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Molecular Mechanisms Influencing Aggressive Behaviours
Av Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode
Inbunden, 2005
2211 kr
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This book features scientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines discussing recent data on aggression in laboratory animals with particular reference to possible implications for understanding human aggression. Chapters focus on the major current experimental issues in the study of aggression in …
Molecular Mechanisms Influencing Aggressive Behaviours
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2006
2656 kr
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This book features scientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines discussing recent data on aggression in laboratory animals with particular reference to possible implications for understanding human aggression. Chapters focus on the major current experimental issues in the study of aggression in …
Heart Failure
Molecules, Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets
Av Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode
Inbunden, 2006
2400 kr
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Heart failure is the main cause of death and disability in the industrialized world. There is a major need for novel therapeutics for prevention and reversal of cardiac pathology associated with heart failure and cardiac enlargement. Over recent years, dramatic progress has been made in unravelling …
Signalling Networks in Cell Shape and Motility
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2005
2598 kr
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This book features contributions from experts in cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, immunology and structural biology. The unifying element is that they all study processes of cell shape change and motility. Several key questions in this field of research are discussed: What are the organising …
Genetics of Autoimmunity
Av Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode
Inbunden, 2005
2356 kr
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This title provides an extremely helpful analysis of genes that may be associated with autoimmunity, and answers questions such as how these genes can be identified, and how the functions of the gene products can be elucidated. Incorporating data on disease-associated chromosomal loci that has been …
Genetics of Autoimmunity
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2005
2735 kr
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This title provides an extremely helpful analysis of genes that may be associated with autoimmunity, and answers questions such as how these genes can be identified, and how the functions of the gene products can be elucidated. Incorporating data on disease-associated chromosomal loci that has been …
Understanding Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2006
2785 kr
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Cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.9 million premature deaths per year worldwide. This is predicted to rise to 10 million by 2020. In western countries it kills half of all smokers who fail to stop. The prevailing model for tobacco addiction is that nicotine from cigarettes rewards smoking …
Heart Failure
Molecules, Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2006
2735 kr
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Heart failure is the main cause of death and disability in the industrialized world. There is a major need for novel therapeutics for prevention and reversal of cardiac pathology associated with heart failure and cardiac enlargement. Over recent years, dramatic progress has been made in unravelling …
Empathy and Fairness
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2007
2705 kr
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Empathy is the process that allows us to share the feelings and emotions of others, in the absence of any direct emotional stimulation to the self. Humans can feel empathy for other people in a wide array of contexts: for basic emotions and sensation such as anger, fear, sadness, joy, pain and lust …
Fatty Acid and Lipotoxicity in Obesity and Diabetes
Av Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode
Inbunden, 2008
2444 kr
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The potential lipotoxic effect of accumulation of fatty acids in non-adipose tissues is thought to be a major component in the development of insulin resistance. Chronic exposure to high concentrations of free fatty acids in the blood affects pancreatic β cell function, insulin secretion and lipid …
New Treatment Strategies for Dengue and Other Flaviviral Diseases
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2006
2735 kr
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Dengue virus is a member of the Flaviviridae family, which includes viruses associated with human diseases such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and hepatitis C. Dengue fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, principally Aedes aegypti . There are four serotypes of dengue virus, of which DENV-2 …
Decoding the Genomic Control of Immune Reactions
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2007
2735 kr
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This book explores existing and potential strategies for using the genome sequences of human, mouse, other vertebrates and human pathogens to solve key problems in the treatment of immunological diseases and chronic infections. The assembled genome sequences now provide important opportunities for …
Novel and Re-emerging Respiratory Viral Diseases
Av Gregory R. Bock, Jamie A. Goode
Inbunden, 2008
2400 kr
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The past decade has seen mounting global concern regarding viral outbreaks such as SARS, avian influenza and West Nile virus. In 2004 and 2005, reports of bird-to-human, and possible human-to-human, transmissions of the H5N1 influenza viruses raised fears that these viruses could cause a pandemic …
Immunoinformatics
Bioinformatic Strategies for Better Understanding of Immune Function
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2004
2735 kr
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The astounding diversity of the immune system and the complexity of its regulatory pathways makes immunology a combinatorial science. Computational analysis has therefore become an essential element of immunology research and this has led to the creation of the emerging field of immunoinformatics. …
Stem Cells
Nuclear Reprogramming and Therapeutic Applications
Av Novartis, Gregory R. Bock m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2267 kr
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Understanding stem cells at the molecular level is essential to understanding their behaviour in a physiological context. This volume in our acclaimed Novartis Foundation series features animated discussion from the world’s experts in this topic on the important ethical issues that are raised by …
Stem Cells
Nuclear Reprogramming and Therapeutic Applications
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2005
2656 kr
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Understanding stem cells at the molecular level is essential to understanding their behaviour in a physiological context. This volume in our acclaimed Novartis Foundation series features animated discussion from the world’s experts in this topic on the important ethical issues that are raised by …
Retinal Dystrophies
Functional Genomics to Gene Therapy
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gerry Chader m. fl.
E-bok, 2004
2735 kr
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Retinal dystrophies are the major causes of incurable blindness in the Western world. Our insight into their aetiology has improved remarkably over the past decade and a number of key genes have been identified. Together with a more detailed understanding of disease processes, this knowledge is …
Tinkering
The Microevolution of Development
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2007
2656 kr
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Much recent research in evolutionary developmental biology has focused on the origin of new body plans. However, most evolutionary change at the population and species level consists of tinkering: small-scale alterations in developmental pathways within a single body plan. Such microevolutionary …
Dietary Supplements and Health
Av Jamie A. Goode, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2007
2785 kr
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Dietary supplements can contain a wide variety of ingredients, either singly or in combination, including nutrients, botanicals and ''bioactive components'' commonly found in foods. They are marketed and used by consumers for a range of reasons: to enhance "well-being", as traditional medicines, …
Antidepressants and Receptor Function
Av Sarah Clark, Gregory R. Bock m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
1694 kr
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Ciba Foundation Symposium 123 Antidepressants and Receptor Function Chairman: Dennis Murphy, 1986 Depression is a common and often debilitating affective disorder. Attempts to develop effective antidepressants have a long history, but many questions remain about the mechanisms of action of such …
Junctional Complexes of Epithelial Cells
Av Sarah Clark, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1645 kr
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Epithelial cells cover the outer and inner surfaces of the body, forming a selective polarized barrier between the intercellualar space and the ''external'' world. Linking the cells of this continuous layer and contributing to epithelial organization and function are specialized membrane …
Selective Neuronal Death
Av Maeve O'Connor, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1695 kr
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Parkinson''s disease, Alzheimer''s disease, and motor neuron disease share a significant common feature: selective death of neurons in restricted regions of the brain. This international symposium, held by the Ciba Foundation in 1986, is the first to bring together neurophysiologists working on …
Novel Diarrhoea Viruses
Av Julie Whelan, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1645 kr
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Until recently a neglected disease syndrome, diarrhea is responsible for many millions of infant deaths in developing countries. The result of a 1987 symposium, this volume reflects advances in the aetiology of diarrhea while addressing such puzzling problems as the difficulty of growing viruses in …
Molecular Approaches to Human Polygenic Disease
Av Geralyn M. Collins, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1707 kr
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Many common human diseases have a multifactorial origin: they are influenced by a person''s genetic predisposition as well as by factors in the environment. This volume deals with the application of recombinant DNA techniques to the identification of diseases that have more than one inherited …
Tumour Necrosis Factor and Related Cytotoxins
Av Joan Marsh, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1778 kr
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The number of factors implicated in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation is already considerable and more are continually being identified. This book concentrates on tumor necrosis factor (cachectin) and lymphotoxin, but includes observations of their interactions with other …
Motor Areas of the Cerebral Cortex
Av Joan Marsh, Maeve O'Connor m. fl.
E-bok, 2008
1778 kr
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Comprises the proceedings of a symposium held at the Ciba Foundation, London, February 1987. Addresses main issues and new techniques in the study of motor areas of the cerebral cortex in humans and animals. Reviews the historical development of the study of cortical structure and function, …
Novel Infectious Agents and the Central Nervous System
Av Joan Marsh, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1778 kr
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The term "unconventional virus" refers to virus-like agents that differ from conventional viruses in significant respects--resistance to agents that inactivate normal viruses, for example. Certain rare and fatal neurological disorders, such as the Creutzfeldt-Jacob syndrome and the …
Applications of Plant Cell and Tissue Culture
Av Joan Marsh, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1694 kr
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This work deals with basic plant physiology and cytology, and addresses the practical exploitation of plants, both as crops and as sources of useful compounds produced as secondary metabolites. Covers problems of commercial exploitation, socio-legal aspects of genetic engineering of crop plants, …
Proton Passage Across Cell Membranes
Av Joan Marsh, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1745 kr
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Regulation of intracellular pH is vital to all living cells. This symposium covers the control of pH in muscle and nerve cells and the different mechanisms of acid transport across epithelial and other cell membranes. Papers describe the development and application of microelectrodes and various …
Metastasis
Av Julie Whelan, Gregory R. Bock
E-bok, 2008
1745 kr
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An international group of researchers addresses basic mechanism involved in the metastatic spread of tumors and considers new methods of prevention and treatment. Compares behavior of normal and abnormal cells, with emphasis on cell surface mechanisms--especially invasive processes--and inhibitors …
