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Elsevier's Life Sciences collection helps researchers get comprehensive coverage and up-to-date information on the study of living organisms, their processes, and interrelationships, spanning disciplines like biology, genetics, and biochemistry, and addressing emerging trends such as genomics, biotechnology, and sustainability, essential for advancing knowledge and driving innovation in the field.

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    • Atlas of Endoscopy Imaging in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 5, 2025
      • Bo Shen
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Atlas of Endoscopy Imaging in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Second Edition, serves as a comprehensive guide to the latest advancements in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This new edition keeps readers updated with cutting-edge medical treatments, state-of-the-art endoscopy, and imaging technologies, as well as the evolution of interventional IBD. It explores the latest advancements in IBD diagnosis and management, including recent endoscopy instruments for measuring disease activity and the transformative world of image-enhanced endoscopy. Additionally, it delves into the groundbreaking application of artificial intelligence (AI) in IBD, revolutionizing diagnosis, disease monitoring, and dysplasia surveillance. New content introduces topics such as intestinal ultrasound, device-associated enteroscopy in Crohn’s disease, insights into IBD-like conditions (autoinflammatory disorders), and the value of intraoperative endoscopy in IBD procedures. The book integrates new consensus guidelines for endoscopy imaging in IBD, explores AI applications in diagnosis and monitoring, addresses COVID, COVID vaccines, and IBD, and presents new interventional IBD techniques. This edition provides state-of-the-art information on differential diagnosis, advanced endoscopy, imaging technologies, and AI. It offers updated guidelines for disease activity assessment and advancements in endoscopic therapy modalities. Designed for a diverse range of medical professionals, it is an indispensable resource for comprehensive, current IBD knowledge. Gastroenterologists and IBD specialists will find resources for cutting-edge treatments and AI insights. Primary care clinicians can use an expanded list of differential diagnoses for early-stage identification. Surgeons can deepen their understanding of interventional techniques, while pathologists and radiologists can improve diagnostic skills through AI and image-enhanced endoscopy. This resource ensures medical professionals across disciplines are equipped to navigate the evolving landscape of IBD diagnosis, treatment, and management.

    • Protein Misfolding Diseases

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 148
      • December 1, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Protein Misfolding Diseases, delves into the intricate molecular mechanisms behind a class of devastating disorders caused by abnormal protein folding. This comprehensive book explores interesting and updated topics, including Protein misfolding in hemophilia, Characterizing Protein Misfolding: Inside and Out, Heat Shock proteins (HSPs) as chaperones for Oncogenesis, Protein Misfolding and Cancer: Molecular Insights and Future Perspectives, Proteostasis and Pathogenesis: Unraveling the Complexity of Protein Misfolding Disorders, Small molecule inhibitors targeting α-synuclein aggregation: Progress and future outlook, and much more.Additional sections cover Chaperone Machinery in Neurodegeneration: A Spotlight on Protein Misfolding Diseases and Calpain- mediated proteolytic cleavage.

    • Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Raina Robeva
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology: Using Modern Discrete Models, Second Edition presents an updated, quantitative framework for analyzing, predicting, and modulating complex biological systems. Structured around project-based learning and problem-solving, it integrates essential mathematical concepts and methods in the context of key biological questions. Topics include gene regulatory and neuronal networks, CpG islands, plant population growth, interacting populations, phylogenetics, and phylogenomics. Modeling tools span discrete dynamical systems (including deterministic and stochastic Boolean networks), ordinary differential equations, projection matrices, agent-based modeling, polynomial ideals, Gröbner bases, tropical algebra, and other algebraic approaches. Computation is supported by a range of software tools, including some developed for this book, as well as open source, freely available, and proprietary platforms. Updated code examples and step-by-step instructions illustrate software use, making this a valuable resource for health professionals, scientists, researchers, and students in related fields.

    • Endothelium and Cardiovascular Diseases

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Protasio L. Da Luz + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Endothelium and Cardiovascular Diseases: Vascular Biology and Clinical Syndromes, Second Edition offers new discoveries in clinical settings, cellular, molecular, genetic, and epigenetic mechanisms which have led to novel understanding of the key role of endothelium in both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular diseases. The innovations it presents have implications for both pathophysiological concepts and clinical decisions. Among other topics, cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine, immunity and inflammation, genetics and epigenetics, heart failure, renal disease, familial hypercholesterolemia... diabetes, and hypertension are discussed at length.With 20 new chapters covering everything from endothelium transition to connective tissue disorders, this second edition is sure to be indispensable to anyone wishing to learn the importance of endothelium to every facet of health.

    • Insights into Migraine Treatments

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Massimo Filippi + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Insights into Migraine Treatments offers a comprehensive overview to guide the selection of the most appropriate therapy for each patient within the landscape of migraine care. It explores the full spectrum of available treatments and their mechanisms of action, while addressing the challenges of individualized therapeutic decision-making. By presenting essential data on efficacy, safety, and biomarkers of treatment response, this book serves as a practical resource for tailoring interventions to patient-specific needs. With its solution-oriented approach, it is a valuable reference for clinicians and researchers striving to advance migraine management.Covering topics from the clinical characteristics of migraine to acute therapies, pharmacological and non-pharmacological preventive strategies, and clinical, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological biomarkers, this book is designed to meet the complex and evolving needs of migraine patients.

    • The Resistance of Cervical Cancer to Chemotherapy and its Reversal

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 9
      • December 1, 2025
      • S. Muthusami
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The Resistance of Cervical Cancer to Chemotherapy and its Reversal provides a holistic understanding of cervical cancer development, immune-evading mechanisms of HPV, immunotherapies available, methods to study cervical cancer and the development of newer drugs. Content shows the involvement of signaling pathways during chemoresistance in cervical cancer, the involvement of genes in drug resistance, and introduces long noncoding RNAs as novel biomarkers.In 10 chapters, this book first provides an introduction and history of cervical cancer; next, it discusses the influence of viruses on cervical cancer and finally, it describes therapies to overcome chemotherapy resistance in cervical cancer. This is the perfect reference to provide the fundamental base of knowledge needed for oncologists, pharmacologists, translational investigators, immunotherapists, scientists, and clinicians interested in building a comprehensive understanding of the field.

    • Robotic Platforms for Minimally Invasive Surgery

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Juan Sánchez-Margallo + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Robotic Platforms for Minimally Invasive Surgery introduces the scientific community to the most popular robotic platforms for minimally invasive surgery in a more exhaustive way, allowing the readers to learn both the technical features as well as functional aspects of these platforms. This book also discusses viability, safety and efficacy of these platforms in surgical application, and is focused on users who are starting in the field of robotic surgery, both in the disciplines of laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery, as well as in microsurgery.An overview of the most widespread robotic platforms for minimally invasive surgery.

    • Handbook of Spinal Anesthesia

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Craig D. Mcclain + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Handbook of Spinal Anesthesia introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of administering spinal anesthesia. The book's chapters explore the anatomy of the spine and the mechanism of action of a neuraxial block, as well as the pharmacology of local anesthetics in this area. Sections also include guidance for assessing risks on a patient-by-patient basis and feature a range of administration techniques. Information on pre-operative patient care, patient monitoring and post-operative care is also included. The book considers complications and challenges in performing spinal anesthesia and closes with a chapter on recent advances in the field. This book acts as a comprehensive foundation to spinal anesthesia. It is an ideal reference for junior doctors, medical officers, and non-specialist physicians seeking a practical guide to performing spinal anesthesia.

    • Seldin and Giebisch's The Kidney

      • 6th Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Robert J. Alpern + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Seldin and Giebisch’s The Kidney: Physiology and Pathophysiology, Sixth Edition provides a common language for nephrology researchers, fellows, and practicing nephrologists to discuss normal and abnormal renal physiology and the development and diagnosis of a wide range of renal diseases. Guided by a team of four distinguished authorities in nephrology, experts from all areas of renal research and practice take readers from the structure and function of the normal kidney, to the specific cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying disease development, and into the management of renal disease through physiologic regulation. This classic nephrology reference for nearly 30 years combines basic and clinical sciences that provides authoritative, concise, and readily accessible information. Academic, medical, and pharma researchers save valuable time by quickly accessing the very latest details on renal physiology and pathophysiology as opposed to searching through thousands of journal articles.

    • An Introduction to Applied Clinical Ethics in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Ifeoma U. Perkins
      • English
      • Paperback
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      An Introduction to Applied Clinical Ethics in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine: A Case-Based Approach offers an organized pragmatic approach to processing ethical dilemmas that frequently occur in pathology and laboratory medicine in a systematic way. This is a novel resource strategically crafted in a case-based format to help readers confidently reach potential solutions with strong ethical reasoning that not only further quality patient care but honor the good intentions of pathologists and laboratorians. Readers will gain confidence in their ability to think critically about complex problems in pathology that create ethical conflict. This book is for healthcare providers, practicing anatomic and clinical pathologists, pathology residents and fellows, pathology educators and graduate medical education program directors, students of allied health sciences, researchers, laboratory technologists, and any members of the clinical care team who utilize laboratory services.

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