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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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    • Intratumor Diversity and Clonal Evolution in Cancer

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 112
      • September 29, 2011
      • David Gisselsson
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This specialized volume of Advances in Cancer Research is dedicated to the complex and largely unexplored field of intratumor diversity, with respect to differences in both genotype and phenotype among cell populations within tumors.

    • Hormones and Cancer: Breast and Prostate, An Issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 40-3
      • September 28, 2011
      • Alice C. Levine
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Endocrinology Clinics brings the reader up to date on the latest information about hormones and cancer of the breast and prostate. The first section focuses on the breast, and topics covered include the following. The role of sex steroids and their receptors in normal breast development; estrogen carcinogenesis in breast cancer; hormonal mechanisms underlying the relationship between obesity and breast cancer; postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy and the risk of breast cancer; aromatase inhibitors, anti-estrogen and SERMS in the treatment of breast cancer; and androgens in breast cancer in men and women. The second section is devoted to the prostate, and topics covered include the following. Overview of prostate anatomy, histology, and pathology; the critical role of sex steroids in normal prostate development; estrogens and androgens in prostate cancer development and the rationale for hormonal chemopreventive therapies; weighing the clinical evidence regarding the timing and extent of androgen ablative therapy for prostate cancer treatment; new hormonal therapies for castration-resistant prostate cancer; and the management of the side effects of castration therapy.

    • Biofluid Mechanics

      • 1st Edition
      • September 28, 2011
      • Wei Yin + 1 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Both broad and deep in coverage, Rubenstein shows that fluid mechanics principles can be applied not only to blood circulation, but also to air flow through the lungs, joint lubrication, intraocular fluid movement and renal transport. Each section initiates discussion with governing equations, derives the state equations and then shows examples of their usage. Clinical applications, extensive worked examples, and numerous end of chapter problems clearly show the applications of fluid mechanics to biomedical engineering situations. A section on experimental techniques provides a springboard for future research efforts in the subject area.

    • Medical Device Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • September 28, 2011
      • Gail Baura
      • English
      Medical Device Technologies introduces undergraduate engineering students to commonly manufactured medical devices. It is the first textbook that discusses both electrical and mechanical medical devices. The first 20 chapters are medical device technology chapters; the remaining eight chapters focus on medical device laboratory experiments. Each medical device chapter begins with an exposition of appropriate physiology, mathematical modeling or biocompatibility issues, and clinical need. A device system description and system diagram provide details on technology function and administration of diagnosis and/or therapy. The systems approach lets students quickly identify the relationships between devices. Device key features are based on five applicable consensus standard requirements from organizations such as ISO and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).

    • Glycolipids

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 10
      • September 22, 2011
      • English
      • eBook
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    • Separation Methods

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 8
      • September 22, 2011
      • Z. Deyl
      • English
      • eBook
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    • Bioenergetics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 9
      • September 22, 2011
      • English
      • eBook
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    • Methods in Systems Biology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 500
      • September 19, 2011
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Systems biology is a term used to describe a number of trends in bioscience research and a movement that draws on those trends. This volume in the Methods in Enzymology series comprehensively covers the methods in systems biology. With an international board of authors, this volume is split into sections that cover subjects such as machines for systems biology, protein production and quantification for systems biology, and enzymatic assays in systems biology research.

    • Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 14
      • September 19, 2011
      • Aleš Iglič︎
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes volumes cover a broad range of topics, including main arrangements of the reconstituted system, namely planar lipid bilayers as well as spherical liposomes. The invited authors present the latest results of their own research groups in this exciting multidisciplinary field.

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