Published May, 2013
By Sergio Gorini, Lap-Chee Tsui, Giovanni Romeo and Rainer Greger
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Proceedings of an international workshop held in Sestri Levante (Genoa), Italy, April 9--11, 1990

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Published May, 2013
By Victoria Chico
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Advances in human genetics are set to revolutionise the way we think about our health. Within the context of such changing social circumstances, this book identifies novel grievances that might be generated by modern human genetic technologies and considers how the English tort regime might respond to these grievances.

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Published May, 2013
By Sanjay K. Srivastava,
Publisher: Springer
Series: Diet and Cancer
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This book describes the mechanism of the anti-cancer effects of capsaicin including the involvement of cytochrome P-450 in the bioactivation; involvement of mitochondrial respiratory chain in the production of ROS; inhibition of cell survival pathways including PI3K/Akt and the involvement of intrinsic mitochondrial cell death pathway.

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Published May, 2013
By Guodong Chen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book begins with an overview of mass spectrometry techniques as related to the analysis of protein therapeutics, structural identification strategies, quantitative approaches, followed by studies involving characterization of process related protein drug impurities/degradants, metabolites, higher order structures of protein therapeutics.

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Published May, 2013
By Simon M. Lin and Kimberly F. Johnson
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Three tutorial papers are presented to assist with a basic understanding of underlying principles in microarray data analysis, and twelve new papers are highlighted analyzing the same CAMDA'02 datasets: the Project Normal data set or the Affymetrix Latin Square data set.

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Published May, 2013
By Giovanni Parmigiani, Elizabeth S. Garett, Rafael A. Irizarry and Scott L. Zeger
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book presents practical approaches for the analysis of data from gene expression micro-arrays. The book includes coverage of various packages that are part of the Bioconductor project and several related R tools. The materials presented cover a range of software tools designed for varied audiences.

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Published April, 2013
By Harry Harris and Kurt Hirschhorn
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Human Genetics
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From reviews of previous volumes in the series: 'Extremely valuable...thoroughly recommended.'-Annals of Human Genetics 'The most lucid and stimulating discussions of the topic to be found anywhere.'-American Scientist

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Published April, 2013
By John Gordon and Anthony D. Whetton
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Blood Cell Biochemistry
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Historically, the field of hematopoietic growth factor research began with the work of Carnot and Deflandre-in 1906 they suggested that the rate of erythropoiesis is regulated by a humoral factor found in the blood, namely, erythropoietin.

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Published April, 2013
By Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry and Jacques Arnould
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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`Why life?' Questions of this type were for a long time the prerogative of philosophers who left the `how' question to scientists. Over a century ago, Darwin modestly admitted having 'thrown some light on the origin of species - this mystery of mysteries'. Evolutionary genetics - the subject of this book - sends the individual crashing.

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Published April, 2013
By Ann M. Dvorak
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Blood Cell Biochemistry
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Basophils and mast cells are similar but unique secretory cells with a well-documented role in immediate-hypersensitivity reactions. Ultrastructural studies of rat mast cells historically precede and quantitatively exceed similar studies of basophils and mast cells of other species.

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