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Tissue-Specific Stem Cell Niche
This timely volume explores tissue-derived stem cells, summarizing and evaluating the current body of knowledge. Sixteen chapters cover hematopoietic, osteoblast, skeletal, cardiac, pancreatic, epithelial, corneal, hepatic, renal, testicular, ovarian, fingernail, hair follicle and other stem cells- discussing their individual development, functions and pathologies, as well as the commonalities …
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- 978-3-319-21705-5
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
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Engineering Mineralized and Load Bearing Tissues
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current challenges and strategies to regenerate load-bearing and calcified human tissues, including bone, cartilage,tendon, ligaments and dental structures (dentin, enamel, cementum and periodontal ligament). Tissue engineering has long held great promises as an improved treatment option for conditions affecting mineralized and load-bearing structure…
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- 978-3-319-22345-2
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- 6 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
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5th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam
This volume presents the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam which was held from June 16-18, 2014 in Ho Chi Minh City. The volume reflects the progress of Biomedical Engineering and discusses problems and solutions. I aims identifying new challenges, and shaping future directions for research in biomedical engineering fields …
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- 978-3-319-11776-8
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- IFMBE Proceedings
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- 610.28 FIV f
1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, …
This volume presents the proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies (WC2015). The congress took place in Portorož, Slovenia, during the week of September 6th to 10th, 2015. The scientific part of the Congress covered different aspects of electroporation and related technologies and included the …
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- 978-981-287-817-5
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- IFMBE Proceedings
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- 610.28 WOR w
Stochastic Neuron Models
This book describes a large number of open problems in the theory of stochastic neural systems, with the aim of enticing probabilists to work on them. This includes problems arising from stochastic models of individual neurons as well as those arising from stochastic models of the activities of small and large networks of interconnected neurons. The necessary neuroscience background to these p…
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- 978-3-319-26911-5
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Stochastic Narrow Escape in Molecular and Cellular Biology
This book covers recent developments in the non-standard asymptotics of the mathematical narrow escape problem in stochastic theory, as well as applications of the narrow escape problem in cell biology. The first part of the book concentrates on mathematical methods, including advanced asymptotic methods in partial equations, and is aimed primarily at applied mathematicians and theoretical phys…
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- 978-1-4939-3103-3
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10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biol…
Biological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data. The impressive capabilities of next generation sequencing technologies, together with novel and ever evolving distinct types of omics data technologies, have put an increasingly complex set of challenges f…
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- 978-3-319-40126-3
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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- 005.642
Obesity and Diabetes
This timely and clinically oriented book uniquely addresses the entire spectrum of treatment for severe obesity and diabetes. It thoroughly examines all aspects from robotic surgery to cell therapy, from the latest antidiabetic drugs to endoscopic procedures and devices, from appetite-inhibiting signals and nutrients to gastric arterial embolization. It offers objective and authoritative inform…
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- 978-3-319-36101-7
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- X, 282
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Novel Biomarkers in the Continuum of Breast Cancer
This volume provides a comprehensive review of established and novel biomarkers across the continuum of breast cancer. The volume covers topics related to breast cancer risk and prevention, prediction of response to today’s standard therapies, and markers capable of influencing treatment decisions in the near future. Chapter authors combine their wide-ranging expertise to review the current s…
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- 978-3-319-22908-9
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- XIX, 279
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Endothelial Signaling in Development and Disease
This book surveys healthy and diseased vascular systems in a multitude of model organisms and systems. It explores a plethora of functions, characteristics, and pathologies of the vascular system such as angiogenesis, fibroblast growth factor signaling, lymphangiogenesis, junctional signaling, the extracellular matrix, vascular permeability, leukocyte extravasation, axon guidance factors, the a…
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- 978-1-4939-2907-8
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
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