Reproductive Health and the Environment

Reproductive Health and the Environment-1

Edited by P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati L. Hens and C.V. Howard 2007 The scope of environmental impact on reproduction is very large. It aims at covering all aspects of reproductive problems and their links to the environment. Therefore, it deals with female and male reproductive impairments, whatever their severity and their sites, gonad or extra-gonad.

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HERBAL PRODUCTS

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Edited by Timothy S. Tracy Richard L. Kingston 2007 Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology Herbalists and laypersons have used herbs for centuries. Interest in and use of herbal products was revitalized in the late 1990s with the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which allowed dietary supplements to be marketed without enduring the FDA-approval process required […]

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Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants

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Lewis S. Nelson Richard D. Shih Michael J. Balick 2007 This second edition of the Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants is a remarkable improvement to a great book. The first edition, The AMA Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants, offered a major advance in linking high quality botany, pharmacognosy, fine graphics, and a limited amount of clinical medicine.

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CRIMINAL POISONING

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John Harris Trestrail, III 2007 INVESTIGATIONAL GUIDE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, TOXICOLOGISTS, FORENSIC SCIENTISTS, AND ATTORNEYS I am very pleased with the success of the first edition of Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys, and would like to thank those who contributed constructive comments with regard to typographical errors and what they would like […]

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Clinical Trials in Osteoporosis

Clinical Trials in Osteoporosis-1

Edited by Derek Pearson and Colin G. Miller 2007 Before the mid-1990s, very few people were aware of the disease of osteoporosis, not only in the general population, but also in the medical profession. In the past 10 years there have been many advances and developments in the understanding of this crippling disease, to the point that this […]

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Appropriate Dose Selection – How to Optimize Clinical Drug Development

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J. Venitz, W. Sittner Editors 2007 Cancer has become a chronic disease, often requiring long-term, chronic oncological drug treatment. As a result, the oncological treatment is exposed to a large number of patients who may be on concurrent treatments for other health conditions and/or who may suffer from concomitant illnesses, both of which may affect the efficacy and safety […]

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GPCRs: From Deorphanization to Lead Structure Identification

GPCRs

H. Bourne, R. Horuk, J. Kuhnke, H. Michel Editors 2007 G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a major role in regulating the overall homeostasis of complex organisms such as mammals but are also found in primitive species such as Dictyostelium (slime mold) and yeast. The GPCR superfamily is quite diverse and sequencing has revealed more than 850 genes comprising approximately 3%of […]

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