Medical equipment and techniques

In 1898, an Austrian microbiologist Heinrich Winterberg made a curious observation: the number of microbial cells in his samples did not match the number of colonies formed on nutrient media (Winterberg 1898).

If you wish to grow or characterize embryonic stem cells or persuade them to differentiate into a particular cell type, then this book contains information that is vital to your success.

This book highlights selected current data and its relevance in the human health care system, offering a fundamental primer on genetics and human health.

Medicinal Chemistry of Neglected and Tropical Diseases: Advances in the Design and Synthesis of Antimicrobial Agents consolidates and describes modern drug discovery and development approaches currently employed to identify effective chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) from a medicinal chemistry perspective.

The second edition volume expands on the previous edition with new and updated chapters on the latest methods used for studying presentation of antigenic peptides produced in the standard processing pathways for MHC class I and II molecules.

The text features experimental investigations which use a variety of modern methods and theoretical modeling of surface structures and physicochemical processes which occur at solid surfaces.

Research in the area of chemical and biochemical sensors and the development of respective applications is still growing rapidly.

Drug Discovery and Development, Third Edition presents up-to-date scientific information for maximizing the ability of a multidisciplinary research team to discover and bring new drugs to the marketplace.

This book is based on Hans Zahner's Biologie der Antibiotica, published in 1965.

Current thinking holds that obesity derives primarily from overnutrition (though compelling arguments for other mechanisms, like endocrine disruption by environmental pollutants, also gain support from the literature).

This book's aim is to study the mathematical and computational models to analyze the progress, prognosis, prevention, and panacea of breast cancer.

Concise handbook discussing benefits and pitfalls of clinical information systems in the ICU, offering advice for local implementation and problem-solving.

This second edition volume expands on the previous editions with updates on the commonly used techniques and analysis used by clinicians and scientists to study diabetes.

This is the fourth edition of an acclaimed introductory textbook on the structure and function of human chromosomes.

This volume presents all aspects of delivery of oxygen to tissues and tumors in peer reviewed short articles.

Biomedical Psychiatric Therapeutics presents the basic principles of biomedical psychiatric therapeutics.

After the discovery of milk fat globule-epidermal growth factor-factor 8 (MFG-E8) about two decades ago, a new era of delineating its potential beneficial role in several inflammatory diseases has begun to spout from the bench to translational research.

Pain Analysis: A Guide to Diagnosis describes the morphology of pain receptors.

New nanomaterials are leading to a range of emerging dental treatments that utilize more biomimetic materials that more closely duplicate natural tooth structure (or bone, in the case of implants).

This edited volume focuses on the interplay between sleep and circadian rhythms with health, aging and longevity.

For more than a century, bioactive heterocycles have formed one of the largest areas of research in organic chemistry.

This book deals with energetics of transport processes, largely expressed in terms of the thermodynamics of irreversible pro- cesses.

Sample Sizes for Clinical Trials, Second Edition is a practical book that assists researchers in their estimation of the sample size for clinical trials.

This exhaustive work shows that new therapies using anti-angiogenic drugs are of particular importance because they can be used against many different types of cancer, as tumor angiogenesis seems to be involved in most if not all solid metastasizing malignancies.

Cancer occurs in specific places and spaces, each of which have identifiable geographic coordinates, characterized by unique natural, built and social characteristics, all of which contribute significantly to cancer across the spectrum from etiology through diagnosis, treatment and outcomes.

Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue of our body.

The biotechnology business in India with an increase from USD 500 million in 1997 and reaching an estimated USD I billion next year health related prod ucts accounting for 60%, agro and veterinary products together 15%, and con tract R&D, reagents, devices and supplies adding up to the remaining 25% of which the diagnostics share was about 10% of the total surely presented an encouraging picture even five years ago.

This brilliant guide to medical informatics is an easy to read overview of the basic concepts of information and communication technologies in healthcare.

In the first volume, Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics, the authors lay down a foundation for biophysics study.

Animal models play crucial roles in the continuum of experimental activities that make up biomedical research.

This book highlights the latest research presented at the International Conference on Translational Medicine and Imaging (ICTMI) 2017.

The isolation and structural characterization of substances present at very low concentrations, as is necessary to satisfy regulatory requirements for pharmaceutical drug degradants and impurities, can present scientific challenges.

This book examines applications of multi-omics approaches for understanding disease etiology, pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions.

The "e;Atlas Effectors of Anti-Tumor Immunity"e; is a unique scientific publication, which includes major issues of up-to-date information about immunophenotype, morphology and function of main effectors of anti-tumor immunity presented in a reasonable format.

The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO Dr.

This textbook takes you from the very first time you open MATLAB(R) through to a position where you can comfortably integrate this computer language into your research or studies.

dieser neue Zellbio-EXPERIMENTATOR stellt die wichtigsten Grundlagen im Bereich Zellbiologie vor und erklärt moderne Techniken, die in diesem Forschungsfeld ihre Anwendung finden.

The combination of faster, more advanced computers and more quantitatively oriented biomedical researchers has recently yielded new and more precise methods for the analysis of biomedical data.

This book discusses managing SOPs for GCP from conception to retirement.

We proudly present the first book to integrate all aspects of purinergic signaling in the respiratory system.

About 8000 clinical trials are undertaken annually in all areas of medicine, from the treatment of acne to the prevention of cancer.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that robs the minds of our elderly population.

Mechanical Behaviour of Biomaterials focuses on the interface between engineering and medicine, where new insights into engineering aspects will prove to be extremely useful in their relation to the biomedical sciences and their applications.

This COSPAR Colloquium Series deals with the main achievements that were accomplished through the collaborative efforts among ISTP participants; the plasma dynamics of magnetic reconnection in a thin plasma sheet, the action of the solar wind on the plasma population in the plasma sheet and around the magnetotail boundary layer, the relationship between the substrom expansion region and the X-line formation in the magnetotail, and the temporal evolution of the dipolarization from from the near-Earth to the distant tail.

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been used with increasing frequency in recent years to study the surface mor- phology of normal, transformed and malignant leukocytes.