : cellular signalling
- Zinc : Lewis acid and gene regulator
- Iron : essential for almost all life
- Copper : coping with dioxygen
- Nickel and cobalt : evolutionary relics
- Manganese : oxygen generation and detoxification
- Molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium and chromium
- Nonmetals in biology
- Biomineralisation
- Metals in brain
- Metals and neurodegeneration
- Metals in medicine and metals as drugs
- Metals in the environment.