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Iron is the most abundant transition metal in biological systems
and is required to facilitate key metabolic reactions, including
DNA synthesis, oxygen transport and cellular respiration. The
distribution of iron within the body is carefully regulated to
prevent the generation of cytotoxic reactive oxygen species. The
investigations described in this book were aimed to understand the
mechanisms and diseases associated with mammalian iron metabolism.
Specifically, Chapter 3 investigates the systemic iron homeostatic
activity of hepcidin, the hormone of iron metabolism, while bound
to the blood carrier protein, 2-macroglobulin; Chapter 4 examines
the molecular mechanism(s) involved in the perturbation of cellular
iron metabolism that results in mitochondrial iron-accumulation in
Friedreich's ataxia; and Chapter 5 explores the molecular links
between mitochondrial iron-dysregulation and the fatal cardiac
defects in Friedreich's ataxia.
The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures is a collection of
essays examining the ways in which Chinese art has been circulated,
collected, exhibited and perceived in Japan, Europe and America
from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. Scholars and
curators from East Asia, Europe and North America jointly present
cutting-edge research on cultural integration and aesthetic
hybridisation in relation to the collecting, display, making and
interpretation of Chinese art and material culture. Stimulating
examples within this volume emphasise the Western understanding of
Chinese pictorial art, while addressing issues concerning the
consumption of Chinese art and Chinese-inspired artistic
productions from early times to the contemporary period; the roles
of collector, curator, museum and auction house in shaping the
taste, meaning and conception of art; and the art and cultural
identity of the Chinese diaspora in a global context. This book
espouses a multiplicity of aesthetic, philosophical,
socio-cultural, economic and political perspectives, and encourages
academics, students, art and museum practitioners to re-think their
encounters with the objects, practices, people and institutions
surrounding the study of Chinese art and culture in the past and
the present.
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