Containing concise, updated, and easy-to-use summaries on a comprehensive range of clinical scenarios and conditions encountered by paediatricians and multi-disciplinary professionals in their everyday practice, this new edition of Neurodisability and Community Child Health has been substantially revised to be the ideal companion for anyone working with children.
Containing concise, updated, and easy-to-use summaries on a comprehensive range of clinical scenarios and conditions encountered by paediatricians and multi-disciplinary professionals in their everyday practice, this new edition of Neurodisability and Community Child Health has been substantially revised to be the ideal companion for anyone working with children.
Cytogenetics, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and molecular tests, especially polymerase chain reaction (PCR), play an important role in the management of patients with hematologic malignancies by helping to establish the diagnosis, as well as predict prognosis, response to treatment and disease progression.
This book examines dietary intervention and oncogenesis addressing foundational principles, epidemiological insights, and molecular mechanisms of nutritional modulators in cellular homeostasis.
Intended for medical oncologists, surgeons, obstetricians, gynecologists, geneticists, genetic counselors, and primary care physicians, this text presents the epidemiological, biological, and clinical issues associated with hereditary breast cancer.
This book examines dietary intervention and oncogenesis addressing foundational principles, epidemiological insights, and molecular mechanisms of nutritional modulators in cellular homeostasis.
Despite major efforts by the scientific community over the years, our understanding of the pathogenesis or the mechanisms of injury of multiple sclerosis is still limited.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs), endogenous noncoding regulatory mRNAs of around 22-nucleotides long, have rapidly emerged as one of the key governors of the gene expression regulatory program in cells of varying species, with ever-increasing implications in the control of the fundamental biological processes and in the pathogenesis of adult humans.
Die Entdeckung des aufsehenerregenden Organisatoreffektes bei Amphibien durch den Freiburger Hans SPEMANN (1869 - 1941) und seiner Studentin Hilde MANGOLD (geb.
Two-dimensional electrophoresis is the central methodology in proteome research, and the state of the art is described in detail in this text, together with extensive coverage of the detection methods available.
Entwicklungen in Biomedizin, Genetik und Informatik führen zu einem Wissenszuwachs im Verständnis der Ursachen und Entstehungsmechanismen von Krankheiten.
Die inzwischen weit fortgeschrittenen Möglichkeiten der Analyse menschlichen Erbmaterials rufen einerseits Hoffnung und Erwartungen, andererseits eine diffuse Angst vor genetischem Determinismus und Reduktionismus hervor.
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), caused by mutational inactivation of the NF1 tumour suppressor gene, is one of the most common dominantly inherited human disorders, affecting 1 in 3000 individuals worldwide.
Twenty-five years after the disclosure of the telomeric DNA sequence and 22 years after the discovery of telomerase, it has become clear that telomeres and telomerase influence disease of human ageing including cancer.
Genetic testing has provided important clues to understanding our health, but it has also raised many ethical, legal, and medical questions and concerns.
Genetic testing has provided important clues to understanding our health, but it has also raised many ethical, legal, and medical questions and concerns.
