Antitumor Potential and Other Emerging Medicinal Properties of Natural Compounds

Antitumor Potential and other Emerging Medicinal Properties of Natural Compounds-1

Evandro Fei Fang · Tzi Bun Ng Editors 2013 Can common people enjoy a healthy life in this world which is permeated with unhealthy food? Can patients afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, and cancer be given a better and less stressful quality of life? The chapters of this book support an affirmative answer: natural products should be promoted […]

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The Biology of Subcellular Nitric Oxide

The Biology of Subcellular Nitric Oxide-1

Tamás Roszer 2012 The latest progress in the field shows that NO is generated within distinct cell compartments, including specific plasma membrane regions, mitochondria, chloroplasts, peroxisomes, the Golgi-complex and intracellular membrane systems. NO synthesis plays specific roles in these compartments and, in turn, cell organelles also control intracellular NO levels.

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Tandem Repeat Polymorphisms

Tandem Repeat Polymorphisms-1

Edited by Anthony J. Hannan 2012 Genetic Plasticity, Neural Diversity and Disease Tandem repeats of DNA sequences provide a unique and abundant source of genomic variability and recent evidence suggests they can modulate a range of biological processes in a wide variety of different species. These classes of repetitive DNA are variously referred to as simple sequence repeats, satellite […]

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Sentic Computing

Sentic Computing-1

Erik Cambria • Amir Hussain 2012 Techniques, Tools, and Applications The ways people express their opinions and sentiments have radically changed in the past few years thanks to the advent of social networks, Web communities, blogs, wikis, and other online collaborative media. The distillation of knowledge from this huge amount of unstructured information can be a key factor […]

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Sensing in Nature

Sensing in Nature-1

Edited by Carlos López-Larrea 2012 All organisms ranging from the simplest unicellular form to the most advanced multicellular organism possess the capability to detect different signals in their surroundings. Cells live in a complex environment and can sense light, physical parameters, chemical cues and biological signalling molecules from other cells.

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Self and Nonself

Self and Nonself-1

Edited by Carlos López-Larrea 2012 In 1960 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet received the Noble Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He titled his Nobel Lecture “Immunological Recognition of Self” emphasizing the central argument of immunological tolerance in “How does the vertebrate organism recognize self from nonself in this the immunological sense—and how did the capacity evolve.”

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Reviews in Plasmonics 2010

Reviews in Plasmonics 2010-1

Chris D. Geddes Editor 2012 In the last 10 years, we have seen significant growth in plasmonics-related research with many researchers around the world publishing high quality material in now several peer reviewed journals, solely dedicated to the topic. To this end, we launched the “ Plasmonics ” Springer journal in 2005, which after only a few years, now […]

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