Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 – Research Biographies
Cristina Andres-Lacueva
Gry Aletta Bjørlykke
Victorio Cadierno
Wisit Cheungpasitporn
Marcio Jose da Silva
Isabelle Denis
Mark D. Distefano
Azza Ali Kamel El-Sheikh
Boris Estrine
Túlio César Ferreira
Rose Gasnier
Suresh Kumar Kailasa
Jung-Bum Lee
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin
Sigrid Mennickent
Igho Onakpoya
Hugo H. Ortega
Paolo Polidori
Marzia Salmaso
Luãs Adriano Santos Do Nascimento
Elena Timofeeva
Ana Villares
Vesna Vucic
Paulus S. Wang
William R. Ware
Anna Watson
Lei Xu
Oguzhan Yildiz
Part 2 – Research Summaries on Biochemistry
57Fe Mössbauer Spectroscopic and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Study on the Interactions of the Metal Ion with Monosaccharides
An Introductory Course on Group Theory and Chemical Applications
Aromatic Polyethers Based on Heterocyclic Monomers
Bacteriophages and Biofilms: Ecology, Phage Therapy, Plaques
Beta-Lactamases
Biflavonoids: Occurrence, Structural Features and Bioactivity
Binary Aqueous and CO2 Containing Mixtures and the Krichevskii Parameter
Bioactive Oligosaccharides: Production, Biological Functions and Potential Commercial Applications
Biochemistry and Function of Antifreeze Proteins
Biochemistry of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Biodegradation of Cellulose Fibers
Biogenic Amines: Pharmacological, Neurochemical and Molecular Aspects in the CNS
Biophysics of DNA-Antibiotic Complexes
Borates: Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Aspects
Calixarene Complexes with Solvent Molecules
Chemical and Biochemical Kinetics: New Perspectives
Chemical and Biochemical Reactions: Kinetics and Mechanism
Chemical Reactions in Gas, Liquid and Solid Phases: Synthesis, Properties and Application
Chemicals and Radioactive Materials and Human Development
Chitosan-Based Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications
Computational Metabolomics
Copolymers in the Preparation of Parenteral Drug Delivery Systems
Covalently and Noncovalently Bound Assemblies of Calixarenes
Current Status of Chitosan on Dermal/Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems
Decreasing Oxidative Stress and Retarding the Aging Process
Dipicolinic Acid, its Analogues and Derivatives: Aspects of their Coordination Chemistry
Drug Targeting by Magnetically Responsive Colloids
Electrochemical Technology Applied in Treatment of Wastewater and Ground Water
Electrospinning Process and Nanofiber Research
Folding/Unfolding Kinetics of Lattice Proteins by Applying a Simple Statistical Mechanical Model for Protein Folding
Interpolyelectrolyte Complexes of Chitosan
Modern Nanochemistry
Polymer Assisted Surface Modification by Photons
Porous Structure and Adsorption Behaviours of Chitosan
Principles of Free Radical Biomedicine. Volume I
Protein-Protein Interactions
Recent Developments in Bio-Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications
Sampling and Sample Preparation in Analytical Chemistry
Soybeans: A Peroxidase Source for the Biotreatment of Effluents
Squalene: Current Knowledge and Potential Therapeutical Uses
Starch Science Progress
Symbiotic Biofilms and Brain Neurochemistry
Tannins and Phenolics in Animal Nutrition: Chemistry and Challenges
Theoretical Estimation of Acidic Force of Linear Olefins of Cationic Polymerization
Alkaloids: Properties, Application & Pharmacological Effects
Intraocular Pressure Lowering Effect of Natural Ergot Alkaloids and their Future Applications in Ocular Pharmacology
Pilocarpine and Related Alkaloids in Pilocarpus Vahl (Rutaceae)
Quaternary Benzo(c) Phenantridine Alkaloids: Perspective Flourescence DNA Probes
Metabolic Engineering and Alkaloid Producing Pathways: Scopolamine as a Model Case
The Effect of Alkaloids on the Feeding of Lepidopteran Larvae
Biosynthesis of Chlorinated Alkaloids in Menispermum dauricum Root Culture
Lipids and Cell Function
Immune Response Modulation by Targeted Complexes Based on Streptavidin
Electrochemical and Optical Biosensors Based on Strept(avidin)-Biotin Affinity
Cardiac (Patho) Physiological Actions of the Classical Mu-, Delta-, and Kappa-Opioid Receptor System
Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors: A Class of Potent Antihypertensive Agents
Protein Superfamilies Based Phylogenomic Analysis of Archaeal Domain
Aptamers: The New Biorecognition Element for Proteomic Biosensing
Effect on Heavy Oils by Bacteria
Effect of Forest Environments on Human Urinary Adrenaline
Microarray-Based Assay for Screening Kinase Inhibitors by Biotinylated Gold Nanoparticle Probes
ATP at a Crossroads: Cell Life or Death?
Bioenergetics of Closed Ecological Systems: Effects of Carbon Sources
The Role of Mitochondria in the Glucose Metabolism
Mitochondrial Dysfunction Produced by Zn (II) or Selenite: A Comparison with Cd (II) and Ca (II)
Extramitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism in Retinal Rod Outer Segment Disks
Bioenergetics and Male Infertility: From Basic Science To Clinical Andrology
Identification of Specific Mitochondrial Proteins Forming Stable Adducts with 4-Hydroxynonenal within Cardiac Tissue of Type-I Diabetic Animals: Implications for Bioenergetics Dysfunction and Onset of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Simultaneous Fluorescence and Reflection Confocal Microscopy Study of Living Osteoblast Bioenergetics as a Tool for the Design of Surface Topography of Dental Impants
Screening and Studying Photosynthetic Mutants: Basics and Beyond
Bioengineering Approaches for Aetiological Research in Severe Pressure Ulcers
Ion Beam Bioengineering Research in Thailand
Analysis of Shell Structures Applying Triangular Finite Elements
Bioengineering of Human Fetal Tissues for Clinical Use
Gene Cluster or Operon Design by Ordered Gene Assembly in Bacillus subtilis (OGAB) Method
Bioengineering of Glass-Ceramics and Ceramics for Dental Restoration
Development of a Diagnostic System for Osteoarthritis Using a Photoacoustic Measurement Method and Time-Resolved Auto-Fluorescence
Biotechnology and Agriculture
Calcium Orthophosphate-Based Biocomposites and Hybrid Biomaterials
Calcium Orthophosphate Cements and Concretes
Hydrogels in Biology and Medicine
Biomaterials in Dentistry and Medicine
Biomaterials in blood-contacting devices: complications and solutions
Biocompatibility of Dental and Medical Materials
Enhanced Remineralization of Subsurface Enamel Lesions with Functionalized â-TCP: Towards a Mechansim of Action
Translation of Emerging Hydrogel Therapies: The Role of Metrology
Metal Ion Release from the Base Co-Cr-Mo, Ni-Cr, and Noble Au-Pt Dental Alloy into the Buffered Solutions of Different Composition and pH Value
Co-Cr-Mo Alloy Surface Features and Composition Prior and After Mechanical Polishing and Corrosion in Fluids Simulating Oral Conditions
Intracellular Delivery of Gold Nanoparticles: Applications in Nanomedicine
A Commentary on Neural Tissue Engineering in the Central Nervous System – Interfacing a Lesion
Biosurfactants and their Uses in the Petroleum Industry and Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation
Detergents in Molecular Biology: DNA Extraction and Purification
Carbohydrases in Detergents
The Influence of Different Detergents on the Preservation of Discrete Membrane Microdomains: A Comparative Ultrastructural Study on Whole-Mounted Colorectal Cancer Cells
Sulfo Fatty Methyl Ester Sulfonates (MES): A New Anionic Surfactant
Acacia Caven (Mol.) Molina Pollen Proteases: Application to the Peptide Synthesis and to Laundry Detergents
Pharmacogenetics of Glucocorticoid Response
The Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling in Cancer and Inflammation
Glucocorticoids – Age Specific Impact on Mitochondrial Energy Homeostasis
Glucocorticoids, Stress and Cancer: New Insights in Immune System and Tumour Cell Regulations
Hypothalamic Obesity: A Pivotal Role of Endogenous Glucocorticoid
The Role of Nitric Oxide: Redox Imbalance in Glucocorticoid-Induced Hypertension
Glucocorticoids Mediate Drug Resistance: Mechanisms and Its Clinical Impact
Glucocorticoids in Perioperative Care
Glucocorticoid-Mediated Regulation of Tight Junctions in Brain Vascular Endothelium
Glucocorticoid Therapy for Cochlear Injuries: Pharmacology and Evidence from Animal Experiments
Glucocorticoids and Exercise Performance in Humans: Current Status
Glucocorticoids, Thymus Function and Sex Hormone in Human Body Growing
Nutritional Factors and Osteoporosis Prevention
Regulation of Phosphate Transport in Epithelia
Methods for the Extraction of Metabolites from Plant Tissues
Application of ‘Omics Technologies fore Improvement of Meat Quality
Role of Chaperones in Dystrophic and Senescent Skeletal Muscle Fibres
Amino Acid Composition of Some Aquaculture Fauna Resources in Nigeria
The Biochemistry of Isoelectric Processing and Nutritional Quality of Proteins and Lipids Recovered with This Technique
Nutritional Biochemistry of Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) and a Review of its Biological Actions on Articular Chondrocytes
Effect of Creatine Applied as Food Supplement on Human Metabolism
Production, Properties and Stability of Chicken Meat Protein Hydrolsate Powder
a-Galactosidase: A Food and Feed Enzyme
Foods of Plant Origin as Source of Nitric Oxide Production Inhibitors
Application of Plant-Derived Food Lectins in Proteoglycomics and Immunomodulation
Biochemical and Proteomic Profiling of Key Metabolic Enzymes in Aging Skeletal Muscle
Inhibitory Mechanism of Longer Chain Fatty Acids on Mammalian DNA Polymerase B Activity
Endorhizal Fungi Associated with Vascular Plants on Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic
Involvement of the Mitochondrial ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channel in the Beneficial Effects of Fasting on the Ischemic-Reperfused Rat Heart
Application of Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Physicochemical Properties of Pressure-Induced Gel from Industrial Milk Whey Proteins
Isoflavones: A Race after the Rescue of the Ageing Hippocampus
Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases by Soy Protein and Isoflavones
Effects of Processing on Isoflavone Content and Profile in Foodstuffs: A Review
Dietary Isoflavones and Intestinal Microbiota: Metabolism and Transformation into Bioactive Compounds
Bioactive Isoflavones: Implications in Cancer Treatment and Prevention
Comparative In Vitro Effects of Soybean Isoflavones and Reservatrol on Human Osteoblastic Cells
Health Effects of Dioscorea bulbifera of Aerial-Potato
Effects of the Processing Techniques on Isoflavone Profiles
Structural Studies and Mechanisms of Isoflavonoid Biosynthesis
Photophysics of Genistein and Biochanin A Isoflavones: Solvent Cage and Concentration Effects Studied by UV Visible Spectroscopy
Soy Isoflavone Genistein in Cancer Chemoprevention
Isoflavones in Leguminosae
Diffuse Neutron Scattering Study of Correlation Effects among Thermal Displacements of Atoms
Small Angle Scattering Analysis of Virus-Like Particles for Biomedical Diagnostic Assays
Small Angles Neutrons Scattering Application in Biological Materials
Neutron Scattering in Skin Research
Precipitate Analysis of Microalloyed Steels using Small Angle Neutron Scattering
Small Angle Neutron Scattering from Proteins in Solution
Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Studies of Nanoparticles Confined Within Porous Media
Methods in Protein Structure and Stability Analysis: Conformational Stability, Size, Shape and Surface of Protein Molecules
Neutron Scattering from Solutions of Biological Macromolecules
Elastic, Quasi Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies on Hydrogen-Bonded Systems of Biophysical Interest
Milk Oligosaccharides
Prebiotic Oligosaccharides: Origins and Production, Health Benefits and Commercial Applications
Glycoside Hydrolases from Hyperthermophiles: Structure, Function and Exploitation in Oligosaccharide Synthesis
Enzymatic Synthesis of Linear, Cyclic and Complex Type Oligosaccharides
Precursor N-linked Oligosaccharides as Codes for Glycoprotein Folding Status
Oligosaccharides from Sucrose via Glycansucrases
Electrospray Mass Spectrometry of Oligosaccharides of Plant Origin
Biologically Active Oligosaccharide Functions in Plant Cell: Updates and Prospects
The Mannan Oligosaccharides in Aquaculture
Facile Synthesis of Unnatural Oligosaccharides by Phosphorylase-Catalyzed Enzymatic Glycosylations Using New Glycosyl Donors
Oligosaccharides: Sources, Properties and Applications
Initiators for Anionic Polymerization: Old and New Developments
Advanced Organocobalt Initiators of Radical Polymerization: Current State and Potential Applications
Surface-Initiated ATRP as a Versatile Method to Hybrid Materials
Citric Acid: An Emerging Substrate for the Formation of Biopolymers
Functional Initiators in Radical Polymerization
Assessing the Effect of Selected Photoinitiators on the Properties of Photopolymerised Temperature Sensitive Hydrogels
Functional Oligomeric Azo-Initiators for Grafting of Polymers on Clay Surface
Photoinitiating Systems Based on Unusual Radicals
Role of Monocationic and Bicationic Initiators on the Grafting of Polymer Chains from the Clay Surface
Designing Non-Classical Inclusion Bodies
Extraribosomal Functions of Ribosomal Protein S19 in Monograph Ribosomal Proteins
Order-Disorder Transitions in Ribosome Assembly
Disruption of Ribosomal Protein Gene Expression in Eukaryotes: A Class of Mutations Causing Similar Global Growth Defects with Cellular Variations
Ancestral Protein Reconstruction as a New Field in Protein Engineering
Ribosomal Proteins in Important Tropical Diseases
Three Challenges in Post-Proteomics Time
Self-Similar Property of Ribosomal Proteins
Synthesizing Mammalian Cell Adhesive Surfaces using Self-Assembling Fibronectin Domains
Halophilic Adaptations of Proteins
Alkaline Adaptation of Proteins
Preface to the Inaugural issue of the Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Post-Genomic Era
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Hong Kong: Past and Future
Calpains-Mediated PTEN Cleavage in Excitotoxic Neuronal Death
NUDCD2 is Overexpressed in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma and is Involved in Nuclear Division
Genotype Analyses Using SNP (Using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry) and STR (Microsatellite) Markers in the Determination of Zygosity Status of Chinese Twins
The Dyslexia Candidate Gene Kiaa0319L Encodes N-Glycosylated Isoforms That Form Homo-Dimers
Identification of Feed Forward Loops Composed of MicroRNAs and Transcription Factors in Arabidopsis
Sanfilippo Syndrome: Identification and Removal of a Cryptic Splice Site in ¦Á-N-Acetylglucosaminidase cDNA for Potential Improved Expression and Enzyme Replacement Therapy
Conference Report of 2010 Inter-University Post-Graduate Symposium
Launching Theme-Based Research in Hong Kong Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Chaos Theory in Astrophysics, Nature, Genetics and Human Cancer
Selected Abstracts From the 2010 Inter-University Post-Graduate Symposium Held in Hong Kong
