Published October, 2009
By M. Sharon Stack, David A. Fishman and M.Sharon Stack
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Ovarian carcinoma continues to be responsible for more deaths than all other gynecologic malignancies combined, due to a continued inability to achieve detection of early (rather than advanced) stage disease and the lack of effective tumor-specific therapeutics.

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Published October, 2009
By Hongyu Zhao and Shili Lin
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This handbook offers guidance on selections of appropriate computational methods and software packages for specific genetic problems. Wherever possible, comparisons among competing methods and software are made to highlight the relative advantages and disadvantage of the approaches.

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Published October, 2009
By Alexandrina L. Dumitrescu and Junya Kobayashi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Periodontitis is a complex, multifactorial disease, and its susceptibility is genetically determined. This book systematically reviews the evidence of the association between the genetic variants and periodontitis progression and/or treatment outcomes.

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Published October, 2009
By Debbie L. Hay, Ian M. Dickerson and Deborah L. Hay
Publisher: Springer
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The year 1961 was a banner year for parathyroid research, in which the peptides parathyroid hormone and calcitonin were purified, and in which it was suggested that calcitonin could lower blood calcium (Copp and Cameron 1961).

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Published October, 2009
By Carmen Espinos, Vicente Felipo and Francesc Palau
Publisher: Springer
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This reference on the state-of-the-art of neuromuscular diseases as a whole offers a current review of inherited neuromuscular diseases under different approaches: genetics, pathomechanisms, therapies and treatments.

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Published October, 2009
By Damir Janigro
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Neuroscience
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The even more colo- ful "book of life" metaphor gave the promise that reading that book would lead to a veritable outpouring of new cures for diseases, hundreds of new drug targets, and a brave new world of medicine.

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Published September, 2009
By Jeffrey A. Stuart
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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The volume is divided into three sections, which cover the transduction of information from mtDNA to functionally active respiratory complexes, mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production as well as mtDNA damage and its repair, and the identification and quantification of heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations.

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Published September, 2009
By Keith DiPetrillo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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As two of the leading causes of death worldwide, heart disease and stroke represent a clear target for genomic research aimed at deciphering the genes and cellular pathways that underlie cardiovascular disease and creating improved therapies.

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Published September, 2009
By Duncan J. Clarke
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Due to their importance to cell biology, DNA topology-altering enzymes, collectively DNA topoisomerases and gyrases, have been studied thoroughly from a biochemical perspective, yet the expansion of research at the molecular and cellular levels continues to show a great deal of promise.

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Published September, 2009
By Adrian P. Gee and Adrian Gee
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Cell Therapy offers a discussion of facility design operation issues, complete with practical approaches. This facility-focused resource also includes in-depth reviews of quality, supply management, regulation frameworks and professional standards

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