High Pressure Bioscience Basic Concepts, Applications and Frontiers
This volume covers both the basic concepts and theory of bio-macromolecules under pressure and the various frontiers in high-pressure bioscience and biotechnology. A century has passed since Bridgman discovered the irreversible coagulation of egg white by
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Kazuyuki Akasaka Hitoshi Matsuki Editors
High Pressure Bioscience Basic Concepts, Applications and Frontiers
Subcellular Biochemistry Volume 72
Series editor J. Robin Harris University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Editors Kazuyuki Akasaka Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences Kyoto Prefectural University Kyoto, Japan
ISSN 0306-0225 Subcellular Biochemistry ISBN 978-94-017-9917-1 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9918-8
Hitoshi Matsuki Department of Life System Institute of Technology and Science Tokushima University Tokushima, Japan
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Preface
One century ago, the coagulation of egg white by ap
