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BACTERIAL ADHESION Molecular and Ecological Diversity Edited by Madilyn Fletcher

Over the last twenty years, research has revealed the enormous complexity underlying the phenomenon of bacterial adhesion. The initial research goal was to understand the mechanism of attachment and its effects on the bacteria as well as the host. As research progressed, however, it became evident that many different attachment mechanisms exist. These diverse forms of adhesion are the results of numerous evolutionary pressures, and each may be part of a larger behavioral strategy.

This comprehensive overview details how diversity in habitat and ecological requirements has led to enormous variety in adhesive cell components, underlying genetic determinants, and behavioral strategies. It presents the latest research on adhesion mechanisms and strategies found in diverse environments and microorganisms, including the new environment of biomaterials.

Bacterial Adhesion: Molecular and Ecological Diversity examines adhesion as a strategy for nutrient access and as a phase in the complex behavior of life cycle processes. It covers the latest research and innovative approaches in the field, including:
* Conceptual advances in research on the adhesion of bacteria to oral surfaces
* Enhancing colonization in a fluctuating environment
* The cellulosome: a cell-surface organelle for the adhesion to and degradation of cellulose
* Pseudomonas aeruginosa--versatile attachment mechanisms
* Sensing, response, and adaptation to surfaces
* Myxococcus coadhesion and role in the life cycle


Edited by a leading authority on bacterial adhesion and featuring contributions from the field's leading experts, this book speaks to researchers in all areas of microbiology, biotechnology, environmental technology, and environmental science, as well as urology, immunology, and infectious diseases.

Bacterial Adhesion: Molecular and Ecological Diversity is the latest addition to the Wiley Series in Ecological and Applied Microbiology. Recent books in the series include:
* Microbial Transformation and Degradation of Toxic Organic Chemicals edited by Lily Y. Young and Carl E. Cerniglia
* Wastewater Microbiology by Gabriel Bitton
* Environmental Microbiology edited by Ralph Mitchell
* Biotechnology in Plant Disease Control edited by Ilan Chet
* Antarctic Microbiology edited by E. Imre Friedmann
* Effects of Acid Rain on Forest Processes edited by Douglas L. Godbold and Aloys Huttermann.
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This updated book provides a broad view of the field, with a consistent style, that leads you from one step to another in the understanding of the science, and includes problems for you to work in order to help build on the information presented in the text.

The text assumes that you have little or no knowledge of the science of adhesion and has also been written in such a fashion that even a person who has a meager knowledge of these subjects can learn something about adhesion science from reading this book. That is, the emphasis is on understanding the science rather than a complete and detailed exposition on any part of it.

In this new, second edition, each section or chapter starts with a simple view of the subject area, starting at the same point an entry-level textbook would begin. Each section or chapter then builds to a point at which more detail is available for the reader who is or wants to be a practitioner of the art and science of adhesion.

This book describes the three main disciplines that make up adhesion technology: mechanics of the adhesive bond, chemistry of adhesives, and surface science. This new edition provides you with the fundamentals of each of these areas, as they are important for the practitioner of this joining technology..
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Methods in Cell-Matrix Adhesion contains integrated coverage on cell-matrix adhesion methods It brings the classical methodologies and the latest techniques together in one concise volume. This coverage includes experimental protocols and their conceptual background for all aspects of cell-matrix adhesion research: the extracellular matrix, adhesion receptors, and the growing number of functional applications of matrix-adhesion in molecular cell biology. Also covered is the purification of the extracellular matrix to functional analyses of cellular responses..
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This new edition collects up-to-date information on the purification, activities, antibodies and genes for proteins found in the extracellular matrix and those known to be involved in cell-cell contact and adhesion. It includes new research on the structure of proteins and their diverse roles in cell communication and metabolite exchange. Like other books in this series, this practical volume is equally useful for specialists and those new to the field, providing a succint survey of the most important work drawn from a wide range of sources..
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Peritoneal Surgery addresses the response of the peritoneum to injury and the prevention of post-surgical adhesions resulting from general and gynecologic surgery. Adhesions, or scar tissue binding two normally separate surfaces, form when the peritoneum, the membrane covering the abdominal wall and protecting the inner organs, is damaged during surgery, inflammation, or injury. Negative complications from adhesions include pelvic pain, infertility, intestinal obstruction, multiple surgical complications resulting from surgery to remove or pull them apart, and therefore a greater surgical workload and economic burden to the healthcare system. In this book, experts in the field address peritoneal repair, the role of surgical technique to prevent adhesions, adhesion formation, complications of adhesions, and developing technology in the prevention of adhesions..
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Since the mid 1980s this field has been rapidly expanded by the molecular identification of a series of surface molecules dedicated to adhesive interactions between endothelial cells and leukocytes. It is now clear that the expression or activity of most of these molecules is tightly and selectively controlled, and that they are vital for the physiological processes of leukocyte trafficking and also critically involved in the enhanced leukocyte emigration that is a key feature of all inflammatory and immune diseases. This in turn has led to a new phase in inflammation research, designed to produce novel therapeutic tools that can control the expression or action of these adhesion molecules. The book will provide an overview of the roles of vascular adhesion molecules in health and disease, with chapters on their cell biology, followed by chapters reviewing their importance in specific disease processes..
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