Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and General Aspects / Gerhard Michal, Dietmar Schomburg -- The Cell and Its Contents / Gerhard Michal, Dietmar Schomburg -- Metabolism / Röbbe Wünschiers, Martina Jahn, Dieter Jahn, Ida Schomburg, Susanne Peifer, Elmar Heinzle, Helmut Burtscher, Julia Garbe, Annika Steen, Max Schobert, Dieter Oesterhelt, Josef Wachtveitl, Antje Chang -- Protein Biosynthesis, Modifications and Degradation / Martina Jahn, Dieter Jahn, Röbbe Wünschiers, Stefan Ries, Petra Dersch -- Viruses / Klaus Klumpp -- Transport / Wilhelm Just, Horst Klima, Gerhard Michal -- Signal Transduction and Cellular Communication / Gerhard Niederfellner -- Immune System / Ernst Peter Rieber, Anton Haselbeck -- Blood Coagulation and Fibrinolysis / Peter Müller -- Biochemical Networks, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology / Dietmar Schomburg,

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