Diseases and disorders

Tending Adam's Garden describes and explains the way in which our immune system works from a novel perspective.

Stem cells are relatively undifferentiated cells which are the permanent lineage ancestor cells of tissues.

The book covers up-to-date information on nucleosides and antiviral chemotherapy contributed by the world experts in the field of nucleoside.

There is a need in small group teaching for a readable module that provides a balanced treatment of the four main areas of medical microbiology-bacteriology, mycology, virology and parasistology.

This text was developed with the practicing physician in mind, however, it will be of considerable interest to the virologist, pharmacologist, chemist and all scientists interested in antiviral agents.

Paul Ehrlich's Receptor Immunology: The Magnificent Obsession describes the background to Paul Ehrlich's immunological works and theories and delves into the substance of his experiments in great detail.

Mims' Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease is the landmark book in the field of infectious disease.

Pathology and Pathogenesis of Human Viral Disease is a comprehensive reference that examines virus-induced clinical disease of humans in the context of the responsible virus and its epidemiology.

Are infectious diseases caused by novel entities, viruses that have rapidly evolved into more pathogenic forms, or viruses that have crossed species divides and become more virulent in their alternative host?

The Second Edition of The Oncogene and Tumour Suppressor Gene FactsBook has been completely revised, updated, and expanded by 60%.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common newly diagnosed cancer among men in the United States today.

Novel Anticancer Agents offers pertinent basic science information on strategies used for the rational design and discovery of novel anticancer agents, and, in addition, translational studies involving clinical trial design and execution with these novel, mostly cytostatic agents.

A new scientific discipline, acknowledged 65 years after its discovery, was the focus of the first Conference on Neuroimmune Biology in Canada.

This comprehensive, authoritative treatise covers all aspects of mucosal vaccines including their development, mechanisms of action, molecular/cellular aspects, and practical applications.

This essential methods manual for immunohematologists (or hematologists and immunohematologists) provides information on genes that encode antigens on red blood cells, platelets and neutrophils.

Monoclonal Antibodies now have applications in virtually all areas of biology and medicine, and much of the world's biotechnology industry has its foundations in the exploitation of this technology.

This book and its companion, Volume I, concentrate on new procedures--especially those based on the new molecular methodology--developed within the past decade.

This book and its companion, Volume II, concentrate on new procedures--especially those based on the new molecular methodology--developed within the past decade.

Mast Cells and Basophils will be essential reading for immunologists, biochemists and medical researchers.

Because of its marked capacity to regenerate and the ability of chemical carcinogens and viruses to ready transform hepatocytes, the liver has been used extensively as a model for investigating the molecular mechanisms of cellular proliferation and carcinogenesis.

The Leukemia-Lymphoma Cell Line Factsbook represents an essential reference manual for all of the well-characterized leukemia-lymphoma cell lines currently available.

Infection and Autoimmunity encompasses the different mechanisms involved in the infection-autoimmunity association/induction.

Immunoregulation in Health and Disease, edited by Lukic, Colic, Mostarica-Stojkovic and Cuperlovic is a multi-authored volume covering the field of Immunoregulation, and will be essential reading for all researchers working in Immunology.

Platelets have long been the subject of much investigation in the areas of vascular physiology, biochemistry, immunology and physiopathology.

Immunopharmacology represents the boundary between the immune system and chemical mediators of the inflammatory and neuroendocrine responses.

Free radicals have been implicated in a entire host of different human disease states, which suggests that although they may not have a pivotal causal role, they are involved in the perpetuation of disease.

Immunology has progressed in spectacular fashion in the last four decades.

Immunoassays are among the most powerful and sensitive technologies now available for patient diagnosis and monitoring.

The Immune Response is a unique reference work covering the basic and clinical principles of immunology in a modern and comprehensive fashion.

Those entering the field of transplantation are frequently unaware of the topics historical roots and even of the background on which modern discoveries in tolerance, histocompabatibility antigens, and xenotransplantation are based.

This unique book provides a comprehensive and comparative guide to the immune systems of major vertebrate species, including domestic and wild animals of veterinary or medical interest, fish and amphibia.

Handbook of Animal Models of Infection is a complete revision of a three-volume text that was published in 1986.

Essentials of Mucosal Immunology presents basic concepts as well as new and exciting advances in mucosal immunology and inflammation, the development of mucosal vaccines, and the role of the immune system in mucosal disease.

Emerging Infections is the first volume of the new Biomedical Research Reports Series, which will provide annual updates on hot topics of interest to a broad spectrum of the biomedical research community.

The Complement FactsBook contains entries on all components of the Complement System, including C1q and Lectins, C3 Family, Serine Proteases, Serum Regulators of Complement Activation, Cell Surface Proteins, and Terminal Pathway Proteins.

From small beginnings in the early 1970s, the study of complement regulatory proteins has grown in the last decade to the point where it dominates the complement field.

How do you keep track of basic information on the proteins you work with?

This volume, the first of its kind ever, is designed to provide both laypersons and professionals with a detailed description of the occurrence of each common form of cancer in the ethnically, socially, and environmentally complex milieu of a modern urban complex.

Of the two disciplines in parallel development for two decades, tumor immunology and transplantation immunology, the latter has thrived and has led to some of the most critical discoveries in immunobiology.

This book is a direct result of 10 years of the well-known "e;Autoimmunity Days"e; in Israel, which are increasingly becoming an international focal point for autoimmunity scientists.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the cytokines from a pharmacological approach.

Completely revised and expanded, this second edition of The Cytokine FactsBook is the most up-to-date reference manual available for all current well-characterized interleukins, cytokines, and their receptors.

Bioconjugate Techniques is the essential guide to the modification and crosslinking of biomolecules for use in research, diagnostics, and therapeutics.

This volume is THE definitive, completely up-to-date, reference work for ALL researchers and clinicians working in autoimmunity.

Presenting further studies in the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease, this book brings together the knowledge accrued in the past decade concerning the role of immunity in the initiation and perpetuation of atherosclerosis.

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the Antiphospholipid syndrome.

This volume of Advances in Veterinary Medicine, derived in part from the First Veterinary Vaccines and Diagnostic Conferences, deals with vaccines, an especially active area of veterinary research and controversy.

The present volume is the first in the advances in oncobiology series.

Breast cancer research has never been in such an exciting and hopeful phase as today.

The underlying idea that cancer is a genetic disease at the cellular level was postulated over 75 years ago when Boveri hypothesised that the malignant cell was one that had obtained an abnormal chromatin content.