Books in Life sciences

Endocrine Emergencies

1st Edition
May 13, 2021
Alexander L. Shifrin
English

Endocrine emergencies are often potentially life-threatening and can be easily overlooked in patients with no history of endocrine disease. Endocrine Emergencies is a practical guide to identification and treatment for today’s clinicians, offering essential coverage of common and serious emergencies related to endocrine metabolic conditions of the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands.

Translational Bioinformatics in Healthcare and Medicine

1st Edition
May 13, 2021
Khalid Raza + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Translational Bioinformatics in Healthcare and Medicine offers an overview of main principles of bioinformatics, biological databases, clinical informatics, health informatics, viroinformatics and real-case applications of translational bioinformatics in healthcare. Written by experts from both technology and clinical sides, the content brings together essential knowledge to make the best of recent advancements of the field. The book discusses topics such as next generation sequence analysis, genomics in clinical care, IoT applications, blockchain technology, patient centered interoperability of EHR, health data mining, and translational bioinformatics methods for drug discovery and drug repurposing. In addition, it discusses the role of bioinformatics in cancer research and viroinformatics approaches to counter viral diseases through informatics. This is a valuable resource for bioinformaticians, clinicians, healthcare professionals, graduate students and several members of biomedical field who are interested in learning more about how bioinformatics can impact in their research and practice.

Cultured Microalgae for the Food Industry

1st Edition
May 12, 2021
Tomas Lafarga + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Cultured Microalgae for the Food Industry: Current and Potential Applications is a comprehensive reference that addresses the current applications and potential uses of microalgae and microalgae-derived compounds in the food industry. The book explores the different steps of the subject, from strain selection and cultivation steps, to the assessment of the public perception of microalgae consumption and the gastronomical potential of this innovative resource. Readers will find coverage of microalgae biology, common and uncommon algae species, cultivation strategies for food applications, novel extraction techniques, safety issues, regulatory issues, and current market opportunities and challenges. This title also explores the gastronomic potential of microalgae and reviews current commercialized products along with consumer attitudes surrounding microalgae. Covering relevant, up-to-date research as assembled by a group of contributors who are experts in their respective fields, the book is an essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in the microbiology, biotechnology, food science and technology fields.

Autonomous Robot-Aided Optical Manipulation for Biological Cells

1st Edition
May 12, 2021
Mingyang Xie
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Autonomous Robot-Aided Optical Manipulation for Biological Cells gives a systematically and almost self-contained description of the many facets of modeling, sensing, and control techniques or experimentally exploring emerging trends in optical manipulation of biological cell in micro/nanorobotics systems. To achieve biomedical applications, reliability design, modeling, and precision control are vitally important for the development of engineering systems. With the advances in modeling, sensing, and control techniques, it is opportunistic to exploit them for the benefit of reliability design, actuation, and precision control of micro/nanomanipulati... systems to expanding the applications of robot at the micro and nano scales, especially in biomedical engineering. This book presents new techniques in reliability modeling and advanced control of robot-aided optical manipulation of biological cells systems. The book will be beneficial to the researchers within robotics, mechatronics, biomedical engineering, and automatic control society, including both academic and industrial parts.

Visceral Leishmaniasis

1st Edition
May 12, 2021
Awanish Kumar
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Visceral Leishmaniasis: Therapeutics and Vaccines describes current therapeutics, natural anti-leishmanial molecules, anti-leishmanial screening, and explores vaccine candidates and amastigote-based vaccination strategies for Leishmania. The book provides a precise view on VL, Leishmania parasite culture, host immunity and immunomodulation, natural compounds effective against VL, animal models for VL, and methodologies available for anti-leishmanial drug screening procedures against VL, as well as vaccine and vaccination-related information on Leishmaniasis. Readers will find concrete information on past and current hurdles facing vaccine development for Leishmania, along with scientific opportunities and the potential impact of vaccines, including problems encountered. The book is designed to increase the understanding of vaccines, particularly in VL, for students and researchers. Although vaccines are now available for many diseases, there are still challenges ahead for a vaccine for VL. The ideal vaccine must be safe and able to induce an immune response that is strong and effective. In a nutshell, a combination of chemotherapy (drugs) and immunoprophylaxis (vaccine) would be ideal to win the battle against VL.

Human Aging

1st Edition
May 11, 2021
Calogero Caruso + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Human Aging: From Cellular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies offers an exhaustive picture of all the biological aspects of human aging by describing the key mechanisms associated with human aging and covering events that could disrupt the normal course of aging. Each chapter includes a summary of the salient points covered, along with futures prospects. The book provides readers with the information they need to gain or deepen the skills needed to evaluate the mechanisms of aging and age-related diseases and to monitor the effectiveness of therapies aimed at slowing aging. The book encourages PhD and Postdoc students, researchers, health professionals and others interested in the biology of aging to explore the fascinating and challenging questions about why and how we age as well as what can and cannot be done about it.

Problems of Living

1st Edition
May 11, 2021
Dan J. Stein
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Problems of Living: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Cognitive-Affective Science addresses philosophical questions related to problems of living, including questions about the nature of the brain-mind, reason and emotion, happiness and suffering, goodness and truth, and the meaning of life. It draws on critical, pragmatic, and embodied realism as well as moral naturalism, and brings arguments from metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics together with data from cognitive-affective science. This multidisciplinary integrated approach provides a novel framework for considering not only the nature of mental disorders, but also broader issues in mental health, such as finding pleasure and purpose in life.

Cell Sources for iPSCs

1st Edition
May 9, 2021
Alexander Birbrair
English
Paperback
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eBook
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The series Advances in Stem Cell Biology is a timely and expansive collection of comprehensive information and new discoveries in the field of stem cell biology. Somatic cells can be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by the expression of specific transcription factors. These cells are transforming biomedical research in the last 15 years. Cell Sources for iPSCs, Volume 7 teaches readers about current advances in the field. It shares up-to-date comprehensive overviews of current advances in the field. This book describes the derivation of iPSCs from different sources in vitro, enabling us to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in different pathologies. Further insights into these mechanisms will have important implications for our understanding of disease appearance, development, and progression. The authors focus on the modern state-of-art methodologies and the leading-edge concepts in the field of stem cell biology. In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in the obtention of iPSCs and their differentiation into several cell types, tissues, and organs using state-of-art techniques. These advantages facilitated identification of key targets and definition of the molecular basis of several disorders. Thus, this book is an attempt to describe the most recent developments in iPSCs biology, which is one of the rising hot topics in the field of molecular and cellular biology today. Here, we present a selected collection of detailed chapters on how we derive iPSCs from distinct sources. Ten chapters written by experts in the field summarize the present knowledge about different cell sources for iPSCs. This volume is written for researchers and scientists in stem cell therapy, cell biology, regenerative medicine, and organ transplantation and is contributed by world-renowned authors in the field.

Evidence-Based Vascular Neuroimaging, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

1st Edition
Volume 31-2
May 5, 2021
Ajay Malhotra + 1 more
English

This issue of Neuroimaging Clinics focuses on Evidence-Based Vascular Neuroimaging and is edited by Drs. Ajay Malhotra and Dheeraj Gandhi. Articles will include: Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms: Duration, Frequency and Modality Used for Surveillance; Vasospasm: Role of Imaging in Detection and Monitoring Treatment; Extracranial Vascular Disease: Carotid Stenosis and Plaque Imaging; Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Distribution and Role of Imaging; Acute Ischemic Stroke: MRI-based Paradigms; Imaging of Intracranial Hemorrhage (Non-subarachnoid Hemorrhage); Brain Arteriovenous Malformations: The Role of Imaging in Treatment Planning and Monitoring Response; Intracranial Vascular Disease and Vessel Wall Imaging; Acute Ischemic Stroke: CT/CTA/CTP and Their Role; Imaging for Treated Aneurysms (including clipping, coiling, stents, flow-diverters); and more!

Evidence-Based Vascular Neuroimaging, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

1st Edition
Volume 31-2
May 5, 2021
Ajay Malhotra + 1 more
English

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Books in Life sciences

Endocrine Emergencies

Translational Bioinformatics in Healthcare and Medicine

Cultured Microalgae for the Food Industry

Autonomous Robot-Aided Optical Manipulation for Biological Cells

Visceral Leishmaniasis

Human Aging

Problems of Living

Cell Sources for iPSCs

Evidence-Based Vascular Neuroimaging, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Evidence-Based Vascular Neuroimaging, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

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