Medical equipment and techniques

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.

Principles and Advances in Population Neuroscience is aimed at enhancing our understanding of forces that shape the human brain and, as such, contribute to inter-individual variations in cognitive abilities, behavior and mental health throughout the lifespan.

In "e;A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying"e; Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, a physician and a clinical psychologist with many years of experience, offer insights to help medical students, residents, physicians, nurses, and others become more aware of the different stages in the dying process and learn how to communicate more effectively with patients and their families.

This book provides a summarized information related to the global herbal drug market and its regulations, ethnopharmacology of traditional crude drugs, isolation of phytopharmaceuticals, phytochemistry, standardization, and quality assessment of crude drugs.

Cell culture based research is important for our understanding of biological processes at the cellular and molecular level.

Disorders of Emotion in Neurologic Disease, Volume 183 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series, informs clinicians on which neurologic diseases are likely to have a secondary effect on emotion, what to look for in diagnosis, and best practices for treatment.

The synthetic chemistry of carbohydrates has advanced at a scarcely equalled rate in the last 25 years, due to the great interest of biologically active natural products coritaining sugar moieties.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of classic and modern approaches of centrosome research, including new aspects of centrosome functions focusing on primary cilia and their implications in numerous diseases.

This book presents the latest findings in the field of cardiac mechanobiology in health and disease.

This cutting-edge volume explores how technological tools can be designed, engineered and implemented to assess and support individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders from diagnosis through to rehabilitation.

Physiotherapy in Mental Health: A Practical Approach provides a concise discussion of the concept of abnormal behavior.

How can arts-based approaches benefit patients and professionals within the health care system?

An ICO staff trainer show you how to understand and perform ECG interpretation at the bedside!

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

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Healthcare Research is an evidence-based, succinct, and easy-to-use reference for the full range of clinical and healthcare research topics.

Even for the most experienced healthcare professional, managing the last few days of life can be difficult.

This extensive book brings together leading melanoma researchers from across the world and highlights many of the cutting-edge protocols and experimental systems currently being used to investigate questions surrounding this disease.

The book offers an updated perspective on the unique characteristics of millets.

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily is a rapidly growing family of cytokines that interacts with a corresponding superfamily of receptors.

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

The ongoing process of bio-evolution has produced materials which are perfectly adapted to fulfil a specific functional role.

Brain and Crime, Volume 197 reviews the relation between brain function and aggressive and rule-breaking (criminal) behavior.

This book examines animal research conducted with the goal of medical translation to humans.

The Latin American region has been at the forefront in combating infections caused by Escherichia coli strains in humans, animals, and the environment.

In the last decade, researchers working in the field of cancer biology have shifted their focus from genetic defects to epigenetic dysregulation, especially that of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs).

This second edition provides new and updated methods for establishing reliable and reproducible experimental models of cardiovascular diseases.

The tumor microenvironment has become a very important and hot topic in cancer research within the past few years.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), (also known as black fever or Kala-azar) is a life-threatening disease first reported from the Indian subcontinent.

The Latin American region has been at the forefront in combating infections caused by Escherichia coli strains in humans, animals, and the environment.

Inflammation is the very natural process of our body; it does its work immediately and smoothly along with lots of helpers.

Clinical Trials and Tribulations evaluates the multiple layers of complexities around research management, also exploring current practices, challenges and future directions.

Cytological techniques have greatly improved in the last twenty years, largely as a result of further development of the microscope.

Scientists now understand that cancer is a genetic disease and cutting -edge molecular therapies are making their way from the laboratory into clinical practice.

It is widely understood that stem cell treatments have the potential to revolutionize medicine.

Much recent thought on the ethics of new biomedical technologies, and work in ethics and political philosophy more generally, is committed to hidden and contestable views about the nature of biological reality.

This volume highlights the recent advances in the understanding of the endocannabinoid system and the likely benefit from the therapeutic effects of cannabinoid treatment in a variety of health issues.

This volume explores the myriad of techniques and methodological approaches that are being used in breast cancer research.

Advances in the field of cell biology have always been closely related to the development of quantitative analytical methods that can be applied to individual cells or cell organelles.

This volume explores the latest techniques used to study neurodevelopmental diseases (NDD) that range from molecular aspects to integrated research approaches and brain imaging in living rodents.

Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 2: Planning, Analysis, and Inferential Methods includes updates of established literature from the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials as well as original material based on the latest developments in clinical trials.

The research field of biobanks and tissue research is highly promising.

Porous silicon has a range of properties, making it ideal for drug delivery, cancer therapy, and tissue engineering.