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Monoclonal Antibodies Against Bacteria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Monoclonal Antibodies Against Bacteria

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-10
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Monoclonal Antibodies Against Bacteria, Volume II provides the basis for understanding new developments of practical importance in the health sciences within the area of microbiology and infectious diseases, focusing on advances made possible by monoclonal antibodies. This 12-chapter volume starts with the analysis of streptococcal antigens implicated in the causation of rheumatic fever and heart disease to find ways of inducing protective immunity. The next chapters deal with the detection of staphylococcal enterotoxins in foods and treatment of staphylococcal food poisoning, the classification of meningococcal isolates associated with meningitis and related disorders, and the immunology of...

Pathologic Conditions of the Human Nervous and Muscular Systems Associated with Mutant Chaperones: Molecular and Mechanistic Aspects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 111

Pathologic Conditions of the Human Nervous and Muscular Systems Associated with Mutant Chaperones: Molecular and Mechanistic Aspects

This eBook presents illustrative examples of genetic chaperonopathies affecting primarily nerves and muscles and discusses molecular mechanisms and treatment targeting chaperones, i.e., chaperonotherapy.

Monoclonal Antibodies against Bacteria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Monoclonal Antibodies against Bacteria

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-02
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Monoclonal Antibodies against Bacteria, Volume I explores the generation, characterization, and utilization of monoclonal antibodies against bacteria and on other monoclonal products relevant to antibacterial immune responses. Organized into 12 chapters, this book begins with a discussion on monoclonal antibodies against bacteria, encompassing its scope, research, and directions. It shows that the coordinated use of antisera and panels of monoclonal antibodies is proving useful for classification as a diagnostic tool with prognostic implications in the case of pathogens, or as a preliminary step in taxonomy. Also, monoclonal antibodies hold great potential as instruments in working with bact...

Prokaryotic Cell Wall Compounds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

Prokaryotic Cell Wall Compounds

Microbial cell wall structures play a significant role in maintaining cells’ shape, as protecting layers against harmful agents, in cell adhesion and in positive and negative biological activities with host cells. All prokaryotes, whether they are bacteria or archaea, rely on their surface polymers for these multiple functions. Their surfaces serve as the indispensable primary interfaces between the cell and its surroundings, often mediating or catalyzing important interactions. Prokaryotic Cell Wall Compounds summarizes the current state of knowledge on the prokaryotic cell wall. Topics concerning bacterial and archaeal polymeric cell wall structures, biological activities, growth and inhibition, cell wall interactions and the applications of cell wall components, especially in the field of nanobiotechnology, are presented.

The Chaperonopathies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

The Chaperonopathies

This Brief provides a concise review of chaperonopathies, i.e., diseases in which molecular chaperones play an etiologic-pathogenic role. Introductory chapters deal with the chaperoning system and chaperoning teams and networks, HSP-chaperone subpopulations, the locations and functions of chaperones, and chaperone genes in humans. Other chapters present the chaperonopathies in general, including their molecular features and mechanistic classification into by defect, excess, or mistake. Subsequent chapters discuss the chaperonopathies in more detail, focusing on their distinctive characteristics: primary or secondary; quantitative and/or qualitative; structural and hereditary or acquired; gen...

Bacterial Diversity and Systematics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Bacterial Diversity and Systematics

Bacterial taxonomy as a specialized discipline is practised by a minority but the applications of taxonomy are important to most, if not all microbiologists. It is the implementation of taxonomic ideas and practises which gives rise to identification and typing systems, procedures for the analysis and characterization of biodiversity, hypotheses about the evolution of micro-organisms, and improved procedures for the isolation and implementation of bacteria in biotechnological processes. Without taxonomic theory providing a sound basis to these many facets of microbiology there would be severe problems faced by many scientists working with micro-organisms. Taxonomy comprises three sequential ...

Monoclonal Antibodies Against Bacteria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

Monoclonal Antibodies Against Bacteria

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-10
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Monoclonal Antibodies Against Bacteria, Volume III covers the basis for understanding developments of practical importance in the health sciences within the area of microbiology and infectious diseases, focusing on advances made possible by monoclonal antibodies. This 12-chapter volume specifically considers the basic principles of hybridoma technology. The introductory chapters deal with treponemal antigens of significance for understanding syphilis, yaws, pinta, salmonellosis, and other gastroenteropathies. The subsequent chapters highlight pediatric infections and the strategies for molecular analyses of bacterial antigens, focusing on cell walls, S layers, and sheaths. The remaining chapters examine the bacterial toxins involved in gaseous gangrene and other forms of cell damage, such as diphtheria, caries and periodontal diseases, and bacteria relevant to animal sciences. This book will prove useful to internists, pediatricians, surgeons, dentists, veterinarians, clinical pathologists, and laboratory technologists.

Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-01-13
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  • Publisher: Springer

For a long time microbial ecology has been developed as a distinct field within Ecology. In spite of the important role of microorganisms in the environment, this group of 'invisible' organisms remained unaccessable to other ecologists. Detection and identification of microorganisms remain largely dependent on isolation techniques and characterisation of pure cul tures. We now realise that only a minor fraction of the microbial com munity can be cultivated. As a result of the introduction of molecular methods, microbes can now be detected and identified at the DNA/RNA level in their natural environment. This has opened a new field in ecology: Molecular Microbial Ecology. In the present manua...

Encyclopedia of Stress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 793

Encyclopedia of Stress

Comprised of nearly 400 entries by leading experts on the subject, "The Encyclopedia of Stress" covers almost every aspect and ramification of stress. The book explores the effects of stress on behavior, psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders, cardiovascular systems, reproductive function, and immune function, plus stress as a consequence of work, post-traumatic stress, and stress and predisposition to disease. (Social Sciences--Psychology)

Encyclopedia of Stress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 793

Encyclopedia of Stress

Stress is generally defined as a strain upon a bodily organ or mental power. Depending on its duration and intensity, stress can have short- or long-lasting effects: it has been linked to heart disease, immune deficiency, memory loss, behavioral disorders, and much more. These effects on the individual also have a major impact on health care costs and services, employee productivity, and even violent crime. The Encyclopedia of Stress is the first comprehensive reference source on stressors, the biological mechanisms involved in the stress response, the effects of activating the stress response mechanisms, and the disorders that may arise as a consequence of acute or chronic stress. While oth...