The Role of Microenvironment in the Control of Tumor Angiogenesis

This work describes the importance of tumor microenvironment in favouring tumor progression and angiogenesis. Under physiological conditions, angiogenesis is dependent on the balance of positive and negative angiogenic modulators within the vascular microenvironment and requires the functional activities of a number of molecules, including angiogenic factors, extracellular matrix proteins, a…

Immunopharmacology

The concept of immunotherapy was in infancy when the first edition was written; since then, major advances have been made, not only with several prominent clinical trials, but also with the approval of cell-based therapy by the FDA for the treatment of cancer in 2010. These events resulted in a gradually narrowing gap between early scientific knowledge and the late development of immune-based …

Ocular Drug Delivery: Advances, Challenges and Applications

The eye is a computerized system that has been designed for self-defense, and these defense mechanisms create challenges in administration of medications to the eye. Therefore, ocular drug delivery has been a major challenge to drug delivery researchers. There are on-going studies, in search of treatment especially for the diseases affecting the posterior segment of the eye. This book gives an…

OPCW: The Legal Texts

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997, bans an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. The CWC has now been in force for almost twenty years and having 190 States Parties as at July 2014, has almost achieved universal adherence. To achieve its obj…

Nuclear Energy and Liability in South Asia:Institutions, Legal Frameworks and…

This book advocates pursuing a regional approach to nuclear risk framework, which it argues is more promising in the current scenario than the non-achievable global regime. In the development of international legislation on liability, the nuclear energy sector represents an alternative approach to a transboundary liability regime. Building on this foundation and following the Chernobyl accident…

Novel Natural Products: Therapeutic Effects in Pain, Arthritis and Gastro-int…

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-0348-0927-6

Collation

VII, 286

Series Title

Progress in Drug Research

Call Number

-

Novel Immunotherapeutic Approaches to the Treatment of Cancer:Drug Developmen…

Cancer care is undergoing a radical transformation as novel technologies are directed toward new treatments and personalized medicine. The most dramatic advances in the treatment of cancer have come from therapeutics that augment the immune response to tumors. The immune checkpoint inhibitors are the best-known and most highly advanced examples of Immune Therapeutics targeting tumor cells and i…

Pharmacy Practice Research Methods

Publikasi kumpulan metodologi dan metode ini tentunya menandakan bahwa Penelitian Praktik Farmasi telah berkembang pesat dalam memberikan basis bukti untuk efektivitas klinis farmasi sebagai disiplin akademis dan profesi yang menempatkan orang tersebut sebagai pusat perawatan dalam penggunaan obat-obatan. Temuan dari desain dan perilaku penelitian standar emas harus mendukung praktik farmasi di…

Pharmacological Basis of Acute Care

Farmakologi seperti yang diajarkan kepada mahasiswa kedokteran dan penyedia garis depan junior selalu dianggap sebagai mata pelajaran yang sulit untuk dipahami. Buku teks dan formularium farmakologi biasanya berpusat pada obat. Sementara buku teks klinis dan pedoman pengobatan berpusat pada penyakit dan memberikan rekomendasi pengobatan, mereka jarang membahas mengapa perawatan ini dipilih. Sel…

Pharmacological Assays of Plant-Based Natural Products

Tumbuhan adalah salah satu sumber kekayaan obat terbaik di antara obat-obatan alami. Minat memanennya untuk kesejahteraan umat manusia telah meningkat dengan meningkatnya permintaan obat-obatan untuk penyakit-penyakit yang menjadi perhatian utama dan yang muncul dengan gaya hidup modern. Tetapi tantangannya adalah memastikan keamanan dan keberlanjutan obat-obatan tersebut dibandingkan obat-obat…