Ruma Banerjee "Redox Biochemistry"Wiley | 317 pages | 2007-12-17 | 0471786241 | PDF | 16.3MB
Redox Biochemistry provides an excellent text and useful resource for students and practicing researches on redox biochemistry in medical biochemistry, enzyme structure and catalysis, environmental biochemistry, and nutrition. Additionally, it provides a useful resource for practicing researchers in the fields, particularly those in medicine (carcinogenesis, neurology and neurodegenerative diseases, cataracts/lens biochemistry, dental studies), immunology, nutrition, environmental, and pharmaceutical sciences
Richly illustrated, with full color throughout
Includes contributions from top-notch authors and experts in the field, and is edited by the leader in redox biochemistry, Ruma Banerjee.
This book grew out of our efforts since 2001 to consolidate the area of redox biology at the University of Nebraska, in recognition of the centrality of redox reactions in the life sciences. Soon we were faced with the need to teach this subject to our students and quickly discovered the paucity of compiled information that would be more readily accessible than the primary literature to a recent inductee to the field. As one thing led to another, we decided to collectively write a textbook for our students and to invite experts in the redox biochemistry field to contribute to this project. I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that the idea for this cooperative project was initially planted in my mind by Howie Gendelman (University of Nebraska Medical Center), who has since been repeatedly reminded that this project has felt like an albatross.
Had it not been for the speedy and positive response that the book proposal received from our
publisher, it is likely that the inspiration to undertake this project would have rapidly dissipated.
Redox biochemistry is an incredibly broad discipline and spans the gamut of physiological and pathological life processes. This book does not attempt to be comprehensive.
It is, instead, an introduction, targeted for the beginner. It is organized into six chapters that cover: Redox Metabolism and Life, Antioxidant Molecules and Redox Cofactors, Antioxidant Enzymes, Redox Regulation of Physiological Processes, Pathological Processes Related to Redox and Specialized Methods. Each chapter is organized into multiple sections with most being written by different authors (with the exception of Chapter 1). This superfluity of writers presented obvious challenges for achieving stylistic uniformity and we decided to sacrifice some of that in favor of the substance that came from contributions by experts in the field. Due to the strict page
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