Overview
- Includes contributions on recent developments from Asia, Europe, India, South America and the USA
- Features biological system applications
- Presents the biochemical and medicinal functionalities of vanadium
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About this book
The publication of Vanadium: Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches is particularly timely as it exactly coincides with the centennial anniversary of the discovery of vanadium by Professor Henze, in the blood cells of an ascidian (tunicate) collected in Gulf of Naples in 1911. Vanadium, atomic number 23, covers a wide range of oxidation states (from -2 to +5) and has unpaired electrons. Depending on these properties, a wide variety of enzymes and compounds containing vanadium have been found and the biochemical behaviour of vanadium has been investigated extensively.
This monograph provides not only the basic properties and recent advances of vanadium chemistry but also presents recent topics on hyper-accumulators of vanadium, enzymatic roles of vanadium, biochemical functions of vanadium and medicinal functions of vanadium, which have been discovered by Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches.
Vanadium: Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches is aimed at pure and applied chemists, biochemists, pharmaceutical and medical scientists.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Featuring Chemistry of Vanadium
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Hyper-accumulators of Vanadium
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Enzymatic Roles of Vanadium
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Medicinal Functions of Vanadium
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Michibata, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 1-3-1, Higashihiroshima 739-8526, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vanadium
Book Subtitle: Biochemical and Molecular Biological Approaches
Editors: Hitoshi Michibata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0913-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0912-6Published: 15 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9568-6Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0913-3Published: 15 September 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 228
Topics: Medicinal Chemistry, Biochemistry, general, Medical Biochemistry