Published July, 2012
By Michal Witt, Malgorzata Dawidowska and Tomasz Szczepanski
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Principles and Practice
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Several representative hemato-oncologic malignancies are analyzed in detail: acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, B-cell Non-Hodgkin lymphomas, multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and myeloproliferative neoplasms.

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Published July, 2012
By Shi-Ming Tu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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I would like to convince readers that the basic tenets of the theory of a stem-cell origin of cancers also constitute a unified theory of cancer. Stem-cell origin of normal (and cancer) cells: Vitruvian version Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.

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Published July, 2012
By Yuti Chernajovsky and Paul D. Robbins
Publisher: Springer (Springer Basel)
Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
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In this monograph about gene therapy of autoimmune and inflammatory d- orders we have gathered international experts and leaders from different fields to review the state of the art advances on topics ranging from disease entities to vectors and engineered cells.

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Published June, 2012
By M. A. Hayat and M.A. Hayat
Publisher: Springer
Series: Pediatric Cancer
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Brain tumors are the most common solid tumor of childhood as well as the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in children.

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Published June, 2012
By Avi Ma'Ayan and Ben D. MacArthur
Publisher: Springer
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The rapidly developing field of systems biology is influencing many aspects of biological research and is expected to transform biomedicine. Some emerging offshoots and specialized branches in systems biology are receiving particular attention and are becoming highly active areas of research.

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Published June, 2012
By Kenneth C. Keiler
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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These include methods and techniques to identify regulatory RNAs, characterizing the function and expression of regulatory RNAs in bacterial cells, RNA structure prediction, and interactions between regulatory RNAs and proteins.

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Published June, 2012
By Domenico Coppola
Publisher: Springer
Series: Cancer Growth and Progression
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This book offers a comprehensive update on mechanisms of tumorigenesis. The first portion discusses pediatric cancer, the influence of environmental factors and oncogene activity in tumorigenesis; the second portion is structured by organ site for easy access.

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Published June, 2012
By Bernhard Kadenbach
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book will describe the nuclear encoded genes and their expressed proteins of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. For complex IV (cytochrome c oxidase) some of these subunits occur in tissue-specific (subunits IV, VIa, VIb, VIIa, VIII), developmental-specific (subunits IV, VIa, and VIIa) as well as species-specific isoforms.

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Published June, 2012
By Richard A. Gatti and Robert B. Painter
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Nato ASI Subseries H:
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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Ataxia-Telangiectasia, held at Newport Beach, CA, USA, May 17-20, 1992

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Published June, 2012
By Harold Kalter
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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In the instance of one suspected cause of congenital malformations, maternal insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, while the perinatal mortality rate of children of such women has gone down greatly since World War II, the fraction of deaths due to congenital malformations has grown correspondingly and is now approach ing 50%.

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