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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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    • Advanced Textiles for Wound Care

      • 1st Edition
      • April 30, 2009
      • S. Rajendran
      • English
      • Hardback
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      An important and growing area of the textile industry is the medical sector. The extent of this growth is due to constant improvements in both textile technology and medical procedures. This collection provides a detailed review of how textiles are incorporated into wound care applications, explaining the importance and suitability of using textiles on different wound types.Part one of the book provides an overview of the use of textiles in particular aspects of wound care, providing details of wound management and the importance of laboratory testing in relation to wound care. Further chapters cover minor wounds, moist wound management and bioactive dressings to promote healing. Given their increasing importance, part two describes how advanced textiles, such as smart temperature controlled textiles and composites, can be used for wound care products. The final chapter gives an interesting insight into the use of fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering.Advanced textiles for wound care is essential reading for any manufacturers, designers, scientists and producers of wound care materials. It is a valuable resource for professionals within the medical sector, as well as those in academia.

    • Materials Science for Dentistry

      • 9th Edition
      • April 29, 2009
      • B. W. Darvell
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Materials Science for Dentistry has established itself as a standard reference for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in dentistry. It provides a fundamental understanding of the materials on which dentistry depends, covering those aspects of structure and chemistry which govern the behaviour and performance of materials in use. Particular materials discussed include gypsum, polymers, acrylic, cements, waxes, porcelain and metals. Other chapters review topics such as surfaces, corrosion, mixing, casting, cutting and bonding as well as mechanical testing. This edition, which adds a chapter on further aspects of mechanical testing, has been extensively revised with, for example, new material on condensation silicone and phosphate-bonded investment chemistries, mixing, MTA™ and alternative radiographic imaging techniques.Now in its ninth edition, Materials Science for Dentistry continues its reputation as the most authoritative available reference for students of dentistry. It is also a valuable resource for academics and practitioners in the field.

    • Chesley's Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy

      • 3rd Edition
      • April 16, 2009
      • James M. Roberts + 2 more
      • English
      • eBook
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      Hypertensive disorders remain one the major causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and death. It is also a leading cause of preterm birth now known to be a risk factor in remote cardiovascular disease. Despite this, the hypertensive disorders remain marginally studied, and their management is commonly controversial. Chesley’s Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy remains one of the beacons to guide this field, recognized for its uniqueness and utility. The Third Edition continues this tradition, focusing on prediction, prevention, and management for clinicians, and is an essential reference text for clinical and basic investigators alike. Differing from other texts devoted to preeclampsia, it covers the whole gamut of high blood pressure, not just preeclampsia.

    • Complex Enzymes in Microbial Natural Product Biosynthesis, Part B: Polyketides, Aminocoumarins and Carbohydrates

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 459
      • April 11, 2009
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Microbial natural products have been an important traditional source of valuable antibiotics and other drugs but interest in them waned in the 1990s when big pharma decided that their discovery was no longer cost-effective and concentrated instead on synthetic chemistry as a source of novel compounds, often with disappointing results. Moreover understanding the biosynthesis of complex natural products was frustratingly difficult. With the development of molecular genetic methods to isolate and manipulate the complex microbial enzymes that make natural products, unexpected chemistry has been revealed and interest in the compounds has again flowered. This two-volume treatment of the subject will showcase the most important chemical classes of complex natural products: the peptides, made by the assembly of short chains of amino acid subunits, and the polyketides, assembled from the joining of small carboxylic acids such as acetate and malonate. In both classes, variation in sub-unit structure, number and chemical modification leads to an almost infinite variety of final structures, accounting for the huge importance of the compounds in nature and medicine.

    • Complex Enzymes in Microbial Natural Product Biosynthesis, Part A: Overview Articles and Peptides

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 458
      • April 10, 2009
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Microbial natural products have been an important traditional source of valuable antibiotics and other drugs but interest in them waned in the 1990s when big pharma decided that their discovery was no longer cost-effective and concentrated instead on synthetic chemistry as a source of novel compounds, often with disappointing results. Moreover understanding the biosynthesis of complex natural products was frustratingly difficult. With the development of molecular genetic methods to isolate and manipulate the complex microbial enzymes that make natural products, unexpected chemistry has been revealed and interest in the compounds has again flowered. This two-volume treatment of the subject will showcase the most important chemical classes of complex natural products: the peptides, made by the assembly of short chains of amino acid subunits, and the polyketides, assembled from the joining of small carboxylic acids such as acetate and malonate. In both classes, variation in sub-unit structure, number and chemical modification leads to an almost infinite variety of final structures, accounting for the huge importance of the compounds in nature and medicine.

    • Evolution and Development

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 86
      • April 8, 2009
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The marriage of evolutionary biology with developmental biology has resulted in the formation of a new field, evolutionary developmental biology, or “evo-devo.” This volume reviews current research findings and thought in the broad field of evo-devo, looking at the developmental genetic mechanisms that cause variation and how alterations of these mechanisms can generate novel structural changes in a variety of plant and animal life.

    • International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 274
      • April 4, 2009
      • Kwang W. Jeon
      • English
      • Hardback
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      International Review of Cell & Molecular Biology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology—both plant and animal. Articles address structure and control of gene expression, nucleocytoplasmic interactions, control of cell development and differentiation, and cell transformation and growth.

    • Mitochondrial Function, Part A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 456
      • April 3, 2009
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The first of two new volumes covering mitochondria, Mitochondrial Function, Part A presents modern methods that have been developed to examine mitochondrial electron transport chain complexes, iron-sulfur proteins and reactive oxygen species. These new techniques provide investigators with sensitive, original approaches to the study of disease states associated with mitochondrial malfunction. The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for 40 years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. With more than 400 volumes published, each Methods in Enzymology volume presents material that is relevant in today's labs -- truly an essential publication for researchers in all fields of life sciences.

    • Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics

      • 1st Edition
      • April 3, 2009
      • Richard E. Neapolitan
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Bayesian network is one of the most important architectures for representing and reasoning with multivariate probability distributions. When used in conjunction with specialized informatics, possibilities of real-world applications are achieved. Probabilistic Methods for BioInformatics explains the application of probability and statistics, in particular Bayesian networks, to genetics. This book provides background material on probability, statistics, and genetics, and then moves on to discuss Bayesian networks and applications to bioinformatics. Rather than getting bogged down in proofs and algorithms, probabilistic methods used for biological information and Bayesian networks are explained in an accessible way using applications and case studies. The many useful applications of Bayesian networks that have been developed in the past 10 years are discussed. Forming a review of all the significant work in the field that will arguably become the most prevalent method in biological data analysis.

    • Pratique nouvelle de la transfusion sanguine

      • 3rd Edition
      • March 23, 2009
      • Jean-Jacques Lefrère + 1 more
      • French
      • eBook
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      L'augmentation croissante des besoins en produits sanguins d'origine humaine et la prévention des risques de la transfusion sont l'objet d'un enjeu, aussi fondamental que vital. La transfusion sanguine, basée sur l'éthique et le bénévolat des donneurs, est une discipline médicale et scientifique à fort caractère transversal, où s'associent nombre de métiers et de spécialités cliniques et biologiques. Cet ouvrage est un guide permettant aux médecins et aux biologistes de trouver toutes les réponses sur les différents aspects pratiques de la transfusion sanguine. Cette 3e édition entièrement revue et actualisée, tient compte des derniers développements de la discipline transfusionnelle et du contexte sanitaire actuel. Cet ouvrage précise les principes généraux de la transfusion ; les différents produits sanguins et leurs indications ; les stratégies de prévention des transmissions de maladies et des complications liées à la transfusion ; les situations cliniques nécessitant une transfusion ; le système d'hémovigilance ; les progrès des biotechnologies et le développement des substituts des produits sanguins. Ce livre permet d'approfondir la compréhension de la pratique transfusionnelle à travers une étude sociologique. Il dresse un bilan comparatif de l'organisation sanguine en Europe et s'appuie sur des statistiques actualisées.

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