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The fact that tumors are composed of both tumor cells and host cells has long been known. These tumor-associated cells include vascular endothelial cells and pe- cytes, as well as inflammatory cells such as neutrophils, monocytes, macrophages, mast cells and...
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Humana
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2010-09-02
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Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Portfolio Management in a Changing Global Environment explores some of the critical forces at work today in the complex endeavour of pharmaceutical and medical product development. Written by experienced professionals, and including...
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Wiley
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2010-08-03
Collection :
Wiley Series on Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry
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In this ground-breaking practical reference, the family of aspartic acid proteases is described from a drug developer's perspective. The first part provides a general introduction to the family of aspartic acid proteases, their physiological functions, molecular...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2010-07-28
Collection :
Methods & Principles in Medicinal Chemistry
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Cancer gene therapy is a novel therapy that targets the underlying genetic defects in the cancer cell. Progress in this field has been rapid and gene therapy promises to further extend personalized cancer treatment. In this volume leading experts have contributed their...
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Springer
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2010-07-28
Collection :
Current Cancer Research
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Everyone expects something from the drug industry. Physicians and patients, investors, regulators and administrators all have an active interest.Everyone wants to know what makes drugs 'work' medically and economically. Why are drugs so expensive? Is it the drug...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2010-07-26
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Of the thousands of novel compounds that a drug discovery project team invents and that bind to the therapeutic target, typically only a fraction of these have sufficient ADME/Tox properties to become a drug product. Understanding ADME/Tox is critical for all drug...
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Academic Press
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2010-07-26
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The ultimate Canadian guide to prescription medication Over half of all Canadians take at least one prescription drug, but most of us know very little about the medication we're taking, including why we've been prescribed anything in the first place. Understanding...
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For Dummies
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2010-06-28
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Born out of a project of the IUPAC's committee on Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development, this reference addresses past and current strategies for successful drug analog development, extending the previously published volume by nine new analog classes and eight case...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2010-06-24
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Nitric Oxide (NO) is a pleitropic, ubiquitous modulator of cellular functions. Aryl nitrite and glyceryl trinitrate, representative intravasadilators, were introduced as therapeutic agents more than a century ago for relief from acute attacks of angina. The vasodilator...
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Humana
Parution :
2010-06-16
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Energy Balance and Cancer, Epidemiology and Overview is the first in a series of monographs to address the multiple facets of the world wide pandemic of overweight and obesity and its relation to cancer. This volume, authored by leading experts in their perspective...
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Springer
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2010-06-16
Collection :
Energy Balance and Cancer
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ExpDesign Studio facilitates more efficient clinical trial design This book introduces pharmaceutical statisticians, scientists, researchers, and others toExpDesign Studio software for classical and adaptive designs of clinical trials. It includes the Professional...
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Wiley-Interscience
Parution :
2010-06-15
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Protein kinase C (PKC), a family of serine-threonine kinases, rocketed to the forefront of the cancer research field in the early 1980’s with its identification as an effector of phorbol esters, natural products with tumor promoting activity. Phorbol esters had long...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-06-10
Collection :
Current Cancer Research
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Elsevier now offers a series of derivative works based on the acclaimed Meyler's Side Effect of Drugs, 15th Edition. These individual volumes are grouped by specialty to benefit the practicing biomedical researcher and/or clinician. There has been significant progress...
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Elsevier Science
Parution :
2010-04-19
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An integrated overview of modern approaches to lead discovery Lead generation is increasingly seen as a distinct and success-determining phase of the drug discovery process. Over recent years, there have been major advances in the understanding of what constitutes a...
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Wiley
Parution :
2010-04-07
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In spite of the development of various anticancer drugs, the therapy of cancer has remained challenging for decades. The current therapy of cancer is overwhelmed because of the inability to deliver therapeutics to all regions of a tumor in effective therapeutic...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-03-20
Collection :
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
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Handbook of Drug-Nutrient Interactions, Second Edition is an essential new work that provides a scientific look behind many drug-nutrient interactions, examines their relevance, offers recommendations, and suggests research questions to be explored. In the five years...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-03-17
Collection :
Nutrition and Health
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Although clinical trials were virtually unheard of in psychiatry for many years, they are now the gold standard for judging whether drugs are safe and useful. But should they be? What is the true status of clinical trials? Even when they ostensibly demonstrate a benefit...
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Wiley
Parution :
2010-03-16
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Much work over the last two decades has firmly established that loss of cell cycle checkpoint regulation, and resultant unabated cellular proliferation, is an inherent characteristic of cancer. This loss may occur through aberration in any single component involved in...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-03-12
Collection :
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
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Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every year, about 33,700 people in the United States will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and over 32,000 patients will die from the disease. The median survival of patients with...
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Springer
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2010-03-11
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Cancer is fundamentally a disease of abnormal cell proliferation:Cancer cells multiply when and where they should not. This proliferation entails escape from normal bounds imposed by the tissue environment, the internal biology of the cell (DNA damage, chromosomal...
Editeur :
Springer
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2010-03-10
Collection :
Current Cancer Research
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