Philip J. Cowen Trevor Sharp Jennifer Y. F. Lau Editors 2013 Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences Volume 14 Major depressive disorder (MDD) is remarkably common. At any one time, worldwide, over 120 million people may be suffering from depression. Lifetime risks vary from 10 to 25 % for women and 5 to 12 % for men for […]
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Stavros Thomopoulos • Victor Birman Guy M. Genin Editors 2013 Attachment of dissimilar materials in engineering and surgical practice is a perennial challenge. Bimaterial attachment sites are common locations for initial and repeated injury and mechanical failure. Nature presents several highly effective solutions to the challenge of bimaterial attachment that differ from those currently adopted in engineering practice. The […]
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Alexander S. Kauffman • Jeremy T. Smith Editors 2013 We were lucky to get into the kisspeptin “ fi eld” during its early days, though we had avenues of entry. In early 2004, Sasha was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Emilie Rissman’s lab in Virginia, where he was studying the effects of various reproductive neuropeptides, such as GALP […]
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Lee B. Smith • Rod T. Mitchell Iain J. McEwan 2013 Is it a boy or a girl? That is the first question all new parents are asked on the arrival of a new baby. Whilst it could be argued that there is little other information that could be requested on the birth of a child, this […]
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Arno Schrauwers Bert Poolman 2013
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Ashok Agarwal • Nabil Aziz Botros Rizk Editors 2013 Books can be separated into two categories: those that are exploratory and forward looking, that propose to define new pathways and to ‘‘change the way we think about a topic’’ and those that are exploratory and forward looking. This book is a good blend of both types. Its subject […]
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Maria Jose Alcaraz • Oreste Gualillo Olga Sánchez-Pernaute Editors 2013 Rheumatisms are complex diseases in which the incidence of exogenous factors is determinant. Searching for an individual pathogenic factor is often useless in this kind of diseases, whereas targeting general cell processes might be a better strategy. Rheumatic diseases are highly heterogeneous in both causative mechanisms and lesion type, […]
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Domenico Praticò • Patrizia Mecocci Editors 2013 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has no racial, socioeconomic, or geographic boundaries, since it is the most common cause of dementia in elderly individuals throughout the world. As people worldwide live to an older age, AD has become a serious ever-growing public health problem. The importance and the scientifi c challenges of this […]
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Stephen H. Tsang Editor 2013 In the last few decades, stem cell research has developed groundbreaking technologies to both study and treat diseases. This research has proven fruitful for the field of ophthalmology, especially in recent years. With its relative immune privilege, the eye has proven an ideal testing ground for stem cell therapies. This book describes just a […]
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Vladimir P. Skulachev • Alexander V. Bogachev Felix O. Kasparinsky 2013 Energy and life. These are the phenomena of objective reality, subjective notions, and simply the words of our language. It has been already over 2000 years that philosophers have been arguing about the essence of these terms. Scientists have been trying to comprehend them for centuries. […]
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