Published November, 2010
By K.P. Ober and K. Patrick Ober
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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Expert clinicians comprehensively review the endocrine and metabolic responses to critical illness, explore the mechanisms and outcomes (positive and negative) of those responses to severe stress, and consider possible endocrine interactions that are not yet fully defined.

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Published November, 2010
By Z. David Luo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Thanks to rapid advancements in the development of novel cellular and molecular biology techniques, as well as in our understanding of physiology, and of the behavioral pharmacology of pain transduction, the time is now ripe for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of pain transduction using multidisciplinary approaches.

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Published November, 2010
By Wieslaw M. Kazmierski
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Medicine
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The last decade has witnessed a steady stream of new synthetic approaches to peptide mimetics, compounds that replace phy- ologically vulnerable peptide functionalities with chemical modules of - creased stability and cellular penetration.

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Published November, 2010
By Robert F. Highsmith
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Biomedicine
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A unique, integrated collection of original contributions on the molecular biology, physiology, and pathology of endothelin. Leading academic, clinical, and industrial researchers summarize the dramatic recent progress in endothelin research and indicate the optimal direction of future studies.

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Published November, 2010
By Richard David Semba
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Nutrition and Health
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The Handbook of Nutrition in Ophthalmology is the first general text on nutrition and eye health created for physicians, nutritionists, and researchers. The volume also includes chapters addressing nutritional aspects of preventing eye disease in diabetes mellitus and other optical neuropathies, making this a unique book.

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Published November, 2010
By Mehmet C Oz
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
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A comprehensive review by renowned authorities of the many exciting developments occurring across the rapidly emerging field of "minimally invasive" or "minimal access" cardiac surgery.

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Published November, 2010
By Gerald M. Reaven and Ami Laws
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Endocrinology
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Published November, 2010
By Giamila Fantuzzi
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Immunology
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Carrying on the high standards of the much praised first edition (Durum and Muegge, Cytokine Knockouts, 1998), Giamila Fantuzzi and a panel of experts have generated completely new chapters to reflect the use of many novel mouse strains and the hundreds of recent studies on cytokine physiology.

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Published November, 2010
By George Y. Wu and George Wu
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Clinical Gastroenterology
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Few clinical disciplines have been transformed so dramatically by advancements in science and technology as gastrointestinal surgery.

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Published November, 2010
By David J. Goldstein
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Nutrition and Health
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Updated chapters review specific evidence-based and future treatment modalities, present an objective evaluation of the treatment, and identify the positives and negatives that have been seen during clinical studies, as well as cumulative data derived from clinical practice.

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