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    • Nanofiber Therapeutics

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Neeraj Mishra + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanofiber Therapeutics: Revolutionizing Cancer and Inflammation Management is a comprehensive resource designed to enrich knowledge, catalyze scientific advancements, empower patients, and inform policy decisions in nanomedicine. This book leverages the transformative potential of nanotechnology to combat cancer and inflammation, two of the most challenging health conditions today. The book explores the revolutionary potential of nanofiber-based therapeutics, aiming to develop innovative solutions that overcome existing treatment limitations and improve patient outcomes. It bridges the gap between basic scientific research and clinical application, synthesizing the latest advancements in nanofiber technology with insights from preclinical and clinical studies. Covering every facet of nanofiber therapies—from design and production to clinical applications—the book offers a comprehensive overview. It aims to educate healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, patients, and the public about the potential of nanofiber therapeutics, empowering stakeholders with the knowledge needed for informed decision-making and interdisciplinary collaboration. By highlighting cutting-edge research and technological innovations, this book inspires scientific curiosity and further research in the field. It fills a gap in the existing literature, laying the groundwork for future research and development, and driving advancements that could transform cancer and inflammation treatment.

    • Essentials of Clinical Neurophysiology

      • 4th Edition
      • March 31, 2025
      • Karl E. Misulis + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Up-to-date and easy to read, Essentials of Clinical Neurophysiology, Fourth Edition, details the basics of normal and abnormal neurologic function and provides authoritative clinical guidance on performing and interpreting today's full range of neurophysiologic studies. Drs. Karl E. Misulis and Thomas C. Head cover recent advances in technology as well as changes in training and practice patterns for EEG, EMG, EP, intraoperative monitoring, sleep studies, and autonomic testing. Offering a practical overview of this complex field, this one-stop resource is an excellent tool for board review and preparation.

    • Preventable Medical Errors

      • 1st Edition
      • September 18, 2025
      • Erwin B. Montgomery Jr.
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Preventable Medical Errors: The Role of Different Sciences in Medical Education and Practice addresses the issues of staying up to date with evolving medical practices, by providing practical examples linked to real-world patient safety concerns and illustrating theoretical discussions with clear clinical practice scenarios. The book is divided into two sections, Part 1 - How Did It Come To This? and Part 2 - Where Does It Go From Here?; which guide the reader through how we got here historically and how we can navigate our way out using the tools the author presents. Thus paving the way, bridging a gap between theory and practice, while emphasizing the importance of patient safety. Written for all medical professionals, at the forefront of postmodern and scientific medical advancements, to ultimately improve clinical outcomes and reduce preventable medical errors.

    • Nanodots for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Bhupendra G. Prajapati + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanodots for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment presents a pioneering exploration of nano-scale drug delivery systems that promise to revolutionize cancer care. This book, with insights from global scientific collaborations, delves into various nanodots employed in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The book provides a comprehensive overview of nanotechnology's role in cancer care, including the synthesis and characterization of nanodots and their importance in cancer imaging. It also covers various treatment options and offers practical suggestions for improving nanodots for cancer imaging and therapy, making it an invaluable resource for drug formulation experts, drug delivery specialists, oncologists, and translators.Nanodots enhance precision and effectiveness in delivering therapeutic agents to target sites within the body, representing a significant advancement in medical science.

    • Cryptic Enzymes and Moonlighting Proteins

      • 1st Edition
      • April 24, 2025
      • Helen Irving + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Cryptic Enzymes and Moonlighting Proteins, a new volume in the Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology series, offers a thorough overview of cryptic enzymes and moonlighting proteins in signaling cascades. In early chapters, leading international contributors discuss evolutionary considerations for moonlighting proteins, moonlighting interactions in the extracellular matrix, eukaryotic moonlighting proteins, modulating, moonlighting kinases, moonlighting proteins in neurobiology signaling, metabolic enzymes moonlighting as RNA binding and regulatory proteins. Later, methods-driven chapters discuss practical aspects of identifying hidden moonlighting domains in proteins, computational approaches and bioinformatic tools for the identification of cryptic enzymes, establishing cryptic enzyme interactomes, and assessing contributions of moonlighting proteins to signal cascades.The book also explores recent advances in research and brings together an array of information across different fields to enable better targeting of these exciting proteins and their interactomes. With a clear focus on the role of moonlighting and cryptic enzymes in signal transduction, users will find examples of cryptic enzymes across species, as well as those in human healthy biology and pathogenesis.

    • Plant Functional Traits

      • 1st Edition
      • February 15, 2025
      • Manoj Kumar + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Plant Function Traits: Linking Climate and Ecosystem Functioning, part of the Plant Biology, Sustainability and Climate Change series, presents a wholistic understanding of Plant Functional Traits. As global climate change advances, natural resources are facing increasing survival challenges, hence this book directly addresses that need, exploring the morphological, physiological, and phenological properties of a plant that can be used as a proxy to understand plant environment interactions. Users will find great illustrations throughout individual chapters, along with case studies that demonstrate applications of functional traits in classifying vegetation of a region into distinct type groups as Plant Functional Types (PFTs).Additional information includes applications in the development of new generation of Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) and an understanding of the response of vegetation to changing environments.

    • Fundamentals of AI for Medical Education, Research and Practice

      • 1st Edition
      • January 20, 2025
      • Sameer Mohommed Khan
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fundamentals of AI for Medical Education, Research and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction on all aspects of AI application in healthcare, ranging from medical education to diagnostic medicine. The book's chapters are grouped into six sections: an introduction to AI in healthcare, AI in medical education, AI healthcare in research, AI in clinical practice, and future directions and challenges, concluding with practical application of AI tools in health care. Written by an experienced physiologist and medical educationist who is actively involved in all aspects of teaching and learning, this book will prove to be immense benefit for medical researchers, practicing clinicians, academicians and medical students at all levels.

    • Sparkling Beverages

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Gérard Liger-Belair
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Sparkling Beverages: Champagne and Beyond offers a complete overview of the physicochemical processes at work in a sparkling beverage. In order to achieve effervescence in a glass of champagne, precise knowledge fluid dynamics and CO2 solubility are necessary. This reference covers these concepts, as well as historical contexts and modern-day production methods of simple sparkling waters and sugar-free sparkling soft drinks to more complex alcoholic beverages, such as beers or sparkling wines. The book breaks down the science behind the fizz in our drinks while also examining sensory experiences associated with opening, smelling, and testing sparkling beverages.Written by a true expert on the topic and complete with beautiful, original photography, this unique, interdisciplinary work will interest researchers and industry producers alike.

    • Cytokine-Based Immunotherapy - Part A

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 396
      • July 22, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Cytokine-Based immunotherapy, Volume 396, Part A delves into the intricate world of cytokines, vital signaling proteins that orchestrate the immune response and their pivotal role in modulating various immune functions. From their fundamental mechanisms to their therapeutic applications, this book offers a thorough examination of the latest trends and developments in leveraging cytokines for immunotherapy. The book includes chapters such as Cytokine-driven cancer immune evasion mechanisms, which explores how cytokines contribute to cancer cells' ability to evade the immune system. Cytokine-based immunotherapy in hematolymphoid malignancies is also explored, discussing the use of cytokines in treating blood cancers.Targeting TNF-alpha examines the immunotherapeutic approach for alleviating neuropathic pain. The key role of immunomodulatory cytokines for the development of novel nk cell-based cancer therapies focuses on the importance of cytokines in developing new cancer treatments. Finally, complexities in the clinical development of TGFβ inhibitors covers the challenges in creating inhibitors for TGFβ.

    • Functional RNAs in Plants

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Jen-Tsung Chen
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Functional RNAs in Plants explores the rapidly advancing field of plant RNA biology and itstransformative role in modern agriculture. Covering microRNAs, small interfering RNAs, long noncoding RNAs, circular RNAs, and CRISPR-associated RNAs, the book explains their identification, design, structural and functional analysis, and applications in crop improvement.Chapters address both abiotic and biotic stresses, highlighting how functional RNAs regulatetolerance to climate-driven challenges as well as plant–microbe interactions and disease resistance. Technical sections detail progress in bioinformatics, integrated multi-omics, spatial and single-cell approaches, and high-throughput transcriptomics, which together provide new insights into RNA networks underlying plant stress responses. The book also discusses artificial small RNAs, secondary metabolism, and competing endogenous RNA systems, connecting mechanistic understanding with applied breeding strategies.Practical guidance is offered on integrating RNA knowledge into smart breeding, sustainableagricultu... and CRISPR-based innovations, with emphasis on designing and delivering functionalguide RNAs for crop improvement. By combining foundational concepts with emerging applications,this volume serves as a valuable reference for academics, researchers, and advanced-level students in plant molecular biology and agricultural biotechnology

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