Cellular biology (cytology)

This volume provides a brief resume of the history of testosterone research, from the early pioneers through to the most recent advances in the field.

Abiotic stress drastically limits agricultural crop productivity worldwide.

Current trends in population growth hint that global food production is unlikely to gratify future demands under predicted climate change scenarios unless the rates of crop improvement are accelerated.

Immuno Systems Biology aims to study the immune system in the more integrated manner on how cells and molecules participate at different system levels to the immune function.

Recent studies have shown that cells from adipose tissue are capable of trafficking to tumors, thus enabling paracrine action of adipokines from within the tumor microenvironment.

For a virus to invade a host cell it needs to penetrate the physical barrier imposed by the plasma membrane.

The discovery of microRNAs and its role as gene expression regulators in human carcinogenesis represents one of the most important scientific achievements of the last decade.

Colorectal cancer has for more than two decades served as the paradigm for the multi-step concept of cancer initiation and progression.

Stem Cell therapy for lysosomal diseases (LSDs) is developing rapidly.

Starting with discussion of basic concepts and the molecular mechanisms of necrosis, this book looks first at several forms of necrotic cell death that have been identified, including necroptosis, autophagic cell death, and PARP-mediated cell death.

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Angiogenesis has recently played a critical role in regulation of adipose tissue expansion and regression.

The global population is growing at an alarming rate and is anticipated to reach about 9.

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Defining and understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms that are relevant to women's health has become a critical area of scientific pursuit.

This book describes a half century of research on cellular membrane transport and on metabolic energy capture and utilization.

Exactly sixty years ago Schretzenmayer provided the first experimental proof that changes in blood ftow can affect the diameter oflarge arteries.

Studies of receptors, ion channels, and other membrane proteins require a solid understanding of the structural principles of these important biomolecules.

Advances in technology have revolutionized the development of light microscopy techniques in biomedical research, thus improving visualization of the microstructure of cells and tissues under physiological conditions.

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This next volume in our established series proposes to systematically review the basic science and clinical knowledge of the role of free radicals and antioxidants, collectively known as "e;oxidative stress"e;, in the pathology of arthritis and other joint diseases.

Prostate Cancer provides an up-to-date review of the biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetic changes in prostate cells that are the driving forces in the initiation and progression of cancer.

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Pancreatic cancer is a formidable disease, and advances in early detection and improved therapeutics have been slow to come forth.

This title will focus on the study of human interphase chromosomes and its relation to health and disease.

With the explosion of information on autophagy in cancer, this is an opportune time to speed the efforts to translate our current knowledge about autophagy regulation into better understanding of its role in cancer.

Systems Biomechanics of the Cell attempts to outline systems biomechanics of the cell as an emergent and promising discipline.

Endocytosis and vesicular trafficking determine the landscape of the cell's exterior, namely the density of surface molecules, such as receptors for growth factors and cytokines, adhesion molecules like integrins and cadherins, and a plethora of nutrient carriers.

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A key goal in the treatment of cancer is to achieve selective and efficient killing of tumor cells.

Environmental Toxicology provides a detailed, comprehensive introduction to this key area of sustainability and public health research.

Mesenchymal Stromal Cell (MSC) biology has been studied for more than 4 decades and the cells have been investigated for potential clinical applications for more than 15 years.

Stem cell technology is moving forward at a tremendous rate.

This Brief offers a concise, handy overview of the main concepts related to Embryology, revisited through the novel concepts that are applied daily in stem cell research and cell therapy oriented investigations.

Patient specific and disease specific stem cell lines have already introduced groundbreaking advances into the research and practice of ophthalmology.

This volume offers an analysis of the scale and nature of the immunological issues facing regenerative medicine, drawing on the expertise of laboratories around the world who have taken up the challenge of applying their expertise in immunology to the vagaries of stem cell biology.

In recent years, a number of groundbreaking structural and mechanistic studies deepened our understanding of helicase mechanisms and established new approaches for their analyses.

Multiple myeloma is a plasma cell malignancy characterized by complex heterogenous cytogenetic abnormalities that accounts for 1.

GW bodies are novel cytoplasmic foci that were discovered and named by Dr.

Photopigments are molecules that react to light and mediate a number of processes and behaviours in animals.

Developments in the area of biomaterials, bionanotechnology, tissue engineering, and medical devices are becoming the core of health care.

This book will describe the nuclear encoded genes and their expressed proteins of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation.

In multicellular organisms, communication between cells involves secretion of proteins that bind to receptors on neighboring cells.

Germ cells in sexually reproducing metazoa, through the germline lineage, are the route by which genetic material and cytoplasmic constituents are passed from one generation to the next in the continuum of life.

Systems Biology of Apoptosis summarizes all current achievements in this emerging field.

This volume documents this unique family of cell surface proteins.

Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics collects chapters on recent developments in global analysis of non-linear dynamical systems with a particular emphasis on cell mapping methods developed by Professor C.