Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

In an era of globalization and urbanization, various social, economic, and environmental challenges surround advances in modern biological sciences.

This book provides a state-of-the-art report on our current understanding of aquaporins and the future direction of the field.

This book offers a detailed overview of translational bioinformatics together with real-case applications.

This book presents the scientific evidence for the role of vitamin C in health and disease and offers new guidance on vitamin C intake in humans.

This book provides a clearly structured introduction to hydrogen biology and medicine.

This Atlas is illustrated with rich pictures of cardiac surgical specimens.

The mechanisms and physiological functions of urea transporters across biological membranes are subjects of long-standing interests.

The way you perceive the world, plan, make decisions and communicate your thoughts and feelings depends on the function and hierarchical arrangement of cortical modules.

Based on 30 years of clinical and research experience, backed by a careful assessment of four decades of published data, Dr.

The integrin family is composed of 24 members and approximately ten years ago (2003) we published a book devoted to the nine I domain integrin subunits.

Gastrointestinal (GI) physiology is a fundamental subject that is indispensable not only for undergraduate but also for graduate courses.

Evolution is just a theory, isn't it?

Thisbook provides readers an extensive overview of recent progress in basicand clinical research on cancer immunotherapy.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest advances in translational pain and itch research, and presents the cutting-edge developments in the study of our two principal, yet most mysteries sensations.

This is the second edition of a widely used textbook that consolidates the basic concepts of the cancer gene theory and provides a framework for understanding the genetic basis of cancer.

This book provides an overview of the role and function of regulatory RNAs that lack protein-coding potential in key reproductive tissues.

In this thesis, Dr.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the properties of various stem cell types, the mechanisms of their behaviors and their potential clinical application.

Phosphatases, such as TNAP are fundamental in regulating the roles of cellular, and consequently numerous body functions.

   

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This volume is a collection of papers concerning the biology of large branchiopod crustaceans: Anostraca, Conchostraca, and Notostraca.

In a sense, propionic acid bacteria are domesticated bacteria.

Plant breeding aims at the genetic enhancement of crops through the application of principles of Mendelian Genetics and modern tools and techniques of cell and molecular biology.

Molecular farming has been hailed as the "e;third wave"e; of genetically-modified organisms produced through biotechnology for the bio-based economy of the future.

This book is devoted entirely to methods developed in and for studies of members of the bacterial family Streptococcaceae.

Our current knowledge of marine organisms and the factors affecting their ecology, distribution and evolution has been revolutionised by the use, in the last 20 years, of molecular population genetics tools.

This proceedings volume includes selected papers presented at the international symposium `Live Food Organisms in Marine Larviculture' held in Nagasaki, Japan, September 1-4 1996.

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Chromosomes Today volume 14 records the plenary proceedings of the 14th International Chromosome Conference, presenting an overview of the current concerns in plant, animal and human cytogenetics.

Aging is one of those subjects that many biologists feel is largely unknown.

During the last 40 years, the study of the biological basis of aging has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respectable field of study and research.

During the last 40 years, the study of the biological basis of aging has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respectable field of study and research.

Flow cytometry has rapidly evolved into a technique for rapid analysis of DNA content, cellular marker expression and electronic sorting of cells of interest for further investigations.

Evolution is the most profound of human ideas integrating all natural phenomena: cosmic, biological, and cultural into a continuous universal change.

One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research: What Remains to be Learned, offers the reader a critical analysis of the observations and experiments that shaped the last 100 years of chromosome research, as well as the ideas which prevailed during this period.

The double helix architecture of DNA was elucidated in 1953.

Adverse environmental factors can impose stress on plants and influence the expression of the full genetic potential for growth and reproduction.

The book aims to review knowledge on the disorders of eating behaviour and body composition in some of the non-primate higher animals and to relate these to similar conditions in humans.

This collection of essays represents the work produced in the course of a three-year project funded by the Commission of the European Communities under the Biomed I programme, on the ethics of genetic screening, entitled 'Genetic screening: ethical and philosophical perspectives, with special reference to multifactorial diseases'.

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Many changes that occur during the embryonic development of an individual animal can be seen as a parallel to changes that have occurred in species or groups of species during evolutionary time.

In most breeding programs of plant and animal species, genetic data (such as data from field progeny tests) are used to rank parents and help choose candidates for selection.

Herpesviruses, classified in the family Herpesviridae, are important human and animal pathogens that can cause primary, latent or recurrent infections and even cancer.

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