Bücher der Reihe Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium held in Munich, Germany, January 4-8, 1995.

Contains proceedings - "Frontiers in Clinical Neuroscience: 2002" - held in Abel Lajtha's honor. These proceedings focus on neurodegeneration and neuroprotection, two topics in clinical and experimental neuroscience.

Bringing together biochemical, genetic, molecular biology, and clinical approaches to the study of fatty acid oxidation, this text includes late-1990s research from most of the major groups working in this field.

The discussion program included a session that was devoted to the current status of herbal products in relation to cancer prevention, in recognition of the increasing attention that complementary and alternative medicine has been receiving from the scientific community as well as the general public.

Proceedings of the International Taurine Symposium `95: An Official Satellite Symposium of the 15th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry held in Osaka, Japan, June 27-July 1, 1995

This meeting was the fifth in a series, and assembled a team of scientists working on mechanisms by which the innate immune system of the host senses pathogens, the cellular and signaling networks that orchestrate the innate response and antigen presentation and adaptive immunity.

Proceedings of the 5th Biannual International Meeting on Angiogenesis: From the Molecular to Integrative Pharmacology, held July 1-7, 1999, in Crete, Greece.

Proceedings of the Neuroscience Symposium held in Staten Island of The City University of New York, and The CSI/IBR Center for Developmental Neuroscience, Staten Island, NY, and The City University Graduate School, New York City

Proceedings of an American Institute of Nutrition and Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology Symposium, held in Washington, DC, April 1--5, 1990

Development and Implications of Antimicrobial Resistance One of the most ominous trends in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy over the past decade has been the increasing pace of development of antimicrobial resistance among microbial pathogens.

The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (lSOTT) held its 26th annual meeting from August 23-26, 1998, and met for the second time in Budapest. Following the meeting, an ISOTT'98 CD was published as a digital, searchable record of ISOTT'98.

Health problems such as hypertension, tendency to diabetes, obesity, blood lipids, vascular disease, bone health, behaviour and learning and longevity may be "imprinted" during early life. This book looks at the development of food applications which provides mothers and infants with improved nutrition that leads to better future health.

This volume is edited by Dr. Sudhir Gupta, internationally recognized expert in Immunology, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Topics include toll receptors, dendritic cells, NK cells, and complement receptors.

Early Life Origins of Health and Disease is a new book which presents and discusses the many factors that may have impact on normal development. Finally, new and emerging evidence for other areas of human health and disease such a motor control and mental health is critically reviewed for the first time.

Proceedings of the 39th OHOLO Conference held in Eilat, Israel, May 7-11, 1995.

The symposium was organized in four sessions: (1) Structural features of the interaction of thrombin with substrates and inhibitors, (2) Synthetic inhibitors, (3) Hirudin and its analogues, and (4) Pharmacological and clinical considerations.

Proceedings of the First International Meeting of the Pancreatic Islet Study Group held in the Alicante, Spain, November 25-28 1994

Furthermore, experts in the field have combined topics such as skeletal muscle angiogenesis and hypoxia, high altitude pulmonary edema, new insights into the biology of the erythropoietin receptor, and the latest advances in cardiorespiratory control in hypoxia.

Proceedings of the International Taurine Symposium '97: Neurochemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology held in Tucson, Arizona, July 15-19, 1997

Major themes include: epidemiology of diabetes mellitus, metabolic risk factors in diabetes and cardiovascular disease, hypertension in diabetes mellitus, cardiac function in diabetes, glycemic control and improved cardiovascular function, diabetes management, and endothelial function in diabetes.

Proceedings of the American Institute for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C., August 28-30, 1996

This book documents the diverse research contributions of most of the major laboratories in the field of melatonin research, as presented in a special conference to mark the 40 year anniversary of the isolation and chemical identification of this hormone.

Dairy foods have huge potential concerning functional foods. This book provides an overview of these derived components and their diverse activities including: the stimulation of beneficial microflora, alerting the immune system to the presence of potential pathogens and allergens, binding and eliminating toxins, etc.

This ground-breaking book brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to discuss the control and coordination of processes involved in perceptually guided actions.

Billions of dollars are spent every year on research into targeted therapies for cancer. The meeting provided a forum for scientists and clinicians working in cancer drug discovery and therapy to share their opinions and experiences. The text here offers readers an overview of diverse approaches, ranging from drug discovery to cellular therapy.

Whereas the biochemistry of the 1980s revealed the potential of tropomyosin isoforms to diversify the function of actin filaments, the subsequent disenchantment with isoform biology in general in the 1990s inhibited growth of this field.

This book is based on the course 'Infection and Immunity in Children 2007' held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. The course covers topics in infectious diseases in children.

This book will be of interest to scientists working in the fields of cell and developmental biology. The chapters cover topics that capture the spirit of this dynamic discipline by integrating contemporary research with the classical embryological literature.

The fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster is an ideal model system to study processes of the central nervous system This book provides an overview of some major facets of recent research on Drosophila brain development.

This edited book highlights the central players in the Bionanotechnology field - which are the nanostructures and biomolecules. The book describes how nanostructures are synthesized and details the wide variety of nanostructures available for biological research and applications.