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Electronic Conduction and Mechanoelectrical Transaction in Biological Materials.
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This is a good book with contributions of a high standard and sufficiently descriptive to call the attention of a vast audience, but in the meantime sufficiently deep to satisfy the curiosity of students in the field. A main gap perhaps can be envisaged in the absence of any report discussing transplantation experiments to study the problem of determination. ANTONINO CA’MANEO Institute of Cellular Biology National Research Council Rome
Electronic Conduction Boguslaw Lipinski pp., Sfr.158.00.
and Mechanoelectrical Transduction in Biological Materials. (Editor). Marcel Dekker, New York, Basel, 1982, xvi + 299
This book is rightly dedicated to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who some 40 years ago proposed and strongly supported the idea that electronic processes should have a very important role in biological processes such as cancer generation, bioenergetics, mechano-chemical energy conversion and others. Still today this point of view is lacking in satisfactory evidence, and the book aims to stimulate researchers, not only from the electronic and material sciences but also from the biomedical disciplines, to continue their efforts. Reading the six chapters as presented by their authors one receives the impression that intermixed with well-discussed theoretical expectation and/or experimental findings is, in some, too much allowance to wishful thinking. This is minimal in the discussion of electronic conduction in biopolymers by R. Pethig (Ch. 1) and piezoelectricity of biological material by E. Fukuda (Ch. 3), but perhaps reaches a maximum in the discussion of possible superconduction at physiological temperatures by F.W. Cope (Ch. 2). The presentation of pyroelectric effects by S.B. Lang (Ch. 4) and of mechanoelectric effects by N. Guzelsu (Ch. 5) is clear and gives an unbiased description of alternative explanations. These chapters also state that we lack any plausible understanding at a basic level (cellular, for example) of such phenomena as wound healing, osteogenesis and tissue regeneration. A. BORSELLINO Institute of Biophysics University of Genoa
Ettore Majorana International Science Series, Vol. I I. Bioelectrochemistry I: Biological Redox Reactions. G. Milazzo and M. Blank (Editors). Plenum Press, New York, 1983, xi + 348 pp, numerous tables and figures, 26 cm x 17 cm, US$52.50($63) This book includes the papers of the first course devoted to bioelectrochemistry held at the E. Majorana Center on 29 November-5 December 1981 in Erice, Italy.
This is a good book with contributions of a high standard and sufficiently descriptive to call the attention of a vast audience, but in the meantime sufficiently deep to satisfy the curiosity of students in the field. A main gap perhaps can be envisaged in the absence of any report discussing transplantation experiments to study the problem of determination. ANTONINO CA’MANEO Institute of Cellular Biology National Research Council Rome
Electronic Conduction Boguslaw Lipinski pp., Sfr.158.00.
and Mechanoelectrical Transduction in Biological Materials. (Editor). Marcel Dekker, New York, Basel, 1982, xvi + 299
This book is rightly dedicated to Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who some 40 years ago proposed and strongly supported the idea that electronic processes should have a very important role in biological processes such as cancer generation, bioenergetics, mechano-chemical energy conversion and others. Still today this point of view is lacking in satisfactory evidence, and the book aims to stimulate researchers, not only from the electronic and material sciences but also from the biomedical disciplines, to continue their efforts. Reading the six chapters as presented by their authors one receives the impression that intermixed with well-discussed theoretical expectation and/or experimental findings is, in some, too much allowance to wishful thinking. This is minimal in the discussion of electronic conduction in biopolymers by R. Pethig (Ch. 1) and piezoelectricity of biological material by E. Fukuda (Ch. 3), but perhaps reaches a maximum in the discussion of possible superconduction at physiological temperatures by F.W. Cope (Ch. 2). The presentation of pyroelectric effects by S.B. Lang (Ch. 4) and of mechanoelectric effects by N. Guzelsu (Ch. 5) is clear and gives an unbiased description of alternative explanations. These chapters also state that we lack any plausible understanding at a basic level (cellular, for example) of such phenomena as wound healing, osteogenesis and tissue regeneration. A. BORSELLINO Institute of Biophysics University of Genoa
Ettore Majorana International Science Series, Vol. I I. Bioelectrochemistry I: Biological Redox Reactions. G. Milazzo and M. Blank (Editors). Plenum Press, New York, 1983, xi + 348 pp, numerous tables and figures, 26 cm x 17 cm, US$52.50($63) This book includes the papers of the first course devoted to bioelectrochemistry held at the E. Majorana Center on 29 November-5 December 1981 in Erice, Italy.