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The present volume contains the Proceedings of an EMBO Workshop organized in June 1983 by the Institute of Virology, Veterinary Faculty, State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

This monograph contains the proceedings of a symposium entitled, "e;Tissue Hypoxia and Ischemia,"e; which was held at the Annenberg Center of the University of Pennsylvania on August 13 and 14, 1976.

The literature in microbial ecology is growing rapidly.

We are most gratified by the response to the initiation of this series of volumes presenting recent developments and new concepts in microbial ecology.

The substantial and impressive changes in microbial ecology can scarcely be chronicled in a meaningful fashion, and a review series such as Advances in Microbial Ecology can thus not do justice to the numerous studies that have been published in recent years.

Microbial ecology has come of age.

'You damn sadist/said mr cummings 'you try to make people think.

The field of bacterial genetics has been restricted for many years to Escherichia coli and a few other genera of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria such as Pseudomonas, Bacillus, and Salmonella.

a comprehensive and real picture of the complexities of ischemic heart disease, both to the person who deals in day to day practice with its problems, as well as to the This book presents a comprehensive picture of is- chemic heart disease to those who, either as practition- student and resident who tries to develop firm concepts ers or students, deal with the varied facets of this com- regarding the varied states observed in this common plex subject.

Study of the phenomena of bacterial adhesion to surfaces has accelerated considerably over the past 10 to 15 years.

Any branch of biology depends for its progress on the development of new concepts and to a lesser, but sometimes crucial, extent on the elimination of erroneous notions.

This compendium presents some of the major applications of neutron scattering techniques to problems in biology.

Fluorescence is a very powerful tool for work at the frontier of cell biology, photobiology and bioinstrumentation.

This book represents the fourth ina series of international conferences related to Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's (PO) diseases.

In Memoriam of Alfred S.

Principles of Insect Pathology, a text written from a pathological viewpoint, is intended for graduate-level students and researchers with a limited background in microbiology and in insect diseases.

Antibiotic resistance, once a term appreciated only by microbiologists, has become a common topic in the popular press.

Among the several modes of diagnostic testing for infections, serological (i.

Glycotechnology brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Over the past two years, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has begun a series of symposia to highlight the need for more integrative re- search to understand how ethanol alters behavior.

During the past few years, major scientific discoveries have greatly contributed to our understanding of the relationship between metals and genetics.

Twenty years ago when Children's Cancer Association of Japan was born, the diagnosis of childhood leukemia amounted to a death sentence.

This book, Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases 2, is an out- come of the Second International Rushmore Conference on Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Enteric Diseases, held September 3D-October 3, 1998 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.

In the course of history, humans have attempted to interrupt the physiological and psychological bond formed between a nursing mother and her child by substituting breastfeeding with artificial formulas.

The ability of neoplastic cells to survive exposure to various chemotherapeutic drugs represents the main obstacle to successful cancer chemotherapy.

What justifies the size of this compendium of reviews on the paramyxoviruses?

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the International Symposium on Medical Virology.

During recent years the subject of extreme environments and extremophiles has become a central topic in modern Biology.

These proceedings of the 5th Prouts Neck Meeting on Prostate Cancer, held in October, 1989, highlight the many advances in the understanding of prostatic growth and function at the cellular and molecular levels which have been registered since the first Prouts Neck Meeting in 1985, a meeting which also focused on the then current concepts and basic approaches to understanding prostate cancer.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "e;The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center: Structure, Spectroscopy, and Dynamics"e; was held May 10-15, 1992, in the Maison d'H6tes of the Centre d'Etudes Nuc1eaires de Cadarache near Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.

A very early step in microbial colonization and pathogenesis is that involving recog- nition of the host by the microbe.

Assembling the latest research by an international group of contributors, this volume covers the epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, and control measures of this elusive microorganism.

In this volume, a distinguished international group of contributors present the latest molecular, organismal, and epidemiological research on arenaviruses.

In the front material of this book both a foreword and a preface appear.

Coronaviruses represent a major group of viruses of both molecular biological interest and clinical significance in animals and humans.

This volume is based on the program of the Second International Conference on Drugs of Abuse, Immunity and AIDS, held in Clearwater Beach, FL in June 1992.

Binary systems for the treatment of cancer potentially are among the most attractive of the new therapeutic modalities that currently are under investigation.

Viruses, being obligatory parasites of their host cells, rely on a vast supply of cellular components for their replication, regardless of whether infection leads to cell death or to the state of persistence.

THE ERA OF ANTIVIRALS Introduction Although there are more than one hundred medically useful antibiotics and fungicides, there are only seven compounds licensed for use as antiviral agents, in the USA.

This volume is based on the Proceedings of the International Conference on "e;Microbial Infections: Role of Biological Response Modifiers"e; held in Tampa, FL, May 29-31, 1991.

Providing both historical background and recent advances, this series reviews in-depth the biologic, molecular, immunologic, and patholic features of this facinating virus family.

In the last three decades.

Blastomycosis remains the most enigmatic of human mycotic infections.

Fungal dimorphism is a topic that sounds inherently too rarified to attract more than a specialist audience.

The Association Internationale de Recherche sur la Circulation Osseuse, A.

Salmonella infections of man and animals continue to be a distressing health problem worldwide.

Kevin Marshall is a hard act to follow.

Lyme Borreliosis is a worldwide infectious disease causing a multisystem illness with considerable morbidity, particularly in North America and Europe.