The Mycoplasmas V1
The Mycoplasmas V1

Author: M.F. Barile

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 0323145809

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The Mycoplasmas, Volume I: Cell Biology is a volume of a comprehensive three-volume series encompassing various facets of mycoplasmology, emphasizing outstanding developments made in the field. This volume deals specifically with the cell biology of the mycoplasmas. This book focuses on problems regarding mycoplasma classification, phylogenetics, and relatedness to wall-covered bacteria; their unique molecular biology, energy metabolism, transport mechanisms, antigenic structure, and membrane biochemistry. The characterization, ultrastructure, and molecular biology of the mycoplasmaviruses, as well as the special properties of several groups of mycoplasmas, such as Ureaplasma, Acholeplasma, Thermoplasma, and Anaeroplasma, are also described. This book will serve as a standard reference work for mycoplasmologists, as well as for other interested microbiologists, cellular and molecular biologists, membrane biochemists, clinicians, veterinarians, plant pathologists, and entomologists.

Methods in Mycoplasmology V1
Methods in Mycoplasmology V1

Author: Samuel Razin

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0323147135

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Methods in Mycoplasmology, Volume I: Mycoplasma Characterization is the first of a two-volume series that resulted from cumulative efforts to meet the need for standardized techniques in mycoplasmology. The book is organized into five sections. Section A provides an introduction to the mycoplasmas by discussing their characteristics and classification, mycoplasma-animal host interrelationships, and mycoplasma-plant-insect interrelationships. The chapters in Section B examine the morphological and ultrastructural features of mycoplasmas, using techniques such as phase-contrast microscopy, dark-field microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. Section C discusses the cultivation and nutrition of mycoplasmas. Section D focuses on analytical methods for the characterization of mycoplasmas, including harvest and washing procedures, cell lysis and membrane isolation, and crossed immunoelectrophoresis. Section E describes tests designed to detect specific enzymatic activities or nutritional requirements of mycoplasmas. These include sugar fermentation and arginine hydrolysis tests as well as tests to establish the sterol requirement of mycoplasmas. Section F deals with serological tests. These tests either have specific application to detection of mycoplasma antigens or antibody in plant and animal tissues; are useful in identification of specific groups of mycoplasmas (spiroplasmas); or provide higher sensitivity in measurements of antibodies against mycoplasmas.

The Biology of Mycoplasmas
The Biology of Mycoplasmas

Author: Paul F. Smith

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0323158390

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The Biology of Mycoplasmas discusses the origins, structure, significance, and dynamics of reproduction and growth of mycoplasmas. It also explains the relationship of mycoplasmas to bacteria and bacterial L-forms as well as to its chemical and physical environment. The book compares mycoplasmas with other group of microorganisms. In this way, it explains the rationale of separating this group from other groups. Aside from describing the organism and its growth and relationships, the book also explains the pathogenicity and significance of mycoplasmas as cells. It also discusses the immunological response to this group of organisms. This book will be invaluable to general biological scientist as well as to undergraduate and graduate students specializing in biology, microbiology, and other related sciences.

The Mycoplasmatales and the L-phase of Bacteria
The Mycoplasmatales and the L-phase of Bacteria

Author: Leonard Hayflick

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13:

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A review of the book, The Mycoplasmatales and the L-phase of Bacteria by Leonard Hayflick, Ed. is presented. That organisms which lack cell walls are under intensive study is evident from the table of contents and the size of this book. The editor has drawn together 26 chapters by 35 contributors, mostly from the Second International Conference on the Biology of the Mycoplasmas held in 1966. Fifteen of the chapters are updated and expanded versions of papers published earlier in the 871-page proceedings of the 1966 conference (Biology of the Mycoplasmas, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 143, 1967). The articles are well organized, clearly written, thoroughly referenced, and comprehensive. The book is not abundantly illustrated, but does contain sparkling photographs of mycoplasma organisms as viewed under the electron microscope. The book, covers topics which range from studies of ultrastructure to the epidemiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

Phytopathogenic Prokaryotes V1
Phytopathogenic Prokaryotes V1

Author: Mark Mount

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 032314604X

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Phytopathogenic Prokaryotes, Volume 1, provides an understanding of the diversity and complexity of diseases caused by phytopathogenic prokaryotes. It is part of a two-volume treatise that summarizes current research on these organisms. The book is organized into four parts. Part I covers the physical nature of prokaryotic phytopathogens as well as how they are presently classified, the limitation of this artificial classification, and the biology of the pathogen's invasion of plants. Part II presents conceptual hypotheses for the formation of the agricorpus (pathogen/host complex as a biological unit) and how this association may be detrimental or beneficial to both members of the unit. Other topics include the basic determinant of evolutionary change (the gene), and the evolution of vectors for dispersal of pathogens. Part III elaborates on the interaction at the plant/environment/pathogen interface (the plant surface). It presents information on the interaction of prokaryotes in the rhizosphere and phyllosphere, and how this interaction developed. Part IV shows how prokaryotes affect their hosts once infection has been established. This information is presented in sequence progressing from the disease-causing mechanisms of the facultative endophytic pathogens to those of the obligate endophytic pathogens.

Pathogenic Mycoplasmas
Pathogenic Mycoplasmas

Author: Katherine Elliott

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-09-16

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0470717556

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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.

Cracking the Metabolic Code
Cracking the Metabolic Code

Author: B. Lavalle R.Ph. C.C.N. N.D., James

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1442977868

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Crack Your Code and Reach a New Level of Healing and Health Doctors traditionally prescribe a pill for every ill. But for most people, these single solutions don't work. The truth is, most chronic health problems, including stubborn weight gain, unbeatable fatigue, intestinal distress, high blood pressure, creeping cholesterol, and high blood sugar, are not found in simply one organ, but in several parts of the body (oftentimes in twos and threes). This is the result of years of slow, subtle challenges to your metabolism, which is as unique as you are. Your diet, lifestyle habits, stress level, prescription drug use, and relationships, as well as the genes you inherit and the environment in which you live-in effect, the sum total of your life experience up to this day-determine your personal metabolism and, in turn, your current state of health. Using a step-by-step, easy-to-implement system of diet, lifestyle strategies, and state-of-the-art nutrients and supplements, Dr. James LaValle will help you create an individualized program for reclaiming your metabolism and health......At long last, this book provides readers with the information and tools that have been used successfully by thousands of Dr. LaValle's patients over the last twenty years to help them take charge of their diets, their health, and their lives.