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Origins of Human Socialization

  • 1st Edition
  • November 6, 2020
  • Donald W. Pfaff
  • English
  • Paperback
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Origins of Human Socialization introduces a new concept on the origins of basic human instinct. The book combines the three disciplinary approaches, including neuroscience, paleoanthropology and developmental psychology as an intertwined foundation for prosocial behavior. It argues that humans have the basic brain mechanisms for prosocial activity, offering new insights into more sophisticated social behavior. It also examines both visual and auditory systems in both humans and animals to explain the evolution of social interactions. Written by world-renowned researcher Dr. Donald Pfaff, this book is the first to explore why we have basic social instinct and how it works. For centuries, researchers have argued over the foundations of human behavior in society. Anthropologists point to transitions from hunter/gathers to urban dwellers leading to human domestication. Developmental psychologists highlight social competences in babies. Neuroscientists focus on specific genetic and neurochemical mechanisms that attribute to social behavior. This book brings all of these important areas together in an interdisciplinary approach that helps readers understand how they are linked.

Concepts and Experimental Protocols of Modelling and Informatics in Drug Design

  • 1st Edition
  • November 5, 2020
  • Om Silakari + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Concepts and Experimental Protocols of Modelling and Informatics in Drug Design discusses each experimental protocol utilized in the field of bioinformatics, focusing especially on computer modeling for drug development. It helps the user in understanding the field of computer-aided molecular modeling (CAMM) by presenting solved exercises and examples. The book discusses topics such as fundamentals of molecular modeling, QSAR model generation, protein databases and how to use them to select and analyze protein structure, and pharmacophore modeling for drug targets. Additionally, it discusses data retrieval system, molecular surfaces, and freeware and online servers. The book is a valuable source for graduate students and researchers on bioinformatics, molecular modeling, biotechnology and several members of biomedical field who need to understand more about computer-aided molecular modeling.

Side Effects of Drugs Annual

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 42
  • November 4, 2020
  • Sidhartha D. Ray
  • English
  • Hardback
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Side Effects of Drugs Annual: A Worldwide Yearly Survey of New Data in Adverse Drug Reactions, Volume 42, first published in 1977, and continually published as a yearly update to the voluminous encyclopedia Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs, presents clinicians and medical investigators with a critical survey of new data and trends in adverse drug reactions and interactions. Topics covered in this new release include Central Nervous System Stimulants and Drugs that Suppress Appetite, Antidepressants, Lithium, Drugs of Abuse, Hypnotics and Sedatives, Antipsychotic Drugs, Antiepileptics, Opioid Analgesics and Narcotic Antagonists, Anti-Inflammatory and Antipyretic Analgesics and Drugs Used in Gout, and much more.

Preparation of Phytopharmaceuticals for the Management of Disorders

  • 1st Edition
  • November 3, 2020
  • Chukwuebuka Egbuna + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Preparation of Phytopharmaceuticals for the Management of Disorders: The Development of Nutraceuticals and Traditional Medicine presents comprehensive coverage and recent advances surrounding phytopharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and traditional and alternative systems of medicines. Sections cover the concepts of phytopharmaceuticals, their history, and current highlights in phytomedicine. Also included are classifications of crude drugs, herbal remedies and toxicity, traditional and alternative systems of medicine, nanotechnology applications, and herbal cosmeticology. Final sections cover applications of microbiology and biotechnology in drug discovery. This book provides key information for everyone interested in drug discovery, including medicinal chemists, nutritionists, biochemists, toxicologists, drug developers and health care professionals. Students, professors and researchers working in the area of pharmaceutical sciences and beyond will also find the book useful.

Saffron

  • 1st Edition
  • November 3, 2020
  • Charis M. Galanakis
  • English
  • Paperback
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Saffron explores the properties, metabolism and health effects of saffron ingredients, along with processing issues and the industrial applications that are affected by these aspects. The book addresses the in vitro and in vivo antioxidant activities of bioactive compounds found in saffron and investigates recovery methods for the extraction of these target ingredients, as well as their encapsulation. Each of these methods aims to prevent the degradation of saffron's bioactive compounds by environmental factors and to improve their bioavailability in different applications. The book is an excellent reference for food scientists, technologists, chemists, new product developers, researchers, academics, professionals working in the food industry, and pharmacologists, pharmacists and clinicians interested in nutrition and metabolism.

Biomineralization

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2020
  • Andrew S. Mount + 1 more
  • English
Biomineralization: The Role of Cellular Biology in Mineral Deposition is a wide-ranging, up-to-date reference that provides a biological level of understanding of this topic. The trailblazing work Biomineralization, Cell Biology and Mineral Deposition by Kenneth Simkiss and Karl Wilbur, which published in 1989, was the only book of its kind that recognized the cellular biological aspects of calcification. While that book is a classic foundational work, much new research has occurred in the ensuing decades, and this new volume provides original contributions (meanwhile referring back to the relevant literature) that address the many recent groundbreaking findings. Notably, in the past 15 years both cellular and genomic level discoveries have ushered in a new era of biomineralization science, including a host of rapidly emerging discoveries that necessitate the need for a comprehensive and current treatise on the subject. The table of contents is organized into three distinct sections. The first, written by the two principle authors, includes introductory aspects about the physics and chemistry of biomineralization, with particular emphasis on the molecular, genomic, and cellular biological aspects. The second area consists of contributed chapters by leading experts that follow a taxonomic level of organization. These chapters include among others, marine magnetite bacteria, marine invertebrates, vertebrate bone, and marine algae such as coccolithophorids. Each of these chapters provides methodology summaries and comprehensive reviews of significant published studies with key papers summarized at the end of each chapter. The third and final section, again by the lead authors, involves a synthesis of previous chapters with an emphasis on unifying principles that emerge from the taxonomic survey. Areas of promising new research are identified as well as a discussion on the importance of the new information that can be applied to help with understanding new and emerging problems, such as global climate change and the effects of ocean acidification.

Innovation in Clinical Trial Methodologies

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2020
  • Peter Schueler
  • English
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Innovation in Clinical Trial Methodologies: Lessons Learned during the Corona Pandemic presents a selection of updated chapters from Re-Engineering Clinical Trials that feature innovative options and methods in clinical trials. The Coronavirus pandemic is an accelerator for digitalization in many industries, including clinical trials. This book considers best practices, alternative study concepts requiring fewer patients, studies with less patient interaction, the design of "virtualized" protocols, and moving from data to decisions. This book will be helpful to pharmacologists, physicians and clinical researchers involved in the process of clinical development and clinical trial design.