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Crop Improvement
New Approaches and Modern Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The improvement of crop species has been a basic pursuit since cultivation began thousands of years ago. To feed an ever increasing world population will require a great increase in food production. Wheat, corn, rice, potato and few others are expected to lead as the most important crops in the world....
Genomes of Plants and Animals
21st Stadler Genetics Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume brings together the disciplines of plant and animal genome research, and serves as an opportunity for scientists from both fields to compare results, problems and prospects.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Astrocytes were the original neuroglia that Ramón y Cajal visualized in 1913 using a gold sublimate stain. This stain targeted intermediate filaments that we now know consist mainly of glial fibrillary acidic protein, a protein used today as an astrocytic marker. Cajal described the morphological...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Recent studies have provided clear evidence on the role of neural-immune interactions in normal brain function and neuropathological conditions. Neuroimmune factors, which play an essential role in neuroinflammatory response, have been implicated in the regulation of neuronal function and plasticity....
Psychiatry the State of the Art
Volume 6 Drug Dependence and Alcoholism, Forensic Psychiatry, Military Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a world-wide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness. To further this purpose, the Association organizes mono- or multi thematic Regional Symposia...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Fungal infections are an increasing problem in critically ill patients and these infections carry an attributable mortality that is much higher than corresponding bacterial infections. In both Europe and North America, Candida infections predominate and much of this book concentrates on the epidemiology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Traditional methods of medical education and training are changing rapidly. This volume integrates the printed text--as provided by leading experts in science and medicine--with multimedia applications using desktop conferencing and the Internet in the delivery of instruction. The Department of Biochemistry...
Social Change, Public Policy, and Community Collaborations
Training Human Development Professionals For the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Lawton Chiles GovernorofFlorida, 1991-1998 Social Change, Public Policy and Community Collaborations: Training Human Development Professionalsfor the Twenty-First Century is more than the name of the Third National Applied Developmental Science Conference; it is more than the name of a book prepared...
Blood Cell Biochemistry
Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors and Their Receptors
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1996
Historically, the field of hematopoietic growth factor research began with the work of Carnot and Deflandre-in 1906 they suggested that the rate of erythropoiesis is regulated by a humoral factor found in the blood, namely, erythropoietin. From this comparatively early start, accelerating progress...
by Lyn Healy, Ludmila Ruban
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This lavishly-illustrated, authoritative atlas explores the intricate art of culturing human pluripotent stem cells. Twelve chapters – containing more than 280 color illustrations – cover a variety of topics in pluripotent stem cell culturing including mouse and human fibroblasts, human embryonic...
The Science and Business of Drug Discovery
Demystifying the Jargon
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
The Science and Business of Drug Discovery is written for those who want to learn about the biopharmaceutical industry and its products whatever their level of technical knowledge. Its aim is to demystify the jargon used in drug development, but in a way that avoids over simplification and the resulting...
Paraoxonase (PON1) in Health and Disease
Basic and Clinical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The paraoxonase or PON family of genes resides on human chromosome 7q2t-22 in the order PONt, PON3 and PON2. PONt was one of the early genes identified as an environmentally relevant gene, in that it is important in determining an individual's sensitivity or resistance to exposure from specific organophosphorus...
Forensic Toxicology
Controlled Substances and Dangerous Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With the rapid spread of drug use and abuse in this country over the last decade, events relating to drugs have become increasingly prominent in the court of law as well as in society in general. It is anticipated that throughout the 1980s this problem will continue to be one of the major social problems...