Niranjan Bhattacharya • Phillip Stubblefield (Editors) 2011 In ancient mythologies, be they from Greece, India, or China, there are stories of kings and emperors seeking the “fountain of youth” or “pearls” that would rejuvenate them. The so-called Philosopher’s Stone that medieval alchemists searched for fruitlessly was supposed to not only turn any substance into gold, but also to […]
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Edited by Robert H. Lustig 2011 Maternal and Prenatal Influences on the Offspring Eliot had no idea that his observations on the life cycle would start even before birth. And indeed, one’s earliest beginning predicts both the timing and means to that end.
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Zvi Laron • John J. Kopchick (Editors) 2011 Lessons from Clinical and Experimental Experience It has been 50 years since the first family with Laron syndrome (LS, primary growth hormone (GH) insensitivity) was referred to the newly established Pediatric Endocrine Clinic at the Beilinson Hospital, Petah Tikva, Israel, a referral center now located at the Schneider Children’s Medical […]
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Maria I. New · Joe Leigh Simpson Editors 2011 Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference The 2nd World Conference entitled ‘Hormonal and Genetic Basis of Sexual Differentiation’ was held in Miami on January 15, 2010, and was directed by Maria I. New and Joe Leigh Simpson. The success of the conference was helped in part by the endorsement […]
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Helmtrud I. Roach, Felix Bronner Richard O.C. Oreffo (Editors) 2011 Epigenetics refers to processes that alter gene expression without changes in DNA sequence. In development, for example, genes are turned on and off, causing changes in the phenotype, from fetus to adult.
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H.F. Baars • J.J. van der Smagt P.A.F.M. Doevendans (Editors) 2011 With this comprehensive textbook on genetic aspects of cardiovascular disease for clinicians, we aim to provide a tool for clinicians, which simply has not been available before. Despite the fact that there is increasing awareness of genetic aspects of cardiovascular disease among both cardiologists and their patients, […]
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Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek · Beate Klösgen · Jesper Larsen · Flemming Pociot · Erik Renström Editors 2011 Systems Biology of Regulated Exocytosis in Pancreatic β-Cells Aside from the obvious statement that it should be a theory capable of unifying all our knowledge about insulin secretion, in both health and disease, not much is known about a systems biology […]
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Yves-Gérard Illouz • Aris Sterodimas Editors 2011 In the last decades, investments in basic research have yielded extensive knowledge about the many and complex processes involved in the development of an organism. Since human pluripotent stem cells were first isolated, research on stem cells has received much public attention, both because of its extraordinary promise […]
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Bernd Nilius Susan G. Amara Thomas Gudermann Reinhard Jahn Roland Lill Stefan Offermanns Ole H. Petersen Editors 2012
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Michał Witt • Małgorzata Dawidowska Tomasz Szczepan´ski Editors 2012 In recent years, there has been rapid development in molecular techniques, allowing for precise and highly sensitive support of existing traditional methods used in hemato-oncology.
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