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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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    • Metabolomics of Bladder Cancer

      • 1st Edition
      • September 9, 2024
      • Vishwajeet Singh + 1 more
      • English
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      Metabolomics of Bladder Cancer: An Emerging Application offers insights into the latest research methodologies and potential therapeutic applications. The book examines how applied research on the discovery of metabolomic biomarkers with prognostic and predictive value is needed to stratify patients into different risk groups, minimizing overtreatment and the risk of drug resistance development. In eight chapters, the book gives an in-depth analysis of recent findings in both fundamental and applied research, with a focus on the metabolomics approach and its potential for identifying major metabolic pathways that characterize various diseases and physiological states.It intuitively leads from the discovery of biomarkers for bladder cancer, to the metabolisms of glutamine and fatty acids and finalizes with a chapter on the metabolic effect of cancer therapy. Overall, this book is a comprehensive and insightful resource for researchers, clinicians, and academic professionals interested in the latest developments in bladder cancer research.

    • Biomechatronics

      • 2nd Edition
      • September 4, 2024
      • Marko B. Popovic
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Biomechatronics is rapidly becoming one of the most influential and innovative research directions defining the 21st century. The second edition Biomechatronics provides a complete and up-to-date account of this advanced subject at the university textbook level. This new edition introduces two new chapters – Animals Biomechatronics and Plants Biomechatronics – highlighting the importance of the rapidly growing world population and associated challenges with food production. Each chapter is co-authored by top experts led by Professor Marko B. Popovic, researcher and educator at the forefront of advancements in this fascinating field. Starting with an introduction to the historical background of Biomechatronics, this book covers recent breakthroughs in artificial organs and tissues, prosthetic limbs, neural interfaces, orthotic systems, wearable systems for physical augmentation, physical therapy and rehabilitation, robotic surgery, natural and synthetic actuators, sensors, and control systems. A number of practice prompts and solutions are provided at the end of the book. The second edition of Biomechatronics is a result of dedicated work of a team of more than 30 contributors from all across the globe including top researchers and educators in the United States (Popovic, Lamkin-Kennard, Herr, Sinyukov, Troy, Goodworth, Johnson, Kaipa, Onal, Bowers, Djuric, Fischer, Ji, Jovanovic, Luo, Padir, Tetreault), Japan (Tashiro, Iraminda, Ohta, Terasawa), Sweden (Boyraz), Turkey (Arslan, Karabulut, Ortes), Germany (Beckerle and Wiliwacher), New Zealand (Liarokapis), Switzerland (Dobrev), and Serbia (Lazarevic).

    • Self-powered Sensors

      • 1st Edition
      • September 4, 2024
      • Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Self-powered Sensors: A Path to Wearable Electronics features recent developments in chemical, photonic, pharmaceutical, microbiological, biomimetic, and bio-inspired approaches for MEMS/NEMS and medicinal self-powered sensors. Unconventional nanomaterial sensors driven by self-sufficient energy are given a contemporary review, with a focus on the categorization of energy sources and comparisons of research involving self-powered solar, piezoresistive, triboelectric, and thermodynamic technologies. This book also focuses on the different techniques, materials, comparisons of fabrication of self-powered sensors as well as thermoelectric self-powered sensors and its implantable applications.

    • Anandamide in Health and Disease

      • 1st Edition
      • September 1, 2024
      • Bernard Le Foll
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Anandamide in Health and Disease, a volume in the Molecular Mediators in Health and Disease: How Cells Communicate series, is a complete reference on the roles of anandamide in health and disease states. Following the characteristics of the series, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the effects of the mediator on human health.The book is divided into two parts, the first of which provides background information on biology, regulation, synthesis and degradation and modulation of anandamide. The second part is dedicated to covering the role of anandamide in various diseases. A comprehensive panel of authors cover several somatic and psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety disorders, mood disorders, psychosis and substance use disorders. Additionally, the role of anandamide across epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, and digestive conditions is explored.Anandamide in Health and Disease is the perfect reference for bioscience researchers seeking to understand anandamide pharmacology, biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology. Clinicians may also be interested in better understanding the wide-ranging health effects of the mediator.

    • Natural Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • August 30, 2024
      • Naveen Kumar + 6 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Natural Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering is a comprehensive reference that provides in-depth principles for supporting and enabling knowledge during the tissue production process, focusing on different cell systems. The tissue fabrication process is illustrated with specific examples for more than 30 tissues, which may soon lead to new tissue engineering therapies. The section coverage includes an overall introduction, decellularization protocols specific to each tissue, characterization, materials and methods, cell seeding process, preclinical evaluation in laboratory animals, clinical applications, limitations, conclusion, and future challenges. Readers may turn to this up-to-date coverage for a widespread understanding of regenerative medicine, which will be useful to students and experts alike.

    • Bacterial Carbonic Anhydrases

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 55
      • August 30, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Bacterial Carbonic Anhydrases, Volume 55 in The Enzymes series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Overview on bacterial CA genetic families, Bacterial α-CAs, Bacterial β-CAs, Bacterial γ-CAs, Bacterial ι-CAs, Sulfonamide bacterial CA inhibitors, Non-sulfonamide bacterial CA inhibitors, Helicobacter pylori CA inhibition, Neisseria gonorrhea CA inhibition, Vancomycin resistant enterococci CA inhibition, Pseudomonas aeruginosa CA inhibition, Mycobacterium tuberculosis CA inhibition, and Challenges for developing bacterial CA inhibitors as novel antibiotics.

    • The Evolution of Immunotherapy Against Tumors

      • 1st Edition
      • August 27, 2024
      • Domenico Ribatti
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Evolution of Immunotherapy Against Tumors: An Historical Approach summarizes the literature concerning the development of the theory of immune surveillance against tumors. It discusses the evidence for and against this theory, along with the concept of immunoediting. Finally, current approaches in anti-tumor immunotherapy will be analyzed.The immune system plays a major role in the surveillance against tumors. To avoid attack from the immune system, tumor cells develop different strategies to escape immune surveillance. Evidence of immune surveillance comes from both animal models and clinical observations. Mice with a wide variety of immunodeficiencies have a high rate of tumor incidence and are more susceptible to transplanted or chemical carcinogen-induced tumors. Immunosuppressed patients have a high incidence of tumors. However, many patients develop cancer even in the presence of an apparently normal immune system. This indicates that tumor cells can escape immune surveillance.

    • Genetics and Epigenetics of Genitourinary Diseases

      • 1st Edition
      • August 27, 2024
      • Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir
      • English
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      Genetics and Epigenetics of Genitourinary Diseases aims to provide a comprehensive collection of data on genetics and epigenetics in almost all genitourinary diseases for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students.This book discusses several genetic and epigenetic changes like DNA methylation, mutations, single nucleotide polymorphisms, DNA rearrangements, chromosomal remodeling, microsatellite instability, and chromosomal instability (CIN) in genitourinary cancers.This book is split into 18 chapters, beginning with the importance of genetics and epigenetics in genitourinary diseases. It then goes on to cover the genetics and epigenetics of various diseases and tumors. Certain chapters present novel techniques of next-generation sequencing (NGS). Furthermore, RNA-Seq is discussed as a sequencing technique that uses NGS to reveal the presence and quantity of RNA in a biological sample.This book is a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students in genetics and epigenetics who want to broaden their understanding of the field.

    • Intelligent Computing Techniques in Biomedical Imaging

      • 1st Edition
      • August 23, 2024
      • Bikesh Kumar Singh + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Intelligent Computing Techniques in Biomedical Imaging: Methods, Case Studies, and Applications provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art applications of Computational Intelligence techniques used in biomedical image analysis for disease detection and diagnosis. The book offers readers a stepwise approach from fundamental to advanced techniques using real-life medical examples and tutorials. The editors have divided the book into five sections, from prerequisites to case studies. Section I presents the prerequisites, where the reader will find fundamental concepts needed for advanced topics covered later in this book. This primarily includes a thorough introduction to Artificial Intelligence, probability theory and statistical learning. The second section covers Computational Intelligence methods for medical image acquisition and pre-processing for biomedical images. In this section, readers will find AI applied to conventional and advanced biomedical imaging modalities such as X-rays, CT scan, MRI, Mammography, Ultrasound, MR Spectroscopy, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Ultrasound Elastography, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Functional MRI, Hybrid Modalities, as well as pre-processing topics such as medical image enhancement, segmentation, and compression. Section III covers description and representation of medical images. Here the reader will find various categories of features and their relevance in different medical imaging tasks. This section also discusses feature selection techniques based on filter method, wrapper method, embedded method, and more. The fourth section covers Computational Intelligence techniques used for medical image classification, including Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, Decision Trees, Nearest Neighbor Classifiers, Random Forest, clustering, extreme learning, Convolution Neural Networks (CNN), and Recurrent Neural Networks. This section also includes a discussion of computer aided diagnosis and performance evaluation in radiology. The final section of Intelligent Computing Techniques in Biomedical Imaging provides readers with a wealth of real-world Case Studies for Computational Intelligence techniques in applications such as neuro-developmental disorders, brain tumor detection, breast cancer detection, bone fracture detection, pulmonary imaging, thyroid disorders, imaging technologies in dentistry, diagnosis of ocular diseases, cardiovascular imaging, and multimodal imaging.

    • Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer-Part C

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 387
      • August 23, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Epigenetic Regulation of Cancer, Part C, Volume 389 in the International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of hot topics, including Epigenetic biomarkers in breast cancer, Contribution of epigenetics to virus-driven cancer, Cancer metabolism and epigenetics, Technologies for epigenome editing, Epigenetics and cancer stemness, Epigenetic modifications in obesity-associated cancers, Epigenetics in cf microRNA in blood of solid tumors, Integrative analysis of transcriptome, chromatin accessibility, cell surface antigen in single cell level for AML, and more.Additional chapters cover Epigenetics in lung cancer, Gene Regulatory Mechanisms underlying therapy resistance in Cancer, Role of miRNAs as epigenetic regulators of immune checkpoints in cancer immunity, Epigenetic contributions to Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Contribution of epigenetics to chemoresistance, Epigenetic contribution to the relationship between obesity and cancer, and Epigenetic regulation in ovarian cancer.

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