BioFactors

期刊简介：BioFactors, a journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is devoted to the rapid publication of highly significant original research articles and reviews in experimental biology in health and disease.The word “biofactors” refers to the many compounds that regulate biological functions. Biological factors comprise many molecules produced or modified by living organisms, and present in many essential systems like the blood, the nervous or immunological systems. A non-exhaustive list of biological factors includes neurotransmitters, cytokines, chemokines, hormones, coagulation factors, transcription factors, signaling molecules, receptor ligands and many more. In the group of biofactors we can accommodate several classical molecules not synthetized in the body such as vitamins, micronutrients or essential trace elements.In keeping with this unified view of biochemistry, BioFactors publishes research dealing with the identification of new substances and the elucidation of their functions at the biophysical, biochemical, cellular and human level as well as studies revealing novel functions of already known biofactors. The journal encourages the submission of studies that use biochemistry, biophysics, cell and molecular biology and/or cell signaling approaches.

【译文】《生物因子》是一本国际生物化学与分子生物学联合会的期刊，致力于快速发表在健康和疾病实验生物学领域具有高度重要性的原创研究文章和综述。‘生物因子’一词指的是调节生物功能的许多化合物。生物因子包括由生物体产生或修饰的许多分子，存在于许多重要系统中，如血液、神经系统或免疫系统。生物因子的非详尽列表包括神经递质、细胞因子、趋化因子、激素、凝血因子、转录因子、信号分子、受体配体等。在生物因子这一组中，我们可以容纳一些体内未合成的经典分子，如维生素、微量元素或必需微量元素。与这种统一的生物化学观点一致，《生物因子》发表关于新物质的鉴定及其在生物物理、生化、细胞和人体水平上功能的阐明的研究，以及揭示已知生物因子新功能的研究。该期刊鼓励提交使用生物化学、生物物理学、细胞和分子生物学以及/或细胞信号传导方法的研究。