Diseases and disorders

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dipeptidyl Aminopeptidases, held September 26-28, 2002, in Berlin, Germany.

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Presents a sampling of new and novel approaches to the amelioration of musculoskeletal disease pathology, emphasizing prevention and therapy.

The book aims to provide an introduction to mathematical models that describe the dynamics of tumor growth and the evolution of tumor cells.

This book introduces the basics of cellular and molecular biology on a basic level including detailed explanations and examples.

This revised and updated new edition of a best-selling text remains a fast and convenient overview of the clinical trials in gynecologic cancer treatment, outlining the evidence base of treatment decisions in uterine, ovarian, cervical, and vulvar cancers, and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.

The aim of the book is to discuss the application of molecular pathology in cancer research, and its contribution in the classification of different tumors and identification of potential molecular targets, as well as how this knowledge may be translated into clinical practice, and the huge impact this field is likely to have in the next 5 to 10 years.

This volume evaluates the clinical patterns of resistance to sorafenib, the impact of trial design in the second-line setting and the current gold standard to define radiological resistance; describes the molecular mechanisms responsible for treatment resistance in HCC patients, including components of the immune system and tumor microenvironment; determines the role of the cancer stem cell phenotype in resistance; reviews the experimental models to study resistance; and addresses new approaches to overcome resistance to sorafenib, using successful examples from other malignancies.

This book provides a comprehensive review of diagnosis and treatments of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) for practitioners and researchers with an interest in this disease.

The field of immuno-oncology continues to rapidly evolve as new insights to fight and treat cancer emerge.

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.

In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.

This detailed book focuses on various aspects of Invariant Natural Killer T-Cells (iNKT), which are known to contribute to homeostasis and autoimmunity and can also cause various pathological responses such as allergy, infection, excessive autoimmune response, and cancer.

This book illustrates the significance of nanotechnology in the delivery of anticancer and antimicrobial drugs, biomimetic technologies, tissue engineering, sensing, diagnostics, and artificial enzymes.

The essential guide to controlling and managing today s communicable diseases The fourth edition of Communicable Disease Control and Health Protection Handbook offers public health workers of all kinds an authoritative and up-to-date guide to current protocols surrounding the identification and control of infectious diseases.

This book provides essential information on improving protein folding/stability, which is a result of the balance between the intra-molecular interactions of protein functional groups and their interactions with the solvent environment.

Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer offers people with cancer a means to bring mindfulness and kindliness into their lives, to help them cope with the challenge of a life-threatening illness.

There is no doubt that the advent of immunocytochemical techniques, by enhancing our ability to detect specific cell products or markers, has opened new avenues in the understanding of human diseases, and in our ability to perform better diagnosis in surgical pathology.

This book presents the theory of influenza and its imaging characteristics.

Oncology Book of 2011, British Medical Association's Medical Book Awards Awarded first prize in the Oncology category at the 2011 BMA Medical Book Awards, Monoclonal Antibody and Peptide-Targeted Radiotherapy of Cancer helps readers understand this hot pharmaceutical field with up-to-date developments.

This book provides a systematic review of the development, function, and patho-physiologic role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) in humans.

Non-linear phenomena pervade the pharmaceutical sciences.

When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease.

This book takes a holistic approach to the prevention and control of infectious diseases from enteric pathogens, covering different concepts and approaches to address these challenging diseases, with special emphasis on HIV and AIDS.

This book reviews the standard diagnostic and therapeutic management of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and examines ongoing research developments in the field.

Advances in Immunology presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology.

This volume explores novel concepts of pericyte biology.

This detailed volume focuses on the development of mycosis vaccines via the most common etiological agents of mycoses, such as Aspergillus and Candida species, followed by Cryptococcus, dimorphic fungi, and members of Mucoraceae family of fungi.

During the past decade a significant international research effort has been directed towards understanding the composition and regulation of the preocular tear film.

This textbook introduces in an engaging way the fundamentals of how pathogenic bacteria interact with, and are virulent within, the human host.

In Cancer and the Heart, third edition, Dr.

The three years since our last conference in San Francisco have again seen a dramatic expansion of the number of antivirals either licensed or in the late stages of clinical trials.

In den letzten Jahren ist weltweit eine deutliche Zunahme von Hautkrebs zu verzeichnen.

This book explains both the basic science and the applications of biotechnology-derived pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on their clinical uses.

This book covers basic research topics such as the structure-function relationships of neuropilins and mechanisms of neuropilin-mediated signal transduction, details the most important roles of the neuropilins in developmental biology, and addresses their roles in various conditions such as cancer and various eye diseases.

Birdkeeping is becoming increasingly popular, but could it threaten good health?

National expenditures for medical care in the months and days preceding death are enormous.

This book is a continuance of the topic: "e;DAMPs in Human Diseases"e;, the basics of which were described in a first volume by the same author.

This book summarizes our current knowledge of MDS, from very basic aspects to the clinical management.

DNA is under constant challenge from environmental and endogenous metabolic assaults.

Advances in Immunology

Lymph node pathology is a complex and rapidly evolving field that requires integration of morphologic findings with a number of ancillary studies, as well as clinical information, to diagnose neoplastic and non-neoplastic hematopoietic disorders.

The application of radiation to medical problems plays an ever-increasing role in diagnosis and treatment of disease.

The 20th century has finished, the century when surgery took huge steps forward thanks to progress in technology.

- El objetivo de esta serie de monografías, avaladas por la Sociedad Española de Inmunología (SEI), es presentar diversos temas vinculados a la inmunología clínica con un enfoque multidisciplinar que permita su utilización por parte de diversos especialistas clínicos.

What the General Practitioner Ought to Know about Human Actinomycosis focuses on infectious bacterial diseases caused by actinomyces species.