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Cover of Genes and Cardiovascular Function
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011

Rapid advances in molecular medicine have led to pronounced new developments in experimental and clinical cardiology.  In the embrace of modern molecular biology and bridging the gap between the clinical and the genomic, cardiovascular medicine has seen major strides in the understanding of the molecular...
Cover of The Hypertrophied Heart
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Whenever the heart is challenged with an increased work load for a prolonged period, it responds by increasing its muscle mass--a phenomenon known as cardiac hypertrophy. Although cardiac hypertrophy is commonly seen under physiological conditions such as development and exercise, a wide variety of...
Cover of Oxidative Stress and Vascular Disease
by John F. Keaney Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

One of the major biomedical triumphs of the post-World War II era was the defmitive demonstration that hypercholesterolemia is a key causative factor in atherosclerosis; that hypercholesterolemia can be effectively treated; and that treatment significantly reduces not only coronary disease mortality...
Cover of Ultrasound Angioplasty
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Catheter-delivered therapeutic ultrasound angioplasty is a new technique for use in the treatment of obstructive vascular disease. The treatment differs from balloon angioplasty in that it has been shown experimentally to cause disintegration of calcific and fibrotic atherosclerotic plaques, thrombus...
Cover of Growth Hormone
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Growth Hormone is a fitting addition to the Endocrine Updates Series. The aim of these publications is to provide the clinician with cutting-edge, yet succinct, access to the latest advances in endocrinology. Current interest in this rapidly evolving area of endocrinology makes this a timely and important...
Cover of Cardiac therapy
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Cardiac therapy has become ever more complex during the past quarter century. For example, 25 years ago, the therapy of cardiac failure was largely limited to digitalis, a very few diuretics, salt restriction, and general supportive measures. Antiarrhythmic therapy involved - in the main - quinidine,...
Cover of Oxygen Radicals in the Pathophysiology of Heart Disease
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Over two centuries ago, oxygen was discovered as "air vital": the component of the earth's atmosphere necessary for life. Less than five years after this discovery, it was found that oxygen was both a life-sustaining and life threatening inhalant as it plays a role in the two extremes of...
Cover of Microprobe Techniques in the Earth Sciences
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

30% discount for members of The Mineralogical Society of Britain and Ireland This text covers the range of microanalytical techniques available for the analysis of geological samples, principally in research applications. Each chapter is written in a clear, informative style and has a tutorial...
Cover of Nanofabrication

Nanofabrication

Principles, Capabilities and Limits

by Zheng Cui
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

This book provides the reader with the most up-to-date information and development in the Nanofabrication area. It presents a one-stop description at the introduction level on most of the technologies that have been developed which are capable of making structures below 100nm. Principles of each technology...
Cover of The Tunnel Effect in Chemistry
by Ronald Percy Bell
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013

The suggestion that quantum-mechanical tunnelling might be a significant factor in some chemical reactions was first made fifty years ago by Hund, very soon after the principles of wave mechanics had been established by de Broglie, Schrodinger and Heisenberg, and similar ideas were put forward during...
Cover of Biomedical Polymers and Polymer Therapeutics
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007

Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Frontiers in Biomedical Polymers including Polymer Therapeutics: From Laboratory to Clinical Practice, held May 23-27, 1999, in Shiga, Japan. This book focuses on the progress and unique discoveries in the interdisciplinary scientific and technological...
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Thermophiles: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution

Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

These are indeed exciting times to be a microbiologist. With one of the buzzwords of the past decade-"Biodiversity," and microbes are reveling in the attention as they represent by far most of the biodiversity on Earth. Microbes can thrive in almost any environment where there is an exploitable...
Cover of Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils

Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils

Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations

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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013

An insightful new work, Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils integrates two practices in paleobiology which are often separated - functional and phylogenetic analysis. The book summarizes the evidence on paleoenvironments at the most important Miocene hominoid sites and relates it to the pertinent fossil...
Cover of Perinatal Epidemiology for Public Health Practice
by Melissa M. Adams, Greg R. Alexander, Russell S. Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2010

Perinatal Epidemiology synthesizes perinatal knowledge through the lens of public health practice. This comprehensive text uses a consistent, logical format to offer readers: (1) A spectrum of topics affecting maternal and infant health: reproductive health concerns, maternal and infant morbidity...
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