Edited by Grant Cooper 2007 Justinius Kerner, a German medical officer and poet, was the first to realize that botulinum toxin potentially might be useful for therapeutic purposes. Kerner made this observation in 1822, but he did not call the toxin “botulinum toxin.”
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J.-P. Lepoittevin C. J. Le Coz 2007 Chemistry plays a major role in our understanding of allergic contact dermatitis (ACD), but playing with molecules is not always an easy task for nonspecialists. This book has been written to familiarize the reader with the structures of some of the chemicals involved in ACD.
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Michael B. Morgan Bruce R. Smoller Stephen C. Somach 2007 Clinicopathologic Atlas and Text Dermatology textbooks exist in abundance. They include classics, such as Lever’s Histopathology of the Skin, which have gone through several editions, as well as a burgeoning number of newer titles.
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H. P. Soyer G. Argenziano R. Hofmann-Wellenhof R. H. Johr (Eds.) 2007 At the beginning of many scientific endeavors there is an idea shared by a small group of enthusiastic people. This was the case with our group, friends and colleagues from Austria, Italy, and the United States.
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W.-H. Boehncke · H.H. Radeke (Eds.) 2007 The idea for this book was born during the symposium on biologics organized by ZAFES (Center for Drug Research, Development and Safety at the University of Frankfurt am Main) in September 2005. Highly distinguished researchers specializing in the field of biologics had gathered together to exchange information on this relatively new subject.
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Edited by Jeffrey M. Weinberg 2008 Psoriasis is an inherited skin disease that has been diagnosed in 4.5 million adults in the US. About 10–30% of people with psoriasis also develop psoriatic arthritis, which causes pain, stiffness and swelling in and around the joints.
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P.J. Mease and P.S. Helliwell (Eds.) 2008
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Melvin A. Shiffman · Sid J. Mirrafati Samuel M. Lam (Editors) 2008 Facial rejuvenation is the art and science of improving the aesthetics of the face, scalp, and neck areas to give a more youthful appearance. For many years the standard has been a full facelift with various methods of superficial musculoaponeurotic system tightening as well as chemical […]
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Martino Ruggieri Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo Concezio Di Rocco (Eds.) 2008 Phakomatoses and Hamartoneoplastic Syndromes This book sees the light of day after more than 5-year “gestation”. The idea behind it originated in the early 2000’ and was originally inspired by the superb manual (published in 1987) by the late professor Manuel Rodriguez Gomez (Neurocutaneous Disorders. A Practical Approach. […]
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M. Eisenmann-Klein · C. Neuhann-Lorenz (Eds.) 2008 “It is now Monday and we are in the second week of creation” Peter Sloterdijk just recently stated in his prize award speech for innovative publication management. Nanotechnology, biotechnology and gene technology are revolutionizing our scientific world as much as our every day life – comparable only to the changes at […]
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