Diseases and disorders

This comprehensive volume explores the latest research on the mechanisms of resistance in cancer cells to CTL-mediated immunotherapy.

Severe Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa emphasizes controversies worldwide in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and pathogenesis of pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.

This book reviews the brilliant progress made in the past three decades in clinical outcomes for osteosarcoma patients treated with a multidisciplinary approach, including limb-salvage surgery combined with neoadjuvant multidrug chemotherapy and aggressive management of pulmonary metastasis.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated neurodegenerative disorder of the human central nervous system (CNS) which usually affects young adults with certain genetic backgrounds who are then exposed to certain precipitating environmental antigen(s).

This monograph equips clinicians with the knowledge required to detect oral cancer at the earliest possible stage while simultaneously inspiring researchers to work on novel methods of detection.

This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio- medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate system of cells and molecular moieties derived from those cells which constitute the RES.

The 2009 H1N1 pandemic tested the limits of the public health emergency preparedness systems in the US and abroad.

The aim of this book is to provide readers with a wide overview of the main healthcare-associated infections caused by bacteria and fungi able to grow as biofilm.

Protozoa and Human Disease is a textbook on medically important protozoa and the diseases they cause for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals.

Anaerobic Infections in Humans focuses on the human diseases caused by anaerobic bacteria.

This book describes the demographic and clinical patterns of Zika infection and evaluates the risk of it spreading to Europe.

The Golgi Apparatus: The First 100 Years traces the first 100 years of Golgi apparatus discovery from the first published accounts from Pavia, Italy in 1898 to the Centenary Celebration in Pavia, Italy in 1998 and into the decade beyond.

The use of recreational drugs of abuse by large numbers of individuals in this country and abroad has aroused serious concerns about the consequences of this activity.

This book outlines, from a surgeon's standpoint, how physicians and mid-level providers working at wound care centres can expeditiously and effectively manage wounds.

The chapters in this volume describe a powerful emerging approach for the therapy of disease.

In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health.

This volume highlights current research on how the neuroendocrine system helps to influence emotional states and ultimately behavioral output.

The definitive and scholarly history of the modern era of epilepsy, covering its medical, scientific, societal and personal aspects.

This textbook explains the fundamental aspects of nanotechnology and fills the gap between bio-inspired nanotechnological systems and functionality of living organisms, introducing new insights to their physicochemical, biophysical and thermodynamic behaviour.

Growth activity of brain tumors, metabolism of brain tumors,brain tumors and cytokines, drug resistance of brain tumors,oncogenes and anti-oncogenes, basic studies in brain tumorbiology and therapy are presented in this book.

Organ transplantation has been the most important therapeutic advance in the last third of the 20th century.

This volume intends to contribute to "e;translational medicine and biology"e;.

This book discusses the principles, methods, and applications of immunogold-silver staining (IGSS) to biomedical areas.

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research, presenting outstanding and original reviews on a variety of topics.

During the past few decades, it has become increasingly apparent that heredity is not the sole determining factor in disease development, such as cancer.

This book provides insight into the various immunotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of lung cancers.

This volume comprehensively focuses on amenorrhea, one of the most important diseases in gynecology, affecting women from puberty to menopause.

Ovarian cancer is the commonest gynaecological malignancy.

The book is based on lectures presented on the International Summer School on Biophysics held in Croatia in September 2009.

Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the US and the third most recently linked to cancer deaths.

The Metabolic Syndrome is a valuable reference text, covering all aspects of the metabolic syndrome and its constituent diseases including inflammation, oxidation and adipocytokines.

This book, unique in focusing specifically on cardiac masses, is the result of cooperation among a number of teams of radiologists working under the aegis of the French Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (SFICV).

The handbook comprehensively reviews the therapeutic potential of stem cells and stem cell secretome-based cell-free strategies in regenerative medicine.

Biological DNA Sensor defines the meaning of DNA sensing pathways and demonstrates the importance of the innate immune responses induced by double stranded DNA (dsDNA) through its influencing functions in disease pathology and immune activity of adjuvants for vaccines.

This book is a review and high-yield reference on the clinical molecular diagnostics of malignant neoplasms.

This monograph gives an excellent review of the issue of antimicrobial prophylaxis in urol- ogy and the use of the new fluoroquinolones in urology.

Measles is still the cause of disease and even death around the world, and with the modern widespread travel around the globe, it can be spread from one site to another with ease.

Cancer is a complex disease process that spans multiple scales in space and time.

This book focuses on malignant melanoma, discussing the current state of scientific knowledge and providing insights into the underlying basic mechanisms, the molecular changes, genetics and genomics.

Samen werken aan perspectief beschrijft een praktisch bruikbare methode voor het werken met jeugdigen die opgenomen zijn in een behandelgroep en hun ouders.

The 4th edition of Drug Interactions in Infectious Diseases is being split into two separate volumes - "e;Mechanisms and Models of Drug Interactions"e; and "e;Antimicrobial Drug Interactions"e;.

Advances in Immunology, Volume 147, the latest release in a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments and comprehensive reviews in immunology.