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Survival Strategies in Extreme Cold and Desiccation - Adaptation Mechanisms and Their Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Survival Strategies in Extreme Cold and Desiccation - Adaptation Mechanisms and Their Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1081
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This book comprehensively describes biological phenomena,
adaptation mechanisms, and strategies of living organisms to
survive under extremely cold or desiccated conditions at molecular,
cellular, and organ levels. It also provides tremendous potential
for applications of the findings to a wide variety of industries.
The volume consists of three parts: Part 1, Adaptation Mechanisms
of Cold, and Part 2, Adaptation Mechanisms of Desiccation, collect
up-to-date research on mechanisms and strategies of living
organisms such as sleeping chironomids, polar marine fishes,
hibernating mammals, bryophytes, dormant seeds, and boreal plants
to survive under extreme cold and desiccated conditions at
molecular, cellular, and organ levels. Part 3, Application
Technologies from Laboratory to Society, covers various
applications to a wide variety of industries such as the medical,
food, and agricultural and life science industries. For example,
biological knowledge of how plants and animals survive under cold,
drought, and desiccated conditions may provide a hint on how we can
improve crop production in a very fragile environment in global
climate change. Unique molecules that protect cells during
desiccation and freezing such as trehalose and antifreeze protein
(AFP) have potential for use to preserve cells, tissues, and organs
for the long term under very stable conditions. In addition, the
current progress of supercooling technology of cells may lead us to
solve problems of cellular high sensitivity to freezing injury,
which will dramatically improve the usability of these cells.
Furthermore, knowledge of water substitution and glass formation as
major mechanisms for formulation designs and new drying
technologies will contribute to the development of food
preservation and drug delivery systems under dry conditions.
Written by contributors who have been conducting cutting-edge
science in related fields, this title is recommended to a wide
variety of readers who are interested in learning from such
organisms their strategies, mechanisms, and applications, and it
will inspire researchers in various disciplines.
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