The Circadian Clock (Hardcover, Edition.)

With the invitation to edit this volume, I wanted to take the opportunity to assemble reviews on different aspects of circadian clocks and rhythms. Although most c- tributions in this volume focus on mammalian circadian clocks, the historical int- duction and comparative clocks section illustrate the importance of various other organisms in deciphering the mechanisms and principles of circadian biology. Circadian rhythms have been studied for centuries, but only recently, a mole- lar understanding of this process has emerged. This has taken research on circadian clocks from mystic phenomenology to a mechanistic level; chains of molecular events can describe phenomena with remarkable accuracy. Nevertheless, current models of the functioning of circadian clocks are still rudimentary. This is not due to the faultiness of discovered mechanisms, but due to the lack of undiscovered processes involved in contributing to circadian rhythmicity. We know for example, that the general circadian mechanism is not regulated equally in all tissues of m- mals. Hence, a lot still needs to be discovered to get a full understanding of cir- dian rhythms at the systems level. In this respect, technology has advanced at high speed in the last years and provided us with data illustrating the sheer complexity of regulation of physiological processes in organisms. To handle this information, computer aided integration of the results is of utmost importance in order to d- cover novel concepts that ultimately need to be tested experimentally.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Protein Reviews, 12
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	2010
Editors:	Urs Albrecht
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
Edition:	Edition.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-1261-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > Proteins Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Cellular biology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > General
LSN:	1-4419-1261-4
Barcode:	9781441912619

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