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    • Emerging Green Processing Technologies for Beverages

      • 1st Edition
      • March 14, 2025
      • Roji Waghmare + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Emerging Green Processing Technologies for Beverages, Volume Seven in the Developments in Food Quality and Safety series, covers the fundamentals and recent trends in the processing of different beverages, such as herbal beverages, fresh produce-based beverages, and dairy beverages. Chapters cover a broad range of beverages to enhance knowledge in quality retention and shelf life extension. Sections summarize the influence of green technologies on nutritional quality, microbial safety, and physico-chemical characteristics. Edited by Dr. José Manuel Lorenzo and authored by a team of global experts, this book provides comprehensive knowledge to food industry personnel and scientists.This is the most up-to-date resource, covering trend topics such as Advances in the analysis of toxic compounds and control of food poisoning; Food fraud, traceability and authenticity; Revalorization of agrifood industry; Natural antimicrobial compounds and application to improve the preservation of food; Non-thermal processing technologies in the food industry; Nanotechnology in food production; and Intelligent packaging and sensors for food applications.

    • African Plant-Based Products as a Source of Potent Drugs to Overcome Cancers and their Chemoresistance

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 115
      • March 3, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      African Plant-Based Products as a Source of Potent Drugs to Overcome Cancers and their Chemoresistance: Part 3. Potential Pharmaceuticals to Overcome Cancers and their Chemoresistance offers detailed information on the best cytotoxic phytoconstituents of African medicinal plants that could be useful for the development of efficient pharmaceuticals that could be further explored to efficiently overcome cancers and their drug resistance. The book identifies and comments on the various classes of cytotoxic African secondary metabolites. The book also clearly identifies and comments on the best cytotoxic molecules identified in African medicinal plants. The book appears an amazing tool for Scientists to have state-of-the-art of the best cytotoxic phytoconstituents from the African flora, and to boost their clinical investigations.

    • Kefir

      • 1st Edition
      • December 18, 2025
      • Carlos Adam Conte Junior + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Kefir: Properties, Functionality, and Health Benefits covers the more practical side of kefir production, technology, and product development. It focuses on the scientifically demonstrated benefits of this beverage, especially antimicrobial and antioxidant effects, intestinal microbiota modulation, immune response modulation, and anticancer properties. Bioactive compounds responsible for these effects are also explored to provide a theoretical basis for developing new food and pharmaceutical formulations. In addition, the book covers kefir’s potential role in neurodegenerative disease prevention. Finally, the readers will find strategies for product diversification, quality control, and biotechnological applications.Kefir is a fermented milk beverage that is growing in popularity among both researchers and consumers for its proven and potential health benefits. Companies interested in developing new fermented beverage products will find this work of interest.

    • Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield

      • 1st Edition
      • January 29, 2025
      • Shubhpriya Gupta + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield highlights their importance as a mechanism, specifically for this result. Intended to transform the latest scientific research into practical application, the book focuses on the effects of biostimulants on flower and fruit development and set, early flowering, pollen viability, germination, and other reproductive aspects. It covers a sustainable approach in utilization of these promising biostimulants in agriculture, horticulture, and floriculture for better productivity, and to feed a growing world population.Biostimul... are a group of substances of natural origin and/or microorganisms that offers the potential to reduce the dependency on harmful chemical fertilizers that cause environmental degradation. The application of biostimulants represents one of the most innovative and promising strategies to improve crop productivity.

    • Circulating biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response prediction in cancer - Part A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 391
      • February 21, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Circulating Biomarkers for Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment Response Prediction in Cancer Patients, Part A, Volume 391 delves into the crucial role of circulating biomarkers in cancer diagnosis and treatment monitoring. Specific chapters in this new release include Circulating biomarkers for diagnosis and response to therapies in cancer patients, Identification of circulating tumor DNA as a biomarker for diagnosis and response to therapies in cancer patients, Identification of cell-free circulating epigenomic biomarkers for early diagnosis and response to therapies in breast cancer patients, Expanding frontiers in liquid biopsy-discovery and validation of circulating biomarkers in renal cell carcinoma and bladder cancer, and much more.This comprehensive work explores the various types of biomarkers, their significance in early cancer detection, prognostication, and evaluation of therapeutic responses. It covers cutting-edge research on circulating tumor cells, cell-free DNA, exosomes, and other biomarkers that can revolutionize cancer management. Additionally, it discusses the challenges, advancements, and future prospects of utilizing circulating biomarkers in personalized cancer care.

    • Reproductive Immunogenetics: A Molecular and Clinical Overview

      • 1st Edition
      • June 26, 2025
      • Shafat Ali + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Immunogenetics: A Molecular and Clinical Overview: Immunogenetic Factors and Signaling Pathways in Recurrent Miscarriage, Volume Four provides an overview of the scientific knowledge, achievements, and findings in the field of immunogenetics of recurrent pregnancy loss. With a strong focus on the role immune cells can play in recurrent pregnancy loss, the book also examines immune therapeutic aspects. In seventeen chapters, the book describes the roles of several different signaling pathways and the role of JLA and microRNAs in recurrent pregnancy loss. Several chapters are dedicated to the role autoimmune antibodies play in recurrent pregnancy loss. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals, scientists, researchers, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

    • COVID-19 Radiological Lung Imaging

      • 1st Edition
      • November 8, 2025
      • Luca Saba + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      COVID-19 Radiological Lung Imaging: A Classic Artificial Intelligence Framework introduces modern AI technologies for early detection of COVID-19 disease to assist in saving patient lives and safeguarding frontline workers. With a strong focus on Deep Learning, the book examines specific detection and classification techniques in lung X-ray imaging, computed tomography lung imaging, deep learning on edge devises and bias measurements, deep learning for cloud and explainable AI for validation, and discusses the medical impact and AI implications for COVID-19 in lung pathologies. It is therefore an ideal reference for researchers and clinicians working in radiology and pulmonary medicine to learn the modern AI technologies in COVID-19 paradigms for implementation.

    • 100 Rare Tumors of the Digestive System

      • 1st Edition
      • July 23, 2025
      • Xiaoyan Liao
      • English
      • Hardback
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      100 Rare Tumors of the Digestive System: A Case-Based Reference for Surgical Pathologists provides practicing surgical pathologists, gastroenterologists, oncologists, and surgeons with a comprehensive review on the clinical and pathologic features of rarely encountered neoplasms in the digestive system. The book uses a case-based format to cover typical clinical settings, including clinical history, symptoms, laboratory and radiographic findings, and representative histologic and immunologic pictures. This is the perfect reference for clinicians that would like to know more about updated terminology, histopathologic presentation, potential pathogenesis mechanisms, and treatment strategies for digestive disease entities.Scientists and researchers can also reference this book to find disease entities of interest, including pathogenesis, immunophenotype, and molecular findings. Multiple choice questioning is provided for readers to decide on the best diagnosis from a list of mimickers.

    • Targeting Enzymes in the Brain

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 102
      • February 5, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Targeting Enzymes in the Brain series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

    • Harnessing Quorum Quenching for Disease Management

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Arpita Roy + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Harnessing Quorum Quenching for Disease Management explores the process of quorum quenching in disrupting bacterial cell communication and how this mechanism can be utilized in the medical field. This book provides a detailed overview of quorum quenching and quorum sensing, delving into the key aspects of this process including the enzymatic mechanisms and methods available to study these. It covers quorum quenching applications, including the regulation of virulence factors, antimicrobial resistance and disease treatment, and the use of quorum quenching bacteria for medical intervention. It also considers genetically modified organisms to produce quorum quenching enzymes, nanomaterials for optimizing quorum quenching, in silico technology and the impact of synthetic biology, closing with a discussion of the current limitations and future prospects for this field. This book is an ideal reference for researchers and advanced students with an interest in quorum quenching and quorum sensing working across a range of fields, including microbiology, cell biology, biomedicine, biochemistry, biotechnology and related areas.

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