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    • Hazardous Chemicals in Medical Devices

      • 1st Edition
      • October 10, 2025
      • Prakash Srinivasan Timiri Shanmugam + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Hazardous Chemicals in Medical Devices: Safety, Risk Analysis, and Regulations provides a comprehensive overview of the hazardous chemicals used in medical device manufacturing. The book discusses the basics of these chemicals, their presence in various components, and the regulations that govern their use. It also delves into the processes involved in manufacturing and the added chemicals during these stages. With a focus on risk assessment and analysis, the book emphasizes the importance of safety in medical devices and outlines the types of hazards associated with these substances.The book further explains the regulatory classification of hazardous chemicals and the labeling and safety data sheet requirements. It includes a list of notified bodies that discuss hazardous substance data, aiding in risk assessment and toxicological profiling. Additionally, it underscores the critical understanding of toxicological profiles of materials used in medical devices, ensuring that readers are well-informed about the safety measures and regulations in place to protect both manufacturers and users.

    • Unleashing the Power of Functional Foods and Novel Bioactives

      • 1st Edition
      • January 27, 2025
      • Tanmay Sarkar + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Unleashing the Power of Functional Foods and Novel Bioactives guides readers to understand how the physiological effects of functional foods can optimize health and aid in specific disease outcomes and prevention. The book examines the impact of functional foods on various aspects of health including, but not limited to, cardiovascular, digestive, cognitive, metabolic, bone and joint and ocular. Other sections examine functional foods can boost sports performance and manage inflammation. Finally, the book explores lesser-known bioactives derived from natural compounds and explores their potential health benefits while providing education on sustainable production methods and the safety and toxicity.

    • Essential Oil-Bearing Plants

      • 1st Edition
      • March 22, 2025
      • M. Naeem + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      • eBook
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      Essential Oil Bearing Plants: Agro-techniques, Phytochemicals, and Healthcare Applications provides a unique, comprehensive view of the plants which produce these valuable products, exploring optimal plant production. Environmental factors such as genetic factors, geographical origins, cultivation locations, environmental conditions, and nutritional status influence their secondary components. Moreover, water variability, temperature, salt, and metal stresses significantly impact the growth, yield, and EO production of these plants by adjustment of anatomical, morphological, and biochemical development.This compilation increases the awareness of the essential oil plant species, their conservation, cultivation, and sustainable utilization. This deeper understanding of current science will aid in the efficient commercialization of products based on these plants, and will help identify knowledge gaps for future research.

    • Advances in Microbial Physiology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 86
      • May 23, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Microbial Physiology, Volume 86, the latest release in this ongoing series, continues the tradition of topical, important, cutting-edge reviews in microbiology. The editors have always strived to view microbial physiology in the broadest sense. In this volume, chapters deal with Diversity in the physiology and metabolism of chlorophototrophic bacteria, Copper homeostasis in Streptococcus and Neisseria: known knowns and unknown knowns, A Lysis Less Ordinary: The Bacterial Type 10 Secretion System, Cytochrome bd-type oxidases and environmental stressors in microbial physiology, and Multiple roles for iron in microbial physiology: bacterial oxygen sensing by heme-based sensors.

    • Glucose Transporters

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 128
      • March 17, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Glucose Transporters, Volume 128 in the Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Glucose transporters and their energy homeostasis function in various organs, Molecular basis for inhibiting glucose transporters by exofacial inhibitors, Self-assembly of the insulin-responsive vesicles creates a signaling platform for the insulin action on glucose uptake, The role of lipid soluble vitamins on glucose transporter, Transport of dehydroascorbic acid by glucose transporters GLUTs, Glut-1 Inhibition in Breast Cancer Cells, Small-molecule inhibitors of glucose transporters, and more.

    • The Emerging Genomic Landscape of Complex Immune-Mediated Traits

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 114
      • August 18, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The Emerging Genomic Landscape of Complex Immune-Mediated Traits, Volume 114 in the Advances in Genetics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Unraveling the Interplay of Genetic Variants and Epigenetic Signatures in Complex traits, Crosstalk between T Cell Gene Regulation and Intestinal Epithelial Cells: Insights into Mucosal Immunity, Understanding the link between regulatory RNA regions and genomic variation with coeliac disease, Interplay Between the Host Genome, Autoimmune Disease and Infection, and Organoids and gut-on-chip as powerful tools to model the genetics of intestinal mucosal inflammation.

    • Neuroglia in Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders, Part II

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 210
      • March 28, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Neuroglia in Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders, Part II discusses glia relative to neurologic and psychiatric disorders, emphasizing cross-disease-glial cell dysfunctions. Driven by advances in genetics, transcriptomics, electrophysiologic and imaging techniques, as well as by the increase in knowledge on neuropathologic features and underlying disease mechanisms, this book bridges the gap between neuroglia basic science and neuroglia clinical research.

    • Advances in Immunology

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 167
      • November 1, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Immunology, Volume 167, the latest release in a long-established and highly respected publication, presents current developments and comprehensive reviews in immunology. Chapters in this new release include Recent Advances in Antifungal Immunity, Neuroimmunology beyond the CNS: nerve-macrophage interactions in peripheral tissues, Regulatory T cell functions in peripheral tissues, Alarmins in mucosal tissues and how they regulate health and disease, Ontogeny and function of microglia and nerve-associated macrophages, and Modulation of humoral immunity by γδ T cells.

    • Microalgae and One Health

      • 1st Edition
      • July 2, 2025
      • Antonio Pérez-Gálvez + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Microalgae and One Health: Fundamentals, Biocompounds, and Health and Environmental Applications provides a novel compendium of the interdisciplinary applications of microalgae. Adverse global changes, including climate change, environmental pollution, urbanization, globalization, industrialization, and food insecurity are imminent threats to global health as they accelerate damage to humanity, wildlife, and the biosphere. The One Health concept asserts that these contemporary challenges are entwined in the interdependence of humans, animals, and our shared environment. This book examines the use of microalgae in human and animal nutrition, healthcare, and novel technologies applied to sustainable environmental processes.Written by a globally diverse network of experts, this book is systematically structured to illustrate the applications of microalgae. The first section of the book covers the fundamentals of microalgae, from chemistry to industry applications. The next section further examines microalgae chemistry and identifies bioactive compounds. Subsequent sections examine the utility of microalgae in One Health, from human therapeutic potential to animal health and sustainability. The book concludes with a comprehensive market analysis, regulatory discussion, and safety considerations associated with microalgae products.

    • An Overview of FDA Regulated Products

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 26, 2025
      • Eunjoo Pacifici + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      An Overview of FDA Regulated Products: From Drugs and Cosmetics to Food and Tobacco, Second Edition is fully updated to reflect recent advances in science and technology and new laws and regulations. Breakthroughs in cellular and gene therapy, immunotherapy, precision medicine, and digital health are changing the face of healthcare and regulation. The updates brought about by the 21st Century Cures Act and subsequent PDUFA Reauthorizations, as well as signing into law the “Modernization of Cosmetic Regulation Act of 2022,” which will transform FDA’s oversight of cosmetics, are fully reflected in all chapters of the book.This book provides graduate students and industry professionals with comprehensive information on approval processes with the FDA and other country regulation organizations. Regulatory science professionals working with not only drugs, but biologics, medical devices, food and additives, cosmetics, veterinary products, and tobacco will benefit from this comprehensive overview of the regulatory environment.

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