Published October, 2010
By John C. Stavridis
Publisher: Springer
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This book is unique due to its collective approach to the key aspects of the interdependency between three entities: oxidative stress, tobacco smoke and carcinogenesis, operating in a cause-effect sequence, in a concise and to the point manner.

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Published October, 2010
By Volker A. Erdmann, Jan Barciszewski, Wolfgang Poller and hab. Jan Barciszewski
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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In this book the authors review the field and explore the potential role of RNAi and other RNA technologies in cardiovascular medicine and research. They highlight the impressive recent progress but also the hurdles that still must be overcome before this promising technology is finally ready for translation and clinical use.

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Published October, 2010
By Harold Kalter
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This book examines congenital malformations. These severe physical abnormalities have been noted as curiosities in man and beast throughout recorded history and receive great attention by various fields of study, from embryologists to population scientists.

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Published October, 2010
By Shao-Yao Ying
Publisher: Springer
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs), small single-stranded 17-25 nucleotide RNAs capable of interfering with intracellular messenger RNAs (mRNAs) that contain either complete or partial complementarity, are useful for the design of new therapies against cancer polymorphism and viral mutation.

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Published October, 2010
By Fred Bunz
Publisher: Springer
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This concise guidebook consolidates the main concepts of the cancer gene theory, and provides a framework for understanding the genetic basis of cancer. Primary attention is devoted to the origins of cancer genes and the application of evolutionary theory to explain why the cell clones that harbor cancer genes tend to expand.

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Published October, 2010
By Zhiguo Wang
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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These technologies have convincingly demonstrated their efficacy and reliability in producing gain-of-function or loss-of-function of miRNAs through targeting miRNA expression/biogenesis/function, providing new tools for elucidating miRNA functions and opening up a new avenue for the development of new agents targeting miRNAs for therapeutic aims.

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Published October, 2010
By Pushpendra K. Gupta, R.K. Varshney and Pushpendra Kumar Gupta
Publisher: Springer
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Cereals make an important component of daily diet of a major section of human population, so that their survival mainly depends on the cereal grain production, which should match the burgeoning human population.

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Published October, 2010
By Adrian Danek
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The book vehemently poses the question of how the membrane deformation of circulating red blood cells relates to degeneration of nerve cells in the brain, the basal ganglia, in particular.

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Published October, 2010
By Anton Buzdin and Sergey Lukyanov
Publisher: Springer
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Several approaches, such as microarray hybridization, have become extremely popular tools for specialists in biochemistry and biomedicine, while the potential of many other advantageous techniques seems to be underestimated. Written by an international team of authors, this book details the current state-of-art in hybridization techniques.

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Published October, 2010
By Thomas Liehr
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This book is a unique source of information on the present state of the exciting field of molecular cytogenetics and how it can be applied in research and diagnostics.

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