Gerd Gross • Stephen K. Tyring (Editors) 2011 Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), previously known as venereal diseases, have been a topic of major concern for centuries as they are considered very important risk factors for morbidity and mortality both in poor and in industrialised countries.
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Marcello D. Bronstein Editor 2011 Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment I usually say to my residents that when I was a resident myself, I was much more confident at diagnosing and treating Cushing’s syndrome than I am today! This statement aims at pointing out that the deeper you go in dealing with clinical, laboratorial, and image aspects of […]
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Gabriele Halwachs-Baumann Editor 2011 Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Therapy Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the most common intrauterine transmitted viral infection, and has a tremendous impact on fetuses and newborns.
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Jo C. Neill l Jayashri Kulkarni Editors 2011 This volume attempts to answer the question of how sex influences brain and behaviour. It brings together experts in this field, psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals with preclinical researchers to review the latest work in this area and give a thorough overview of how males and females are […]
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Catherine Racowsky • Peter N. Schlegel Bart C. Fauser • Douglas T. Carrell Editors 2011 The initial volume of Biennial Review of Infertility was published in 2009. In the preface to that volume we shared our vision that this series would serve as a forum for evidence-based reviews of cutting-edge topics in the field of infertility, written by […]
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Ashok Agarwal ● R. John Aitken Juan G. Alvarez Editors 2012 In the early days of research in the field, oxygen radicals and other “reactive oxygen/ nitrogen species” (RONS) were universally thought of as deleterious molecules that must be eliminated at all costs by high levels of endogenous or exogenous antioxidants.
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Thomas Liehr 2012 A Guide for Human Geneticists and Clinicians Since 1992 I have been working in the field of clinical cytogenetics.My diploma, i.e.,a master’s thesis, was about a special subgroup of patients with small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMC), the cat eye syndrome (Liehr et al. 1992). Since that time much progress has been achieved in the […]
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Linda E. May 2012 In the quest to provide children with optimal health, maternal exercise while in utero is sometimes not considered. Concerns have been raised that the physiologic effects of maternal exercise on thermal equilibrium, placental bed blood flow, and delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the fetus may compromise the growth and development of the fetus. […]
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Kurt Benirschke • Graham J. Burton Rebecca N. Baergen 2012 It is with great sadness that we report here that Professor Peter Kaufmann died in December 2010 from the cancer that had troubled him for a long time. Professor Graham Burton will ably replace Peter’s contributions in the future.
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Alan J. Wein Christopher Chapple 2012
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