Medical genetics

Alcohol abuse, alcohol intolerance, alcohol dependence and other alcohol-related disabilities are some of the most challenging public health problems facing our modern-day society.

Das Buch enthält die Referate und wesentlichen Diskussionsbeiträge einer Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Bad Boll zum Thema "Ein Kind um jeden Preis?

The 5th edition of this successful Glossary has been completely revised, updated and supplemented by up-to-date terms used in genetic engineering and molecular genetics.

The last ten years have witnessed a remarkable increase in our awareness of the importance of events subsequent to transcriptional initiation in terms of the regulation and control of gene expression.

This volume contains papers presented at the international conference on "e;Transgenic Mice and Mutants in MHC Research"e;, held in Bar Harbor, Maine, in June, 1989.

The third volume of "e;Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics"e; contains the th scientific contributions presented at the 13 Congress of the International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics, held on October 19-21, 1989 in New Orleans, USA.

Dieses Buch stellt das erste deutschsprachige Werk dar, in dem die neuen, grundlegenden Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Molekularbiologie und Molekulargenetik vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Bedeutung für die klinische und wissenschaftliche Humanmedizin beschrieben und diskutiert werden.

Any professional concerned with immunology will be interested in this book dedicated to the memory of Milan Hasek, former director of the Prague Institute of Experimental Biology and Genetics.

Based in part on a survey of ethical decision-marking among682 medical geneticists worldwide, this book includes achapter authored by a geneticistand an ethicist in 19nations, describing genetic services, counselling,screening, prenatal diagnosis, and major ethical problemsand social controversies faced by geneticists.

It is a great pleasure for me to see this work in print.

This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting Genetics and Alzheimer's Disease held in Paris, on March 25,1988, by the Fondation Ipsen pour la Recherche Therapeuti- que.

Estimates reveal that there are some 200 million heterozygous carriers of abnormal hemoglobins genes worldwide, and tens of thousands of severely affected patients.

The question of how man has emerged must be as old as human thought itself.

On February 21 and 22, 1975, an International Workshop on the "e;Genetics of Diabetes Mellitus"e; was held in Gottingen, West-Germany.

In the fifteen years since the thalidomide disaster teratology has become a science in its own right, distinct from its progenitors, experimental embryology and develop- mental biology, but bearing many of the familiar features of both parents.

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At this congress there were again numereous reports ofprogress in immunology.

The writing of this monograph was stimulated on the one hand by experience gained in the study of "e;cancer families"e;, and on the other, by the frequent perplexed and bewildered comments made by numerous physicians who have expressed amaze- ment that we could think that "e;cancer is hereditary"e;.

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

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

Different cancer types can result from a multiplicity of genetic and environmental factors.

Major and exciting advances in psychiatric genetics werediscussed at a 3-day international workshop.

This book comprises proceedings from the Third International Conference on Advances in Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples in May 2012.

Induced pluripotent stem cells in cardiovascular research.

Accumulating evidence supports the role of defects in post-transcriptional gene regulation in the development of cancer.

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are a heterogeneous group of inherited disorders characterized by different defects in the development and function of the immune system.

This book covers a wide array of topics relevant to behavioral genetics from both a preclinical and clinical standpoint.

The rapid advances in medicine over the last 50 years have totally changed the outlook for children with disorders of sex development (DSD), but there is still much to learn.

The therapeutic potential of the use of adipose stem cells in regenerative medicine has been increasingly recognized, and in recent years concrete clinical benefits have accrued as these cells have been explored for a variety of applications.

This book offers the most up-to-date information about research surrounding the neurobiology of bipolar disorder as well as currently available and novel therapeutic options.

Laron syndrome (LS), or primary growth hormone (GH) insensitivity, was first described in 1966.

Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field incorporating the principles of biology, chemistry, engineering, and medicine to create biological substitutes of native tissues for scientific research or clinical use.

Radiology to me is an art more than a science; an art of imaging the human body, and an art of extracting information from an image.

Cancer stem cells werehave originally been identified in leukemia and later in several solid tumor types.

Adequate blood supply to the eye is an important prerequisite for normal visual function.

This lavishly illustrated atlas provides indispensable information to clinicians, geneticists and visual scientists working with inherited retinal diseases.