Cell and Tissue Destruction: Mechanisms, Protection, and Disorders provides an overview of the main mechanisms responsible for degradation in human beings and summarizes important strategies to counter these mechanisms. This book details the properties and limits of protective mechanisms, along with disturbances to systematic physiological functions. It provides examples of disease states resulting from the limits of protective systems. Three sections consider the physical and chemical reasons for destruction in living systems, protection against cytotoxic components, and the development of pathologic states.
This book provides neuroscientists, cancer researchers and physicians with robust, overall coverage of the interrelated processes involved in cell and tissue destruction in living structures, and concomitant protective mechanisms and their limitations.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Preface - p. vii 6. Part I. Physical and Chemical Reasons for Destruction in Living Systems - p. viii 7. Chapter 1. Cells and Organisms as Open Systems - p. 3 8. Chapter 2. Role of Reactive Species in Destructions - p. 23 9. Chapter 3. Oxidation and Reduction of Biological Material - p. 55 10. Part II. Protection Against Cytotoxic Components and Destructions - p. 97 11. Chapter 4. Disturbances in Energy Supply - p. 101 12. Chapter 5. Mechanisms of Cell Death - p. 135 13. Chapter 6. Immune Response and Tissue Damage - p. 155 14. Chapter 7. Acute-Phase Proteins and Additional Protective Systems - p. 205 15. Part III. Aging Processes and Development of Pathological States - p. 228 16. Chapter 8. Aging in Complex Multicellular Organisms - p. 231 17. Chapter 9. Cell and Tissue Destruction in Selected Disorders - p. 249 18. Chapter 10. Organ Damage and Failure - p. 289 19. Chapter 11. Conclusions - p. 309 20. Appendix. Some Basics About Redox Reactions in Living Systems - p. 315 21. Index - p. 327
Cell and Tissue Destruction: Mechanisms, Protection, and Disorders provides an overview of the main mechanisms responsible for degradation in human beings and summarizes important strategies to counter these mechanisms. This book details the properties and limits of protective mechanisms, along with disturbances to systematic physiological functions. It provides examples of disease states resulting from the limits of protective systems. Three sections consider the physical and chemical reasons for destruction in living systems, protection against cytotoxic components, and the development of pathologic states.
This book provides neuroscientists, cancer researchers and physicians with robust, overall coverage of the interrelated processes involved in cell and tissue destruction in living structures, and concomitant protective mechanisms and their limitations.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Preface - p. vii 6. Part I. Physical and Chemical Reasons for Destruction in Living Systems - p. viii 7. Chapter 1. Cells and Organisms as Open Systems - p. 3 8. Chapter 2. Role of Reactive Species in Destructions - p. 23 9. Chapter 3. Oxidation and Reduction of Biological Material - p. 55 10. Part II. Protection Against Cytotoxic Components and Destructions - p. 97 11. Chapter 4. Disturbances in Energy Supply - p. 101 12. Chapter 5. Mechanisms of Cell Death - p. 135 13. Chapter 6. Immune Response and Tissue Damage - p. 155 14. Chapter 7. Acute-Phase Proteins and Additional Protective Systems - p. 205 15. Part III. Aging Processes and Development of Pathological States - p. 228 16. Chapter 8. Aging in Complex Multicellular Organisms - p. 231 17. Chapter 9. Cell and Tissue Destruction in Selected Disorders - p. 249 18. Chapter 10. Organ Damage and Failure - p. 289 19. Chapter 11. Conclusions - p. 309 20. Appendix. Some Basics About Redox Reactions in Living Systems - p. 315 21. Index - p. 327
