Stephen Patrick Schaffer

Stephen Schaffer

Stephen Schaffer is a film editor who has worked on several films produced by Pixar. At the 59th American Cinema Editors Awards, he won an ACE Award for...

Taurine 7 (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) is an enigmatic compound abounding in animal tissues. It is present at relatively high concentrations in all electrically excitable tissues such as brain, sensory organs, heart, and muscle, and in certain endocrine glands. Some of its physiological functions are ...

Taurine 5: Beginning the 21st Century (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

The Taurine Symposium- "Taurine: Beginning the 21'' Century"- was held September 20-23, 2002, on the beautiful island of Kauai in Hawaii. The headquarters of the meeting was the Radisson Kauai Beach Resort. This international meeting was attending by approximately 80 individuals from 23 nations and ...

T-type Calcium Channels in Basic and Clinical Science

T-type calcium channels are prevalent in every organ of the body, and are believed to play a part in a variety of physiological processes, including contraction, shape change, secretion, endo- and exocytosis, cell proliferation and differentiation, modulation of enzyme function, and cell cycle progr...

Taurine 9 (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Taurine 9 contains original articles and critical reviews based on the oral and poster presentations of XIX International Taurine Meeting held in Kraków, Poland in May 2014. The purpose of the book is to present current ideas, new avenues and research regarding biological functions and clinical appl...

Taurine: Nutritional Value and Mechanisms of Action (Language of Science) (No. 1)

Proceedings of the Waltham Symposium on Taurine and Cat Nutrition, held October 1991, and of the International Taurine Symposium: New Dimensions on its Mechanisms of Action, held October 1991, in Orange Beach, Alabama. The single biggest factor in elucidating the many functions of taurine in the las

Taurine: Nutritional Value and Mechanisms of Action (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

The underlying philosophy of these two symposia on taurine remains the same as all those that have been held previously: the best way to remain current in the subject matter is to talk directly with the investigators at the forefront of the field. Thus, we brought together some 50 individuals from 1...

Mitochondria: The Dynamic Organelle (Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease)

This book is indispensable to researchers in fields as diverse as Molecular Biology and Biophysics. It covers the important role that mitochondria play in a variety of biochemical spheres. It analyses how mitochondria affect metabolic pathways, how they are active in the regulation of cytosolic cons...

Taurine: Nutritional Value and Mechanisms of Action

Taurine 5: Beginning the 21st Century

Mitochondria: The Dynamic Organelle