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Cover of The Physiological Basis of Rehabilitation Medicine
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

The Physiological Basis of Rehabilitation Medicine: Second Edition presents a comprehensive examination of the management of patients with functional impairments due to disease or trauma. It discusses the distinction between disabilities and impairments per se. It addresses the method in which the...
Cover of Sectional Anatomy and Tomography of the Head
by Guy D. Potter
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

Sectional Anatomy & Tomography of the Head focuses on the anatomical section of the head and its description. It discusses the slowly developing appearance of the head which includes the face, orbit, ears, sinuses, and base of the skull. It addresses the functions and structures of such parts. Some...
Cover of Cell Biology of the B Cell Receptor
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

Advances in Immunology, a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments as well as comprehensive reviews in immunology. Articles address the wide range of topics that comprise immunology, including molecular and cellular activation mechanisms, phylogeny and molecular...
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Stem Cells

Scientific Facts and Fiction

by Christine Mummery, Anja van de Stolpe, Bernard Roelen
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

Recent advances in the fields of medicine and technology have led to the development of stem cell therapy. A stem cell is a cell that has the potential to develop into many different types of cell in the body. It has the ability to divide and copy itself and at least one other specialized type of...
Cover of Basic Biotechnology
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006

Biotechnology is one of the major technologies of the twenty-first century. Its wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary activities include recombinant DNA techniques, cloning and the application of microbiology to the production of goods from bread to antibiotics. In this new edition of the textbook Basic Biotechnology,...
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Welcome to the Microbiome

Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You

by Rob DeSalle, Susan L. Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

 Suddenly, research findings require a paradigm shift in our view of the microbial world. The Human Microbiome Project at the National Institutes of Health is well under way, and unprecedented scientific technology now allows the censusing of trillions of microbes inside and on our bodies as well as...
Cover of Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity
by Thomas Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009

Ergonomics in Sport and Physical Activity: Enhancing Performance and Improving Safety is also available as an e-book. The e-book is available at a reduced price and allows readers to highlight and take notes throughout the text. When purchased through the Human Kinetics site, access to the e-book...
Cover of Plant Innate Immunity
by L.J.C. van Loon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009

Plant innate immunity is a collective term to describe a complex of interconnected mechanisms that plants use to withstand potential pathogens and herbivores. The last decade has seen a rapid advance in our understanding of the induction, signal transduction and expression of resistance responses...
Cover of The Cytokine Factsbook and Webfacts
by Katherine A. Fitzgerald, Luke A.J. O'Neill, Andy J.H. Gearing
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2001

Completely revised and expanded, this second edition of The Cytokine FactsBook is the most up-to-date reference manual available for all current well-characterized interleukins, cytokines, and their receptors. An additional 52 cytokines are included, doubling the number of entries from the previous...
Cover of Neuropsychopharmacology: A Tribute to Joseph T. Coyle
by Robert Schwarcz
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016

Neuropsychopharmacology: A Tribute to Joseph T. Coyle is a new volume from Advances in Pharmacology presenting reviews of recent breakthroughs in glutamate pharmacology and a tribute to one of the most influential neuroscientists of our times. With a variety of chapters and the best authors in the...
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Viral Pathogenesis

From Basics to Systems Biology

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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

Viral Pathogenesis: From Basics to Systems Biology, Third Edition, has been thoroughly updated to cover topical advances in the evolving field of viral pathogenesis, while also providing the requisite classic foundational information for which it is recognized. The book provides key coverage...
Cover of Nuclear Architecture and Dynamics
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017

Nuclear Architecture and Dynamics provides a definitive resource for (bio)physicists and molecular and cellular biologists whose research involves an understanding of the organization of the genome and the mechanisms of its proper reading, maintenance, and replication by the cell. This book brings...
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Hospitality of the Matrix

Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture

by Irina Aristarkhova
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012

The question "Where do we come from?" has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and artists for generations. This book reorients the question of the matrix as a place where everything comes from (chora, womb, incubator) by recasting it in terms of acts of "matrixial/maternal hospitality"...
Cover of Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009

Hypertensive disorders remain one the major causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and death. It is also a leading cause of preterm birth now known to be a risk factor in remote cardiovascular disease. Despite this, the hypertensive disorders remain marginally studied, and their management is commonly...
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