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Cell and Tissue Destruction
Mechanisms, Protection, Disorders
Provides an overview of the mechanisms and relationships involved with cell and tissue destruction, relating them to living organisms
Jurgen Arnhold (Author)
9780128163887, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 14 August 2019
342 pages, 30 illustrations (5 in full color)
23.4 x 19 x 2.2 cm, 0.71 kg
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.
I. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL REASONS FOR DESTRUCTION IN LIVING SYSTEMS1. Cells and Organisms as Open Systems2. Role of Reactive Species in Destructions3. Oxidation and Reduction of Biological Material II. PROTECTION AGAINST CYTOTOXIC COMPONENTS AND DESTRUCTIONS4. Disturbances in Energy Supply5. Mechanisms of Cell Death6. Immune Response and Tissue Damage7. Acute-Phase Proteins and Additional Protective Systems III. AGEING PROCESSES AND DEVELOPMENT OF PATHOLOGICAL STATES8. Aging in Complex Multicellular Organisms9. Cell and Tissue Destruction in Selected Disorders10. Organ Damage and Failure11. Conclusions Appendix: Some Basics About Redox Reactions in Living Systems
Subject Areas: Cellular biology [cytology PSF]
