Extracellular Matrix Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 139, Band 139) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0896036243 ISBN 13: 9780896036246

Verlag: Humana, 2000

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It is now widely accepted that much of the dynamic function of cells and tissues is regulated from outside the cell by the extracellular matrix. In ad- tion to its conventional role in providing a scaffold for building tissues, the extracellular matrix acts as a directional highway for cellular movement and provides instructional information for promoting survival, proliferation, and differentiation. Indeed, the extracellular matrix is beginning to take a starring role in the choreography of cell and tissue function. The diverse roles of the extracellular matrix are reflected in its highly complicated structure, consisting of an ever increasing number of components. Yet the mechanisms of extracellular matrix assembly and how they influences cell behavior are only just beginning to be understood. In order to solve these problems new methodologies are, of necessity, being developed. Many of these technologies are highly sophisticated and are currently available only in a ha- ful of laboratories. However, we believe that they can readily be transported and established by other researchers. Thus, the purpose of Extracellular Matrix Protocols is to present some of these complicated techniques in a style that is relatively easy to reproduce.

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It is now widely accepted that much of the dynamic function of cells and tissues is regulated from outside the cell by the extracellular matrix (ECM). In Extracellular Matrix Protocols, leading bench-top experimentalists from around the world present in a proven format their state-of-the-art methods for probing the extracellular matrix, its mechanisms of assembly, and how it influences cell behavior. These carefully detailed biochemical, biophysical, molecular biological, and cell biological techniques have been optimized for the study ECM structure and assembly, the mechanisms of cell-ECM interactions, and the molecular genetics of ECM proteins and defects in human disease, and bring to a wider audience a range of highly sophisticated methods that have hitherto been difficult even for a few specialized laboratories.
Cutting-edge and highly practical, Extracellular Matrix Protocols offers today's ECM researchers a gold-standard collection of powerful, readily reproducible methods to investigate the extracellular matrix and the altered cell-ECM interactions that play so important a role in human health and disease.

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• Verlag: Humana
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0896036243
• ISBN 13: 9780896036246
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Streuli Charles, Grant Michael
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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