: This book provides a comprehensive reference work on this ubiquitous group of microorganisms for the biomedical community, and intends to stimulate further research into the biochemistry and physiology of bifidobacteria and their role in health and disease of newborns and even adult human beings. Discussions of bifidobacteria include chapters on nomenclature and taxonomy, ecology, morphology, metabolism, membrane and cell wall structure, clinical applications, metal transport, and future research trends. Each chapter ends with a summary. The book is amply illustrated and extensively...

This book has been composed with non-professional historians in mind. It contains information on Russia's history gathered from standard Russian history texts from the times of Slavic migrations into Eastern Europe through the period of Kievan Rus and its component princedoms and the development of one of them. It also contains information not usually seen in standard texts by the use of monographs that describe events in Russian history in great detail. English and Russian-language newspaper and magazine articles were also utilized as were commentaries by various individuals including the...

This work offers succinct, medically-oriented coverage of biochemistry, examining biologically important materials and presenting the properties of nucleic acids as well as nucleic acid metabolism. Each metabolic process is integrated in a review of overall energy metabolism, diabetes and starvation. A solutions manual is available to instructors only.