Published October, 2016
By Thomas F. Burke, Anita M. McGahan, Roy Ahn and Anita McGahan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This powerful resource identifies wide-scale health challenges facing a rapidly urbanizing planet--including key concerns in nutrition, health status, health care, and safety--and strategies toward possible solutions.

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Published October, 2016
By Francis McGlone, India Morrison, Hakan Olausson and Johan Wessberg
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CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch.

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Published October, 2016
By Dawn A. Marcus and Duren Michael Ready
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Published October, 2016
By Charles Harris, Jen-Chywan Wang, PhD, Charles Harris, MD, PhD and Jen-Chywan Wang
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The second section will discuss the effects of glucocorticoids on metabolism, while the third section will cover the effects of glucocorticoids on key tissues. The final section will discuss general topics, such as animal models in glucocorticoid research and clinical implications of glucocorticoid research.

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Published October, 2016
By Paul Shapshak, Jens H. Kuhn, Jens Kuhn, Charurut Somboonwit and John T. Sinnott
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book provides trajectories and illustrations of viruses that have catapulted into the global arena (linked to humans, animals, and vectors) due to human behaviors in recent years, as well as viruses that have already shown expansion among humans, animals, and vectors just a few decades ago.

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Published October, 2016
By Edgar V. Lerma and Julia R. Nunley
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Nearly all patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have at least one significant dermatologic manifestation. This all-inclusive reference covers the wide array of cutaneous manifestations attributable to CKD, kidney transplantation and the pharmacological aspects of the disease process.

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Published October, 2016
By Briana N. Horwitz and Jenae M. Neiderhiser
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Published October, 2016
By Stephen F. Brockmeier
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Published October, 2016
By Rahul Jandial and Mike Y. Chen
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Editors hope that Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord appeals to the nostalgic sentiments of investigators and intellectuals in that it can be held in hand and provide a broad survey of leading edge science.

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Published October, 2016
By Lawrence S. Chin and William F. Regine
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This book offers a theoretical basis for the use of therapeutic radiation including imaging techniques and radiobiology. It covers all diseases treated by stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS ) and examines administrative and technical aspects of running a SRS unit.

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