Published February, 2012
By Kedar N. Prasad and Jr. Meyskens
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Experimental Biology and Medicine
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In the past five years, a surprising and intense resurgence in interest in vitamins and other micronutrients and their role in health and dis ease has occurred.

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Published February, 2012
By Marc Feldmann and Andrew McMichael
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Experimental Biology and Medicine
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The immune response gene workshops that took place were based on the need to understand why certain experimental animal strains were high responders and others were low responders. Research in the ensuing years has identified the Ir gene products involved in antibody responses as the la antigens, or MHC Class II antigens.

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Published February, 2012
By Robert C. Elston, Jaya M. Satagopan and Shuying Sun
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Recent advances in genetics over the last quarter of a century, especially in molecular techniques, have dramatically reduced the cost of determining genetic markers and hence opened up a field of research that is increasingly helping to detect, prevent and/or cure many diseases that afflict humans.

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Published February, 2012
By Kursad Turksen
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This volume will cover a series of reviews on stem cells including adult and embryonic stem cells. Speakers were invited to present these talks during the Stem Cell Symposia in fall of 2010, in Samsun, Turkey. Unique aspect of this volume is that it brings a multidisciplinary aspect of stem cells extracted from a symposium.

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Published January, 2012
By Adnan I. Qureshi, Yousef M. Mohammad and Robert Walker Jensen
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Comprised of real clinical cases from all divisions of neurology, this title provides an instructive approach to learning guidelines and techniques of diagnosis and management of various disorders. This work covers adult and pediatric pain problems, confusion and/or cognitive impairment, altered sensation, weakness, abnormal movements, and more.

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Published January, 2012
By Joan Heller Brown
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: The Receptors
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Research on muscarinic receptors is advancing at an extraordinary rate. The discovery that pirenzepine recognized apparent heterogeneity in muscarinic binding sites infused new life into the problem of subclassifying muscarinic receptors.

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Published January, 2012
By Paul M. Vanhoutte
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: The Endothelium
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Since the first report in 1980 by Robert Furchgott and colleagues (see Chapter 1) of the evidence of endothelium-dependent relaxation in isolated arteries, there are ever increasing numbers of vascular physiologists and pharmacologists who are scraping away the endothelium to look into its role in cardiovascular con trol.

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Published January, 2012
By Gregory Jon Anderson, Gordon D. McLaren and Gregory J. Anderson
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Nutrition and Health
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Provides health professionals in areas of research and practice the importance of iron as a nutrient and its role in health and disease. This volume is the benchmark in the complex area of interrelationships between the essentiality of iron, and its functions throughout the body.

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Published January, 2012
By Beth J. Shapiro, Michael Hofreiter and Beth Shapiro
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Research into ancient DNA began more than 25 years ago with the publication of short mitochondrial DNA sequence fragments from the quagga, an extinct relative of the zebra.

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Published January, 2012
By Jeffrey P. Kanne
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Respiratory Medicine
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While chest radiography continues to serve as the primary tool for imaging the chest, advances in computed tomography (CT) have led to a variety of applications such as high-resolution CT (HRCT), advanced 3-D airway imaging, and image-guided procedures.The aim of this book is to deliver a clinically-oriented approach to pulmonary imaging.

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