Published April, 2015
By Gil Atzmon, PhD and Gil Atzmon
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The release of the complete version of the human genome sequence in 2003 has paved the way for defining gene function and genetic background for phenotypic variation in humans and allowed us to study the aging process in a new light.

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Published April, 2015
By Maziar Divangahi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book illustrates the intimate relationship between alveolar macrophages and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb.), and the former's role in both innate and adaptive immunity against M.tb. It explores a novel approach to designing a new tuberculosis vaccine.

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Published April, 2015
By Stephen W. Schaffer and Janusz Marcinkiewicz
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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It focuses on all aspects of taurine research including the cardiovascular system, the immune system, diabetes, the central nervous system, endocrine system and the role of taurine supplements in nutrition.

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Published March, 2015
By Ben Berkhout, Marc S. Weinberg, Hildegund CJ Ertl, MD, Marco Weinberg and Hildegund CJ Ertl
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This book centers on gene therapy and gene transfer approaches to prevent or treat chronic virus infections. Gene therapy applications for virus infections have been discussed since the early 1990's.

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Published March, 2015
By Mieczyslaw Pokorski
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The book presents the latest advances in research into health effects of air pollution, with heavy motor vehicle traffic or cigarette smoke as the exemplar of pollution.

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Published December, 2014
By Denis Corbeil
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Since the first description of prominin in 1997, in mouse neuroepithelial cells and in human hematopoietic stem cells as AC133 antigen, this molecule has aroused a large interest especially, as a stem cell marker, that gave rise to an ever growing body of publications and more recently its expression in cancer stem cells.

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Published December, 2014
By Maria Spies
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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In recent years, a number of groundbreaking structural and mechanistic studies deepened our understanding of helicase mechanisms and established new approaches for their analyses.

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Published December, 2014
By Heiko Enderling, Nava Almog and Lynn Hlatky
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This volume is based on the Workshop on Systems Biology of Tumor Dormancy meeting, held July 25th to July 28th, 2011.

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Published December, 2014
By Jean Champagnat, Monique Denavit-Saubie, Gilles Fortin, Arthur S. Foutz and Muriel Thoby-Brisson
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Post Genomic Perspectives in Modeling and Control of Breathing is comprised of the proceedings of the IXth Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing, held September 13-16, 2003 in Paris, France.

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Published December, 2014
By Maria Diakonova, PhD
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Recent Advances in Prolactin Research summarizes the current knowledge of prolactin (PRL), PRL receptor, PRL-dependent signaling pathways, the role of PRL in oncogenesis and PRL crosstalk with other oncogenic factors.

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