Published October, 2007
By Shaun Kinghorn and Sandra Gaines
Publisher: Elsevier (Bailliere Tindall)
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Helps in the process of defining palliative nursing and how it interfaces with other disciplines within the specialty. This work is divided into three sections and covers the aspects of palliative nursing. Key themes covered herein include pain control, symptom control, loss and grief, and handling loss.

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Published October, 2007
By Fuyuhiko Tamanoi, Ross Dalbey and Carla Koehler
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Features thematic articles on the topic of molecular machines involved in protein transport across cellular membranes. This book consists of five parts which span the range of membranes including bacterial, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondrial, chloroplast, and peroxismal.

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Published October, 2007
By M. A. Hayat
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Presents imaging technology used in clinics or at experimental stages for diagnosis and/or early detection of various cancers, including anticancer vaccines, surgical techniques, chemotherapy, radiation, and gene therapies. This book discusses cancers that include breast, lung, liver, prostate, cervical, brain, gastrointestinal, and ovarian.

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Published October, 2007
By Penelope J. Allisy-Roberts and Jerry Williams
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
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Shows various advances in technology and legislation and the needs of the radiology trainees. This book is suitable for those sitting the primary and final examinations of the Royal College of Radiology, UK and for the radiographers and personnel interested in medical imaging.

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Published October, 2007
By Mark F. Newman, Lee A. Fleisher, Mitchell P. Fink and Lee Fleisher
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
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Discusses various management approaches for achieving optimal perioperative outcomes. This book reviews the potential risks to various major organ systems by examining the incidence and significance of organ dysfunction. It defines the preoperative and intraoperative risk factors.

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Published October, 2007
By Matthew Castle, Rachel Jones and Rachel W. Jones
Publisher: Elsevier (Churchill Livingstone)
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Provides information for psychiatrists in acute clinical situations. This book offers information on how to assess the patient, how to effectively manage psychiatric emergencies as well as the accurate diagnosis and management of common psychiatric conditions.

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Published October, 2007
By Kwang W. Jeon
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Presents advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology both plant and animal. This title contains articles which include Mechanisms of Gradient Detection: A Comparison of Axon Pathfinding with Eukaryotic Cell Migration; Leptin and the Regulation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis; and Focal Adhesion and p53 Signaling in Cancer Cells.

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Published October, 2007
By Richard M. Gore and Marc S. Levine
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
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Provides guidance on GI imaging technologies. This reference features chapters on CT colonography, PET/CT, MRCP, 3D applications of MDCT, CT enteroclysis, MR enteroclysis, MR colonography, MR angiography, CT angiography, and video capsule endoscopy. It emphasizes diagnostic imaging algorithms and differential diagnoses of imaging features.

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Published October, 2007
By John J. Rossi
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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MicroRNAs (miRNA) are tiny bits of genetic material. This volume in "Methods in Enzymology" presents methods for studying MicroRNA, with three sections covering identification of MicroRNAs and their targets; Micro RNA expression, maturation and functional analysis; and MicroRNAs and disease.

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Published October, 2007
By David A. Cheresh
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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An integrin, or integrin receptor, is an integral membrane protein in the plasma membrane of cells. It plays a role in the attachment of a cell to the extracellular matrix (ECM) and to other cells, and in signal transduction from the ECM to the cell. This volume in "Methods in Enzymology" presents methods for studying integrins.

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