The Cell: A Very Short Introduction 英文原版 牛津通识系列：细胞 Terence Allen,Graham J. Cowling

基本信息

By (author) Terence Allen,Graham J. Cowling

Format Paperback | 160 pages

Dimensions 103 x 167 x 21mm | 141g

Publication date 01 Dec 2011

Publisher Oxford University Press

Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom

Language English

Illustrations note 15 black and white illustrations

ISBN10 0199578753

ISBN13 9780199578757

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic' cell, with no nucleus. 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. Each cell

is an astonishingly complex chemical factory, the activities of which we have only begun to unravel in the past fifty years or so through modern techniques of microscopy, biochemistry, and molecular biology.

In this Very Short Introduction, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling describe the nature of cells - their basic structure, their varying forms, their division, their differentiation from initially highly flexible stem cells, their signalling, and programmed death. Cells are the basic constituent of life, and understanding cells and how they work is central to all biology and medicine.

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地球上所有的生物都是由细胞组成的。细胞是自给自足的生物的最简单单位，地球上的绝大多数生命都由单细胞微生物组成，其中大多数是细菌。这些由简单的“原核”细胞组成，没有核。较复杂的动植物的身体由数十亿个“真核”细胞组成，这些真核细胞具有各种不同的功能，可以满足不同的作用-红细胞，肌肉细胞，分支神经元。每个细胞

都是一个惊人的复杂的化学工厂，在过去的五十多年中，我们通过显微镜，生物化学和分子生物学的现代技术才开始展开其活动。

在此简短介绍中，Terence Allen和Graham Cowling描述了细胞的性质-它们的基本结构，它们的不同形式，它们的分裂，它们与最初高度灵活的干细胞的分化，它们的信号传导和程序性死亡。细胞是生命的基本组成部分，了解细胞及其工作方式是所有生物学和医学的核心。

关于系列：牛津大学出版社的“非常简短的介绍”系列包含几乎每个主题领域的数百种标题。这些袖珍本是快速在新学科上取得成功的理想方法。我们的专家作者结合了事实，分析，观点，新思想和热情，使有趣且具挑战性的主题更具可读性。

作者简介

Professor Terence Allen's career spanned 40 years research in Cell Structure and Function at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital Manchester, and the University of Manchester. His special research interests included the mechanisms controlling cell shape, cell replacement in blood skin and gut tissues, and the structure of chromosomes. He has published in excess of 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the British Society for

Cell Biology, the Biochemical Society and the Royal Microscopial Society.

Dr Graham Cowling has been director and teacher on a Masters programme in oncology and postgraduate tutor for research students in cancer studies at the Medical School, Univeristy of Manchester, for the past ten years. He has written a number of research papers and contributed reviews and chapters to books.

特伦斯·艾伦（Terence Allen）教授在帕特森癌症研究所，曼彻斯特克里斯蒂医院和曼彻斯特大学从事细胞结构和功能研究长达40年。他的特别研究兴趣包括控制细胞形状的机制，血液皮肤和肠道组织中的细胞置换以及染色体的结构。他在同行评审期刊上发表了200多篇论文，并且是英国

细胞生物学学会，生化学会和皇家显微学会的成员。

格雷厄姆·考林（Graham Cowling）博士在过去的十年中一直是曼彻斯特大学医学院的肿瘤学硕士课程的主任和老师，以及癌症研究研究生的研究生导师。他撰写了许多研究论文，并为书撰写了评论和章节。

书籍目录

1. Recognising the cell ; 2. The structure of the cell ; 3. Cell division, differentiation, and death ; 4. Special cells for special jobs ; 5. Stem cells ; 6. Ethics, politics, and regulation ; 7. Celluar therapy ; 8. The future is now