Diseases and disorders

As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by which disease spread.

This volume aims to help new investigators to the field by providing them with the protocols needed to set up clinically relevant animal models of fungal infection, as well as methods for in vivo immunology.

The Video-Atlas of Pulmonary Sublobar Resections aims to be a reference multimedia book for Thoracic Surgeons.

The book presents guides to the diagnosis and management of Oral Submucous Fibrosis, and includes a concise update on the recent evidence on aetiology and aetiopathogenesis to educate the reader on the prevention of the disease.

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This volume explores computational vaccine design and the technologies that support it.

This third edition of the book offers an up-to-date review of Diabetes Mellitus with a focus on both Micro- and Macrovascular Disease.

This book is an extensive, evidence-based, in-depth review of all aspects of the frequent oral potentially malignant disorder Oral Lichen Planus, from the complex pathogenesis and differential diagnosis to therapeutic management.

Calories-too few or too many-are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world.

Despite advances in materials and sterilisation, patients who receive biomaterials of medical device implants are still at risk of developing an infection around the implantation site.

Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community.

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Gibs Odyssey is the true story of an extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo journey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrigs disease.

The book is a practical and concise guide to PET tracers actually useful for PET/CT and PET/MR imaging.

Volume 1: Strategies for Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Development deals with strategies of cancer vaccine development, focussing on the techniques for the development of therapeutic cancer vaccines and the role of tumor antigens, proteins/peptides, microbial genes, and stem cells for the development of vaccines for cancer management.

This volume details state-of-the- art methods on computer-aided antibody design.

This volume details a collection of laboratory protocols to study asthma in mice and humans.

This volume provides detailed methods on the mechanisms of underlying cancer cell biology.

This second edition provides new and updated methods and protocols for studying tumor angiogenesis in vitro and in vivo.

Advances in Immunology, a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology.

Cancer Treatment and the Ovary: Clinical and Laboratory Analysis of Ovarian Toxicity provides the reader with a basic understanding on how the ovary is adversely impacted by cancer treatment, an essential foundational knowledge for this rapidly-developing field.

Volume 79 of Advances in Virus Research focuses on developments surrounding rabies, an ancient disease that remains a prominent public health problem for humans.

Advances in Immunology, a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology.

Autophagy: Cancer, Other Pathologies, Inflammation, Immunity, Infection and Aging, Volume 4 - Mitophagy presents detailed information on the role of mitophagy, the selective autophagy of mitochondria, in health and disease, by delivering an in-depth treatment of the molecular mechanisms involved in mitophagy initiation and execution, as well as the role of mitophagy in Parkinson's Disease, cardiac aging, and skeletal muscle atrophy.

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is produced during pregnancy by the embryo.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

Evolution by Tumor Neofunctionalization explores the possibility of the positive role of tumors in evolution of multicellular organisms.

ABC Transporters and Cancer provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

Advances in Immunology, a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology.

Patients with brain tumor-related epilepsy (BTRE) suffer from two serious pathologies simultaneously - a brain tumor and a secondary form of epilepsy.

The Innate Immune System: A Compositional and Functional Perspective focuses on the components and functionality of the innate immune system, detailing how they work in their own right, and then progressing to cover their relevance to disease and how they interface with the adaptive response.

Immunopotentiators in Modern Vaccines, Second Edition, provides in-depth insights and overviews of the most successful adjuvants, those that have been included in licensed products, also covering the most promising technologies that have emerged in recent years.

Allergy, Immunity and Tolerance in Early Childhood: The First Steps of the Atopic March provides valuable insights on the atopic diseases, including asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, and food allergies, which have developed into major health problems in most parts of the world.

While many terms relate to One Health, the idea remains the same: to think outside a chosen area of specialty and work collaboratively as part of a team to improve health status around the world.

Hyperpolarized and Inert Gas MRI: Theory and Applications in Research and Medicine is the first comprehensive volume published on HP gas MRI.

Trichinella and Trichinellosis provides an up-to-date account of the nematode Trichinella spp.

Conquering RAS: From Biology to Cancer Therapy provides introductory knowledge on how modern RAS biology is taking shape in light of newer technological development.

Human Vaccines: Emerging Technologies in Design and Development discusses the advances in molecular biology, biophysics, and informatics-among other disciplines-that have provided scientists with the tools to create new vaccines against emerging and re-emerging pathogens.

Advances in Immunology, a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology.

The most authoritative guide to sonography in obstetrics and gynecology-now in full colorCompanion website includes images, case studies, and more Written by radiologists and ob/gyns to provide a balanced perspective, this standard-setting guide is both a clinically relevant reference text and atlas presented in full color for the first time.

"e;Natural Immunity"e; is a broadly-based account of the activities of the evolutionarily conserved molecules, cells and processes of the natural immune system.

Oncogenomics: From Basic Research to Precision Medicine offers a thorough survey of precision medicine and its diagnostic and therapeutic applications in oncology.

Essential Evidence-Based Data for Common Clinical Encounters"e;This is very useful for providers who desire a fast review of fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base disorders without asking for in-depth information.

First published in 1963, Advances in Parasitology contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews in all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology.

Celiac Disease and Gluten: Multidisciplinary Challenges and Opportunities is a unique reference work-the first to integrate the insights of the causes and effects of celiac disease from the chemistry of reaction-causing foods to the diagnosis, pathogenesis, and symptoms that lead to proper diagnoses and treatment.

This work is the first book-length publication on the topic of insect immunology since 1991, complementing earlier works by offering a fresh perspective on current research.

Introduction to Cancer Metastasis provides, in one place, an overview of organ-specific cancer metastasis and the most common sites of cancer metastasis.

Molecular Diagnostics covers current molecular biological techniques used to identify the underlying molecular defects in inherited disease.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Exosomes in Cancer evaluates the potential of exosome content manipulation in the development of novel therapeutics.

More than 30 newly emerged microorganisms and related diseases have been discovered in the past 20 years.