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Mass Transfer Operations in the Food Industry

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Seid Mahdi Jafari + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds: Benefits and Applications presents bioactive compounds and functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. The book covers various bioactive compounds, including peptides, phenols, and flavonoids as foods to consider for complementary treatment in disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students, and other food science and health professionals, this book is a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.

Capute and Accardo's Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in Infancy and Childhood

  • 4th Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Fatima Y Ismail + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Capute and Accardo’s Neurodevelopmental Disabilities in Infancy and Childhood, Fourth Edition provides updated foundational, theoretical, and practical knowledge on the spectrum and continuum of neurodevelopmental disabilities shaped by ongoing advances in neuroscience and related disciplines. It reviews the over-arching principles of assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with a wide range of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Streamlined or fully rewritten chapters, including developmental screening and surveillance, neuroimaging and genetic evaluation, early intervention, principles of pharmacological treatment, principles of successful management programs, aging and transition planning, telemedicine and care in low-resource settings are included.The book's practical, expert-led approach aims to prepare future clinicians to skillfully assess and manage children with neurodevelopmental disabilities with the aid of clinical approach flowcharts to common presentations, diagnostic algorithms and clinic notes templates.

Cell and Gene Therapies for Neurologic Diseases

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 205
  • November 15, 2024
  • Howard J. Federoff + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Cell and Gene Therapies for Neurologic Diseases, Volume 205 comprehensively covers the scientific background, translational efforts, clinical developments and registered biologics that have entered into clinical practice. Coverage includes types of therapies available and in development, and best practice uses for a variety of neurological disorders including Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ALS, stroke, spinal cord RP, demyelination, and epilepsy. As the emergence of gene and cellular therapeutics has changed the clinical landscape for a variety of disorders, and is now ready to do so for neurological diseases, these therapeutic modalities currently complement, and may in time, supplant small molecule drugs.

Natural Preservatives for Food

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Manzoor Ahmad Shah + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Natural Preservatives for Food helps to identify various natural preservatives for applications in the food industry, including different areas like meat, fish, dairy, cereals, etc. The book's chapters deal with different sources of natural preservatives such as plant, microbial and animal based, while also covering chemistry, encapsulation and delivery, and the safety and regulatory status of natural preservatives. This book act as a comprehensive resource for food scientists, researchers and scholars, but is ideal for personnel working in various food industries.

Paper-Based Optical Chemosensors

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Liang Feng
  • English
  • Paperback
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Paper-based Optical Chemosensors comprehensively discusses the origin, development, and current state-of-the-art in paper-based sensors. With a focus on the principles, classifications, methodology, design, and application of paper-based sensors, this book represents a developing research field with recent innovative applications resulting in a comprehensive presentation of the different physico-chemical techniques using paper sensors. It discloses underlying rules and factors in paper-based sensors and discusses intricate sensing systems and working environments by ways of chemistry and physics for a variety of application scenarios such as environmental protection, food safety, public safety, and clinical diagnosis.This is a valuable resource for researchers who major in analytical chemistry, or for those who are interested in the development of methods or devices for rapid analysis/monitoring based on paper/membrane-based sensors who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

Traditional Medicines and Natural Products as Preventive and Therapeutic Agents Against COVID-19

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Nabeelah Bibi Sadeer + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Traditional Medicines and Natural Products as Preventive and Therapeutic Agents Against COVID-19: A Promising Response to the Global Unprecedented Pandemic presents comprehensive coverage of the pharmacological effects of natural products on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Sections provide traditional medicine approaches and their potential to prevent and treat COVID-19 infection, including traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, Persian, and Kampo medicine, alongside an overview of nutritional regimens and their therapeutic potential. Other sections cover natural molecules such as flavonoids, saponins, coumarins, alkaloids, terpenes, polysaccharides, and several microbial natural products of relevant action against viruses. Final chapters cover nanotherapeutic approaches.This is a valuable resource for researchers and academics in the fields of herbal medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy and for professionals in the pharmaceutical industries and anyone interested in natural products and their application for therapeutic purposes.

Improving Health and Nutrition through Functional Foods

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Maira Rubi Segura Campos
  • English
  • Paperback
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Improving Health and Nutrition through Functional Foods: Benefits and Applications presents functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. The book covers various functional foods, such as oilseeds, endemic fruits, and vegetables as foods to consider as complementary treatments for disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals, this book will be a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.

Biochar in Mitigating Abiotic Stress in Plants

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef
  • English
  • Paperback
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Biochar for Mitigating Abiotic Stress in Plants provides a unique and leading resource for utilizing biochar to address specific plant health challenges, including osmotic, ionic, and oxidative stress. With a focus on crop yielding plants, the book provides targeted application insights to improve plant health, and resulting crop production. Readers will find important tools toward the identification, treatment, and management of a variety of abiotic stressors through the effective and appropriate application of biochar. This is an important reference for those seeking to apply current knowledge and an inspiration for further research in the area.Biochar is a carbon-rich organic substance produced by the pyrolysis of organic materials in the absence or presence of oxygen. It is an organic matter conditioner that can boost carbon sequestration and organic and inorganic pollutant immobilization. It is a crucial method for soil regeneration. Additionally, biochar facilitates increasing mineral supply and soil organic matter, resulting in soils with increased nutritional content.

Exosome Communication

  • 1st Edition
  • November 15, 2024
  • Dalapathi Gugulothu + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Exosome Communication: Advances in Research and Therapeutics for Health and Disease covers the key qualities of exosomes as drug delivery vehicles. The book provides a comprehensive exploration of exosomes, starting with their history and development and explaining extracellular vesicles and biogenesis and techniques for isolation and characterization. It also delves into cargo loading, release strategies, and their potential applications in diagnostics and various diseases, including antigen-specific delivery, gene delivery, and vaccine delivery, highlighting how engineering exosomes can enhance therapeutic efficacy.Finally, the book also addresses critical considerations like quality control, heterogeneity reduction, regulatory and ethical aspects, clinical trials, and scale-up manufacturing. By providing a comprehensive and detailed overview of exosome-based therapeutics' potential, this book serves as a valuable reference for those interested in exploring exosomes' applications in drug delivery and therapeutics.

Mitochondrial Translocases Part A

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 706
  • November 15, 2024
  • Nils Wiedemann
  • English
  • Hardback
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Mitochondrial Translocases Part A series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

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