Published March, 2012
By Koichi Suzuki, William R. Bartle, Volker Braun, John M. Dietschy, Yasufumi Emori, Masatoshi Hagiwara, Hiroyoshi Hidaka, Shinobu Imajoh, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Jonathan B. Meddings, Shigeo Ohno, Scott E. Walker, Günther Winkelmann and Nancy E. Winslade
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Progress in Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine
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Since it has been demonstrated that reducing the steady-state plasma LDL-cholesterol concentration produces a proportional decrease in the risk of developing atherosclerosis 2), a major effort is now underway to develop safe and effective lipid lowering agents.

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Published March, 2012
By Carol M. Lalli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Coastal and Estuarine Studies
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The application of mesocosms, defined in this report as artificial 3 3 experimental enclosures ranging in size from 1 m to 10m , to address various problems in the marine sciences has been a relatively recent development.

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Published March, 2012
By Springer, Andre Kamkin and Irina Kiseleva
Publisher: Springer
Series: Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues
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This timely review of heart mechanosensitivity examines tissues at the molecular, biological, bio-physical, physiological and pharmaceutical levels. New insight on the electromechanical properties of cardiac tissue is supported with experimental results.

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Published March, 2012
By Gabriella Calviello and Simona Serini
Publisher: Springer
Series: Diet and Cancer
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Dietary Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Cancer provides all the latest information on the possible benefits of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) against a wide series of cancers.

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Published March, 2012
By Tomasz Puzyn, Jerzy Leszczynski, Mark T. D. Cronin and Mark T. Cronin
Publisher: Springer
Series: Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics
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This book presents an interdisciplinary overview on the most recent advances in QSAR studies. The first part consists of a comprehensive review of QSAR methodology. The second part highlights the interdisciplinary aspects and new areas of QSAR modelling.

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Published March, 2012
By Marc J. Cohen, M. Cristina Tirado, Noora-Lisa Aberman, Brian Thompson and Janice Meerman
Publisher: Springer
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Each of these impacts will decrease food and nutrition security, primarily by reducing access to and availability of food, and also by increasing the risk of infectious disease.Although increased biofuel demand has the potential to increase incomes among producers, it can also negatively affect food and nutrition security.

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Published March, 2012
By J.J. Capowski
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book is the story of the marriage of a new techl}ology, computers, with an old problem, the study of neuroanatomical structures using the light microscope. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 present the use of computers to reconstruct anatomic structures, i.e., to enter them into a computer memory, where they are later displayed and analyzed.

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Published March, 2012
By Henry F. Epstein
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The present volume contains the edited transcript of a collo quium sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association and held at Mountain Shadows Inn, Scottsdale, Arizona, December 14-16, 1981.

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Published March, 2012
By R. Southgate, S. Elson, I. Howe, M. Jarman, P.G. McDougal, J. Polonsky and N.R. Schmuff
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Series: Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products
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More than ten years have elapsed since the publication of a compre hensive review on the quassinoids, the bitter principles of the Simaroubaceae family (80). Quassinoid General Features In reviewing the essential features of the quassinoids, the new structural types discovered during the last decade will be emphasised.

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Published March, 2012
By H. Timmermann and Heinz Timmermann
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
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The role of histamine as a neurotransmitter, the existence of a presynaptic receptor (H ) controlling the release of histamine 3 and other neurotransmitters, and the particular character of this receptor became important as the possibilities to design new therapeutic agents were realized.

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