Cell Fusion

• Cell Fusion.- Yeast Mating.- Cell Fusion in the Filamentous Fungus, Neurospora crassa.- Gametic Cell Adhesion and Fusion in the Unicellular Alga Chlamydomonas.- Cell Fusion in Caenorhabditis elegans.- Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila.- Mammalian Fertilization Is Dependent on Multiple Membrane Fusion Events*.- Molecular Control of Mammalian Myoblast Fusion.- Placenta Trophoblast Fusion.- Macrophage Fusion.- Cell Fusion Assays.- Cell Fusion Assays for Yeast Mating Pairs.- Ultrastructural Analysis of Cell Fusion in Yeast.- Isolation and In Vitro Binding of Mating Type Plus Fertilization Tubules From Chlamydomonas.- Optical Imaging of Cell Fusion and Fusion Proteins in C aenorhabditis elegans.- Ultrastructural Imaging of Cell Fusion in Caenorhabditis elegans.- Live Imaging of Drosophila Myoblast Fusion.- Ultrastructural Analysis of Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila.- A Genomic Approach to Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila.- Mesenchymal Cell Fusion in the Sea Urchin Embryo.- Sperm–Egg Fusion Assay in Mammals.- Quantitative Assays for Cell Fusion.- Fusion Assays and Models for the Trophoblast.- Methods to Fuse Macrophages In Vitro.

From the reviews: "The book was planned to serve as 'a comprehensive resource for anyone who is interested in this fascinating biological problem'. ... a useful resource for the beginners and for those colleagues that are already involved with cell fusion topics. ... the book is a very useful source on information, with a user-friendly format, for all scientists. ... The technologies employed are so well described that for sure it will be possible even to beginning students to enter the field ... ." (CarloAlberto Redi, European Journal of Histochemistry, Vol. 52 (4), December, 2008)