Published September, 2014
By Stephen J. Hagen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Quorum sensing (QS) describes a chemical communication behavior that is nearly universal among bacteria. Chapters will describe experimental studies of QS in natural and engineered or microfabricated bacterial environments, as well as modeling of QS on length scales spanning from the molecular to macroscopic.

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Published September, 2014
By Richard A. Kaslow, Lawrence R. Stanberry and James W. Le Duc
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Viral Infections of Humans

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Published September, 2014
By Vladimir Parpura and Alexei Verkhratsky
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Pathophysiological states, neurological and psychiatric diseases are almost universally considered from the neurocentric point of view, with neurons being the principal cellular element of pathological process.

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Published September, 2014
By I.W. Fong
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century
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This new volume in the series Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century is a novel book on the role of microbes in the pathogenesis of common and disabling non-infectious diseases.

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Published September, 2014
By Rakesh V. Khanna, Gennady Bratslavsky and Robert J. Stein
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This volume provides a comprehensive review and detailed description of surgical techniques for prostate cancer surgery. Surgical Techniques for Prostate Cancer is a concise and valuable resource to surgeons that documents the different approaches to prostate cancer surgery.

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Published September, 2014
By William Horsnell
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Also covered are how helminth infections alter the host's ability to control TB, HIV and malarial infections along with neglected bacterial infections, such as cholera, and how endemic helminth infections are likely to alter our ability to respond to life-saving vaccination strategies.

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Published September, 2014
By Ian Olver
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Published September, 2014
By Rao R Ivatury
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Published September, 2014
By Marie-Ève Tremblay and Amanda Sierra
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Microglia in Health and Disease

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Published September, 2014
By Giuseppe Di Giovanni, Adam C. Errington and Vincenzo Crunelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: The Receptors
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Whereas synaptic GABAA receptors underlie classical "phasic" GABAA receptor-mediated inhibition (inhibitory postsynaptic currents), tonic GABAA receptor-mediated inhibition results from the activation of extrasynaptic receptors by low concentrations of ambient GABA.

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