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Small Lungs and Obstructed Airways

1st Edition
November 1, 2024
Peter Burney
English
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Small Lungs and Obstructed Airways: Reassessing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease proposes an alternative perspective to current explanations for the distribution of chronic lung disease. The book considers the link between chronic respiratory disease and associated mortality with smaller lungs rather than obstructed airways and explores other factors contributing to poor lung health besides the current emphasis on the roles of air pollution, occupational exposures, and cardio-metabolic disease. It presents the findings of the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study, sharing new views on the prevalence of obstructive lung disease and risk factors across various global regions. Sections cover decreased lung function, including the prevalent views on the impact of both household and external air pollution, occupational exposure, and the prenatal and postnatal/childhood environment in the etiology of impaired lung function and COPD. The book then moves on to discussions on the impact poverty and nutrition has on lung health, sharing the findings of the BOLD study regarding its effect on lung function and risk of COPD in lower-income countries. The book closes with a chapter outlining the clinical and public health implications of the findings discussed in the book.

Protocols in Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry

2nd Edition
November 1, 2024
Buddhi Prakash Jain + 2 more
English
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Protocols in Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Second Edition offers clear, applied instruction in fundamental biochemistry methods and protocols, from buffer preparation to nucleic acid purification, protein, lipid, carbohydrate, and enzyme testing, and clinical testing of vitamins, glucose and cholesterol levels, among other diagnostics. Each protocol is illustrated with step-by-step instructions, labeled diagrams, and color images, as well as a thorough overview of materials and equipment, precursor techniques, safety considerations and standards, analysis and statistics, alternative methods and troubleshooting, all to support a range of study types and clinical diagnostics.This fully revised edition has been expanded and enriched to feature 100 protocols, as well as chapter key term definitions and worked examples. All-new protocols added to this edition include identification of lipids by TLC, lipid per oxidation measurement by Thiobarbituric acid (TBA) assays, Native PAGE., sub cellular fractionation of proteins, Western blotting, isoelectric focusing and 2-dimentional gel electrophoresis, protein purification, determination of serum amylase, catalase activity assay, superoxide dismutase (SOD) assay, qualitative analysis of plant secondary metabolites, qualitative analysis of photochemicals, quantitative estimation of secondary metabolites, estimation of chlorophyll contents, and starch determination, among others. Each protocol is written to help researchers and clinicians easily reproduce lab methods and ensure accurate test results.

Sleep and Health

2nd Edition
November 1, 2024
Michael A. Grandner
English
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Sleep and Health, Second Edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the relationship between sleep and health at the individual, community, and population levels, along with a discussion of the implications for public health, public policy, and interventions. Based on a firm foundation in many areas of sleep health research, this text further provides introductions to each sub-area of the field and a summary of the current research for each area. This book serves as a resource for those interested in learning about the growing field of sleep health research, including sections on social determinants, cardiovascular disease, cognitive functioning, health behavior theory, smoking, and more.

COVID-19 and the Cardiovascular System

1st Edition
November 1, 2024
Brain C Case
English
Paperback
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COVID-19 and the Cardiovascular System: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Management comprehensively covers COVID-19’s impact on the cardiovascular system. Coverage includes the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic approach, treatment options, and clinical outcomes of patients presenting with COVID-19 with cardiac involvement. In a concise but comprehensive manner, the book's content reviews the epidemiology, risk factors, pathophysiology of COVID-19, cardiovascular clinical manifestations, non-invasive and invasive diagnostic evaluation, therapeutic options, outcomes data, role of the COVID-19 vaccine, and long-term outcomes/management.This is the perfect reference for basic and clinical researchers in cardiovascular medicine as well as practicing clinical cardiologists who are dealing with COVID-19 patients with cardiac involvement.

Proteomics, Multi-Omics and Systems Biology in Optic Nerve Regeneration

1st Edition
November 1, 2024
Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya
English
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Proteomics, Multi-Omics and Systems Biology in Optic Nerve Regeneration is a comprehensive reference that covers all vistas of standardization of axon regeneration, as well as all multi-omics and system level data and integration tools. By adopting a translational approach, the book bridges current research in the field to clinical applications, and readers can expect to learn standardization approaches for axon regeneration, multi-omics datasets, different databases, search engines, multiple dataset integrative tools, pathway convergence approaches and tools, outcome and outcome measures that unify bench research with clinical outcome.The axon regeneration from existing neurons in central nervous system (CNS) have become a potential possibility in the last decade. The potential possibility of long-distance axon growth has opened the possibility of re-connectivity of axons of retinal ganglion cell neurons within the lateral geniculate nucleus in the brain. The long-distance axon regeneration and re-connectivity is a promise to restore lost vision in the optic nerve. Further, long-distance regeneration and re-innervation is equally helpful for other fields such as spinal cord injuries.

Tendon Regeneration

2nd Edition
November 1, 2024
Manuela E. Gomes + 5 more
English
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Tendon Regeneration: Understanding Tissue Physiology and Development to Engineer Functional Substitutes was the first book to highlight the multi-disciplinary nature of this specialized field and the importance of collaboration between medical and engineering laboratories in the development of tissue-oriented products for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (TERM) strategies.Beginning with a foundation in developmental biology, the book explores physiology, pathology, and surgical reconstruction, providing guidance on biological approaches that enhances tendon regeneration practices. Contributions from scientists, clinicians, and engineers who are the leading figures in their respective field’s present recent findings in tendon stem cells, cell therapies, and scaffold treatments, as well as examples of pre-clinical models for translational therapies and a view of the future of the field.New coverage will include signaling pathways for tendon development, molecular mechanisms of tendinopathy, inflammation contribution to healing and pathology of tendons, tendon aging and degeneration, tendon models, and translational studies for tendon regenerative medicine.

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologic Surgery

1st Edition
November 1, 2024
Jennifer E Dietrich + 3 more
English
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Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologic Surgery: Management, Surgical Approaches, and Post-Operative Care is an excellent and novel resource to understanding the management of adolescent gynecologic patients as written by top experts. The book offers detailed pearls of surgery and has a preoperative planning approach to abdominal, laparoscopic, and vaginal surgeries, as well as postoperative considerations. This is a comprehensive but easy-to-follow step-by-step surgical atlas for PAG surgeries organized in a historical context with the most recent research advances in the field. It provides expert views and perspectives with visuals to aid in learning useful to anyone in, or interested in, the field.

Body-on-a-Chip

1st Edition
November 1, 2024
Anthony Atala + 1 more
English
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Body-on-a-chip (BOC) systems consists of multiple microscale models of different human organ (physiologically scaled to one another) that are physically connected located on a synthetic “chip” format and connected to each other using a microfluidic system, thus emulating the circulatory system within the body. Simpler versions of these systems, known as Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) consists of one organ per chip and have been an emerging area of interest since the past 13-15 years as in vitro biomimetic systems for predicting physiological response to drugs and chemicals. Although animal models have been the gold standards for preclinical drug testing, animal models often do not predict human response effectively; thus, increasing the demand for more advanced in vitro human tissue/ organ model platforms.Since, BOC systems can recapitulate native tissue/ organ architecture, diffusion kinetics of drugs physiological flow conditions etc., similar to what would happen in the body, they are particularly powerful in predicting human efficacy prior to clinical testing of a drug, determining potential toxicity, or in clinical studies to test underlying mechanisms or action or adverse effects. With recent advancements in high-throughput analysis systems and artificial intelligence, it has also become possible to screen several drugs at a time, thus significantly speeding up discovery, development and testing of pharmacologically useful compounds and reducing costs. Now BOC systems are also finding applications in evaluating the safety of chemicals, cosmetics, food ingredients, and also in life science research.Body-on-a-chip: Essentials and Applications provides the reader high quality information, in a single resource, necessary to explore the use of BOC systems from design and development to testing and personalized medicine, to medical research and diagnostics.

Cryo-electron Tomography

1st Edition
November 1, 2024
Dorit Hanein + 1 more
English
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Cryo-electron Tomography: A Journey from Sample Preparation to Data Mining offers a comprehensive guide to the latest state-of-the-art methods and techniques available to researchers. The book begins with a section on sample preparation, considering a range of different sample types including virus-like particles, viruses, bacteria, organoids and tissues, with some chapters dedicated to specific tools like in situ cellular tomography and correlative techniques. The book then moves on to a section on data mining and specific steps and methods, delivering a complete overview of this advancing technique and providing researchers with the knowledge and tools required for their own investigations.

Cutting Edge Advances in Transplantation

1st Edition
November 1, 2024
Dai Dao Nghiem + 1 more
English
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Cutting Edge Advances in Transplantation presents the current state of the science of transplantation. With a unique interdisciplinary approach, this reference collects contributions from selected transplant surgeons, scientists, and immunologists who have worked in the field for the last thirty years. Coverage includes transplantation tolerance, the molecular approach to transplant monitoring, sensitized transplant recipients, xenotransplantation, biologics, and regifted organs. This is the perfect reference for transplant surgeons and nephrologists that want to find new approaches and solutions to serve their patients. It is also ideal for transplantation researchers looking for the most up-to-date scientific information related to the field which can be built upon.