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Lipids and essential oils have strong antimicrobial properties — they kill or inhibit the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses. They are being studied for use in the prevention and treatment of infections, as potential disinfectants, and for their...
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Wiley
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2010-12-28
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In the past several years, there has been an explosion in the ability of biologists, molecular biologists and biochemists to collect vast amounts of data on their systems. Biothermodynamics, Part C presents sophisticated methods for estimating the thermodynamic...
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Academic Press
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2010-12-28
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Mechanical stress is vital to the functioning of the body, especially for tissues such as bone, muscle, heart, and vessels. It is well known that astronauts and bedridden patients suffer muscle and bone loss from lack of use. Even the heart, in pumping blood, causes...
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Springer
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2010-12-28
ePub
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For many years, the ethical discussion surrounding human embryonic stem cell research has focused on the moral status of the embryo. This text takes a wider moral berth and focuses on numerous ethical, legal and social aspects involved in translating the results of stem...
Editeur :
Humana
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2010-12-25
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Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Cultural landscapes are a product of the interactions between humans and natural settings. They are landscapes and seascapes that are shaped by human history and land use. Socioeconomic processes especially, but also environmental changes and natural disturbances, are...
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Springer
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2010-12-25
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This volume of Methods in Cell Biology, the first of 3 parts on the subject of zebrafish, provides a comprehensive compendia of laboratory protocols and reviews covering all the new methods developed since 2004.This first volume provides state-of-the-art descriptions of...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2010-12-24
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Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases is at the crossroads between two major scientific fields of the 21st century: evolutionary biology and infectious diseases. The genomic revolution has upset modern biology and has revolutionized our approach to ancient...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2010-12-17
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Conditions such as oxidative stress and hypoxia, which have a generalized impact on the oxygen metabolism, have been implicated in the genesis of kidney disease. This means that deepening our understanding of the pathobiology of oxygen metabolism in such diseases could...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-12-17
ePub
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A number of genes have been identified that are associated with an increased body mass index (BMI), the standard measurement of obesity. By analyzing these genes, researchers hope to gain a better understanding of what causes obesity and develop ways to tackle the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2010-12-17
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Structural genomics is the systematic determination of 3-D structures of proteins representative of the range of protein structure and function found in nature. The goal is to build a body of structural information that will predict the structure and potential function...
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Academic Press
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2010-12-16
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Virtually any disease that results from malfunctioning, damaged, or failing tissues may be potentially cured through regenerative medicine therapies, by either regenerating the damaged tissues in vivo, or by growing the tissues and organs in vitro and implanting them...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2010-12-16
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Understanding how digestive organs develop, their physiology and structure is important for determining new therapies to combat diseases of the digestive organs. Development, Differentiation, and Disease of the Luminal Gastrointestinal Tract reviews the latest research...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2010-12-14
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Understanding how digestive organs develop, their physiology and structure is important for determining new therapies to combat diseases of the digestive organs. This volume reviews the latest research and developments in this field.
- Discusses new discoveries,...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2010-12-13
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Significant advances in our knowledge of genetics were made during the twentieth century but in the most recent decades, genetic research has dramatically increased its impact throughout society. Genetic issues are now playing a large role in health and public policy,...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2010-12-12
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This volume, the tenth in the series, comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales. The circumscription of the orders, families and genera conforms to the most recent systematic studies. The family treatments...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-10
ePub
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Advances in Microbial Physiology is one of the most successful and prestigious series from Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier. It publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting physiology to include all material that contributes to our understanding of how...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2010-12-07
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This book is part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series. The series is designed to provide information on sabkha ecosystems of different regions. It will add to the collective knowledge available about saline ecosystems and also focuses on the African region where only...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-07
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Tasks for Vegetation Science
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The Genetics and Genomics of the Brassicaceae provides a review of this important family (commonly termed the mustard family, or Cruciferae). The family contains several cultivated species, including radish, rocket, watercress, wasabi and horseradish, in addition to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-03
Collection :
Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models
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Immunotherapy is now recognized as an essential component of treatment for a wide
variety of cancers. It is an interdisciplinary field that is critically dependent upon an
improved understanding of a vast network of cross-regulatory cellular populations and
a diversity...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-12-03
ePub
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With the predicted increase of the human population and the subsequent need for larger food supplies, root health in crop plants could play a major role in providing sustainable highly productive crops that can cope with global climate changes. While the essentiality of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-03
ePub
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