Published May, 2012
By Ulrich Storz, Wolfgang Flasche and Johanna Driehaus
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents
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SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents present timely reports of intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. The second chapter gives an overview of the patent landscape in molecular diagnostics, and discusses issues of patentability with respect to the different technologies and compounds used therein.

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Published May, 2012
By Jorge H. Daruna and Jorge Daruna
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Presents an overview of what has been discovered by scientists regarding how bodily systems respond to environmental challenges and intercommunicate to sustain health. This title covers endocrine-immune modulation, neuro-immune modulation, and the enhancing or inhibiting processes of one or more systems on the others.

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Published May, 2012
By Massimo Gola
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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Un bambino con una malattia cutanea non e soltanto un problema medico ma anche sociale e soprattutto familiare con pesanti risvolti psicologici.

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Published May, 2012
By J.E. Castro
Publisher: Springer
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Only when syngeneic tumours are used can tumour antigens alone be studied and it was the introduction of inbred mouse strains which allowed Foley in 1953' to produce the first evidence for specific an tigenicity of experimental tumours.

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Published May, 2012
By Pier C. Braga, Luigi Allegra and Roberto Dal Negro
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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Bronchial asthma is a multifactorial disease. This meansthat a physician in general practice cannot alone assess allthe aspects of asthma employing different technigues tomanage this disease.

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Published May, 2012
By Noel L. Warner
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Contemporary topics in immunobiology
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Although the field of contemporary immunobiology continues to diversify and encompass an increasing array of biomedical disciplines and topics, there are frequently several themes that will receive special emphasis and prominence at any given time.

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Published May, 2012
By Rolf Jessberger and Michael R. Lieber
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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The proteins that catalyze many steps of the process have now been identified by biochemical and genetic recon stitution and by analysis of genetic mutants defective in V(D)J recombination. In addition to exciting progress in V(D)J recombination and class switch recombination, one chapter describes recent pro gress in somatic hypermutation.

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Published May, 2012
By Adam Finn, Andrew J. Pollard and Nigel Curtis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book examines various aspects of paediatric infectious diseases. Each chapter is based on a lecture given at the sixth "Infection and Immunity in Children" course, held at the end of June 2008 at Keble College, Oxford.

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Published May, 2012
By Motonari Kondo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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In the summer of 1988, my developmental biology professor announced to the class that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) had finally been purified.

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Published May, 2012
By Bente K. Pedersen and Alexzander A. A. Asea
Publisher: Springer
Series: Heat Shock Proteins
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Heat Shock Proteins and Whole Body Physiology is an exciting new book in the Heat Shock Proteins series which provides the most up-to-date review on novel mechanisms insights into the important role played by heat shock proteins in human physiology.

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