Overview

Exciting work in the past decade has revealed commonalities and differences among individual cell fusion events. In Cell Fusion: Overviews and Methods, a team of leading experts provide a collection of overviews that outline our current understanding of cell fusion and methods that present classic and state-of-the-art experimental approaches in a variety of systems.  Divided into two convenient parts, the volume begins with nine overviews which describe different cell fusion events in models from yeast to mammals, and it continues with thirteen chapters illustrating commonly used methods to assay cell fusion in particular systems. As a part of the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series, these methods chapters compile step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols with lists of the necessary materials and reagents, along with tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Cutting-edge and user-friendly, Cell Fusion: Overviews and Methods serves as a comprehensive resource for anyone, expert or novice, interested in the fascinating biological process of cell fusion.

Full Product Details

Author:   Elizabeth H. Chen
Publisher:   Humana Press Inc.
Imprint:   Humana Press Inc.
Edition:   2008 ed.
Volume:   475
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.822kg
ISBN:  

9781588299116

ISBN 10:   1588299112
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   31 July 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Cell Fusion.- Yeast Mating.- Cell Fusion in the Filamentous Fungus, Neurospora crassa.- Gametic Cell Adhesion and Fusion in the Unicellular Alga Chlamydomonas.- Cell Fusion in Caenorhabditis elegans.- Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila.- Mammalian Fertilization Is Dependent on Multiple Membrane Fusion Events*.- Molecular Control of Mammalian Myoblast Fusion.- Placenta Trophoblast Fusion.- Macrophage Fusion.- Cell Fusion Assays.- Cell Fusion Assays for Yeast Mating Pairs.- Ultrastructural Analysis of Cell Fusion in Yeast.- Isolation and In Vitro Binding of Mating Type Plus Fertilization Tubules From Chlamydomonas.- Optical Imaging of Cell Fusion and Fusion Proteins in C aenorhabditis elegans.- Ultrastructural Imaging of Cell Fusion in Caenorhabditis elegans.- Live Imaging of Drosophila Myoblast Fusion.- Ultrastructural Analysis of Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila.- A Genomic Approach to Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila.- Mesenchymal Cell Fusion in the Sea Urchin Embryo.- Sperm–Egg Fusion Assay in Mammals.- Quantitative Assays for Cell Fusion.- Fusion Assays and Models for the Trophoblast.- Methods to Fuse Macrophages In Vitro.

Reviews

From the reviews: The book was planned to serve as 'a comprehensive resource for anyone who is interested in this fascinating biological problem'. ! a useful resource for the beginners and for those colleagues that are already involved with cell fusion topics. ! the book is a very useful source on information, with a user-friendly format, for all scientists. ! The technologies employed are so well described that for sure it will be possible even to beginning students to enter the field ! . (CarloAlberto Redi, European Journal of Histochemistry, Vol. 52 (4), December, 2008)

From the reviews: The book was planned to serve as `a comprehensive resource for anyone who is interested in this fascinating biological problem'. ... a useful resource for the beginners and for those colleagues that are already involved with cell fusion topics. ... the book is a very useful source on information, with a user-friendly format, for all scientists. ... The technologies employed are so well described that for sure it will be possible even to beginning students to enter the field ... . (CarloAlberto Redi, European Journal of Histochemistry, Vol. 52 (4), December, 2008)

From the reviews: ""The book was planned to serve as ‘a comprehensive resource for anyone who is interested in this fascinating biological problem’. … a useful resource for the beginners and for those colleagues that are already involved with cell fusion topics. … the book is a very useful source on information, with a user-friendly format, for all scientists. … The technologies employed are so well described that for sure it will be possible even to beginning students to enter the field … ."" (CarloAlberto Redi, European Journal of Histochemistry, Vol. 52 (4), December, 2008)

From the reviews: The book was planned to serve as 'a comprehensive resource for anyone who is interested in this fascinating biological problem'. ... a useful resource for the beginners and for those colleagues that are already involved with cell fusion topics. ... the book is a very useful source on information, with a user-friendly format, for all scientists. ... The technologies employed are so well described that for sure it will be possible even to beginning students to enter the field ... . (CarloAlberto Redi, European Journal of Histochemistry, Vol. 52 (4), December, 2008)

"From the reviews: ""The book was planned to serve as ‘a comprehensive resource for anyone who is interested in this fascinating biological problem’. … a useful resource for the beginners and for those colleagues that are already involved with cell fusion topics. … the book is a very useful source on information, with a user-friendly format, for all scientists. … The technologies employed are so well described that for sure it will be possible even to beginning students to enter the field … ."" (CarloAlberto Redi, European Journal of Histochemistry, Vol. 52 (4), December, 2008)"

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