Published December, 2008
By Thomas J. Webster
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Nanostructure Science and Technology
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In spite of the potential use of nanomaterials as tissue engineering devices, implants, biosensors, drug delivery devices, etc., there has yet to be a compilation of the risks associated with the in vivo use of nanomaterials.

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Published December, 2008
By Michael S. Diamond
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
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West Nile virus is a neurotropic flavivirus that has emerged globally as a primary cause of viral encephalitis. Studies in mammalian systems have dissected the viral and host factors that determine the pathogenesis and outcome of West Nile virus infection.

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Published December, 2008
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 is based on the course 'Infection and Immunity in Children 2007' held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. The course covers topics in infectious diseases in children.

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Published December, 2008
By Gail Ruth Goldberg, Andrew Prentice, Ann Prentice, Suzanne Filteau, Kirsten Simondon and Gail Goldberg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This is the first book ever to focus on the post-natal period in terms of early life programming for adult health. It covers a vast range of topics related to the subject and contains special lectures and previously unpublished data.

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Published November, 2008
By Jonathan Barker, Bruce Kirkham, Arthur Kavanaugh and Scott Eric Plevy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book provides a comprehensive distillation of the clinical experience with Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) blocking therapy drugs combined with the diverse available databases to provide practical information about the use of these drugs in daily practice.

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Published November, 2008
By Henry J. Kaminski
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Current Clinical Neurology
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Advances in the study and understanding of myasthenia gravis have led to the need for the publication of this important new edition.

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Published November, 2008
By Thomas A. Luger and Richard D. Granstein
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Much anecdotal information has suggested an influence of psychology and the nervous system on immunity within the skin and the expression of inflammatory skin disorders.

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Published November, 2008
By Allan Siegel and Steven S. Zalcman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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For many years, the immune and central nervous systems were thought to function independently with little or no interaction between the two.

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Published November, 2008
By Bernard Fried and Rafael Toledo
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The Biology of Echinostomes demonstrates the application of new techniques to a group of trematodes that may serve to obtain information of great value in parasitology and general biology.

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Published November, 2008
By Stephen P. Schoenberger, Peter D. Katsikis, Bali Pulendran and Steven P. Schoenberger
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Such studies are shedding new light on the pathogenetic mechanism of complement-related diseases such as autoimmune diseases and inflammatory tissue damage as well as defining new areas of high interest such as the developmental biology of complement.

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