Published June, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Derek J. Chadwick and Jamie A. Goode
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Featuring contributions from many of the leading laboratories of mitochondrial biology worldwide, Novartis Foundation Symposium 287, Mitochondrial Biology: New Perspectives provides a timely summary of the current state-of-the-art in mitochondrial research.

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Published June, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Derek J. Chadwick and Jamie A. Goode
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The recent identification of susceptibility genes for schizophrenia, depression and learning and memory dysfunction suggest that psychiatric disorders may be influenced by a small number of genes with multiple actions.

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Published May, 2008
By Novartis Foundation
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A number of chronic respiratory diseases including chronic bronchitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis are characterized by mucus hypersecretion. This book explains the mechanisms that underlie and maintain the hypersecretory phenotype of mucus hypersecretion, which is crucial for the development of rational approaches to therapy.

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Published April, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Derek J. Chadwick and Gail Cardew
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Genetics and Tuberculosis Chairman: Douglas Young 1998 More people die each year from tuberculosis than from any other infectious disease, the annual death toll being almost three million (over 95% of which are in developing countries) with eight million new cases being diagnosed every year.

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Published April, 2008
By Novartis Foundation
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Functional genomics is the use of genetic information to design drugs. The ability to gather genetic data in the form of complete genetic sequences for certain organisms, has accelerated to astonishing speeds, reflecting the equally astonishing growth of information–gathering technologies.

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Published April, 2008
By Novartis Foundation and Johannes D. Veldhuis
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In vertebrates, the endocrine system plays a key role in conveying environmental temporal information to changes in physiology. This book reviews the biological basis of pulsatile hormone release, exploring the current state of knowledge of pulsatile hormone secretion in health and disease.

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Published April, 2008
By Novartis Foundation
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Although normally thought of as a sex hormone, recent research has highlighted the numerous and significant effects that oestrogen has on the central nervous system. It has been shown that oestrogen acts as a neural growth factor with important influences on the survival, plasticity, regeneration, and aging of the mammalian forebrain.

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Published April, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode and Novartis
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The past decade has seen mounting global concern regarding viral outbreaks such as SARS, avian influenza and West Nile virus. In 2004 and 2005, reports of bird-to-human, and possible human-to-human, transmissions of the H5N1 influenza viruses raised fears that these viruses could cause a pandemic on the scale of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

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Published March, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Derek J. Chadwick, Jamie A. Goode and Novartis Founda
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The heat shock, or cell stress, response was first identified in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila. This was later related to the appearance of novel proteins within stressed cells, and the key signal stimulating this appearance was identified as the presence of unfolded proteins within the cell.

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Published March, 2008
By Novartis Foundation, Gregory R. Bock and Jamie A. Goode
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To understand the brain and its devastating diseases, we need to reveal the mechanisms that produce it and the ways in which it can constantly change throughout a lifetime. This book features a timely and insightful discussion between developmental neurobiologists and clinicians who deal with disorders of the nervous system.

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