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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019784803321

Titolo

Homeostatic regulators : a Ciba Foundation Symposium held jointly with the Wellcome Trust / / edited by G.E.W. Wolstenholme and Julie Knight

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Churchill, 1969

ISBN

9786613679611

9781280768842

1280768843

9780470719695

0470719699

9780470717318

0470717319

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium

Altri autori (Persone)

WolstenholmeG. E. W (Gordon Ethelbert Ward)

KnightJulie

Disciplina

599/.01/88

Soggetti

Homeostasis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

H0MEOSTATIC REGULATORS; Contents; Chairman's introduction; Cell population kinetics in relation to homeostasis; Discussion; Chalones of the skin; Discussion; Nerve growth and epithelial growth factors; Discussion; "Wolff factors" from chick embryo mesonephros and liver or yeast; Discussion; Thromboplastic materials from human tumours and chorion; Discussion; General discussion Approaches to the study of homeostasis; Pattern of gene transcription during the induction of bacteriophage h development: a possible model for the control of gene expression in a differentiating system; Discussion

The histones, their interactions with DNA, and some aspects of gene controlDiscussion; Enzymes and isoenzymes; Discussion; Interferons as possible regulators; Interferons as possible regulators-biochemical aspects; Discussion; Lysosomes and homeostatic regulation; Discussion; Regulatory mechanisms in antibody synthesis; Discussion; General discussion Immune reactions and homeostasis; The structure



of mammalian cell surfaces; The cell membrane and contact control; Discussion; Regulating systems in cell culture; Discussion; Metabolic cooperation between cells; Discussion

Pattern formation and homeostasisDiscussion; General discussion; Chairman's closing remarks; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.