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    • Immunotherapeutics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 129
      • March 11, 2022
      • Rossen Donev
      • English
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      Immunotherapeutics, Volume 129 in the Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology series highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Vaccines for the prophylaxis and treatment of HPV, Lung-targeted RNA-based therapeutics, Clostridium difficile: Current overview and future perspectives, Antivenoms for treatment of snake bites, Natural killer cell-based strategies for immunotherapy of cancer, Immunological insights of selectins in human disease mechanism, Current update, challenges, and future aspects of immunotherapeutics in non-small cell lung cancer, In silico interaction analysis of NEMO binding domain peptide on the NFkB protein, and much more.

    • Behavioral Pharmacology of Drug Abuse: Current Status

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 93
      • March 10, 2022
      • English
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      Behavioral Pharmacology of Drug Abuse: Current Status, Volume 93 provides an update on our current understanding of animal and human behavioral pharmacology in major classes of drugs of abuse, including nicotine, alcohol, opioids, psychostimulants, and hallucinogens, drug-environment interactions, neurochemical mechanisms and medications developments. This volume updates the field of behavioral pharmacology based on new knowledge gained in the past decade.

    • Nanomedical Drug Delivery for Neurodegenerative Diseases

      • 1st Edition
      • March 10, 2022
      • Awesh K. Yadav + 2 more
      • English
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      Nanomedical Drug Delivery for Neurodegenerative Diseases opens the door for promising approaches and advances in the diagnosis and treatment of various neurodegenerative diseases. The contents of the book comprise all the aspects related to the design, synthesis, and application of different nanodrug delivery systems in the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and motor neuron diseases. This book explores how nanoparticulate drug carriers can improve therapeutic efficacy by selecting a suitable design strategy. Nanomedical Drug Delivery for Neurodegenerative Diseases is a valuable resource for graduates, clinical researchers, and other scientists working to minimize the challenges to deliver the drugs and genes in a more efficient and targeted manner for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

    • Advances in Clinical Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 107
      • March 10, 2022
      • Gregory S. Makowski
      • English
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      Advances in Clinical Chemistry, Volume 107, the latest installment in this internationally acclaimed series, contains chapters authored by world-renowned clinical laboratory scientists, physicians and research scientists. The serial discusses the latest and most up-to-date technologies related to the field of clinical chemistry, with this new release focusing on Advances in Quantum Dots as Diagnostic Tools, Host polymorphisms and COVID-19 infection, Biomarkers in Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, and more.

    • Vaccinology and Methods in Vaccine Research

      • 1st Edition
      • March 10, 2022
      • Rebecca Ashfield + 3 more
      • English
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      Vaccinology and Methods in Vaccine Research is a combination of cutting-edge methodologies, experimental approaches and literature reviews. The book covers all aspects of vaccine development, including basic immunology (focusing on the stimulation of adaptive immunity, which is required for vaccine efficacy), approaches to vaccine design and target validation, vaccine biomanufacturer and clinical development. Existing vaccinology resources are theoretical reference books, whereas this book provides a practical handbook for use in the research lab and classroom by those working in vaccinology and training others in the field. It is authored and edited by scientists actively engaged in vaccine research and development for day-to-day teaching/methodologi... advice.

    • New Methods and Approaches for Studying Child Development

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 62
      • March 4, 2022
      • Jeffrey J. Lockman + 1 more
      • English
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      New Methods and Approaches for Studying Child Development, Volume 62 in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

    • Cancer Vaccines as Immunotherapy of Cancer

      • 1st Edition
      • March 4, 2022
      • Luigi Buonaguro + 1 more
      • English
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      Cancer Vaccines as Immunotherapy of Cancer provides extensive and state-of-the-art information about the meaning, relevance and limitation of therapeutic cancer vaccines. It covers all the aspects involved in the vaccine research and development (identification of optimal target antigens, formulations, delivery strategies, adjuvants among others) as well as their use in combination with other immunomodulatory approaches. The book discusses topics such as identification of tumor associated and specific antigens, proteogenomic for identification of novel target tumor antigens, antigen-specific T cells, and Peptide and RNA based vaccines. Additionally, it covers oncolytic viruses for antigen delivery, cancer vaccine targeting viral antigens and combinatorial immunotherapy strategies. Written by leading experts worldwide, this is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, oncologists and members of biomedical field who wants to understand in depth the recent findings in the field of cancer vaccines.

    • Advanced Biosensors for Virus Detection

      • 1st Edition
      • March 4, 2022
      • Raju Khan + 3 more
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      Advanced Biosensors for Virus Detection: Smart Diagnostics to Combat Against the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic covers the development of biosensor-based approaches for the diagnosis and prognosis of viral infections, specifically coronaviruses. The book discusses wide-ranging topics of available biosensor-based technologies and their application for early viral detection. Sections cover the emergence of SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV2, the global health response, the impact on affected populations, state-of-the art biomarkers, and risk factors. Specific focus is given to COVID-19, with coverage of genomic profiling, strain variation and the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV2. In addition, current therapeutics, nano-abled advancements and challenges in the detection of SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 management are discussed, along with the role of nanomaterials in the development of biosensors and how biosensors can be scaled up for clinical applications and commercialization.

    • Nanotherapeutics in Cancer Vaccination and Challenges

      • 1st Edition
      • March 3, 2022
      • Mahfoozur Rahman + 4 more
      • English
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      Nanotherapeutics in Cancer Vaccination and Challenges consolidates the current research on cancer nanomedicine and therapeutic cancer vaccination to explore the most effective and promising avenues. The book covers cancer vaccines before exploring nanotherapeutics, DNA and mRNA vaccines in cancer treatment. Finally, it considers regulatory and industrial perspectives on cancer vaccination and nanotherapeutics. This resource will be useful for pharmaceutical scientists and researchers focused on biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, vaccine development, and cancer immunotherapy, along with advanced students in these subjects. Cancer is arguably the most complex and challenging disease known to mankind. Over the last two-decades, significant advancements have been made in new and novel concepts of cancer nanomedicines. Therapeutic cancer vaccines may be utilized to inhibit further growth of advanced cancers and/or relapsed tumors that are refractory to conventional therapies, such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

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