Published March, 2012
By A. Kaneko
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
Series: Keio University International Symposia for Life Sciences and Medicine
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The book covers topics ranging from phototransduction to visual information processing in the primary visual cortex, and includes clinical studies on hereditary night blindness, creating a valuable source of information for researchers and clinicians in the visual neurosciences.

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Published March, 2012
By Y. Ikeda, J. Hata, S. Koyasu, Y. Kawakami and Y. Hattori
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
Series: Keio University International Symposia for Life Sciences and Medicine
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Modern cell biology has brought improvements in therapy for advanced malignant diseases through immunomodulation, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and other advanced techniques.

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Published March, 2012
By Masami Ando and Chikao Uyama
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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Medical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation

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Published March, 2012
By Keiichi Sasaki
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Interface oral health science was founded on the concept that healthy oral function is maintained by biological and biomechanical harmony between three systems: oral tissues, parasitic oral microorganisms, and biomaterials.

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Published March, 2012
By H. Kikuchi
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The importance of the therapeutic time window for ischemic stroke has been widely accepted for a long time. Recently, the basic study of stroke has advanced significantly, resulting in newly developed materials and new experimental techniques, which are introduced in this book.

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Published March, 2012
By Stephen T Holgate, Ruby Pawankar and Lanny J. Rosenwasser
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
Series: Allergy Frontiers
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When I entered the field of allergy in the early 1970s, the standard textbook was a few hundred pages, and the specialty was so compact that texts were often authored entirely by a single individual and were never larger than one volume.

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Published March, 2012
By Jiro Suzuki
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This book deals with many aspects of gliomas, including factors related to incidence and epidemiology, and surveys the history of glioma therapies. Experimental studies carried out by the Sendai Group of Neurosurgeons are reported, together with the results of many clinical studies of RAFP therapy.

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Published March, 2012
By Jos A.E Spaan, Yukio Maruyama, Fumihiko Kajiya, Julien I.E. Hoffman, Jos Spaan and Julien Hoffman
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"Regulatory Mechanisms of Coronary circulation and its Clinical Relevance": N u.merous mechanisms affecting coronary flow have been defined and studied at the level of isolated vessels and whole organs.

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Published March, 2012
By Seisuke Tanaka and Chiaki Hamanishi
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The proceedings of the symposium are presented here in five sections: (1) Mechanical stress and reactions of chondrocytes, such as intracellular ion changes, changes in the cytoskeleton, intracellular messenger systems, release of gas mediators, and changes in electromechanical properties of cartilage;

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Published February, 2012
By Kiwamu Okita
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More than 2 million people in Japan have chronic hepatitis C and many of them will lose their lives to liver cirrhosis or complications of hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatitis C virus-related diseases are a serious concern both in developing countries and in Japan and the United States, where the number of patients is also in the millions.

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