Edited by Alexzander A. A. Asea Bente K. Pedersen 2010 The heat shock proteins (HSP) are a family of highly conserved proteins with critical roles in maintaining cellular homeostasis and in protecting the cell from chronically and acutely stressful conditions. HSP are molecular chaperones that participate in a variety of physiological processes and are widespread in organisms, tissues, […]

Markku T. Hyyppä 2010 Social Capital, Population Health and Survival As the author of this book, I have to start with the confession that I am not an epidemiologist, but a neuroscientist and a specialist in clinical neurology by my medical education. However, for the past three decades I have marveled and investigated the impact of social relations […]

George C. Denniston · Frederick M. Hodges · Marilyn Fayre Milos Editors 2010 Protecting Personal Choice Why would anyone object to circumcision? For that matter, why would anyone hold an international symposium on this subject? In those countries and cultures where circumcision is ubiquitous, most people would probably ask these questions when confronted with this book. Indeed, most people […]

Editedby Kenneth Maiese 2010 Vital Elements in Biology and Medicine Disorders that involve a broad array of conditions, such as atherosclerosis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurodegeneration, infertility,or autoimmune disease, affect a wide spectrum of the world’s population leading to significant disability or untimely demise. For example, metabolic disorders that include diabetes mellitus occur in greater than 16 million individuals […]

Edited by Shamim I. Ahmad 2010 DNA is an essential component of life and its integrity plays a key role in sustaining normal life functions including DNA replication, genetic recombination, transcription and DNA repair. DNA is constantly threatened by numerous environmental and intrinsic deleterious physical and chemical agents, such as UV light, ionizing radiation, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and […]

Thomas Noll Editor 2010 Proceedings of the 20th ESACT Meeting, Dresden, Germany, June 17–20, 2007

Bradley R. Ringeisen · Barry J. Spargo · Peter K. Wu Editors 2010

Annick Perbal · Masaharu Takigawa · Bernard Perbal Editors 2010 An Overview of the Fifth International Workshop on the CCN Family of Genes

Michael S. Ritsner Editor 2010 Neuroprotection is a novel perspective for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s disorders that lead to neurodegeneration and disabilities as a result of deterioration of neurons due to apoptosis, oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, and other mechanisms. Since these mechanisms have implications not only for neurodegenerative disorders, but also for schizophrenia, mood and cognitive disorders, a synthesis of […]

Edited by Ramkrishna Sen 2010 The idea of writing or editing a book on ‘Biosurfactants’ struck me immediately after we published a review in Trends in Biotechnology [2006; 24(11):509-515], which received very good feedback from the world biosurfactant research community. In one fine morning, when I received an email from Ron Landes of Landes Bioscience, USA, requesting me to […]