Tiziana A.L. Brevini • Fulvio Gandolfi 2013 The establishment of stem cell (SC) lines in large animal species could lead to important improvements in the biomedical fi eld as well as in agriculture and animal science. In particular, domestic animal SC would have a positive impact on the health and production traits of these species through genetic […]
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Jean-Philippe Bastard Bruno Fève 2013 Créée en 1983, l’Association française d’étude et de recherche sur l’obésité (AFERO) aura bientôt 30 ans. Du 3e European Congress on Obesity (ECO) à Nice en 1991, au 19e ECO à Lyon en 2012, que de chemin parcouru ! Vingt ans après, nos « mousquetaires » d’alors, Gérard Ailhaud, Bernard Guy-Grand, Max Lafontan et […]
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Ursula Jakob • Dana Reichmann Editors 2013 Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have long been branded as undesired cytotoxic compounds to be avoided at all costs. This view has changedwith the realization that ROS, which are constantly produced in all aerobic organisms, play essential roles in a plethora of signaling processes that act to control cell differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis. […]
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S. Samuel Kim Editor 2013
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Mahmood S. Mozaffari Editor Managing Editor: Kristina Yeghiazaryan 2013 Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine Volume 3 The writings of earliest civilizations reveal that diabetes has af fl icted man for a very long time. The fi rst known clinical description of the disease is attributed to the Roman encylopaedist, Aulus Cornelius Celsus (ca 25 BC–ca […]
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Mieczyslaw Pokorski Editor 2013 The scientific study of the respiratory system has increased enormously during the last decades, principally due to advances in cellular and molecular biology. The progress has allowed respiratory researchers and clinicians to investigate, in much detail, the complex processes underlying the development, function or malfunction, and regulation of respiration. Respiration emerges as the product of […]
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Tiziana A. L. Brevini · Georgia Pennarossa 2013 Science is evolving at an immense speed. Breakthroughs, which most of us had never even thought of few years ago because they clashed against cemented dogmas, are now realities. They now pave the way for further scientific endeavors and offer new solutions to important societal problems. […]
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Sibel Yildirim 2013 The pace of scienti fi c life continues to speed up considerably due to the fl ow of data being faster than ever. In my previous SpringerBrief’s preface, I mentioned the groundbreaking discovery that neutrinos have been shown to exist at speeds faster than that of light. However, only a few […]
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Werner E.G. Mu¨ller l Xiaohong Wang l Heinz C. Schro¨der Editors 2013 Bioactivity and Applications of Natural and Synthetic Polymeric Inorganic Molecules Inorganic polymers are a relatively small group ofmolecules as compared to the large group of organic polymers. They comprise both short-chain polymers and long-chain polymers with one type of atom or two or […]
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Iulian Antoniac Editor 2013 The fi eld of biomaterials science represents a unique integration of biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and medicine for the purpose of developing new materials solutions to address a variety of medical problems. The past years have witnessed a rapid expansion of the fi eld, and the newest generation of […]
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