Diseases and disorders

The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers.

Model Programs for Adolescent Sexual Health is a directory of the most promising and proven effective sexual education and prevention programs in the United States.

COVID-19 Viral Sepsis: Impact on Disparities, Disability, and Health Outcomes introduces the concepts of viral sepsis, its origins, and its implications.

Janice Post-White was an oncology nurse who thought she knew what life with cancer was about--until her four-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia.

Research is fast paced and advances in RNA interference have recently opened up new opportunities for genetic experiments in human cell lines.

This book is a timely reference text that highlights the role of vaccination in the fast-growing aquaculture industry.

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

Biosecurity in the Age of Synthetic Biology is a comprehensive review of the biosecurity issues faced by the innovative and rapidly evolving field of synthetic biology.

This new edition explores lab protocols describing new techniques to study cytotoxic T-cells (CTLs), as well as chapters of a more general discursive nature, all with an emphasis on the use of systems biology in immunology.

This book covers the wide range of malignant illness and where they intersect with environmental factors.

"e;Whether you are struggling to lose weight, optimize hormones, reverse autoimmunity or heal anxiety and depression [Dr.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Paediatric Respiratory Medicine Second edition remains the first point of reference for those faced with treating acute or chronic respiratory problems.

With a particular emphasis on tumor dormancy in breast, lung, prostate, and liver cancers, as well as in melanoma, this first volume of a new Springer series focuses on the interrelationship between biological processes of aging and tumors-both dormant and quiescent.

, Adrenal and Endocrine Tumors in Children' is the third volume in the series, 'Cancer Treatment and Research' devoted to pediatric oncology.

This superbly illustrated atlas serves as a basic introduction to contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), a breakthrough functional breast imaging modality, which is rapidly growing.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.

Nrf2, a transcription factor that mediates transcriptional responses to oxidative and xenobiotic stresses, plays a central role in cellular protection against internal or external toxins.

This text provides a concise yet comprehensive review of GI tract complications of HIV infection.

China's concentrated HIV epidemic is on the brink of becoming a generalized one and syphilis infection has become a major public health threat.

The idea to compile recent results on the ectoenzymes aminopeptidase N/CD13 and dipeptidylpeptidase IV/CD26 arose from the great interest given by readers world-wide to the two proceedings volumes edited by us in 1997 and 2000 (Ansorge and Langner, 1997; Langner and Ansorge, 2000).

Sjogren's Syndrome: Novel Insights in Pathogenic, Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects provides the reader with an overview of current knowledge about Sjogren's Syndrome.

Insights into the regulation of immune cell lineage differentiation and specification as well as into the control of lineage integrity, stability and plasticity are of fundamental importance to understanding innate and adaptive immune responses.

The number of diagnosed cases of primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) - a group of inborn disorders of the immune system - is growing rapidly, but misdiagnosis or late diagnosis still occurs in a significant number of patients, with serious consequences.

In the present monograph, we offer current insights into polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arthritis.

Responding to public health challenges at the global and local levels can give rise to an array of tensions.

In sechs Kapiteln werden die Grundlagen des menschlichen Proteinstoffwechsels, neueste Erkenntnisse über die bei verschiedenen Krankheitsbildern auftretenden Stoffwechselveränderungen und die daraus resultierenden Kriterien bezüglich der Wahl geeigneter Nahrungsproteine für eine adäquate klinische Ernährung vermittelt.

Cancer-causing viruses, also called oncoviruses, play a key role in the development of certain cancers.

Air Pollution and Human Cancer analyzes the evidence for the possible contribution of air pollution to the origin of human cancer.

Books mark the progress of Man since they were invented.

The Human Body: Linking Structure and Function provides knowledge on the human body's unique structure and how it works.

This easy-to-read title provides a comprehensive discussion of the major changes in daily life that have led to states of increased bodily inflammation.

This innovative book provides a unique perspective on the biomedical and societal implications of personalized medicine and how it will help mitigate the healthcare crisis and rein in ever-growing expenditure.

This comprehensive reference expounds the current state of hormone therapy and castration resistance of prostate cancer (PCa).

The volume provides a comprehensive overview of methods that have been developed for the study of Tfh and Tfr biology in mice, and in different human diseases.

This book aims to facilitate readers to understand the origin, growth pattern and relationship between tumor and adherent structure of craniopharyngioma, so as to improve the cure rate and safety of surgery.

Neuroblastoma is the single most common solid tumor of childhood.

Environmental Hygiene II deals with the evaluation of environmental pollutants and their relevance to human health.

Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plantsand the pathogens they carryto travel more easily than ever before.

Psychoneuroimmunology has emerged as a discipline advancing our knowledge of the relationships among psychosocial factors, the central nervous system, the immune system, and disease.

Awarded a 2012 American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Award in the Consumer Health CategoryOne Man's Life-Changing Diagnosis provides a comprehensive patient's eye view of the clinical, emotional, relational and spiritual experience of prostate cancer from the time of first symptoms to diagnosis to treatment and to living as survivor with an advanced cancer that can return at any time.

The Antibodies presents models, theories, and techniques of molecular biology for understanding the mechanisms of antibody action, including the genetics, and receptor and channel action.