Books in Life sciences

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Endovascology

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Zaiping Jing + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Vascular diseases have high incidence, disability and mortality rates. Endovascular treatment is an important option as an alternative to open surgery, with the proven ability to counter severe pathologies. China-based research into vascular diseases and endovascular surgery has been proceeding apace. Endovascology presents, for the first time, the latest research, clinical outcomes, and research frontiers from one of the leading institutes in China specializing in endovascular surgery — the Vascular Surgery Department of Changhai Hospital. Specifically, in this book, chapters cover each aspect of vascular disease: Vascular heart disease; Congenital heart disease; Arteriosclerotic heart disease; Thoracic aortic pathology; Thoracoabdominal aortic pathology; Infrarenal abdominal aortic pathology; Cerebral perfusion arteries; Upper limb vessels; Abdominal visceral arteries; Iliac artery; Lower limb artery; Varicose veins; Deep venous thrombosis of the lower limb; Pelvic congestion syndrome; Inferior vena cava and portal vein; Pulmonary artery; and Lymphatic diseases. Endovascology: Endovascular Treatment of Vascular Systematic Pathologies presents a global medical audience with an ambitious, systematic and exhaustive review of vascular diseases, and the state-of-the art in clinical research and practice in endovascology. It will be of use to surgeons, trainees in minimally invasive cardiovascular techniques, vascular disease researchers, and medical students alike.

Cushing Syndrome

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Constantine A. Stratakis
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Cushing Syndrome: History, Diagnosis, and Treatment is written by top experts on the latest in genetics, molecular advances, and the diagnosis and treatment of Cushing syndrome. The book takes a historical approach to discuss the tremendous and unprecedented research development for this rare condition and includes information on recently approved treatments. It attempts to provide information on most issues surrounding Cushing syndrome and how to deal with its complications, the widening understanding of functional hypercortisolemia and other causes of endogenous cortisol production and its old and new treatment modalities, from pituitary to adrenal tumors, ectopic ACTH production, subclinical, cyclical Cushing syndrome, to aging and metabolic syndrome.The book has a section dedicated to our patients with the patients’ experiences, which will add to the outcome research presented by the physicians. This is a must have reference for scientists and researchers with the latest information in diagnosing and treating this difficult-to-diagnose and difficult-to-treat condition and gives the clinician, a patient-centric approach to communicate with this particular group of patients.

Comprehensive Chemistry and Biology of Coumarins Scaffold

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Shehryar Hameed + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Comprehensive Chemistry and Biology of Coumarins Scaffold covers detailed methods and protocols to synthetize Coumarin derivatives and different applications and future perspectives for these compounds. Coumarin-Based Scaffolds plays an important role in organic, bioorganic, and medicinal chemistry as they act as a bridge between chemistry, life sciences, and biochemical investigations. Coumarin is an important scaffold for designing, generating a wide variety of chemical libraries and drug-like candidates to obtain desired therapeutic and pharmacological properties. Specific functional groups are covered as well as the synthesis of bioactive compounds against specific pathological conditions.The discovery of new coumarin-based drug candidates during the last decades has been covered to assist the pharmaceutical, bioorganic and medicinal chemists for their further research on coumarin-based molecules.

Body-on-a-Chip

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Anthony Atala + 1 more
English

Body-on-a-Chip: Essentials and Applications provides the reader high-quality information, in a single resource, that is necessary to explore the use of BOC systems from design and development to testing and personalized medicine, to medical research and diagnostics. BOC systems can recapitulate native tissue/ organ architecture, diffusion kinetics of drugs physiological flow conditions etc., similar to what would happen in the body, they are particularly powerful in predicting human efficacy prior to clinical testing of a drug, determining potential toxicity, or in clinical studies to test underlying mechanisms or action or adverse effects. With recent advancements in high-throughput analysis systems and artificial intelligence, it has also become possible to screen several drugs at a time.

Lifestyle Epigenomics

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Ana B Crujeiras
English
Paperback
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Lifestyle Epigenomics, a new volume in the Translational Epigenetics series, comprehensively details the interplay between lifestyle factors and epigenetic modifications associated with the onset of noncommunicable diseases and aging, shedding light on potential preventive and therapeutic strategies for disease from an epigenomics perspective. Here, more than 35 international experts in the field consider how lifestyle choices or habits can condition or prevent disease, along with tools for new research, from bioinformatics methodology to non-invasive sampling.Early, foundational chapters are followed by all-inclusive sections on epigenetic machinery in health and disease; dietary factors and epigenetics; adiposity and physical activity and epigenetics; psychological stress, social environment, toxins and contaminants exposure effects on epigenetics; and transgenerational and childhood epigenetics. To support understanding, each chapter includes a summary and key points lists, terms and definition, as well as research case studies outlining core components of recent studies, detailing their conditions, research techniques involved, and outcomes.

Lipid Analysis in Biology, Health, and Disease

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya
English

Lipid Analysis in Biology, Health, and Disease bridges the gap between discovery science and clinical lipidology, empowering both scientific and medical communities to apply lipid analysis and understanding in new research, as well as diagnosis and management of diseases. Here, international experts in the field begin with the basic biology of the lipids, followed by methods and technology for study, and lipids in lab medicine and epidemiology. This book uniquely combines biology and analysis to drive healthcare advances, with a diverse range of technologies and analytic methods considered.Basic lipid biology chapters discuss membrane expansion, lysosomal positioning, mitochondrial biogenesis, lipid-protein interactions, molecular dynamics, cholesterol transport, immune activation and inflammation, lipid droplets, and gender differences in lipid metabolism. Each disease chapter incorporates basic lipid epidemiology, risk factors, and genetic associations.

Molecular Pathology

3rd Edition
November 1, 2025
Gregory J. Tsongalis + 1 more
English

Molecular Pathology: The Molecular Basis of Human Disease, Third Edition is assembled by a group of experts to discuss the molecular basis and mechanisms of major human diseases and disease processes, presented in the context of traditional pathology, with implications for translational molecular medicine. The book serves as a multiuse reference appropriate as a classroom teaching tool for medical students, biomedical graduate students, allied health students, and others (such as advanced undergraduates). Furthermore, it is valuable for pathology residents and other postdoctoral fellows who desire to advance their understanding of molecular mechanisms of disease beyond what they learned in medical/graduate school, and for practicing basic scientists and physician scientists who perform disease-related basic science and translational research, who require a ready information resource on the molecular basis of various human diseases and disease states.In this new edition of the book, chapters have been fully updated as well as rearranged to make the topics flow more logically. Four new chapters have been added including content on the pathogenesis of fibrotic diseases, the mechanisms of mutation, the molecular basis of soft tissue disease and pathology, pathogenesis and pahtophysiology.

Women and Health

3rd Edition
November 1, 2025
Rebecca Troisi + 3 more
English

Women and Health addresses health issues affecting women of all ages — from adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic, which concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues ranging from osteoporosis to breast cancer and other cancers, domestic violence, sexually transmitted diseases, occupational hazards, eating disorders, heart disease and other chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and societal and behavioral influences on health.In this third edition of Women and Health, the chapters address health issues that affect women across the life course with a special emphasis on the health of mid-life and older women. The field of women’s health has matured since the first and second edition, such as genetics and the impact of sex and gender on health, providing the opportunity to capture the latest scientific findings and controversies. The book provides a comprehensive compendium of the epidemiology of health conditions affecting women over the life course for the lay reader, clinician, and health research scientist.

Women and Health

3rd Edition
November 1, 2025
Rebecca Troisi + 3 more
English

Fetal Metabolic Programming in Obesity and Diabetes

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Luis Sobrevia
English
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Fetal Metabolic Programming in Obesity and Diabetes: From Mechanisms to Preventive Therapy describes the consequences of cellular and molecular aspects of maternal obesity (before and during pregnancy), diabetes mellitus (pregestational and gestational), and gestational diabesity (i.e., women with pre-pregnancy obesity that developed GDM). The book covers the clinical aspects of mothers and children and the protocols for treating these diseases during pregnancy. Since the patients' clinical information correlates with metabolic parameters at a cellular and systemic level, it covers several pieces of evidence, addressing the pathophysiology of obesity and diabetes in pregnancy.This is an important resource for health professionals, researchers, and postdocs in obesity diabetes, as well as public health, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, cell physiology, cell metabolism, and clinical medicine.

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Books in Life sciences

Endovascology

Cushing Syndrome

Comprehensive Chemistry and Biology of Coumarins Scaffold

Body-on-a-Chip

Lifestyle Epigenomics

Lipid Analysis in Biology, Health, and Disease

Molecular Pathology

Women and Health

Women and Health

Fetal Metabolic Programming in Obesity and Diabetes

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