Medical equipment and techniques

Prevention of infectious diseases by vaccination is one of the most significant achievements of modern medicine.

Having last year published "e;Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM"e; and also "e;Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts,"e; Miettinen now - this time with collaboration from his junior colleague I.

Physical implementation of the memristor at industrial scale sparked the interest from various disciplines, ranging from physics, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, neuroscience, to intelligent robotics.

The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) is an organelle with extraordinary signaling and homeostatic functions.

The rapidly developing field of systems biology is influencing many aspects of biological research and is expected to transform biomedicine.

Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever, a zoonotic disease found worldwide.

This book is about Nutraceuticals in cancer therapy, specifically targeted and Adjuvant therapy.

The first of its kind, this book describes pediatric palliative care in more than 23 countries.

This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context.

Recent technological breakthrough in the field of Terahertz radiation has triggered new applications in biology and biomedicine.

Humans have utilized the bioactive principles of different plants for various beneficial physiological properties including antimicrobial properties for many centuries.

Inflammatory breast cancer is the most deadly subtype of breast cancer because it can spread to other organs despite of multidisciplinary approach.

The phrase "e;Life, stress and death"e; connects three terms, but is there a biological basis for that?

Routine applications of advanced statistical methods on real data have become possible in the last ten years because desktop computers have become much more powerful and cheaper.

Phosphoinositides play a major role in cellular signaling and membrane organization.

Phosphoinositides play a major role in cellular signaling and membrane organization.

Chemoprevention of cancer has been the focus of intensive research for more than two decades.

This atlas will illustrate the distribution and morphological features of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) which are the key cells to understanding of the regulatory mechanism of gastrointestinal motility, since ICC act as both pacemaker and as intermediates in neural transmission, and since ICC show specific distribution patterns depending on their anatomical positions.

It is pointed out that a cancer stem cell is a type within a tumor that possesses the capacity of self-renewal and can give rise to the heterogeneous lineages of cancer cells, which comprise the tumor.

Various aspects, including diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis, of two brain tumors (meningioma and schwannoma) , of brain tumors are discussed in this volume.

Mitochondria are far more than the "e;powerhouse"e; of the cell as they have classically been described.

This volume contains information on the diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of spinal tumors.

Thanks to the omnipresent computer, current statistics can include data files of many thousands of values, and can perform any exploratory analysis in less than seconds.

The US is currently well ahead of the rest of the world in the development and application of SB and its principles especially as they pertain to basic medical research and development.

Vast therapeutic applications of the following specific stem cells in disease and tissue injury are discussed: embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, human hair follicle stem cells, bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells, adipose-derived stem cells, periodontal/progenitor cells, cancer stem cells, and breast cancer stem cells.

This book fills in a gap in the NO literature.

The main objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive review on stem cells and their role in tissue regeneration, homeostasis and therapy.

This volume brings together a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on a topic of central importance, but which has otherwise tended to be approached from within just one or another disciplinary framework.

Amyloid-forming proteins are implicated in over 30 human diseases.

Although modern medicine enjoys unprecedented success in providing excellent technical care, many patients are dissatisfied with the poor quality of care or the unprofessional manner in which physicians sometimes deliver it.

This book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk.

The book contains chapters written by leaders in the research on the structure and function of respiratory complex I.

Cell-cell adhesion is fundamental for the development and homeostasis of animal tissues and organs.

Carl Edward Sagan's (1934-1996) one of the famous quotation was "e;Who are we?

The seventh in Springer's landmark series of edited volumes on one of the highest-profile subjects in contemporary medicine and scientific endeavour, this volume sets out to cover a staggering range of research into the medical applications of stem cell research.

Lactoferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein belonging to the transferrin family.

Molecular farming in plants is a relatively young subject of sciences.

The discovery of vitamins in the early 1900s, their later chemical characterization and the clarification of pivotal metabolic functions are sequential aspects of a brilliant chapter in the history of modern nutritional sciences and medicine.

Desmoid Tumors (DT), also called Aggressive Fibromatoses, are a rare fibroblastic proliferative disease, with an incidence of 2 to 4 new cases per million people per year.

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

Type 1 diabetes is a serious and common disease, afflicting one per 200 of the population worldwide.

That precursors of adult coronary artery disease, hypertension, and type II diabetes begin in childhood have been clearly established by the Bogalusa Heart Study.

Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction.

To date, much of the empirical work in social epidemiology has demonstrated the existence of health inequalities along a number of axes of social differentiation.

Molecular epidemiology has recently broaden its focuses due to the development of molecular tools but also by incorporating advances of other fields such as mathematical epidemiology, molecular ecology, population genetics and evolution.

As in volume 1 of this series, this volume presents information on stem cells and cancer stem cells; Therapeutic Applications in disease and tissue/organ injury.

This book presents the latest findings in the field of investigation of molecular mechanisms of mechanical stretch and the role of cytokines in response of different tissues to it.

Cancer is one of the leading killers in the world and the incidence is increasing, but most cancer patients and cancer survivors suffer much from the disease and its conventional treatments' side effects.

Engineered antibodies currently represent over 30% of biopharmaceuticals in clinical trials and their total worldwide sales continue to increase significantly.

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