Diseases and disorders

This book provides a comprehensive overview of and state-of-art information on the production and application of second- and third-generation bioplastics, such as polylactic acid (PLA) and polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs).

Diabetic complications, which occur both acutely and on a chronic basis, are an enormous challenge facing doctors at every level of care.

Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each.

This book in the two volume set provides comprehensive coverage on how microbial pathogens can subvert our immune system into responding against self and resulting into autoimmune diseases.

This volume details protocols that broadly cover many aspects of basic and translational research on Borrelia burgdorferi.

Now in its second edition, this bestselling title has been extensively revised and expanded to include new topics on:obesity and breast cancerinduction of anti-hormone and anti-growth factor resistance in breast cancerclinical implications of testosterone and breast cancerinsulin-like growth factorsdiscussions on the biological, genetic, and molecu

Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach is a textbook designed to reflect the principles and current practice of oncology with contributors from the fields of medical, surgical, and radiation oncology.

This volume explores immune cell receptors that are used in the detection of microbes, either by binding directly to non-self molecules or through indirectly sensing microbe-associated cellular disturbances.

Illuminating the Diversity of Cancer and Palliative Care Education examines a myriad of original approaches, techniques, methods, educational strategies and imaginative innovations within this vital field of medicine.

This book describes in detail the most up-to-date designs and fabrication techniques for nanomedicines toward effective cancer therapy, while especially emphasizing the biological interaction of nanomedicines at the cellular level, through comprehensive and visual cutting-edge technologies.

The current age of clinical medicine is witnessing biotechnological innovation at an unprecedented pace.

This book provides the current state of knowledge of basic mechanisms of adverse drug reactions (ADRs).

For undergraduates taking introduction courses in communication sciences and disorders.

This book focuses on the pathological diagnosis of primary hepatic and bile duct tumors, and introduces the "e;Three Types and Six Sub-types"e; classification of hepatobiliary tumors.

"e;HPV and Cancer"e; is a concise read that covers all aspects of the Human Papilloma Virus as it relates to human cancers.

Advances in Immunology, Volume 160, the latest release in a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments and comprehensive reviews in immunology.

This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts.

With chapters from globally recognized academics, General Radiography shows the multifaceted approach to general radiography and how it enhances healthcare delivery.

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.

The opening study included in West Nile Virus: Outbreaks, Control and Prevention Strategies aims to design and implement an efficient data-driven agent-based model of West Nile virus spread, considering highly-mobile humans with a high level of heterogeneous properties.

Der vorliegende Band vermittelt einen interdisziplinären und deshalb auf seine Art ungewöhnlichen Überblick über neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, Störfaktoren und die praktisch-therapeutische Beeinflußbarkeit des Ökosystems Darm.

Alfred Döblin hat die literarische Avantgarde des frühen 20.

Cancer is a collection of diseases that can affect basically every organ of our body, all of which have in common uncontrolled cellular growth.

Pediatric oncology is a considerably complex discipline requiring frequent need for reference material.

In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an autism alarm, estimating that one in 150 children may be affected by autism spectrum disorder.

Down the ages, war epidemics have decimated the fighting strength of armies, caused the suspension and cancellation of military operations, and have brought havoc to the civil populations of belligerent and non-belligerent states alike.

The aim of this book is to provide comprehensive overview of the role of different tyrosine kinases in the progression and metastasis of various cancers of the gastrointestinal tract such as esophagus, liver, pancreas, stomach, and colorectal.

This year, six million Americans--most of them women--will go to their doctors, complaining of an illness they have no name for.

Histamine is an important mediator of allergic diseases, but knowledge of histamine as a cause of numerous non-allergic symptoms and signs is limited.

This is an up-to-date and comprehensive handbook that presents a wealth of information on the different aspects of one of the largest dipterous family, Culicidae (mosquitoes).

This book is a logical companion volume to Women at High Risk to Breast Cancer (Kluwer, 1989) edited by me previously.

The book comprehensively reviews and provides detailed insight into the cellular and molecular signalling mechanisms involved in pathophysiology of various respiratory diseases, towards developing effective therapeutic strategies in the management and treatment of lung disease.

International migration afflicts nearly every corner of the globe, from the Americas, Europe and North Africa, and adjoining countries in South Asia.

The International Society for Gender Medicine: History and Highlights is about a major step in the improvement of quality in medicine, namely the long overdue understanding that women are different from men in every system of the body and may require different approaches in diagnosis and treatment.

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

This book provides a state-of-the-art compendium on the role of proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans during development and in cancer.

Following the Third Alcohol and Cancer Conference, this volume compiles the most up-to-date research on the role of alcohol consumption in carcinogenesis, from epidemiology to pathology metabolism and stem cells.

This book provides up-to-date, clinically relevant information on a range of complex issues relating to supportive care strategies for the recipients of hematopoietic cell transplantation.

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Pneumonia (along with influenza) is the sixth leading cause of death in adults.

Prostate brachytherapy has been the subject of heated debate among surgeons and the proponents of the various brachytherapy methods.

The dominant role of the immune system in managing homeostasis of distinct normal tissues and in stimulating cancer growth in regenerative medicine for gonadal infertility and aging diseases, effective immunotherapy without adverse events of inoperable epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs), and long-lasting cancer immune prophylaxis are reported.

The field of oncology benefits from several large-scale reference books and a host of monographs dedicated to specific cancers.

There hasn't been a book concerning "e;Microscopically Controlled Surgery"e; published and it is vital to publish a book that details all the different terms and methodology used in microscopically controlled surgery.

The 1st Edition of Histopathology of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas, written in col- laboration with Professor H.