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Most medical students look askance at thermobiology. We think this is a mistake hence, we have included a section dealing with this subject. This brings us to the chapter on the heat shock response which at the very outset makes clear that many stressors besides heat are known to result in heat shock gene expression. Many of the heat shock proteins occur in unstressed cells and some of them behave as chaperones. These proteins also reach high levels in a wide range of diseases... 

Informed consent and experimental procedures were consistent with the Declaration of Helsinki All volunteers were in good health except an elderly subject who was studied because he had gluten enteropathy All volunteers living in the metabolic unit were fed constant mixed diets prepared from conventional foods All subjects were chaperoned when they left the metabolic unit to prevent ingestion of unauthorized foods or loss of excreta samples ... 

Figure 5 Proteomics reveals functional secretory vesicle protein systems for neuropeptide biosynthesis, storage, and secretion. Chromaffin secretory vesicles (also known as chromaffin granules) were isolated and subjected to proteomic analyses of proteins in the soluble and membrane components of the vesicles. Protein systems in secretory vesicle function consisted of those for 1) production of hormones, neurotransmitters, and neuromodulatory factors, 2) generating selected internal vesicular conditions for reducing condition, acidic pH conditions maintained by ATPases, and chaperones for protein folding, and 3) vesicular trafficking mechanisms to allow the mobilization of secretory vesicles for exocytosis, which uses proteins for nucleotide-binding, calcium regulation, and vesicle exocytosis. These protein systems are coordinated to allow the secretory vesicle to synthesize and release neuropeptides for cell-cell communication in the control of neuroendocrine functions.

Dainiak MB, Izumrudov VA, Muronetz VI, Mattiason B. Conjugates of monoclonal antibodies with polyelectrolyte complexes—an attempt to make an artificial chaperone. Biochim Biophysica Acta—General Subject 1998 1381(3) 279-285. 

Reactions in solutions are very important in chemistry the solvent plays a crucial role in these processes. For example, trapping reactive species in a solvent cage on the reaction time-scale can enhance bond formation. The solvent may also act as a chaperone , stabilizing energetic species. Studies in solvent environments have only become possible recently, with the advent of ultrafast lasers, which allowed the investigation of the solvation dynamics (in real time), a subject that will be covered briefly in this part. 

Counseling Program" and asked students if they would be willing to chaperone juveniles on a trip to the zoo. Most of the students (16.7 percent) refused, but the researchers got 50 percent compliance when they preceded this minor request with a major one—to serve as counselors for juvenile delinquents for two hours a week over a two-year period. When the researchers accepted the subjects refusal of their extreme request and retreated to a more reasonable one, one-half of the subjects apparently felt obligated to reciprocate and agree to the less demanding favor. 

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