Published November, 2010
By Roya Khosravi-Far and Eileen White
Publisher: Springer
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Programmed cell death (PCD) plays pivotal roles in tumor progression, cancer therapeutics and resistance of tumor cells to therapy. This book examines the mechanisms involved in mediating and regulating PCD in cancer.

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Published November, 2010
By Stephen W. Schaffer, Junichi Azuma and Takashi Ito
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Moreover, there are a number of other putative functions of taurine less well known at present. This volume focuses on all aspects of taurine research from immunology and its effect on health to chemistry and biochemistry, including future clinical applications.

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Published November, 2010
By Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, Susanna Chiocca, Fraser McBlane, Ugo Cavallaro, European Institute of Oncology, Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) and European Institute of Oncology (IEO)
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Published November, 2010
By Gail Ruth Goldberg, Andrew Prentice, Ann Prentice, Suzanne Filteau and Kirsten Simondon
Publisher: Springer
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This is the first book ever to focus on the post-natal period in terms of early life programming for adult health. It covers a vast range of topics related to the subject and contains special lectures and previously unpublished data.

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Published November, 2010
By Miguel Maroto and Neil V. Whittock
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book will be of interest to scientists working in the fields of cell and developmental biology. The chapters cover topics that capture the spirit of this dynamic discipline by integrating contemporary research with the classical embryological literature.

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Published November, 2010
By Shamim I. Ahmad, Shamim Ahmad and Fumio Hanaoka
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Published November, 2010
By Warren C.W. Chan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This edited book highlights the central players in the Bionanotechnology field - which are the nanostructures and biomolecules. The book describes how nanostructures are synthesized and details the wide variety of nanostructures available for biological research and applications.

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Published November, 2010
By Jorg Reichrath and Joerg Reichrath
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The goal of this volume is to offer a highly readable and comprehensive overview on our present knowledge of the positive and negative effects of UV-exposure.

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Published November, 2010
By Stephen P. Schoenberger, Peter D. Katsikis and Bali Pulendran
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This compilation presents mini-reviews derived from work presented at the Aegean Conference: "First Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity," which occurred in October, 2005 at the Hilton Conference Center on the island of Rhodes, Greece.

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Published November, 2010
By Ryutaro Utsumi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This fascinating book encourages many microbiologists and students to enter the new world of signal transduction in microbiology. Over the past decade, a vast amount of exciting new information on the signal transduction pathway in bacteria has been unearthed.

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