Humana Press: 634 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
The main objective of this book is to provide an up-to-date survey of the rapidly advancing eld of cancer therapy. Moreover, since our knowledge in this area rapidly evolves, some data have got obsolete during the process of book editing. Our understanding of the mechanisms involved in cancer genesis...
Mirror Neuron Systems
The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The aim of this book is to bring together social scientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, neuropsychologists and others to promote a dialogue about the variety of processes involved in social cognition, as well as the relevance of mirroring neural systems to those processes....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The revised and up-to-date third edition of Drug Interactions in Infectious Diseases delivers a text that will enhance your clinical knowledge of the complex mechanisms, risks, and consequences of drug interactions associated with antimicrobials, infection, and inflammation. The third edition features...
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Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Highlighting recent advances in our understanding of breast cancer, this book is intended for a wide audience as a reference book. Included are reviews of genetics, epigenetics, various aspects of cell and molecular biology, and several other areas of breast cancer that are aimed at determining new...
The Skeleton
Biochemical, Genetic, and Molecular Interactions in Development and Homeostasis
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
A cutting-edge review of the biochemical, physiological, pharmacological, genetic, and molecular interactions involved in the development and homeostasis of the skeleton. Topics range from chondrogenesis, chondrocytes, and cartilage to skeletal dysmorphology, and include the control of skeletal development,...
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Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The past 6 years since the first edition of this book have seen great progress in the development of genetically engineered mouse (GEM) models of cancer. These models are finding an important role in furthering our understanding of the biology of malignant disease. A comfortable position for GEM models...
Pain in Children
A Practical Guide for Primary Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Advances over the past two decades have enabled physicians to revolutionize the manner in which they can assess and manage children’s pain. Thirty years ago it was thought that young children did not experience pain and therefore it was not necessary to treat it. Today professionals from a variety...
Hyperlipidemia in Primary Care
A Practical Guide to Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death for men and women in this country, surpassing deaths due to all cancers combined. Better awareness of heart disease risk factors and improved treatment modalities has produced great progress in reducing deaths due to myocardial infarction and...
Interface
A Guide for Professionals Supporting the Criminal Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
A wide variety of professionals find themselves intimately involved in the criminal justice system; firefighters, emergency medical providers, nurses, physicians, public health personnel, environmental professionals, public works personnel, and many others. No previous work has attempted to address...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Carotenoids and Human Health provides an introduction to food sources and metabolism. Written by experts in their fields and including the most up-to-date information, this volume serves as an in-depth guide to studies that have been performed in humans and observations that have been made in population...
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Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Rising occurrences of various diseases and epidemics have pressurized the already-burdened health system across the globe, and this imposes an unprecedented challenge on our current research in identifying disease-specific biomarkers and molecular targets, in particular for cancers, neurological disorders...
Nutritional Health
Strategies for Disease Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Now going into its third much-expanded edition, the highly praised Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention has been brought fully up to date to include all the new thinking and discoveries that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional advancement. About half...
Cystic Fibrosis
Infection, Immunopathology, and Host Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This work is concerned with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), the most common fatal genetic disease in the Caucasian population. The decade of the 1980s was one of spectacular progress in understanding the genetic and molecu lar basis of CF. The research breakthroughs of the decade began with the first fundamental...
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Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Features that characterize the aging process include the gradual accumulation of cell damage after prolonged exposure to oxidative and inflammatory events over a lifetime. In addition to the accretion of lesions, the intrinsic levels of pro-oxidant and aberrant immune responses are elevated with age....