Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – ATP at a Crossroads: Cell Life or Death? pp. 1-50
Authors / Editors: (A. Atlante, A. Bobba, E. Marra, S. Passarella, Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica, CNR, Bari, Italy, and others)
Chapter 2 – Bioenergetics of Closed Ecological Systems: Effects of Carbon Sources pp. 51-96
Authors / Editors: (Frieda B. Taub, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washngton, USA)
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Chapter 3 – The Role of Mitochondria in the Glucose Metabolism pp. 97-129
Authors / Editors: (L. de Bari, A. Atlante, S. Passarella, Istituto di Biomembrane e Bioenergetica, CNR, Bari, Italy, and others)
Chapter 4 – Mitochondrial Dysfunction Produced by Zn (II) or Selenite: A Comparison with Cd (II) and Ca (II) pp. 131-149
Authors / Editors: (Elena A. Belyaeva, Laboratory of Comparative Biochemistry of Inorganic Ions, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Chapter 5 – Extramitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism in Retinal Rod Outer Segment Disks pp. 151-163
Authors / Editors: (Isabella Panfoli, Department of Biology-DIBIO, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy)
Chapter 6 – Bioenergetics and Male Infertility: From Basic Science To Clinical Andrology pp. 165-181
Authors / Editors: (Alexandra Amaral, Ana Paula Sousa, Pedro Caballero Campo, Pedro Caballero Peregrín and João Ramalho-Santos, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, P.O. Box 3046, 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal, and others)
Chapter 7 – 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 pp. 183-215
Authors / Editors: (Gregg Di Nuoscio, Chao Yuan, Ossama Lashin, Andrea Romani, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and others)
Chapter 8 – Simultaneous Fluorescence and Reflection Confocal Microscopy Study of Living Osteoblast Bioenergetics as a Tool for the Design of Surface Topography of Dental Impants pp. 217-237
Authors / Editors: (Mercedes Salido, J. Ignacio Vilches-Perez, Jose Vilches, Cell Culture and Confocal Microscopy Unit, Department of Histology, School of Medicine, University of Cadiz, Spain, and others)
Chapter 9 – Screening and Studying Photosynthetic Mutants: Basics and Beyond pp. 239-244
Authors / Editors: (Xenie Johnson, Laura Houille-Vernes, Jean Alric, UMR 7141, CNRS et Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France)
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