Publisher's Synopsis
The multifarious role of polyamines in controlling metabolic processes is well known and documented, as shown by the increase in the literature in the last decade. Specialized international meetings take place in several parts of the world to report and discuss progress in different studies on polyamines. This volume derives from an Argentine-Japanese Joint Seminar, held in Buenos Aires in April 1989, with the participation of scientists from Argentina, Japan, United States, Finland, Sweden, Israel, Italy and England.;The contributions presented here show the current focus of research in aspects of the biology and chemistry of polyamines, and thus enable further progress in the understanding of the multiple roles of these polycations to be made. Topics for presentation included the involvement of polyamines in metabolic regulation, mammolian cell growth and differentiation, the role of polyamines in micro-organisms and viruses and the design of polyamine analogues.;Polyamines play a vital role in normal cellular development and disease and the work presented here will be of interest to researchers in molecular biology, pharmacology, microbiology and oncology.
