Published June, 2007
By Paul J. Fairchild
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Immunological Tolerance: Methods and Protocols is a comprehensive guide to the techniques currently used for culturing and characterising the cell types responsible for imposing self-tolerance and the experimental models employed to study their function both in vitro and in vivo.

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Published June, 2007
By Gerard Pasterkamp and R. Jeroen Pasterkamp
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book details our progress in understanding the receptor and intracellular signaling mechanisms utilized by semaphorins. The comprehensive overview of semaphorin biology and signaling presented in this book allows one to compare semaphorin functions between different biological systems.

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Published May, 2007
By Bharat B. Aggarwal, Young-Joon Surh, Shishir Shishodia and S. Shishodia
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The medicinal uses of Curcumin (also called turmeric) have been known and described for more than 5000 years. A large body of recent research suggests that curcumin is potentially useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, through modulation of numerous molecular targets.

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Published May, 2007
By Horst Schroten and Stefan Wirth
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Birkhäuser Advances in Infectious Diseases
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Starting with historical, epidemiological and sociocultural issues, this book presents clinical and molecular biological aspects of pediatric infectious diseases.

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Published May, 2007
By D.B. Moody and Branch D. Moody
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
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There is increasing evidence that the CD1 system has been conserved throughout mammalian evolution and is capable of presenting structurally diverse diacyglycerol, sphingolipid, polyisoprenol and lipopeptide antigens.

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Published May, 2007
By Wolf-Henning Boehncke, Heinfried Radeke, W.-H. Boehncke and H.H. Radeke
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Readers will not only find that all of the biologics currently approved for clinical use are delineated in a standardized way, but also the "differential therapy" with biologics in fields including dermatology and neurology is described in detail and summarized in treatment algorithms.

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Published May, 2007
By Craig Meyers
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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One of the most important aspects of AIDS is the loss of protective immune function in the infected host which leads to increased prevalence of opportunistic infections and cancers. This book specifically addresses viral-induced human cancers associated with AIDS and observed in the AIDS population.

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Published April, 2007
By S. R. Pandi-Perumal, S.R. Pandi-Perumal, Daniel P. Cardinali, Georgios Chrousos and Seithikurippu Ratnas Pandi-Perumal
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Written both from a basic and a clinical perspective, the volume is an invaluable information resource for biomedical professionals and students of the human biology.Highly practical guide written from both a basic and clinical perspective.

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Published April, 2007
By Helmut Hahn and Klaus Miksits
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer-Lehrbuch
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Diagnostik und Therapie erregerbedingter Erkrankungen erfordern eine intensive Zusammenarbeit von Klinik und Labor. Das komplexe Gebiet der Medizinischen Mikrobiologie und Infektiologie wird in diesem Taschenlehrbuch knapp, ubersichtlich und leicht verstandlich beschrieben.

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Published April, 2007
By Gordon L Letts, Kuldeep Neote and Bernhard Moser
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
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Chemokines play an important role in recruiting inflammatory cells into tissues in response to infection and inflammation. They also play an important role in coordinating the movement of T-cells, B-cells and dentritic cells, necessary to generate an immune response (response to injury, allergens, antigens, invading microorganisms).

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