The Cell: A Very Short Introduction

by Allen, Terence; Cowling, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780199578757
• ISBN10: 0199578753
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In thisVery Short Introduction, Terrence Allen and Graham Cowling offer an illuminating account of the nature of cells--their basic structure, forms, division, signaling, and programmed death. Allen and Cowling start with the simple "prokaryotic" cell--cells with no nucleus--and show how the bodies of more complex plants and animals consist of billions of "eukaryotic" cells, of varying kinds, adapted to fill different roles--red blood cells, muscle cells, branched neurons. The authors also show that each cell is an astonishingly complex chemical factory, the activities of which we have only begun to unravel in the past fifty years.

Author Biography

Terence Allen does research in Cell Structure and Function at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital Manchester. Graham Cowling has been director and teacher at the Medical School, University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. xi
The nature of cells	p. 1
The structure of cells	p. 17
The nucleus	p. 45
The life of cells	p. 60
What cells can do	p. 79
Stem cells	p. 98
Cellular therapy	p. 111
The future of cell research	p. 122
Further reading	p. 129
Glossary	p. 131
Index	p. 135
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