Hemoglobins, Part B: Biochemical and Analytical Methods (Volume 231) (Methods in Enzymology, Volume 231) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0121821323 ISBN 13: 9780121821326

Publisher: Academic Press, 1994

Synopsis

Hemoglobin has been involved in the most significant advances in our understanding of modern genetics and molecular biology. Now, hemoblobin is again central to a new area: development of artificial blood (blood substitute.) This volume of Methods in Enzymology and its companion, Volume 232, will be indispensable to anyone with a serious interest in this emerging field. They completely update and extend the information presented in Volume 76 published a decade ago.

• Preparation, purification, and analysis of human hemoglobin and of various non-human hemoglobins
• Preparation of hemoglobin hybrids and of model heme compounds
• Preparation of chemically modified hemoglobins and of recombinant hemoglobins
• Analytical procedures presented for studying hemoglobin stability and degradation and for the formation of xenobiotic adducts of hemoglobin

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Winslow received his M.D. degree and postgraduate training in internal medicine and hematology at the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. He studied hemoglobin biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Molecular Biology at the National Institutes of Health. His research, for more than 30 years, has been aimed at the intersection of the synthesis, structure and function of hemoglobin, in such areas as sickle cell anemia, high altitude physiology and hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers. Professor Winslow previously headed the Blood Research Division at the Letterman Army Institute of Research, responsible for the US Army's blood substitute program. Between 1991 and 1998, he was a Professor of Medicine, leading a blood substitute program at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), supported by the National Institutes of Health. Professor Winslow has also served as a consultant to many private companies and has been an advisor for, among others, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, the Pan American Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and a number of foreign governments. He has written more than 200 scientific articles on clinical, physiological and biochemical aspects of hemoglobin and oxygen transport.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0121821323
• ISBN 13: 9780121821326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 743
• Editor: Abelson John N., Simon Melvin I., Everse Johannes, Vandegriff Kim D., Winslow Robert M.