Cell and Molecular Biology

Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Cell and Molecular Biology offers a highly visual presentation of essential cell and molecular biology, focusing on topics related to human health and disease. This new addition to the internationally best-selling Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews Series includes all the popular features of the series: abundance of full-color annotated illustrations, expanded outline format, chapter summaries, review questions, and case studies that link basic science to real-life clinical situations. The book can be used as a review text for a stand-alone cell biology course in medical, health professions, and upper-level undergraduate programs, or in conjunction with Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry for integrated courses. A companion Website features the fully searchable online text, an interactive Question Bank for students, and an Image Bank for instructors to create PowerPoint® presentations. FEATURES: • 250 full-color, annotated illustrations and 60 tables to visually explain concepts in the text. • Ancillaries for Faculty include: Image Bank including all the images in the book along with a library of individual symbols/structures for faculty to build their own PowerPoints. • Ancillaries for Students include: fully-searchable online text and interactive Question Bank with an additional 250 questions. • Chapter-opening overviews and end-of-chapter summaries. • Clinical vignettes/case-studies along with board-style review questions in each chapter. • Follows the standard approach and expanded outline format of the LIR series. • Integrated coverage of relative histology. • Key words shown throughout the text in boldface and newly introduced vocabulary and abbreviations defined. Nalini Chandar PhD ; Susan Viselli PhD Contents Unit I: CELL AND TISSUE STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION Chapter 1: Stem Cells and Their Differentiation Chapter 2: Extracellular Matrix and Cell Adhesion Chapter 3: Biological Membranes Chapter 4: Cytoskeleton Chapter 5: Organelles Unit II: ORGANIZATION OF THE EUKARYOTIC GENOME AND GENE EXPRESSION Chapter 6: The Eukaryotic Genome Chapter 7: DNA Replication Chapter 8: Transcription Chapter 9: Translation Chapter 10: Regulation of Gene Expression Chapter 11: Protein Trafficking Chapter 12: Protein Degradation Unit III: BIOMEMBRANE TRANSPORT Chapter 13: Basic Concepts of Transport Chapter 14: Active Transport Chapter 15: Glucose Transport Chapter 16: Drug Transport Unit IV: CELL SIGNALING Chapter 17: G Protein Signaling Chapter 18: Catalytic Receptor Signaling Chapter 19: Steroid Receptor Signaling Unit V: REGULATION OF CELL GROWTH AND CELL DEATH Chapter 20: The Cell Cycle Chapter 21: Regulation of the Cell Cycle Chapter 22: Abnormal Cell Growth Chapter 23: Cell Death Chapter 24: Aging and Senescence