This volume surveys the chemistry, biochemistry, biosynthesis, metabolism, and pharmacological properties of lectins. After a chemically orientated first chapter dealing with specificity and a second chapter on structure, in the rest of the book lectins are looked at from a biological point of view. Their involvement in metabolism and biosynthesis, the distribution and localization in plant tissues and their role in interactions with the outside world are discussed in chapters 3 and 4. The last two chapters deal with the effects of lectins on various cells of the body including blood, gut, and nerve cells with particular emphasis on medical, nutritional, and general biological aspects.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for Students. Learn more |
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- Buy $50 in qualifying physical textbooks, get $5 in Amazon MP3 Credit. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Editorial Reviews
Review
"...can be recommended as an invaluable source of information for the more advanced student and the specialist whose research involves the use of lectins..." Quarterly Review of Biology
Book Description
Lectins are natural products found mainly in plants. Their properties are examined in this book.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
The carbohydrate specificity of lectins is established most conveniently by the Landsteiner hapten-inhibition technique (Landsteiner, 1962; Goldstein & Hayes, 1978; Goldstein & Poretz, 1986). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
soyabean agglutinin, bean isolectins, kidney bean diets, soyabean lectin, kidney bean proteins, haemagglutination activity, wheatgerm agglutinin, soya lectin, bulb lectin, root lectin, seed lectin, food lectins, symbiotic reactions, absorptive villi, native lectin, following lectins, kidney bean seeds, cotyledonary cells, lectin function, lectin preparations, potato lectin, nutritional toxicity, dietary lectins, kidney bean lectins, tomato lectin New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
The carbohydrate specificity of lectins is established most conveniently by the Landsteiner hapten-inhibition technique (Landsteiner, 1962; Goldstein & Hayes, 1978; Goldstein & Poretz, 1986). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
soyabean agglutinin, bean isolectins, kidney bean diets, soyabean lectin, kidney bean proteins, haemagglutination activity, wheatgerm agglutinin, soya lectin, bulb lectin, root lectin, seed lectin, food lectins, symbiotic reactions, absorptive villi, native lectin, following lectins, kidney bean seeds, cotyledonary cells, lectin function, lectin preparations, potato lectin, nutritional toxicity, dietary lectins, kidney bean lectins, tomato lectin New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 19
books:
See all 19 books this book cites
14
books
cite this book:
See all 14 books citing this book
- Advances in Lectin Research by Hartmut Franz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Recognition in Microbe-Plant Symbiotic and Pathogenic Interactions (Nato Asi Series H : Cell Biology, Vol 4) by B. Lugtenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Biological Chemistry by ANDERSON in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Plant Cell (Funds.of Botany) by William A. Jensen in Back Matter
- Concanavalin A (Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology (Springer)) by Tushar Chowdhury in Back Matter
See all 19 books this book cites
- Handbook of Plant Lectins: Properties and Biomedical Applications by Els. J. M. Van Damme on 7 pages
- Lectins: Biomedical Perspectives by Arpad Pusztai on 5 pages
- Bioadhesive Drug Delivery Systems: Fundamentals, Novel Approaches, and Development (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences) by Edith Mathiowitz on page 387, and page 405
- Advances In Insect Control: The Role Of Transgenic Plants by Nadine B Carozzi on page 137
- Surface Activity of Proteins by Shlomo Magdassi on page 179
See all 14 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
So You'd Like to...
|
|
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Medical Books > Pharmacology
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Medicine > Basic Sciences > Pharmacology
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Biology & Life Sciences > Botany
- Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Botany
- Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Plants > Flowers
