Bioelectronics: A Study in Cellular Regulations, Defense, and Cancer examines biological reactions on the electronic level. Chapters in the book discuss topics on the ionization potential and electron affinity; the charge transfer reactions; defense mechanisms of living organisms; and the description of the mechanisms governing the growth and proliferation of cancer cells. Biochemists, oncologists, pharmacologists, and pharmaceutical researchers will find the book invaluable.

Table of contents

Preface


I. Introduction


The Problem Is Stated


The Ionization Potential and Electron Affinity


The Biopotentials


Electronic Energy and Bond Energy


The Pullman


II. Electronic Mobility


Three Cases of Delocalization


Charge Transfer


III. Biological Relations


Middle-Range Charge Transfer


Electron Donors of Tissues. The Hopkins Pool


Functional Groups and Regulations


IV. Physiology and Pathology


Defense Mechanisms


Physical State and Cell DivisioN


Methylglyoxal and the Regulation of Cell Division


On Cancer


V. Conclusion


VI. Epilogue


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