Tracey A. Martin • Wen G. Jiang Editors 2013 Overview: Tight junctions, the most apical cellular structure of epithelial and endothelial cells in the body, are key cellular structures that control paracellular permeability in cells and as a result, are key to the maintenance of the space and tissue types in the body. There has […]
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Espen E. Spangenburg Editor 2013 The word integrative is defi ned as “bringing together parts to make up a whole.” Hence, this book was designed to bring together viewpoints of scientists across a variety of disciplines, all relevant to women’s health. The invited authors have all published signifi cant material on matters relevant to […]
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Stefania Staibano Editor 2013 For many years in the past, few patients with prostate carcinoma were treated by surgery. Two were the main reasons. First, diagnosis often occurred at such an advanced stage of the illness as to make radical treatment impossible. Second, the few patients who underwent surgery were routinely left incontinent. An alternative to less-than-adequate surgical treatment was […]
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Donald J. Tindall Editor 2013 Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed non-cutaneous malignancy in men and the second leading cause of male cancer-related mortality in the USA. The last decade has seen unprecedented progress in the detection, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of prostate cancer. These advances have been driven largely by an increased understanding of the underlying biochemistry, […]
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Series Editors Vale´rie Quesniaux • Bernhard Ryffel • Franco Di Padova Editors 2013 The IL-17 cytokines represent a novel family of cytokines, which extends the Th1-Th2 paradigm and defines a new effector T cell, the Th17 cell. Th17 cells may co-express at least IL-17A and IL-17F and IL-22. IL-17A and IL-17F can be produced by […]
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Niranjan Bhattacharya Phillip Stubblefield Editors 2013 New areas of medical science are emerging every year, opening new vistas, stimulating new thoughts, and finding cures for age old diseases for which cures were not available earlier. Regenerative medicine is one of these areas, and interestingly, this field is focusing more and more on what is available […]
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Hieronim Jakubowski 2013 Proteins, the major functional macromolecules of life, are composed of long chains of L-α- mino acids linked by amide bonds between the α-caboxyl group of one residue and the α-amino group of the next. Although proteins contain several dozens to thousands of amino acid residues, only the 20 canonical coded amino acids, […]
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Robert Chunhua Zhao Editor 2013 Once you open this book, we are somewhat connected to stem cell science, and it will take you walking into the amazing world of stem cells. You may have read books or attended classes about stem cells; you may have even reported important scientifi c results related to stem cells. […]
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Lars Kaestner 2013 This book is a habilitation treatise. I aimed to both fulfil the formal requirements of the habilitation treatise as defined in the habilitation regulation of the Medical Faculty at Saarland University and provide a resource for colleagues, students and all that are interested in calcium signalling and/or optical imaging methods to […]
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