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Course Material
There are a number of items available for
BIOSCI 101 in the Short Loans Collection which is located on level 1
of the Kate Edger Information Commons.
To see the full list of items, go to the
Course Materials search page on
the library page, scroll down the alphabetical list of courses to find the entry for
BIOSC101 and click on the Search tab.
The items are in alphabetical order by title and may include books and
individual articles.
Reading
List
Course
readings may only be used for the University's educational purposes. You may
print a copy for your own use, but you may not make a further copy for any
other purpose. You may not copy or distribute any part of the reading to any
other person. Failure to comply with these terms may expose you to legal
action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the
University.
- To access
these electronic resources refer to
the
Accessing
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instructions.
- Some of these links go directly to full-text electronic versions
of journal articles and some links go to books that the library
holds, you will need to come to the library to refer to these books.
Lecturer: Dr Nigel P. Birch
Lecture series: Proteases and Human Diseases
Topic 1: The importance of proteolysis in Alzheimer's disease
- St George-Hyslop, P.H., (2000). Piecing
Together Alzheimer's. Scientific American, 283(6), 76-83.
- Selkoe, D.J. (2001). Alzheimer's
Disease: Genes, Proteins and Therapy. Physiological
Reviews, 81(2), 741-766.
- Hardy, J. (2006). A hundred years of Alzheimer’s disease research. Neuron, 52(1), 3-13.
- Mucke, L. (2009). Neuroscience: Alzheimer’s disease. Nature, 461, 895-897.
- Shurkin, J.N. (2009). Decoding Dementia. Scientific American Mind, 20(6), 56-63.
- De Strooper, B., Vassar, R., and Golde, T. (2010). The secretases: enzymes with therapeutic potential in Alzheimer disease Nature Reviews Neurology, 6(2), 99 – 107.
Topic 2: Proteolytic cascades in apoptosis
- Molecular Cell Biology (Lodish et al) Chapter 23; p. 1044-1051 plus CD animation. "Cell death and its Regulation".
- Kaufmann. S.H., & Hengartner, M.O. (2001). Programmed
cell death: alive and well in the new millennium. Trends in
Cell Biology, 11(12), 526-534.
- Leist, M. & Jäättelä, M.(2001). Four deaths and a funeral: from caspases to alternative mechanisms. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2(8), 589-598.
- Pop, C. & Salvesen, G.S. (2009). Human caspases: activation, specificity, and regulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284(33), 21777-21781.
- Labi, V. Grespi, F. Baumgartner, F. & Villunger, A. (2008). Targeting the Bcl-2-regulated apoptosis pathway by BH3 mimetics: a breakthrough in anticancer therapy? Cell Death and Differentiation, 15(6), 977-987.
Internet
Resources
To access
these electronic resources refer to
the
Accessing
Electronic Resources : On
Campus | From Home
instructions.
- Study Guides
- On-line dictionarie/encyclopediass: (excellent for quick definitions of
unfamiliar terms)
- Library Databases
Scopus is the University's most powerful multidisciplinary navigational
tool for accessing and tracking scientific information. It includes more
than 27 million items from over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000
publishers. Many of the search results are available electronically in
full-text by clicking on the Full Text button. It is particularly
good at providing 'times cited' live links (1996 and later cites) for most
articles. Scopus also indexes over 200 million websources, including 12.7
million patents.
Nore: If you need to use a database and have not used Scopus before, you are strongly advised to book a tutorial for Scopus. These are offered throughout the year by the Biological Sciences Librarian. Bookings are via the Book a Library Workshop page at http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/booking/
- MedLine
/ PubMed | User
Guide
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the Medline database
is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic coverage of
biomedical literature. Medline encompasses information from Index Medicus,
Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as
other sources of coverage in the areas of communication disorders,
population biology, and reproductive biology. More than 11 million records
from more than 4,600 journals are indexed and abstracted. Medline uses OVID
software.
PubMed is the free version of MedLine that
exists on the web and covers the exact same material as MedLine. The
advantage of using MedLine over PubMed is that MedLine has been customised
for the University of Auckland and links through to all available electronic
journals. As PubMed is a free database on the Internet customisation for the
University of Auckland is not possible.
Biological Abstracts is an international database on biology, clinical
and experimental medicine, biochemistry and biotechnology. It indexes and
abstracts articles in 6,500 serials from over 100 countries and is produced
in the United States by BIOSIS
Also known as the Science Citation Index, The Web of Science is a
mutlidisciplinary database listing 20 million items from over 8000 journals.
Most items are in the Sciences, but it is also useful for the Social
Sciences, Arts & Humanities. Not as powerful as Scopus, but does provide
'times cited' links (including pre-1996 cites) for most articles.
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