Diseases and disorders

This volume describes the elaborate surveillance systems and various DNA repair mechanisms that ensure accurate passage of genetic information onto daughter cells.

Infection: Microbiology and Management provides a core resource for the understanding of medical microbiology and infectious diseases.

Hansen's disease (leprosy) is endemic in more than 100 countries worldwide, with over 200,000 new diagnoses each year and more than 4 million people living with some form of HD-related impairment.

The book thoroughly presents Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE), a procedure representing the standard of care for several clinical oncological indications.

            This book offers  comprehensive coverage of both basic and clinical aspects of immune reactions responsible for infertility.

For most women and their families, a diagnosis of breast cancer is both devastating and confusing.

The genus Chlamydia encompasses a number of species of obligate intracellular bacteria, including important human pathogens like the most common bacterial agent of sexually transmitted disease.

This book summarizes the potent effect of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) on the photoaging and cancer formation.

This book focuses on immune reactions and interactions of humans with Helicobacter pylori - a human pathogen connected to gastritis, peptic ulcers and even gastric cancer.

This teaching monograph on systems approaches to cancer research and clinical applications provides a unique synthesis, by world-class scientists and doctors, of laboratory, computational, and clinical methods, thereby establishing the foundations for major advances not possible with current methods.

Everything readers ever wanted to know about deadly viruses, killer parasites, flesh-eating microbes, and other lifethreatening beasties but were afraid to askWhat disease, known as "e;the White Death"e; has killed 2 billion people, and counting?

Endovascular embolization therapy has made remarkable progress during the past two decades, driven primarily by improvements in digital imaging, breakthroughs in microcatheter technology and coil design, and the development of new embolic materials.

';At last a book about chronic pain that covers every aspect of this huge issue.

Written by internationally known experts in the field, Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy examines one of the fastest-developing subspecialties within radiation oncology.

Radionuclide Tracer Techniques in Haematology present an extensive examination of the use of radionuclides in diagnostic medicine and in haematology.

Written by internationally renowned experts, the 3rd edition of this six volume textbook provides detailed practical guidance and advice on the diagnosis and management of the complete range of ocular cancers.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU.

This book serves to educate and train primary care clinicians to provide high quality care to patients across the cancer care continuum.

This book provides the latest information on fish lectins from the perspective of inflammation and presents new ideas on the complicated mechanisms of lectin biochemistry and associated interactions.

This contributed book focuses on the nursing care and considerations for the most common type of malignant brain tumours - gliomas, out of the 150 different types of brain tumours .

This book identifies the various ethical challenges that arise in pediatric hematology/oncology and provides the necessary tools to overcome these challenges.

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**Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award**'Superbly written with excellent insights.

This book addresses possible analogies between cancer and developmental biology.

This detailed new edition provides complete and easy access to a variety of antibody engineering techniques.

Immunology has become one of the most important of the life sciences.

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

ISPP2009, the 13th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, was held in Montreal, Canada, from August 9 to August 14.

This book presents recent advancements, challenges, and clinical implications of molecular biomarkers in various cancers.

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies.

Translational Advances in Gynecologic Cancers straddles the bench and bed divide by highlighting important and interesting research that is translatable to the clinic.

llergic Contact Dermatitis assesses the potential effects of xenobiotic metabolism and protein reactivity on toxicity.

In this monograph about gene therapy of autoimmune and inflammatory d- orders we have gathered international experts and leaders from different fields to review the state of the art advances on topics ranging from disease entities to vectors and engineered cells.

The resistance topic is timely given current events.

In A Case-Based Guide to Clinical Endocrinology, Second Edition, a renowned group of distinguished clinicians once again provides stimulating instruction and insights into a wide variety of endocrine topics, teaching readers modern management of the conditions described and offering targeted entry into the literature.

The discovery of ER by Dr.

Rabies is one of the oldest known pathogens, is incurable, and has the highest fatality rate of all infectious diseases.

This book provides clinicians with clear guidance on treatment decision-making in patients with rare kidney cancers.

Each year it is estimated that approximately 40,000 people in the U.

This Element presents a careful analysis and discussion of the potential benefit and harm of interventions in the immune system.

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine.

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.

During their lifetime, especially when growing and dividing, cells go through various steps of the cell cycle.

This book provides a unique overview of oncology nursing care in a new health environment, one in which oncology nurses play an increasingly important role.

Together with Consulting Editor Dr.

This volume provides a balanced and realistic review of the current state of glioblastoma, ranging from traditional histological review, molecular pathology of glioma, modern radiomics, neurosurgical focus, and integration of treatment plans by neuro-oncologists.

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

This latest book within the Management of Urology series provides a concise and up to date overview of all aspects of penile cancer care.