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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.

  • Introduction to Protein Mass Spectrometry

    • 2nd Edition
    • April 22, 2024
    • Pradip K. Ghosh
    • English
    Introduction to Protein Mass Spectrometry, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of this increasingly important, yet complex, analytical technique. This book enables readers to understand how determinations about protein identity from mass spectrometric data are made. Coverage begins with the technical basics, including preparations, instruments, and spectrometric analysis of peptides and proteins, before exploring applied use in biological applications, bioinformatics, database, and software resources. This new edition is fully updated to include the latest developments in the field and will feature new content covering recent progress in the areas where there have been the most exciting advances. These include PNNL’s multilevel-PCB-based SLIM realization, SLIM-Agilent QQQ field trials; employment of SLIM-IMS-cryo-IR combination in molecular structure determination; proximity-labelling mass spectrometry, and applications in neuroscience.

  • The Covid-19 Response in New York City

    Crisis Management in the Epicenter of the Epicenter
    • 1st Edition
    • April 21, 2024
    • Syra S. Madad + 2 more
    • English
    The COVID-19 Response in New York City: Crisis Management in the Largest Public Health System provides an historical accounting of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of the largest public health system in the United States. The book offers a roadmap to guide healthcare systems and their providers in the event of future pandemics. Readers will learn about surge staffing and level loading, as well as tips from the ED and ICUs on how to respond to an unprecedented influx of inpatients. Written by healthcare providers who were at the epicenter of the pandemic in New York City, this book provides a sound accounting of the response to the pandemic in one of the world's largest cities.

  • Regenerative Medicine in the Genitourinary System

    • 1st Edition
    • April 19, 2024
    • Farshid Sefat + 1 more
    • English
    Regenerative Medicine in the Genitourinary System gives the reader a comprehensive overview of tissue engineering used to treat genitourinary disorders and infertility, also providing a great learning platform for researchers in different fields such as cell biology, pharmaceutics, clinicians, chemists, material scientists, and more. The book covers the latest innovations on the subject, but also acts as a resource for tissue engineering applications and regenerative medicine. Over the last several decades, tissue engineering has continued to make considerable advancements in therapeutic and clinical strategies that address male/female urological or genitourinary diseases.Although several articles have been published on this topic, there are very few book chapters and no single book currently available dedicated to this topic.

  • Fluorine Metabolism, Transport and Enzymatic Chemistry

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 696
    • April 19, 2024
    • English
    Fluorine Metabolism, Transport and Enzymatic Chemistry, Volume 696 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting topics on Fluorine Metabolism, Transport, and Enzymatic Chemistry. Chapters in this new release include Determination of fluoride sensitivity and resistance in oral biofilm models, NMR methods to detect fluoride binding and transport by membrane proteins, Biotransformation of fluorinated drugs and xenobiotics by the model fungus Cunninghamella elegans, Measurement of fluoride efflux from lipid vesicles and cells, Defluorination of PFAS by Acidimicrobium sp. A6 and Potential Applications for Remediation, and more.Additional chapters cover Computational approaches to investigate F- binding, selectivity and transport in F- exporters, Defluorination as a key trait to gauge the biodegradability of fluorinated pollutants: challenges and opportunities, Patch-Clamp Electrophysiology of Fluoride Channels in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Synthesis of fluorophenylalanine-... proteins in HEK cells.

  • Overview of Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Updates

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 384
    • April 18, 2024
    • English
    International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, Volume 381 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting topic on Overview of Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Updates.

  • Advances in Applied Microbiology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 126
    • April 18, 2024
    • English
    Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 126 continues the comprehensive reach of this widely read and authoritative review source in microbiology where users will find invaluable references and information on a variety of areas relating to the topics of microbiology.

  • Cellular, Molecular, and Environmental Contribution in Cardiac Remodeling

    From Lab Bench Work to its Clinical Perspective
    • 1st Edition
    • April 16, 2024
    • Asim K. Duttaroy + 1 more
    • English
    Cellular, Molecular and Environmental Contribution in Cardiac Remodeling consolidates the most recent research advances on cellular, molecular, biochemical, and heterogeneous factors contributing to the physiological and pathological cardiac remodeling, elucidating their mechanisms of action and the clinical outcomes of cardiac remodeling. The book extensively covers the factors determining cardiac remodeling, including cardiomyocyte regeneration, cardiac stem cells and their therapeutic potential, cardiac resident pericytes, the role of natural bioactive compounds in cardiac remodeling, chronic cardiac adaptations to exercise, and more.It provides basic science researchers and clinical investigators in cardiology with a current and comprehensive resource on molecular mechanisms and contributing factors to cardiac remodeling, along with its effects and impacts on heart health. New research areas for the future, aimed at preventing, limiting, and reversing bad remodeling, are also discussed.

  • Translational Orthopedics

    • 1st Edition
    • April 15, 2024
    • Jeffrey A. Bakal + 4 more
    • English
    Translational Orthopedics: Designing and Conducting Translational Research covers the principles of evidence-based medicine and applies these principles to the design of translational investigations. Readers will come to fully understand important concepts, including case-control study, prospective cohort study, randomized trial, and reliability study. Medical researchers will benefit from greater confidence in their ability to initiate and execute their own investigations, avoid common pitfalls in translational orthopedics, and know what is needed in collaboration. Further, this title is an indispensable tool in grant writing and funding efforts.The practical, straightforward approach helps the aspiring investigator navigate challenging considerations in study design and implementation. The book provides valuable discussions of the critical appraisal of published studies in translational orthopedics, allowing the reader to learn how to evaluate the quality of such studies with respect to measuring outcomes and to make effective use of all types of evidence in patient care. In short, this practical guidebook will be of interest to every Medical Researcher or Orthopedist who has ever had a good clinical idea but not the knowledge of how to test it.

  • Antioxidant Methods

    A Guideline for Understanding and Determining Antioxidant Capacity
    • 1st Edition
    • April 14, 2024
    • Francisco Avelino
    • English
    Antioxidant Methods: A Guideline for Understanding and Determining AntioxidantCapacity summarizes the importance of antioxidants as a class of compounds withinnumerous areas of science and technology. The chapters elucidate diverse methodologiesfor assessing the antioxidant capacity of an antioxidant, while also exploring the correlationbetween its structural attributes and overall performance. Chapters include descriptions ofprotocols used to measure antioxidant capacity by different methods, highlighting experimentalsteps, bottlenecks, expected outcomes, advantages, limitations, and more.This is the perfect reference for biomedical science researchers looking for the right methodfor determining antioxidant capacity through the structure and functionalities of the compound,as well as the mechanisms involved in the antioxidant action.

  • Sinusoidal Cells in Liver Diseases

    Role in their Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
    • 1st Edition
    • April 9, 2024
    • Jordi Gracia-Sancho
    • English
    Sinusoidal Cells in Liver Diseases: Role in their Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment provides a state-of-the-art review on recent advances surrounding the role of liver sinusoidal cells (LSECs, HSCs, macrophages, and other non-parenchymal cells) in acute and chronic liver diseases. Coverage emphasizes disease pathophysiology, novel mechanisms, unmet clinical questions, development of biomarkers, and treatment opportunities. By focusing on the role of sinusoidal cells in human liver diseases, this reference provides a comprehensive overview of the role of sinusoidal cells in acute and chronic liver diseases, in its pathophysiology and mechanisms, and in the development of novel biomarkers and new therapeutics.Cells of the liver vasculature play an essential role in the pathophysiology of acute and chronic liver diseases and are considered key therapeutic targets to treat most of human hepatopathies. Coverage in this reference includes the phenotypic changes occurring in liver vascular cells and how cells contribute to the development of microcirculatory dysfunction, fibrosis, inflammation, and liver failure.

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