Medical equipment and techniques

This book provides systematic knowledge of basic principles in the design of fluorescence sensing and imaging techniques together with critical analysis of recent developments.

For years, toxoplasmosis has been known as disease mostly affecting newborns.

This book serves as an introduction to protein structure and function.

This book provides a practical guide to analysis of simple and complex method comparison data, using Stata, SAS and R.

Viral infections of the nervous system are important because they are associated with high morbidity and mortality.

How much statistics does a clinician, surgeon or nurse need to know?

Cancer on the Margins presents the findings of the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Iniative, an organization created to investigate the experiences of women with breast cancer from marginalized and underrepresented groups.

This volume provides an overview on the influence of Extracellular Matrix (ECM) on tumor progression.

Nursing and Healthcare Research at a Glance is perfect for nursing and healthcare students, as well as newly qualified practitioners and anyone looking for a refresher or introduction to research.

Landmark Papers in Cardiovascular Medicine provides a thorough and wide-ranging analysis of core examples of novel research, clinical trials and seminal papers published in the medical literature that have paved the way for breakthroughs in the management of the entire spectrum of cardiovascular disease.

Describes the properties of cellular membranes and their relationship with fundamental biological processes.

The fascinating area of molecular medicine provides a molecular and cellular description of health and disease.

This book comprehensively reviews various nanodiagnostic approaches for the detection of bacterial pathogens.

This textbook is a practical guide to the use of small animal imaging in preclinical research that will assist in the choice of imaging modality and contrast agent and in study design, experimental setup, and data evaluation.

The main varieties of scientific misconduct are fabrication, falsification, misquoting and plagiarism.

Rapid-Cycle Real-Time PCR is a powerful technique for nucleic acid amplification and analysis that often requires less than half an hour to perform.

This book is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English (long sentences, redundancy, poor structure etc.

This brief addresses the question of the various ways in which mental health-related issues have become police responsibility.

This book provides an overview of the available evidence surrounding immunotherapy in gastrointestinal cancers, and discusses its future place in clinical practice.

Translational Research and Clinical Practice offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to evidence-based medicine.

This volume presents a broad collection of state-of-the-art methods to study the biology of thermogenic fat using in vitro cell culture and animal models.

Dem "Taschenbuch für Chemiker und Physiker" ein Taschenbuch für Bio­ chemiker an die Seite zu stellen, entspricht einem Bedürfnis unserer Zeit.

This book discusses unique ion channels and transporters that are located within epithelial tissues of various organs including the kidney, intestine, pancreas and respiratory tract.

NanoScience in Biomedicine provides up-to-date information in the frontier fields of nano biomedicine focusing on basic concepts and recent developments in many topical areas including particular nanomaterials synthesis, field emission of carbon nanotubes, flexible dye-sensitized nano-porous films, magnetic nanofluids, and intrinsically electroconducting nanoparticles.

This volume is the first comprehensive text on human biobanking, authored by scientists and regulatory officers who have led the field over the past 10 years.

Today's consumers are looking for food products with health-promoting roles in addition to nutritional benefits.

List of Contributors ix PART 1 CURRENT CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 1 A European overview of the health care scene KS Johansen 3 Is there a European concept of health and health care?

The book provides an overview on how the microbiome contributes to human health and disease.

One of the most important factors in ensuring successful osseointegration is the stability of the implant after its insertion.

In cancer research, a traditional phase II trial is designed as a single-arm trial that compares the experimental therapy to a historical control.

This laboratory manual gives a thorough introduction to basic techniques in Molecular Biology, which can find application in many different fields.

This book provides an overview of the current applications of nanomaterials in brain diseases, and introduces several novel nanomaterials that have excellent potential in this field.

Sexual reproduction in the fungi is extensively regulated by incom- patibility, which determines, in the absence of any morphological differ- entiation, the pattern of mating among individual strains.

Mit unserer Darstellung möchten wir in die experimentelle Ent­ wicklungsforschung einführen.

A major update of a best-selling textbook that introduces students to the key experimental and analytical techniques underpinning life science research.

This textbook helps you to prepare for both your next exams and practical courses by combining theory with virtual lab simulations.

Endocrine Problems in Cancer: Molecular Basis and Clinical Management reviews endocrine and metabolic problems that can be attributed to the production of hormones by neoplastic cells, or by the interference of normal physiological systems by malignant cells.

This comprehensive volume compiles the concepts essential for the understanding of the pharmaceutical science and technology associated with the delivery of subunit vaccines.

This book provides an overview of the latest developments and future challenges in enzyme inhibitor research.

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

Although best known for its role in heart disease, the sarcomere--the fundamental unit of muscle contraction--is also involved in skeletal muscle diseases.

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'Antibacterial Surfaces' covers the advances being made in the design of antibacterial surfaces, which have the ability to either prevent the initial attachment of bacterial cells, or kill any cells that come into contact with these surfaces.

This book is about protein structural bioinformatics and how it can help understand and predict protein function.

This book discusses unique ion channels and transporters that are located within epithelial tissues of various organs including the kidney, intestine, pancreas and respiratory tract.