Overview
- Gives a comprehensive account of the progress made in the exploitation of natural products from echinoderms and their use as therapeutic tools for human health and as sensors for the detection of environmental contamination
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology (PMSB, volume 39)
Part of the book sub series: Marine Molecular Biotechnology (MMB)
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Members of the phylum Echinodermata are among the most familiar marine invertebrates. Forms such as the sea star have become virtually a symbol of sea life. Used in ancient oriental medicine as a source of bioactive compounds, sea cucumbers, sea stars and sea urchins are now used for the extraction and purification of cytotoxic, haemolytic, antiviral, antifungal, antifouling, antimicrobial and even anti-tumoural activities. In addition, of the five extant classes, sea urchins and sea cucumbers are important economic resources for current fishery and aquaculture. Molecular and cell biological techniques described in this book are, on the one hand, indicative of the improvements made over the years and, on the other, stress the need of their further exploitation for the sustainable production of bioactive compounds and their application in biomedicine.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Echinodermata
Editors: Valeria Matranga
Series Title: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27683-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-24402-8Published: 20 May 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06370-1Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27683-8Published: 24 October 2005
Series ISSN: 0079-6484
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8484
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 275
Topics: Animal Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Invertebrates, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology