Published November, 2010
By Daniel I. Simon and Campbell Rogers
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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These experts examine critical issues related to vascular disease and injury in five major areas: acute mechanical injury and vascular repair, arterial thrombosis, chronic atherosclerosis, vascular disease in transplanted vessels, and vascular disease in systemic and pulmonary arterial hypertension.

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Published November, 2010
By Sigrid C. Veasey
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
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Dr. Stadtman broke the ground for a new field of study to discover how oxidative stress contributes in significant ways to age-related cellular dysfunction and protein accumulation and that oxidation in the aging brain influences Alzheimer's disease, ischemia-reperfusion injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and lifespan [4-6].

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Published November, 2010
By Robert S. Bar
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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Published November, 2010
By Kenneth Hensley and Robert A. Floyd
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology
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Methods in Biological Oxidative Stress is practical in scope, providing the details of up-to-date techniques for measuring oxidative stress and detecting oxidizing agents both in vitro and in vivo.

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Published November, 2010
By Martin Quinn, Desmond Fitzgerald and Dermott Cox
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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The authors delineate an up-to-date picture of platelet biology and describe methods for assessing platelet function, including the commonly used platelet aggregation, thromboxane production, procoagulant function, platelet function under flow, and the expression of platelet activation markers.

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Published November, 2010
By Mark N. Feinglos, M. Angelyn Bethel and Mary Angelyn Bethel
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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In this practical book, the authors of each chapter have synthesized the currently available evidence regarding specific issues in diabetes care. Such an approach emphasizes the need for collaboration in the care of any individual with diabetes and in the effort to find new therapies for the disease.

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Published November, 2010
By Jack H. Mydlo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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The purpose of Renal Cancer: Methods and Protocols is to introduce the surgeon, clinician, investigator, and research scientist to the basic methods employed in the diagnosis and treatment of renal cancer.

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Published November, 2010
By Constantin Bona
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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A critical review of the classic, as wells as most recent-and quite seminal-findings concerning the phenotypic and molecular characteristics of both fetal and neonatal B and T cells, the cells that mediate antibody and cellular immune responses in newborns and infants.

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Published November, 2010
By E.A. Reese, Carol J. Lammi-Keefe, Sarah C. Couch, Elliot H. Philipson and Elliot Philipson
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Nutrition and Health
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This is an easy-to-use handbook written for the clinician and other healthcare professionals who treat and counsel pregnant women and women of child-bearing age. The authors provide historical perspective and background to support recommendations which are provided in each chapter.

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Published November, 2010
By Katherine Bushby, Louise V.B Anderson and Katherine M.D. Bushby
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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Some common themes can be recognized, however, including the involvement of five members of the dystrophin-associated complex (dystrophin and four sarcoglycans) in different types of MD, and the involvement of two nuclear envelope proteins in producing an Emery-Dreifuss MD phenotype.

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