Kruppel-like factors (KLFs) are attracting great attention across a wide spectrum of biological sciences and medicine because of their remarkable biological potency and the diversity of roles they play in the physiological and pathological changes of cells and tissues.
Now more than ever, thrombotic and thromboembolic disorders as well as related diseases such as malignancies, arteriosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and obesity are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality.
The beta cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans are the only cells in the body that produce and secrete insulin, a key metabolic hormone, which plays a central role in the maintenance of glucose homeostasis regulating glucose uptake in muscle and adipose tissue as well as carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism in these tissues and the liver.
Modern cell biology has brought improvements in therapy for advanced malignant diseases through immunomodulation, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and other advanced techniques.
Molecular Histochemical Techniques presents detailed protocols for analyzing DNA strand breaks, specific RNA/DNA expressions, and DNA binding proteins such as transcription factors at the individual cell level.
This book proposes immunogenomics, or immunopharmacogenomics, as the next-generation big science to uncover the role that the immune system plays in the pathogenesis of many diseases, by summarizing the importance of the deep sequencing of T-cell and B-cell receptors.
This book presents recent advances in translational research on muscular dystrophy (MD) to physicians and researchers, including cutting-edge research on the disease such as regenerative medicine, next-generation DNA sequencing, and nucleic acid therapies.
This book provides a comprehensive review of diagnosis and treatments of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) for practitioners and researchers with an interest in this disease.
This comprehensive book reviews our current state of knowledge about the pathogenesis of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS), which comprises a heterogeneous group of diseases with distinct histological characteristics, such as minimal-change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS), focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), and idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN).
Rapid developments have taken place in biological/biomedical measurement and imaging technologies as well as in computer analysis and information technologies.
The challenge for the biosciences in the twenty-first century is to integrate genome sequencing information into a better understanding of biology, physiology, and human pathology.
In the twenty-first century, applications in medicine and engineering must acquire greater safety and flexibility if they are to yield better products at higher efficiency.
This book is the first to summarize the current knowledge of the cell biology of lens epithelial cells in relation to and in the development of posterior capsular opacification (PCO).
The scientific literature on melatonin as a regulator in the immune system contains numerous evidence-based results on desired effects that can be useful in various viral infections.
Die wissenschaftliche Literatur zu Melatonin als Regulierer im Immunsystem enthält evidenz-basiert zahlreiche Ergebnisse über gewünschte Wirkungen, die bei unterschiedlichen Virusinfektionen von Nutzen sein können.
This book provides an overview of useful laboratory tests as complementary tests for the diagnosis of common ailments and diseases in standard medical practice.
Um 1900 unternahm ein rumänischer Rechtsmediziner die verrücktesten Selbstversuche der Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Mehrfach hängte sich Nicolae Minovici an einem Strick auf und ließ sich erst in letzter Sekunde von Kollegen retten.
Das 50-jährige Jubiläum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Immunologie bietet die einmalige Chance, sowohl die wissenschaftlichen Triumphe als auch die Entwicklung des Fachs Immunologie in der deutschen Forschungslandschaft von der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart näher zu beleuchten.
Seit den Billroth'schen Jahresberichten ist die Kontrolle der Ergebnisqualität in der operativen Medizin zu einer ureigenen Aufgabe der Chirurgen geworden.
Seit über zehn Jahren veröffentlicht Bartholomäus Böhm in der Zeitschrift Chirurgische Allgemeine im Kaden Verlag seine kritischen Kommentare zu aktuellen Themen aus Chirurgie, Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik.
Seit der Veröffentlichung ihres Erfolgsbuches "Sterbefasten", in dem Christiane zur Nieden den Prozess des Sterbefastens ihrer Mutter liebevoll und eindringlich schilderte, haben sich zahlreiche Menschen mit ihren eigenen Geschichten bei der Autorin gemeldet.