The Human Diseases Author Aid Collection describes cell biology, clinical overviews, and pharmacological treatment of rare monogenic diseases, gynecological cancers, COVID-19, and migraine in standardized, easy-to-navigate overview templates and tables. Author Aid templates can be a helpful guide for authors, researchers, clinicians, and students, especially those interested in rare diseases, because they highlight updates and findings from several sources on one page. Each subset of data is linked to a list of publications with relevant citations and to supplemental materials.
This workbook is designed to accompany Human Diseases, second edition. It is an essential part of a creative and dynamic learning system that includes the text and StudyWARE(tm) CD-ROM. This product provides additional reinforcement of concepts learned in the text through a variety of review exercises to test your comprehension.
Covering general medicine and the implications of medical conditions for dental practice, this is a pocketbook for dental students and general dental practitioners.
Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this groundbreaking text integrates basic virology with pathophysiological conditions to examine the connection between virology and human disease. Most virology textbooks focus on the molecular biology involved without adequate reference to physiology. This text focuses on viruses that infect humans, domestic animals and vertebrates and is based on extensive course notes from James Strauss' virology class at the California Institute of Technology taught for over 30 years. Expertly depicting in color the molecular structure and replication of each virus, it provides an excellent overview for students and professionals interested in viruses as agents of human disease. - Includes over 30% new material - virtually all of the figures and tables have been redrawn to include the latest information and the text has been extensively rewritten to include the most up-to-date information - Includes a new chapter on emerging and reemerging viral diseases such as avian flu, SARS, the spread of West Nile virus across America, and the continuing spread of Nipah virus in Southeast Asia - Further reading sections at the end of each chapter make it easy find key references - World maps depicting the current distribution of existing and newly emerging viruses are also incorporated into the text
Animal Models for the Study of Human Disease identifies important animal models and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of each model for the study of human disease. The first section addresses how to locate resources, animal alternatives, animal ethics and related issues, much needed information for researchers across the biological sciences and biomedicine.The next sections of the work offers models for disease-oriented topics, including cardiac and pulmonary diseases, aging, infectious diseases, obesity, diabetes, neurological diseases, joint diseases, visual disorders, cancer, hypertension, genetic diseases, and diseases of abuse. - Organized by disease orientation for ease of searchability - Provides information on locating resources, animal alternatives and animal ethics - Covers a broad range of animal models used in research for human disease
The book Heat Shock Proteins in Cancer Therapeutics provides the most comprehensive review on contemporary knowledge on the role of HSP in various types of cancer therapeutics. Using an integrative approach, the contributors provide a synopsis of the most current updates on the state of HSP in cancer therapeutics. The heat shock response pathway is a highly conserved cellular process. Heat shock factors are a master transcriptional regulator responsible for expression of several important heat shock proteins, which can effectively protect critical client proteins from misfolding and degradation, thus maintaining intracellular integrity under stressed conditions. Recent studies have demonstrated the direct connections between heat shock response players and tumor cell survival, validating heat shock response players as novel molecular targets in anticancer treatment. Although many hurdles in clinical application still need to be effectively addressed, such as undesirable drug toxicity and off target effects; narrow therapeutic window; poor PK/PD profiles, etc. Recent reports on synergistic drug combination, advanced prodrug design, smart nanoparticle packaging, and RNA aptamer selection offer promising solutions to overcome these challenges. Future advancements in this fast-growing area can potentially lead to the next generation of cancer therapeutics. Key basic and clinical research laboratories from major universities, academic medical hospitals, biotechnology and pharmaceutical laboratories around the world have contributed chapters that review present research activity and importantly project the field into the future. The book is a must read for graduate students. medical students, basic science researchers and postdoctoral scholars in the fields of Cancer Biology, Oncology, Translational Medicine, Clinical Research, Biotechnology, Cell & Molecular Medicine, Pharmaceutical Scientists and Researchers involved in Drug Discovery.
Lipids such as cholesterol, phospholipids, triglycerides, and free fatty acids, play various essential physiological roles. Dysregulation of lipid metabolism causes dyslipidemia, which is a critical factor in the development of various human diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Niemann-Pick disease. Therefore, lipid homeostasis in humans is strictly regulated by a well-balanced mechanism of intestinal uptake, endogenous synthesis and metabolism, and transport in lipoprotein particles and excretion. The human body evolves multiple mechanisms to maintain lipid homeostasis, such as low-density lipoprotein receptor mediates clearance of circulating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; phospholipid transfer protein mediates the transfer of phospholipids from apoB-containing triglyceride-rich lipoprotein to high-density lipoprotein, etc.
