Published November, 2012
By James R. Lupski, F.J. de Bruijn, G.M. Weinstock, F.J. Bruijn, Frans J. de Bruijn and Frans de Bruijn
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A wide range of microbiologists, molecular biologists, and molecular evolutionary biologists will find this new volume of singular interest. The volume is not intended as a complete compendium of all information on microbial genomes, but rather focuses on approaches, methods and good examples of the analysis of small genomes.

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Published November, 2012
By Bibudhendra Sarkar
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During the past few years, major scientific discoveries have greatly contributed to our understanding of the relationship between metals and genetics. The section on metal carcinogenesis and metal caused DNA damage, presents the latest advances in our knowledge of the molecu lar mechanisms of metal-induced mutagenesis and carcinogenesis.

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Published November, 2012
By Doris Zumpe and Richard P. Michael
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These notes are intended to help undergraduates who need to understand something of behavior both for its intrinsic interest and for their future careers in medicine, biology, psychology, anthropology, veterinary medicine, and nursing.

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Published November, 2012
By Rodolfo Paoletti, R.A. Lobo, P.G. Crosignani, F. Bruschi and Roger Lobo
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Series: Medical Science Symposia Series
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The 4th International Symposium on Women's Health and Menopause, organized by the Giovanni Lorenzini Medical Foundation (Milan, Italy and Houston, Texas) focused on the new strategies to improve the quality of life of post-menopausal women.

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Published November, 2012
By Michael F. Holick
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Although solariums were becoming common in the early 1900s and phototherapy was gaining popularity as a result of the awarding of a Nobel Prize to Finsen in 1903, it wasn't until 1921 when Hess and Unger demonstrated that rickets could be cured by exposure to sunlight that the healthful benefit of sun exposure appreciated.

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Published November, 2012
By Bruno Apolloni and Franz Kurfess
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One high-level ability of the human brain is to understand what it has learned. At present we are technologically almost ready to artificially reproduce human brain tissue, but we still do not fully understand the information processing and the related biological mechanisms underlying this ability.

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Published November, 2012
By Gerald Huether, Hans Steinhart, Walter Kochen and Thomas J. Simat
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the "International Study Group for Tryptophan Research" (lSTRY), held at the University of Hamburg, Germany, from October 10 to 14, 1998.

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Published November, 2012
By Guy G. Poirier and Pierre Moreau
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This monograph is dedicated to one of the discoverers of poly(ADP ribose), Professor Paul Mandel, from the Centre de Neurochimie in Strasbourg. The last five years have been particularly exciting since the development of various molecular biology techniques has revealed the complex nature of this multifunctional enzyme.

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Published November, 2012
By Jeffrey Dunn and Harold M. Swartz
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Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This volume contains refereed manuscripts prepared from presentations made at the 2ih annual meeting of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT).

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Published November, 2012
By Wen-Quan Zou and Pierluigi Gambetti
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), now broadly known as prion diseases, have been recognized for nearly 300 years in animals and almost 100 years in humans.

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