TY - BOOK ID - 107974060 TI - Extracellular Nucleic Acids AU - Kikuchi, Yo AU - Rykova, Elena Y AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2010 SN - 9783642126178 9783642126161 9783642126185 9783642264191 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Histology. Cytology KW - General biochemistry KW - biochemie KW - cytologie KW - histologie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:107974060 AB - Extracellular nucleic acids have recently emerged as important players in the fields of biology and the medical sciences. In the last several years, extracellular nucleic acids have been shown to be involved in not only microbial evolution as genetic elements but also to have structural roles in bacterial communities, such as biofilms. Circulating DNA and RNA have been found in human blood and expected to be useful as non-invasive markers for the diagnosis of several diseases. In addition, extracellular nucleic acids have attracted attention as active modulators of the immune system of higher organisms, including humans. This book covers nearly all of the newly developing fields related to extracellular nucleic acids, including those of basic biology, ecology and the medical sciences, and provides readers with the latest knowledge on them. ER -