Quinones and Quinone Enzymes, Part B, Volume 382 (Methods in Enzymology) [Hardcover]

Helmut Sies (Editor), Lester Packer (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0121827860 | ISBN-13: 978-0121827861 | Publication Date: March 5, 2004 | Edition: 1

Quinones are members of a class of aromatic compounds with two oxygen atoms bonded to the ring as carbonyl groups. This volume covers more clinical aspects of quinines, such as anticancer properties, as well as their role in nutrition and in age-related diseases.

*Mitochondrial Ubiquinone and Reductases
*Anticancer Quinones and Quinone Oxido-Reductases
*Quininone Reductases: Chemoprevention, Nutrition
*Quinones and Age-Related Diseases

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Book Description

Quinones are members of a class of aromatic compounds with two oxygen atoms bonded to the ring as carbonyl groups.

About the Author

Helmut Sies is an Honorary Member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He received an Honorary Ph.D. from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1996. Dr. Sies is a member of the Northrhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Germany, and a Corresponding Member of both the Academy of Sciences of Heidelberg, Germany, and the Academy of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has received many awards and prizes, including the FEBS Anniversary Prize awarded by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies, 1978; the Distinguished Foreign Scholar award, MASUA, 1985; the Silver Medal, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1986; the Ernst Jung Preis fur Medizin, 1988; the Claudius-Galenus-Preis, 1990; and the ISFE-Preis, 1994. Dr. Sies sereves on the editorial board and advisory committee for twelve journals, has edited numerous books, and has published more than 400 original articles and chapters. He received his M.D. at the University of Munich in 1967 and currently serves as Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Düsseldorf.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 572 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (March 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0121827860
• ISBN-13: 978-0121827861
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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