Published December, 2009
By Shalin H. Naik
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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This updated book presents protocols from experts in the field that cover the basics and more complex forays into the exploration of DC development and function, both in mice and humans. It aims to become a bench-side handbook for both beginners and experts.

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Published December, 2009
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 December, 2009
By Richard W. Burry
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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By contrast, the approach for Burry's book would be to discuss methods based on what works in animal research laboratories today, and focus only on the most productive methods.An additional distinction with this proposed book is the focus on animal research and not human pathology.

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Published December, 2009
By Takashi Saito and Facundo D. Batista
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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Cells of the immune system develop in bone marrow and lymphoid organs, but as the cells mature they leave these organs and circulate as single cells. Studies of normal and transformed T cell lines and of T cells from transgenic mice led to comprehensive understanding of the mole- lar basis of antigen-receptor recognition and signaling.

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Published December, 2009
By Wytske J Fokkens and Wystke J. Fokken
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
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Focuses on treatments for Chronic Rhinosinusitis. This title covers topics such as: inflammatory mechanisms in chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyposis; European versus Asian Chronic rhinosinusitis; what did it teach us and what do we want to know; and, anti-inflammatory effects of macrolides - applications in CRS.

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Published December, 2009
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 December, 2009
By Phillip M. Boiselle, David A. Lynch and David Lynch
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Medical Imaging
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This book offers a comprehensive review of large and small airways disorders. The next section examines small airways disorders in adults, including asthma, infectious and non-infectious small airways disorders, obliterative bronchiolitis, and smoking-related airway diseases.

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Published December, 2009
By Jacques Zimmer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Natural killer (NK) cells have been at the forefront of immunology for two decades. This book describes in detail current knowledge about NK cells and covers a broad range of NK cell-related topics, including those that are not frequently reviewed, e.g. NK cells and allergy or NK cells and skin diseases.

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Published November, 2009
By Stephen T Holgate, Ruby Pawankar and Lanny J. Rosenwasser
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
Series: Allergy Frontiers
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When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single individual and were never larger than one volume.

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Published November, 2009
By Peter Stern, Henry Kitchener, Peter L. Stern and Henry C. Kitchener
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Oncology Library
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This practical pocketbook provides an overview of the role of HPV in the pathophysiology of cervical cancer and its current screening and management, the principles of immune control of HPV infection in cervical cancer, and the challenges of implementing HPV vaccines and future developments.

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