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  • Metagenomics

    Perspectives, Methods, and Applications
    • 2nd Edition
    • Muniyandi Nagarajan
    • English
    Metagenomics: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications, second edition, provides thorough coverage of the growing field of metagenomics. A diverse range of chapters from international experts offer an introduction to the field and examine methods for metagenomic analysis of microbiota, metagenomic computational tools, and recent metagenomic studies in various environments and clinical settings. The emphasis on application makes this text particularly useful for applied researchers, practitioners, clinicians, and students seeking to employ metagenomic approaches to advance knowledge in the biomedical and life sciences. Case study-based application chapters include topics ranging from metagenome tools, metagenomics in oral disease and health, metagenomic insights into the human gut microbiome and metabolic syndromes, and more. This new edition has been fully updated to address the rapid growth and development of metagenomics applications, featuring expert discussion of recent developments and fresh case studies. Newly added chapters instruct in methods and implications of metagenomics in areas of growing focus, such as microbiome research, clinical diagnosis, metagenomic epidemiology, and plant microbe interaction. Data analysis is explained in simple terms for effective use of computational tools, software, and sequencing pipelines.

  • Concepts and Methodology in Cancer Diagnostics

    An Immunological, Biochemical and Molecular Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Seema Nayak + 1 more
    • English
    Concepts and Methodology in Cancer Diagnostics: An Immunological, Biochemical and Molecular Approach provides an exclusive combination of all basics and recent techniques, methodology, and advancements in the field of cancer diagnostics. With a strong focus on the procedures and techniques involved in cancer diagnostics, content also gives insights into the molecular tests required for different tumors for the administration of targeted drugs and precision medicine. In 11 chapters. The book also introduces the methods and technologies based on DNA and RNA based biomarkers, biochemical and immunological markers, genetic signatures, epigenetic changes and exosomes in blood, and tissue and body fluids.Readers will find a compilation of imperative topics and lists of the necessary materials and reagents needed, step-by-step instructions, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, as well as tips on troubleshooting and known pitfalls. This book is a valuable resource for medical professionals and researchers who want to understand the concepts of validated protocols and methodologies in diagnosing cancer, its prognosis, and predictive value.

  • Systems Biology and In-Depth Applications for Unlocking Diseases

    Principles, Tools, and Application to Disease
    • 1st Edition
    • Babak Sokouti
    • English
    Systems Biology and In-Depth Applications for Unlocking Diseases provides the essence of systems biology approaches in a practical manner illustrating the basic principles essential to develop and model in real life science applications. Methodologies covered show how to interrogate biological data, with the purpose of obtaining insight about disease diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.Systematic... written in 4 parts, this book first provides an introduction and history of systems biology; second, it provides the tools and resources needed for the structure and function of biological systems; next, it provides the evidence of systems biology in action to better understand disease connections; and finally, it provides the extensions of systems biology in various scientific fields including pharmacology, immunology, vaccinology, neuroscience, virology, and medicine. Examples include big data techniques, scale networks, mathematical model development, and much more.This is the perfect reference to provide the fundamental base of knowledge needed for systems biologists, professionals in systems medicine, computational biologists, and bioinformaticians, whether needed for immediate application or for building a comprehensive understanding of the field.

  • Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography

    A Clinically-Oriented Atlas
    • 1st Edition
    • Mehmet Baykara + 2 more
    • English
    Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography: A Clinically-Oriented Atlas introduces a wide range of clinical applications of anterior segment OCT for the diagnosis, follow up, and assessment of medical and surgical treatments and critical interventions. Though there is research on imaging the anterior segment of the eye using OCT, there have not been attempts to compile the implications of these findings into a single source. Rather, this book avoids focusing on generic descriptions of the technology, providing a unique perspective on the clinical aspects of OCT. This atlas will translate research into practice in a way that has never been achieved before.For those wishing to apply the theoretical aspects of OCT to their daily practice, this book provides a unique how-to guide that has thus far been missing from literature. While other books offer significant background on OCT, only this one will serve as a go-to reference for treatment of real patients.

  • Drug Delivery

    Advances and Emerging Strategies
    • 1st Edition
    • Kevin Ita
    • English
    Drug Delivery: Advances and Emerging Strategies begins with an overview on drug delivery, setting the stage for detailed discussions on oral, pulmonary, vaginal, ocular, and nasal dedicated sections. Chapters cover colonic, transdermal, transungual, brain, and nose-to-brain delivery, but also focus on vaccine delivery and organ specific delivery routes via the myocardium, kidney, liver, pancreas, buccal, sublingual, and injectable drug delivery systems. The book offers an integrated, up-to-date overview of drug delivery methods, technologies, and approaches, targeting body systems and organs. Researchers and advanced students in pharmaceutical science will benefit from this consolidated outlook.

  • Machine Learning Models and Architectures for Biomedical Signal Processing

    • 1st Edition
    • Suman Lata Tripathi + 3 more
    • English
    Machine Learning Models and Architectures for Biomedical Signal Processing presents the fundamental concepts of machine learning techniques for bioinformatics in an interactive way. The book investigates how efficient machine and deep learning models can support high-speed processors with reconfigurable architectures like graphic processing units (GPUs), Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), or any hybrid system. This great resource will be of interest to researchers working to increase the efficiency of hardware and architecture design for biomedical signal processing and signal processing techniques.

  • IoMT Applications in Healthcare 5.0

    • 1st Edition
    • Bitan Misra + 2 more
    • English
    IoMT Applications in Healthcare 5.0 introduces the concept of Healthcare 5.0, emphasizing the transformative potential of intelligent diagnosis, remote treatment, and smart health management. Sections define IoMT and its multi-tiered architecture, discussing its pivotal role in improving electronic device productivity in healthcare, explore IoMT applications in Healthcare 5.0, discuss remote physical therapy using IoMT in Healthcare 5.0, delve into the security and privacy considerations of IoMT in healthcare, and address how to overcome challenges and future directions in IoMT. The book concludes by summarizing key findings, providing a comprehensive overview of the discussed topics.Written by experts in the field, this is a key text for Biomedical Engineers, Data Scientists, and IoT Developers and specialists who work in the Internet of Medical Things. Graduate students of IoT engineering, biology, biostatistics, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics, health-informatics, and Interdisciplinary sciences will also find this an invaluable resource.

  • Organic Feed Additives for Livestock

    • 1st Edition
    • Mahmoud Alagawany + 2 more
    • English
    Feed additives (natural or synthetic) are formulations added to livestock rations to improve growth rates, reproductive and productive traits, feed efficiency, ruminal fermentation profiles, methane mitigation, digestion and absorption of nutrients, immunity, and overall health of the animal. Organic Feed Additives for Livestock will focus on the beneficial effects of organic feed additives and on food animals, including ruminants, poultry, fish, and more. It will also explore how these feed additives can benefit food animal production, reproduction, and health. Each chapter will cover the significance of an organic feed supplement, especially as an alternative to synthetic growth promoters, with topics including medicinal plants, cold pressed and essential oils, natural antioxidants, emulsifiers, acidifiers and organic acids, fibrolytic enzymes, organic minerals, probiotics, macro- and microalgae, organic nanoparticles, yeast and its derivatives, and bee pollen.Contributed by a range of livestock and aquaculture specialists from around the world, this book takes a holistic approach to explore how organic additives offer an efficient strategy to improve livestock productivity and health. This reference is an excellent resource for researchers and graduate students interested in animal agriculture, as well as veterinarians, animal nutritionists and breeders, and other livestock specialists. It will allow experts to stay up to date on organic options for livestock and serve as a starting point in generating new research ideas.

  • Sustainable Analytical Techniques in Food Science

    • 1st Edition
    • Bárbara Socas Rodríguez + 3 more
    • English
    Sustainable Analytical Techniques in Food Science covers the most relevant developments for the analytical evaluation and analysis of macro and micronutrients, contaminants, and microbiological studies as well as the approaches in food authentication, and characterization. With a focus on sustainability, this book provides a practical guide for researchers to adopt greener approaches for the study of food matrices including toxicity, safety and quality evaluations. It is an excellent guide for researchers working in the area of food sciences that want to assure the sustainability of the methodologies they are currently developing or applying in their laboratories.

  • Balancing a Sauropod

    The Physiology of a Dinosaur
    • 1st Edition
    • Brant E Isakson
    • English
    One completely unexplored area in terms of physiology is the era of dinosaurs—with good reason, they lived over 100 million years ago and we’re left to make inference based on fossilized bones. However, by merging classical, comparative, and extreme physiology and applying it to current paleontological knowledge of dinosaurs, Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur will for the first time begin to provide a sound physiological underpinning for how they may have lived 100 million years ago. Sauropods were the largest land animals to ever walk the earth with an incredible distance from heart to brain, begging the question, how did they maintain blood flow in their brain? Also, the climate sauropods lived in was hypoxic compared to what we live in now, so how did the dinosaurs breathe in the hypoxic Jurassic era? These questions and others expand to multiple fascinating questions the book will dissect in order of organ systems. The topics focus on major organ systems and apply them to potential sauropod physiology. Less emphasis is given to the skeletal system, as that has been discussed extensively in other literature. Each organ system will be discussed in terms of function and current understanding of how they work in a comparative environment. Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur is written at a technical level to both inform the lay reader and provide a sound argument to scientists in the field.

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