Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology / Volume 145 (Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology)
Contributors: A. Kyriakopoulos (Contributor); D. Behne (Contributor); P.R. Stanfield (Contributor); S. Nakajima (Contributor); Y. Nakajima (Contributor); U.C. Vothknecht (Contributor); J. Soll (Contributor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9783540435204
Subjects: Animal physiology; Physiology; Plant physiology; Biochemistry (General); Science; Physiology (General); Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; General; Chloroplast; G protein signalong; K+ channels; Kir channels; Science / Biochemistry; endosymbiosis; selenium-containing proteins; selenoproteins; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology
First sentence: Ever since the discovery of the beneficial effects of selenium in bacterial (Pin-sent 1954) and mammalian cells (Schwarz and Foltz 1957) the question of the mechanisms by which selenium exerts its biological functions have been of great interest.