Biochemistry and related resources: Books

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants is a major contribution to the plant sciences literature, superbly edited by three distinguished scientists, Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell L. Jones, with contributions from more than 50 world-renowned scientists. With over 1,400 pages, 1,100 full-colour original drawings and 500 photographs this work qualifies, in the words of the Science reviewer, as: "an essential reference for practicing plant biologists and for the increasing number of scientists from other disciplines who are entering the field of plant biology. To exploit fully the wealth of new information provided by the genome projects and to integrate the metabolic, regulatory, and signal transduction pathways of complex organisms, biologists will require a solid command of biochemistry and physiology. For this reason, the publication of Biochemistry Molecular Biology of Plants could not have come at a more opportune and auspicious time." This book is meticulously organised and richly illustrated, useful both for teaching and for reference. The multi-authored work provides a contemporary view of its subject, including molecular biology, cell biology, and plant physiology, integrated around the themes of: * compartmentation * cell reproduction * energetics * metabolism * development Read the words of the reviewer in CELL: "The great strength of this book is that it has integrated its three major components (molecular biology, cell biology, and plant biochemistry) in each of the 24 chapters, resulting in a comprehensive analysis of a multitude of specific topics." Who should buy this spectacular text? * Plant biologists and scientists in related fields * Professors in departments of plant biology, plant biochemistry, plant physiology, and related fields * Graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of plant biology * Researchers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and agribusiness industries Images are available directly from the ASPB web site at http://www.aspb.org/publications/biotext/

Medical Biochemistry was first published in 1986.A good knowledge of biochemical analysis is essential for today's health-care practitioners, who, with their patients, face a widening array of laboratory tests to aid in diagnosis. The requisite biochemical methods and principles are best understood if medical students perform their own experiments, yet most currently available laboratory manuals are intended for general biochemistry courses and lack the clinical orientation that could make them useful in a medical context. John Van Pilsum and Robert Roon have designed this laboratory manual specifically to introduce first-year medical students to clinical methods in biochemistry and to help them understand basic biochemical principles as they are applied top medical practice.Each chapter in Medical Biochemistry is devoted to a basic set of related problems and includes, along with laboratory procedures, a clear and readable introduction, a list of selected references, and questions. All of the experiments call for procedures that are used routinely in most clinical laboratories. The areas covered include: electrophoresis of blood proteins, enzymes as diagnostic indicators, lactate dehydrogenase isozymes, the determination of glucose, blood lipids, experiments with nucleic acids, inheritable diseases and genetic engineering, the use of radioisotopes in clinical biochemistry, glycosylated hemoglobin, steroid hormone formation, immunoelectrophoresis of serum proteins, radioimmunoassay of thyroxine, serum electrolytes and carbon dioxide, and the lecithin-sphingomyelin ratio of amniotic fluid.The contributors, besides Van Pilsum and Roon, include: Marilyn H. Koenst, John D. Lipscomb, James B. Howard, Esther F. Freier, Ivan D. Frantz, Denise M. McGuire, Howard C. Towle, Dennis M. Livingston, Ronald D. Edstrom, Robert P. Changler, Frank Ungar, Maureen A. Scaglia, James F. Koerner, and Charles W. Carr.

This book provides a survey of current biochemistry and molecular biology in the form of a dictionary. It contains short but informative entries arranged under more than 17,000 headwords, providing fundamental but up-to-date information that is often difficult to locate in today'soverspecialized world.The book is intended as a handy reference of first resource for those seeking information outside their immediate knowledge area or for those who need to refresh their memory of fundamental knowledge. It gives the meanings of many terms used in molecular biology and describes the essential featuresof over approximately 2,000 enzymes and proteins, describing the reactions they catalyse or functions they perform, and includes filenames that facilitate the location of entires in databases of sequences. Many entries describe chemical compounds of relevance to biochemists, with approximately 950symbols and abbreviations. In addition, many physico-chemical laws, constants, and formulae are detailed.This revised edition has been fully up-dated in order to include the new information that has been discovered since the original edition was published in 1997.