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Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy: Promising Nontoxic Antitumor Agents From Plants & Other Natural Sources

Oregon Medical Press, 2001

This book discusses numerous natural compounds that show promise in the treatment of cancer. It examines fully what research has told us about them, and it proposes ways of using them that could significantly increase their value in cancer treatment beyond what has previously been demonstrated. To understand the meaning...

Functional and Dysfunctional Sexual Behavior: A Synthesis of Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology

Academic Press, 2007

For a long time I was fascinated by trying to understand the behavioral, endocrine and neural mechanisms controlling rat sexual behavior, independently of whether such an understanding was of any use or not. My favorite afternoon distraction was to walk over to the lab and see how the experiments were going, and if possible I...

Insulin Resistance: Insulin Action and its Disturbances in Disease

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Hormone resistance syndromes are typically thought of as rare, usually genetic, disorders with a severe but relatively stereotyped clinical and biochemical profile. While there are syndromes of severe insulin resistance that conform to this description, defective insulin action is of much more pervasive biomedical importance....

Primary Intraocular Lymphoma

World Scientific Publishing, 2007

In medicine and science, two inseparable sisters, a modern renaissance has occurred in which the pursuit of knowledge has provided the world with fascinating discoveries and answers to age-old questions. Perhaps one of the most shining and striking moments in this modern renaissance was the elucidation of the human genome. From...

The Tourniquet Manual - Principles and Practice

Springer, 2003

Why write a book on the tourniquet? The tourniquet is used routinely in operating theatres throughout the world, but as far as I know there is no single book that surveys the considerable literature that has accumulated. If used sensibly, the tourniquet is a safe instrument. Most of the few complications seen with its use are...

Satellite Technology: Principles and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Offering readers a concise and yet comprehensive reference, Satellite Technology provides a unique coverage of both the principles and applications in this wide field. This book covers the technological and application aspects of satellites in one volume, ensuring not only extensive coverage of communications-related applications of...

Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Springer, 2008

Pediatric Allergy,Asthma and Immunology is a new discipline that finds its foundation in this book, whose roots linke me to Elena and Luisa Businco,with whom I founded the first Italian Pediatric Allergy Division some 30years ago, now called the Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Division. There I discovered this world,...

Approximate Kalman Filtering (Approximations and Decompositions)

World Scientific Publishing, 1993

Kalman filtering algorithm gives optimal (linear, unbiased and minimum error-variance) estimates of the unknown state vectors of a linear dynamic-observation system, under the regular conditions such as perfect data information; complete noise statistics; exact linear modelling; ideal will-conditioned matrices in computation and strictly...

Beet-Sugar Handbook

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

The first all-in-one reference for the beet-sugar industry

Beet-Sugar Handbook is a practical and concise reference for technologists, chemists, farmers, and research personnel involved with the beet-sugar industry. It covers:
* Basics of beet-sugar technology
* Sugarbeet farming
* Sugarbeet...

The Vascular Endothelium I (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology) (v. 1)

Springer, 2006

It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Springer to edit this book.My association with the vascular endothelium covers a large part of my scientific career and, as with any good long-standing relationship, it has had moments of great excitement and periods of laborious construction. It has sometimes been...

Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research

Humana Press, 2003

Life and death are topics that no one takes lightly. In the cell, death by apoptosis is just as fundamental as proliferation for the maintenance of normal tissue homeostasis. Too much or too little apoptosis can lead to developmental abnormality, degenerative diseases, or cancers. Although apoptosis, or programmed cell death (PCD),...

Outcome Prediction in Cancer

Elsevier Limited, 2007

This book is organized into 4 sections, each looking at the question of outcome prediction in cancer from a different angle. The first section describes the clinical problem and some of the predicaments that clinicians face in dealing with cancer. Amongst issues discussed in this section are the TNM staging, accepted methods for survival...

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