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  • Marine Bivalve Mollusks and Emerging Pollutants

    • 1st Edition
    • Guangxu Liu
    • English
    Marine Bivalve Mollusks and Emerging Pollutants: Toxicological Impacts provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge of the toxicological impacts of a variety of emerging pollutants on marine bivalve mollusk species. In addition to synthesizing recent toxicological findings, the book also discusses toxification mechanisms, current challenges, and future research prospects. Written by international experts, this book assesses new advances in the toxicological impacts of pollutants, including microplastics, bromide flame retardants, nanomaterials, pharmaceutical residues, personal care products, pesticides, and perfluorinated compounds. In addition, it details how these can affect reproduction, embryonic development, metabolism, and immune systems of marine bivalves. Behavioral responses and neuroendocrine regulation is also discussed. Toxification mechanisms are interpreted at both physiological and molecular levels. The book concludes with current research and environmental challenges and potentials for further, future study techniques.

  • Modern Inference Based on Health-Related Markers

    Biomarkers and Statistical Decision Making
    • 1st Edition
    • Albert Vexler + 2 more
    • English
    Modern Inference Based on Health Related Markers: Biomarkers and Statistical Decision Making provides a compendium of biomarkers based methodologies for respective health related fields and health related marker-specific biostatistical techniques. The book introduces correct and efficient testing mechanisms, including procedures based on bootstrap and permutation methods with the aim of making these techniques assessable to practical researchers. In the biostatistical aspect, it describes how to correctly state testing problems, but it also includes novel results, which have appeared in current statistical publications.In addition, the book discusses also modern applied statistical developments that consider data-driven techniques, including empirical likelihood methods and other simple and efficient methods to derive statistical tools for use in health related studies.

  • Biostimulants in Plant Protection and Performance

    • 1st Edition
    • Azamal Husen
    • English
    Biostimulants in Plant Protection and Performance provides the latest research on biostimulants, a diverse class of compounds that includes substances or microorganisms that are helpful in sustainable plant growth and development. These substances accelerate plant growth, yield, and chemical composition even under unfavorable conditions, and include nitrogen-containing compounds, humic materials, some specific compounds released by microbes, plants, and animals, various seaweed extracts, bio-based nanomaterials, phosphite, silicon, and more. Additionally, the book discusses new generation products and bioproducts that are being developed for sustainable plant growth and protection, including research updates in biotechnology, nanobiotechnology, and the protective role of biostimulants. As the use of new generation biostimulants can enhance plant production systems through a significant reduction of synthetic chemicals, such as pesticides and fertilizers, and even elicit plant tolerance to various climate change-related stresses, this book is a welcomed edition to many fields of study.

  • Biochemical Immunology of Diabetes and Associated Complications

    • 1st Edition
    • Pratima Tripathi + 2 more
    • English
    Biochemical Immunology of Diabetes and Associated Complications offers in-depth coverage of the association of biochemical and immunological aspects of the human body in diabetes. It discusses the suppression and modulation of the immune system and the impact of immunochemicals on the biochemical pathways in diabetes, along with associated complications. The book enumerates the exigency in knowledge about the immunomodulators as therapeutic targets to cure the syndrome. It will serve as an important reference for medical practitioners, researchers, medical students, masters and doctoral students. In addition, it could also be used as a reference for science graduates, science teachers, and researchers.

  • Paraneoplastic Neurologic Disorders

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 200
    • English
    Paraneoplastic Neurological Disorders, Volume 200 covers new, recent descriptions of autoantibodies against neuronal cell surface antigens (only partly associated with paraneoplastic disorders) and the introduction of new immuno-oncological drugs that can contribute to diseases that are pathogenetically indistinguishable from paraneoplastic syndromes. Besides investigating the pathogenetic mechanisms of these disorders, this book also explores what the introduction of new drugs used in immune checkpoint inhibitor cancer therapy are teaching us in terms of immunopathogenesis. Following sections present individual syndromes (phenotypical clinical manifestations) of the CNS, PNS, NMJ, and muscle.Finally, the book investigates the role of antibody markers that differentiate by cytoplasmic, nuclear, and neuronal cell surface reactivities. Side effects of the new immuno-oncological drugs increasingly used in cancer therapy are also covered.

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis

    A Case-Based Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Ronald C. Hamdy
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Endocrinology/Metabo... Disease**Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Case-Based Approach is a practical guide that will be useful to a wide range of practicing and in-training clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. With its clinical case and scenario-based approach, readers can quickly decide which clinical problem to address such as the management of osteoporosis of a particular clinical problem (Atypical femoral shaft fractures, Glucocorticoids and bone health, etc.). Each chapter is self-contained with a list of objectives at the beginning and a presentation of clinical cases that encourages self-learning to non-specialized clinical staff. This book is easily accessible to non-specialists, allowing any healthcare provider to learn how to diagnose and manage osteoporosis in the context of their practice.

  • Diabetes. Secretos

    • 1st Edition
    • Michael T. McDermott + 1 more
    • Spanish
    Nuevo título enmarcado dentro de la serie “Secretos” que, al igual que otros títulos de la misma serie, presenta el popular formato de preguntas y respuestas, incluyendo también listas, tablas, perlas, ayudas para la memoria y un estilo fácil de leer, lo que hace que la consulta, la referencia y la revisión sean rápidas, fáciles y agradables. Este nuevo título contiene todas las preguntas que el lector podría llegar a plantearse sobre cualquiera de los temas relacionados con la Diabetes. Además, el manejable tamaño y la lista de los 100 Secretos Top en Diabetes ayudan al lector a conocer de primera mano los retos a los que debería afrontarse día a día. Cobertura actualizada de la gama completa de temas relacionados con la diabetes, incluida la diabetes durante el embarazo; control de la diabetes en pacientes con cáncer; control de la diabetes durante el ejercicio, los deportes y la competición; control de la diabetes en pacientes hospitalizados, y más. La obra ofrece acceso al contenido del e-book en inglés a través de la plataforma de e-book+

  • Inmunología básica

    Funciones y trastornos del sistema inmunitario
    • 7th Edition
    • Abul K. Abbas + 2 more
    • Spanish
    Nueva edición del texto derivado de la obra de referencia en Inmunología, "Abbas, Inmunología molecular y celular" en el que se presenta de una forma concisa y visual el nivel de información adecuado para el estudiante que se enfrenta por primera vez a la asignatura. Destaca su gran riqueza y calidad iconográfica. La inclusión de tablas, esquemas, puntos clave en negrita y preguntas de autoevaluación. En cuanto a las principales novedades cabe destacar la inclusión de contenidos nuevos y ampliados sobre pandemias, COVID-19 e inmunidad de rebaño, resistencia y susceptibilidad a COVID-19, vacunas de ARN y vacunas híbridas, inmunoterapia tumoral, respuestas inmunitarias innatas a los virus, mecanismos de tolerancia inmunológica e inmunoterapia para enfermedades autoinmunes, alérgicas y otras enfermedades inflamatorias y el cáncer. La nueva edición ofrece acceso a material adicional online en inglés a través de e-book+

  • Biosensors for Foodborne Pathogen Detection

    A Rapid Detection Approach
    • 1st Edition
    • Manoj Kumar Pal + 2 more
    • English
    Biosensors for Foodborne Pathogens Detection: A Rapid Detection Approach covers rapid and accurate measurement for biosensing analysis. This book is organized in a systematic way, covering basic introduction and advanced approaches in biosensing and their use in the detection of food pathogens. This compilation includes chapters such as Methods, techniques and latest developments in the detection of foodborne pathogens; Basic principles in Biosensors and bioelectronics for the foodborne pathogens; Various bio-recognition receptors used in the biosensors; Nanomaterials and signal amplification in biosensors for foodborne pathogens; electrochemical biosensors for foodborne pathogens; Optical biosensors for foodborne pathogens, and more. This book act as a comprehensive resource for researchers or scientists working in food safety, especially in microbial food spoilage detection using biosensors.

  • Magnetic Tweezers for the Study of Protein Structure and Function

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 694
    • English
    Magnetic Tweezers for the Study of Protein Structure and Function, Volume 694 in the Methods in Enzymology serial highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including Single membrane protein tethering for magnetic tweezer experiments, Membrane protein folding studies using a robust magnetic tweezer method, Magnetic tweezers in cell mechanics, and more.

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