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Vanadium: Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches

By Kan Kanamori , Kiyoshi Tsuge (auth.) , Hitoshi Michibata (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2012
ISBN
9789400709133, 9400709137, 9400709129, 9789400709126
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-0913-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4919862 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
228\235
Library
usenet tech
Time added
2013-03-30 20:00:00
general; Medical BiochemistryMedicinal Chemistry; Biochemistry

Description

The publication of Vanadium: Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches is particularly timely as it exactly coincides with the centennial anniversary of the discovery of vanadium by Professor Henze, in the blood cells of an ascidian (tunicate) collected in Gulf of Naples in 1911. Vanadium, atomic number 23, covers a wide range of oxidation states (from -2 to +5) and has unpaired electrons. Depending on these properties, a wide variety of enzymes and compounds containing vanadium have been found and the biochemical behaviour of vanadium has been investigated extensively. This monograph provides not only the basic properties and recent advances of vanadium chemistry but also presents recent topics on hyper-accumulators of vanadium, enzymatic roles of vanadium, biochemical functions of vanadium and medicinal functions of vanadium, which have been discovered by Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches. Vanadium: Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches is aimed at pure and applied chemists, biochemists, pharmaceutical and medical scientists.

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