Lipofuscin and ceroid pigments
By: edited by Eduardo A. Porta.
Contributors: Porta, Eduardo A.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;; v. 266
Publisher: Plenum Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Lipofuscins -- Congresses.; Neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinosis -- Congresses.; Pigments -- metabolism -- congresses.
Description: Some two dozen papers, plus summaries of another half dozen, examine aspects of recent developments in the biogenesis, properties, and nosologic implications of the autofluorescent lipopigments, lipofuscin (age pigment) and ceroid. The sections cover lipofuscin, ceroid pigments in nutritional and environmental pathology, ceroid in genetic disorders, and in vitro systems of lipopigment formation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Lipofuscin and Ceroid Pigments--1989: State of the Art, held August 20-23, 1989, in Maui, Hawaii"--T.p. verso.