The Lymphokines: Biochemistry and Biological Activity

Biochemistry in the biological sciences undergraduate curriculum.

Atkins argues that the advent of computers has opened the way to a taught course discussing systems removed from equilibrium. Even turbulent and chaotic processes that are not amenable to analytical argument might be simulated from numerical treatments. If such elements were present in a physical chemistry course then the problems of energy transfer, rates of processes: photosynthesis provide t...

Organic Chemistry and Biological Systems - Biochemistry

1. From molecules to living systems: complexity is obtained from simple building blocks 2. Amino acids and proteins 2.1. Proteogenic Amino Acids 2.2. Non Proteinogenic Amino Acids 2.3. Amino Acid Polymers: Proteins. Their Structure and Function 2.3.1. Proteins Folding and Structure 2.3.2. Proteins Function and Regulation 3. Nucleotides and nucleic acids: information, energy transport, catalysis...

Chemical and Biological Foundations of Biochemistry

T he discipline of biochemistry developed as chemists began to study the molecules of cells, tissues, and body fluids and physicians began to look for the molecular basis of various diseases. Today, the practice of medicine depends on understanding the roles and interactions of the enormous number of different chemicals enabling our bodies to function. The task is less overwhelming if one knows...

Growth factors and lymphokines: modulators of cholinergic neuronal activity.

It is well known that various markers of the cholinergic synapse are altered in Alzheimer's Disease. Much interest is currently focussing on the evaluation of the possible efficacy of certain growth factors, especially nerve growth factor (NGF), to reduce or reverse cholinergic neuronal losses. Here we report that other growth factors (epidermal growth factor and insulin-like growth factor I) a...

The 15th Iranian National Congress of Biochemistry & 6th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology