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10% human : how your body's microbes hold the key to health and happiness / by Collen, Alanna.(CARDINAL)410605;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An argument for the importance of gut bacteria in the human body and how this affects our health and well-being"--"You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony.Until recently, we had thought our microbes hardly mattered, but science is revealing a different story, one in which microbes run our bodies and becoming a healthy human is impossible without them.In this riveting, shocking, and beautifully written book, biologist Alanna Collen draws on the latest scientific research to show how our personal colony of microbes influences our weight, our immune system, our mental health, and even our choice of partner. She argues that so many of our modern diseases--obesity, autism, mental illness, digestive disorders, allergies, autoimmunity afflictions, and even cancer--have their root in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our personal colony of microbes.Many of the questions about modern diseases left unanswered by the Human Genome Project are illuminated by this new science. And the good news is that unlike our human cells, we can change our microbes for the better. Collen's book is a revelatory and indispensable guide. It is science writing at its most relevant: life--and your body--will never seem the same again"--
Subjects: Intestines; Microorganisms; Microbial metabolism.;
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Using microbial metabolism to assess ecological function of a saltmarsh. by N.C. National Estuarine Research Reserve System.(CARDINAL)200747;
"... funded in part by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, and the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology"--P. [6].
Subjects: Estuarine ecology; Food chains (Ecology); Microbial metabolism; Salt marsh ecology;
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Alteration of microbial metabolic activities in association with detritus / by Paerl, Hans W.(CARDINAL)166265; UNC Sea Grant College Program.(CARDINAL)160815;
Bibliography: leaves 406-408.
Subjects: Detritus.;
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Microbiology demystified / by Betsy, Tom.; Keogh, James Edward,1948-;
The world of microorganism -- The chemical elements of microorganisms -- Observing microorganisms -- Prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells -- Chemical metabolism -- Microbial growth and controlling microbial growth -- Microbial genetics -- Recombinant dna technology -- Classification of microorganisms -- The prokaryotes : domains archea and bacteria -- The eukaryotes : fungi, algae, protozoa, and helminths -- Viruses, viroids, and prions -- Epidemiology and disease -- Immunity -- Vaccines and diagnosing diseases -- Antimicrobial drugs.
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Microbiology demystified / by Betsy, Tom.(CARDINAL)472447; Keogh, James Edward,1948-(CARDINAL)513825;
The world of the microorganism -- The chemical elements of microorganisms -- Observing microorganisms -- Prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells -- The chemical metabolism -- Microbial growth and controlling microbial growth -- Microbial genetics -- Recombinant DNA technology -- Classification of microorganisms -- The prokaryotes: bacteria -- The eukaryotes: fungi, algae, protozoa, and helminths -- Viruses, viroids, and prions -- Epidemiology and disease -- Immunity -- Vaccines and diagnosing diseases -- Antimicrobial drugs.AnnotationAnnotation
Subjects: Microbiology.;
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Brock biology of microorganisms / by Madigan, Michael T.,1949-(CARDINAL)333909; Martinko, John M.,author.(CARDINAL)333908; Parker, Jack,1945-author.(CARDINAL)333907;
Microorganisms and microbiology -- Macromolecules -- Cell biology -- Nutrition and metabolism -- Microbial growth -- Principles of microbial molecular biology -- Regulation of gene expression -- Viruses -- Microbial genetics -- Genetic engineering and biotechnology -- Industrial microbiology/biocatalysis -- Microbial evolution and systematics -- Prokaryotic diversity : Bacteria -- Prokaryotic diversity : The archaea -- Metabolic diversity -- Microbial ecology -- Eukaryotic microorganisms -- Microbial growth control -- Most-parasite relationships -- Concepts of immunology -- Clinical and diagnostic microbiology and immunology -- Edipdemiology and public health microbiology -- Person-to-person microbial diseases -- Animal-transmitted, vectorborne, and common-source microbial diseases.Introductory text in microbiology, covering the major classical concepts essential for understanding the science.
Subjects: Microbiology.;
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March of the microbes : sighting the unseen / by Ingraham, John L.(CARDINAL)731185;
The microbial landscape -- Acquiring metabolic energy -- Food and drink -- Living together -- Cycling nitrogen -- Cycling sulfur -- Cycling carbon -- Hostile environments -- Fungi, hostile and benign -- Viruses -- Felonious bacteria -- Shapers of the planet -- Closer to us -- Survivors.Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the workings of snowmaking machines, Botox, and gunpowder; and yet we tend to regard them as peripheral, disease-causing, food-spoiling troublemakers. In this book renowned microbiologist John Ingraham rescues these supremely important and ubiquitous microorganisms from their unwonted obscurity by showing us how we can, in fact, see them--and appreciate their vast and varied role in nature and our lives.
Subjects: Microbiology;
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Microbes count! : problem posing, problem solving, and peer persuasion in microbiology / by Jungck, John R.(CARDINAL)327207; Stanley, Ethel D.(CARDINAL)325603; Field, Marion.(CARDINAL)327206; BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium.(CARDINAL)327205; Microbial Literacy Collaborative.(CARDINAL)327204;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Problems and exercises.; Microbiology.; Microbiology;
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Microbiology for dummies / by Stearns, Jennifer C.(CARDINAL)789179; Kaiser, Julie.(CARDINAL)789181; Surette, Michael G.(CARDINAL)789180;
pt. I. Getting started with microbiology -- 1. Microbiology and you -- Why microbiology? -- Introducing microorganisms -- Deconstructing microbiology -- 2. Microbiology : the young science -- Before microbiology : misconceptions and superstitions -- Discovering microorganisms -- Debunking the myth of spontaneous generation -- Improving medicine, from surgery to antibiotics and more -- Looking at microbiology outside the human body -- The future of microbiology -- Frontiers -- Challenges -- 3. Microbes : they're everywhere and the can do everything -- Habitat diversity -- Metabolic diversity -- Getting energy -- Capturing carbon -- Making enzymes -- Secondary metabolism -- The intersection of microbes and everyone else --pt. II. Balancing the dynamics of microbial life -- Seeing the shapes of cells -- Life on a minute scale : considering the size of prokaryotes -- The cell : an overview -- Scaling the outer membrane and cell walls -- Examining the outer membrane -- Exploring the cell wall -- Other important cell structures -- Divining cell division -- Tackling transport systems -- Passive transport -- Active transport -- Keeping things clean with efflux pumps -- Getting around with locomotion -- 5. Making sense of metabolism -- Converting with enzymes -- In charge of energy : oxidation and reduction -- Donating and accepting electrons -- Bargaining with energy-rich compounds -- Storing energy for later -- Breaking down catabolism -- Digesting glycolysis -- Stepping along with respiration and electron carriers -- Moving with the proton motive force -- Turning the citric acid cycle -- Stacking up with anabolism -- Creating amino acids and nucleic acids -- Making sugars and polysaccharides -- Putting together fatty acids and lipids -- 6. Getting the gist of microbial genetics -- Organizing genetic material -- DNA : the recipe for life -- Perfect plasmids -- DNA replication -- Assembling the cellular machinery -- Making messenger RNA -- Other types of RNA -- synthesizing protein -- DNA regulation -- Regulating protein function -- Changing the genetic code -- Slight adjustments -- Major rearrangements -- 7. Measuring microbial growth -- Getting growth requirements right -- Physical requirements -- Chemical requirements -- Culturing microbes in the lab -- Observing microbes -- Counting small things -- Seeing morphology -- Calculating cell division and population growth -- dividing cells -- Following growth phases -- Inhibiting microbial growth -- Physical methods -- Disinfectants --pt. III. Sorting out microbial diversity -- 8. Appreciating microbial ancestry -- Where did microbes come from? -- Tracing the origins of life -- Diversifying early prokaryotes -- The impact of prokaryotes on the early earth -- Hitching a ride : endosymbiosis -- Understanding evolution -- Studying evolution -- Choosing marker genes -- Seeing the direction of gene transfer in prokaryotes -- Classifying and naming microbes -- Climbing the tree of life -- 9. Harnessing energy, fixing carbon -- Forging ahead with autotrophic processes -- Fixing carbon -- Using the energy in light -- Harvesting light : chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls -- Helping photosynthesis out : carotenoids and phycobilins -- Generating oxygen (or not) : oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis -- Getting energy from the elements : chemolithotrophy -- Harnessing hydrogen -- Securing electrons from sulfur -- Pumping iron -- Oxidizing nitrate and ammonia -- 10. comparing respiration and fermentation -- Lifestyles of the rich and facultative -- Digging into respiration -- Spinning the citric acid cycle -- Stepping down the electron transport chain -- Respiring anaerobically -- Figuring out fermentation -- 11. Uncovering a variety of habitats -- Defining a habitat -- Understanding nutrient cycles -- Carbon cycling -- Nitrogen cycling -- Sulfur cycling -- Phosphorous cycles in the ocean -- Microbes socializing in communities -- Using quorum sensing to communication -- Living in biofilms -- Exploring microbial mats -- Discovering microbes in aquatic and terrestrial habitats -- Thriving in water -- Swarming soils -- Getting along with plants and animals -- Living with plants -- Living with animals -- Living with insects -- Living with ocean creatures -- Tolerating extreme locations -- Detecting microbes in unexpected places --pt. IV. Meeting the microbes -- 12. Meet the prokaryotes -- Getting to know the bacteria -- The gram-negative bacteria : proteobacteria -- More gram-negative bacteria -- The gram-positive bacteria -- Acquainting yourself with the archaea -- Scalding : extreme thermophiles -- Acidic : extreme acidophiles -- Salty : extreme halophiles -- Not terribly extreme archaea -- 13. Say hello to eukaryotes -- Fun with fungi -- Figuring out fungal physiology -- Itemizing fungal diversity -- Interacting with plant roots -- Ascomycetes -- MUshrooms : basidiomycetes -- Perusing the protists -- Making us sick : apicoplexans -- Making plants sick : oomycetes -- chasing amoeba and ciliates -- Encountering the algae -- 14. Examining the vastness of viruses -- Hijacking cells -- Frugal viral structure -- Simplifying viral function -- Making heads or tails of bacteriophage -- Lytic phage -- Temperate phage -- Transposable phage -- Discussing viruses of eukaryotes -- Infecting animal cells -- Following plant viruses -- How host cells fight back -- Restriction enzymes -- CRISPR -- Interfering with RNA viruses : RNAi --pt. V. Seeing the impact of microbes -- 15. Understanding microbes in human health and disease -- Clarifying the host immune response -- Putting up barriers to infection -- Inflammation -- Innate immunity -- Adaptive immunity -- Antibodies -- Relying on antimicrobials for treating disease -- Fundamental features of antibiotics -- Targets of destruction -- Unraveling microbial drug resistance -- Discovering new antibiotics -- Searching out superbugs -- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci -- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus -- Clostridium difficile -- Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases -- Prebiotics and probiotics -- Antiviral drugs -- 16. Putting microbes to work : biotechnology -- Using recombinant DNA technology -- Making the insert -- Employing plasmids -- Restriction enzymes -- Getting microbes to take up DNA -- Using promoters to drive expression -- Expression vectors -- Folding proteins -- Metabolic load -- Long, multigene constructs -- Providing therapies -- Improving antibiotics -- Developing vaccines -- Using microbes industrially -- Protecting plants wit microbial insecticides -- Making biofuels -- Bioleaching metals -- Cleaning up with microbes -- 17. Fighting microbial diseases -- Protecting public health : epidemiology -- Tracking diseases -- Investigating outbreaks -- Identifying a microbial pathogen -- characterizing morphology -- Using biochemical tests -- Typing strains with phage -- Using serology -- Testing antibiotic susceptibility -- Understanding vaccines -- How vaccines work -- Ranking the types of vaccines --pt. VI. New frontiers in microbiology -- 18. Teasing apart communities -- Studying microbial communities -- Borrowing from ecology -- Seeing what sets microbial communities apart from plants and animals -- Observing communities : microbial ecology methods -- Selecting something special with enrichment -- Seeing cells through lenses -- Measuring microbial activity -- Identifying species using marker genes -- Getting the hang of microbial genetics and systematics -- Sequencing whole genomes -- Using metagenomics to study microbial communities -- Reading microbial transcriptomics -- Figuring out proteomics and metabolomics -- Looking for microbial dark matter -- 19. Synthesizing life -- Regulating genes : the lac operon -- Using a good natural system -- Improving a good system -- Designing genetic networks -- Switching from one state to another -- Oscillating between states -- Keeping signals short -- The synthetic biologist's toolbox -- Making it modular -- Participating in iGEM competition --pt. VII. The part of tens -- 20. Ten (or so) diseases caused by microbes -- Ebola -- Anthrax -- Influenza -- Tuberculosis -- HIV -- Cholera -- Smallpox -- Primary amoebic menigoencephalitis -- The unknown -- 21. Ten great uses for microbes -- Making delicious foods -- Growing legumes -- Brewing beer, liquor, and wine -- Killing insect pests -- Treating sewage -- Contributing to medicine -- Setting up your aquarium -- Making and breaking down biodegradable plastics -- Turning over compostable waste -- Maintaining a balance -- 22. Ten great uses for microbiology -- Medical care -- Dental care -- Veterinary care -- Monitoring the environment -- Making plants happy -- Keeping fish swimming strong -- Producing food, wine, and beer -- Science hacking -- Looking for microbes in clean rooms -- Producing pharmaceuticals.Does microbiology make your head spin? The authors make the subject accessible and fun, to help you grasp life at the cellular level. Whether you need to score big at exam time, or just want to satisfy your curiosity, this guide will help you discover the main types of microorganisms and the benefits of their microbial communities.--
Subjects: Microbiology;
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Environmental physiology / by Fregly, Melvin J.(CARDINAL)324917; Blatteis, Clark M.(CARDINAL)324916; American Physiological Society (1887- )(CARDINAL)324915;
Includes bibliographical references and index.V. 1. Adaptation to the environment: overview -- Adaptations: some general characteristics -- Physical forces, sensory reception, and response to the environment -- Interplay of behavioral and physiological mechanisms in adaptation -- Thermal environment -- Mechanisms of homeostatic responses to thermal stimulation -- Mechanisms of heat exchange: biophysics and physiology -- Peripheral thermosensors -- Hypothalamic neurons regulating body temperature -- Interaction of body temperatures in control of thermoregulatory effector mechanisms -- Evidence for roles of brain peptides in thermoregulation -- Adaptive responses to heat -- Thermoregulatory responses to acute exercise-heat stress and heat acclimation -- Body fluid balance during heat stress in humans -- Cardiovascular adjustments to heat stress -- Endocrinological and metabolic responses to acute and chronic heat exposures -- Heat stress and behavior -- Estivation -- Limitation of heat tolerance -- Adaptive responses to cold -- Homeostatic responses to acute cold exposure: thermogenic responses in birds and mammals -- Human thermoregulatory responses to acute cold stress with special reference to water immersion -- Thermogenic responses to prolonged cold exposure: birds and mammals -- Homeostatic responses to prolonged cold exposure: human cold acclimatization -- Neural and hormonal responses to prolonged cold exposure -- Behavioral thermoregulation in the cold -- Torpor and hibernation in mammals: metabolic, physiological, and biochemical adaptations -- Hibernation in mammals: central nervous system function -- Responses to seasonal change in polar mammals -- Limits of tolerance to hypothermia -- Integrative responses to heat and cold -- Central regulation of adaptive responses to heat and cold -- Ontogenetic and adaptive adjustments in the thermoregularoty system -- Modeling homeostatic responses to heat and cold -- Gravitational environment -- Microgravity -- Cardiovascular system in microgravity -- Respiratory system in microgravity -- Skeleton and its adaptation to gravity -- Neuromuscular adaptations to actual and simulated spaceflight -- Adaptation of the vestibular system to microgravity.V. 2. Radiation in microgravity -- Effect of spaceflight on lymphocyte function and immunity -- Exercise and adaptation to microgravity environments -- Renal, endocrine, and hemodynamic effects of water immersion in humans -- Head-out water immersion: animal studies -- Physiology of bed rest -- Hypergravity -- Adaptation to accleration environments -- Hyperbaric environment -- Underwater physiology of man -- Hyperbaria/diving: introduction -- Hyperbaria: breath-hold diving -- Gas physiology in diving -- Mixed-gas saturation diving -- Diving mammals -- Diving physiology of the Weddell seal -- Terrestrial altitude environment -- Evolutionary aspects of atmospheric oxygen and organisms -- Tissue capacity for mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and its adaptation to stress -- Metabolic defense adaptations to hyperbaric hypoxia in man -- Hypoxia, erythropoietin gene expression, and erythropoiesis -- Morphologic and metabolic response to chronic hypoxia: the muscle system -- Peripheral chemoreceptors and their sensory neurons in chronic states of hypo- and hyperoxygenation -- Ventilatory responses to acute and chronic hypoxia -- Cardiovascular system at high altitude -- Endocrine adaptation to hypoxia -- Body fluid and energy metabolism at high altitude -- Brain hypoxia: metabolic and ventilatory depression -- Physiology of extreme altitude -- Chronobiological environment -- Circadian rhythms -- Sleep, thermoregulation, and circadian rhythms -- Relationship between food and sleep -- Nutritional environment -- Human adaptation to energy undernutrition -- Physiological responses of mammals to overnutrition -- Effects of altered vitamin and mineral nutritional status on temperature regulation and thermogenesis in the cold -- Nutrition and exercise in adverse environments -- Intestinal adaptation to environmental stress -- Microbial environment -- Adaptation to the microbial environment -- Psychosocial environment -- Place of behavior in physiology -- Neuroimmunomodulation: neuroimmune interactions with the environment.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Ecophysiology; Bioclimatology; Human beings; Adaptation (Physiology);
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