Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Editor/Author
Crichton, R.
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
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$112.74

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$169.11
ISBN: 978-0-444-53782-9
Category: Science - Chemistry
Image Count:
424
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
New revised edition of this bestseller, which teaches the importance of metals in biology, the environment and medicine.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the 2nd Edition
- 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 Homeostasis 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
- Non-metals in Biology
- Biomineralisation
- Metals in Brain
- Metals and Neurodegeneration
- Metals in Medicine and Metals as Drugs
- Metals in the Environment