Medical equipment and techniques

This volume discusses the latest approaches used to investigate molecular biology and physiology in the peripheral and central olfactory system.

This book addresses the stabilization of vaccine powders by spray drying and provides an overview of the current state of the art on a laboratory and industrial scale.

That residues of pesticide and other "e;foreign"e; chemicals in foodstuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "e;Residue Reviews"e; and by the gratifying en- thusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the individuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited.

The book presents the latest advances in research into health effects of air pollution, with heavy motor vehicle traffic or cigarette smoke as the exemplar of pollution.

Despite recent advances in medical devices using other materials, metallic implants are still one of the most commercially significant sectors of the industry.

The purpose of this book is to provide information which supports the fact that rat hybridomas are no more difficult to develop than mouse hybridomas.

The book provides a thorough examination of the crucial connection between diet, cognitive aging, and dementia using a multidisciplinary approach.

Nanotechnology-Enhanced Orthopedic Materials provides the latest information on the emergence and rapid development of nanotechnology and the ways it has impacted almost every aspect of biomedical engineering.

Improved technology for imaging living cells, specific cellular targets and organelles is having a dramatic impact on basic and applied research.

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

Principles of Biostatistics, Third Edition is a concepts-based introduction to statistical procedures that prepares public health, medical, and life sciences students to conduct and evaluate research.

This volume provides comprehensive protocols that researchers can use to dissect out fundamental principles and molecular mechanisms of hypertension, extending from genetics of experimental hypertension to biomarkers in clinical hypertension.

All of us in biomedicine understand the urgency of getting experimental results into print as quickly as possible.

This book focuses on the quantitative structure-activity relationship of the disposition and activities of various pharmacological groups.

Adopting a proactive approach and focusing on emerging radiation-generating technologies, Health Physics in the 21st Century meets the growing need for a presentation of the relevant radiological characteristics and hazards.

This handbook of the series Biomarkers in Disease informs comprehensively about all aspects of monitoring and detecting toxicity in the human body and model organisms.

This guide provides a framework, starting from simple statements, for writing papers for submission to peer-reviewed journals.

The intestinal protozoan Giardia was first described over 300 years ago in 1681 by Leeuwenhoek, from his own stools.

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Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys.

This book addresses electron spin-qubit based quantum computing and quantum information processing with a strong focus on the background and applications to EPR/ESR technique and spectroscopy.

Modern Trends in Physiological Sciences, Volume 32: Human Afflictions and Chromosomal Aberrations presents the study of the links between chromosome aberrations and physical and mental congenital anomalies.

This volume describes the latest findings on transcriptional and translational regulation of stem cells.

First, systems biology is an inter-disciplinary approach, requiring the combined talents of biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists.

Ischemic brain damage represents a major source of morbidity and mortality in westernized society and poses a significant financial burden on the health care system.

Atherosclerosis is a degenerative process affecting blood vessels, which determines narrowing of the lumen, plaque growth, and hardening of the walls.

Change is constant in everyday life.

This textbook helps nurses, physician assistants, medical students and residents to order appropriate tests and understand how to interpret them to improve their diagnostic reasoning.

For more than five decades, scientists and researchers have relied on the Advances in Chromatography series for the most up-to-date information on a wide range of developments in chromatographic methods and applications.

cells, and the testicular localization of the intermediate filament protein nestin, known to be expressed in neural stem cells, by our group was the first step to define mural cells (pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells) of the testis microvascu- ture as the stem/progenitor cells of the adult Leydig cells.

Springer Handbook of Enzymes provides data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized.

This book aims to present current state of understanding of the role of metals in human health and disease.

During the past two decades research on the testis has created a vast number of publications.

Metastatic dissemination of cancer is a main cause of cancer related deaths, therefore biological mechanisms implicated in metastatic process presents an essential object of cancer research.

Biochips incorporate a verity of means including electronic, photonic and microfluidic devices; biological materials (living cells, tissue, enzymes, nucleic acid and etc.

The first comprehensive treatise on Rapid Cycle Real-Time PCR.

A revised, abridged version of the seminal work, Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Clinical Laboratory Medicine for Mental Health Professionals more directly address the needs of general psychiatrists and their mental health colleagues in clinical practice.

This comprehensive and engaging text, now in an expanded second edition, is meant for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and covers the fundamental relationships between the structure and properties of materials and biological tissues.

Using time-to-event analysis methodology requires careful definition of the event, censored observation, provision of adequate follow-up, number of events, and independence or "e;noninformativeness"e; of the censoring mechanisms relative to the event.

The book addresses the interplay of healthcare and big data management.

Cell biology has made an appreciable impact on the evaluation of physiological and pathophysiological processes leading to a more detailed understanding of the signaling mechanisms by which cells communicate in vivo and in vitro and modify adaptively.

Similarity-based learning methods have a great potential as an intuitive and ?

Tetraspanin proteins have recently emerged as a new class of modulators of various processes involving cell surface receptors, including cell migration and invasion, host immune responses, cell-cell fusion, and viral infection.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of current understanding of periostin and its importance for human health and disease.

This book consists of 3 volumes: Basic Science (Volume 1), Clinical Science (Volume 2) and Technology and Methodology (Volume 3).

How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.

This book highlights the reasons for an urgently needed revision of the current global healthcare setup, discusses the needed mindset for a future of health, and provides a comprehensive development toolset for disruption (and for the needed incremental innovations towards disruption).