J. M. Brown · M. P. Mehta · C. Nieder (Eds.) 2006 Over the last century, the curative potential of radiation therapy for solid tumors has increased. Despite these advances there are major challenges to further improvements that result from the complexities of human tumors that are often not simulated in preclinical models.
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Stephen K. Tyring (Ed.) 2006 Mucosal immunity plays a very prominent role in protection against viruses and other infectious agents in the gastrointestinal tract, in the eyes, in the anogenital mucosa and in the respiratory tract. Because the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the largest and most complex of these systems, the greatest attention in this text has been given to […]
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L.Van Hoe · D.Vanbeckevoort K.Mermuys · W.Van Steenbergen 2006 Atlas with Cross-Sectional Imaging Correlation When we started preparing the first edition of this book in 1998, MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) was a newly developed technique successful only on high-end MRI machines equipped with strong gradients. Now, in 2005, most MRI units are capable of providing high quality images of the upper abdomen, and […]
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Cheryl A. Nickerson Michael J. Schurr Editors 2006 A Bacterial Perspective Infectious diseases caused by bacterial pathogens are a leading cause of human death and illness worldwide. In addition to causing significant morbidity and mortality bacterial diseases impose an enormous financial burden on society.
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Jorg Reichrath 2006 Rapid progress in the understanding of carcinogenesis and pathology of epithelial skin cancer has led to new strategies for the prevention and treatment of these malignancies. The goal of this volume is to comprehensively cover in a highly readable overview our present knowledge of pathogenetic mechanisms and molecular biology of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinomas.
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Editor Matthias Gaestel 2006 More than 40 years after Ferruccio Ritossas’s discovery of heat shock-induced formation of puffs in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila, many different families of heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones have emerged and have been continuously studied in structure and function until today. As a result, it has now become clear that molecular chaperones are […]
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C. Stroszczynski (Ed.) 2006
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Edited by Christophor Dishovsky Alexander Pivovarov Hendrik Benschop 2006 This book includes reports which were presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled “Medical Treatment of Intoxications and Decontamination of Chemical Agent in the Area of Terrorist Attack”. The workshop was held on 25-28 January 2005 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
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T. A. Larheim P.-L.Westesson 2006 There are substantial textbooks on head and neck imaging as well as on dental imaging, but since the early 1990s there has been no book focusing on the gap between imaging in dentistry and in medicine, namely maxillofacial imaging. Emanating from dentistry, maxillofacial radiology uses principles and techniques from medical radiology.
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Harald T. Lutz Hassen A. Gharbi (Editors) 2006 Diagnostic ultrasound is a rapidly developing imaging technology widely used in both industrialized and developing countries, as stated by a WHO Study Group in 1996. Ultrasound is especially suitable for poorer countries even outside the centers of population, since ultrasound does not need a sophisticated infrastructure or expensive installations, but can […]
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