Published December, 2010
By Martin Beckerman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Cellular Signaling in Health and Disease summarizes our current understanding of these regulatory networks in the healthy and diseased states, showing which molecular components might be prime targets for drug interventions.

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Published December, 2010
By Toshiyuki Furukawa
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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The main topics discussed include: cell imaging, multiphoton microscopy for biomedical studies, molecular imaging, infrared imaging, biomedical magnetic imaging, and microscopy with laser-trapped particles.

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Published December, 2010
By Klaus Bethge, G. Kraft, Peter Kreisler, G. Walter, K. Bethge, P. Kreisler and Gertrud Walter
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Methods involving nuclear physics are today finding applications in many disciplines, including important areas of medicine. This book intends to bridge the gap between the many applications in medicine and the underlying basic nuclear physics which needs to be understood by those applying the methods.

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Published December, 2010
By N. L. Vekshin, Nikolai Vekshin and Nikolai L. Vekshin
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Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Photonics of biopolymers discusses the processes of energy transformation in photoexcited proteins, nucleic acids, membranes and model systems. The author addresses, among other topics: Light absorption, screening and reabsorption; Much of the information stems from the author's own wide experience in the field.

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Published December, 2010
By Masao Kaneko and Ichiro Okura
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Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Published November, 2010
By Matthew Simon
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Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Published November, 2010
By Bharat Bhushan
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Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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This book presents the biophysics of hair. It covers the structure of hair, its mechanical properties, nanomechanical characterization, tensile deformation, tribological characterization, the thickness distribution and binding interactions on hair surface.

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Published November, 2010
By Martin Beckerman
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Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Makes connections between diseases, drugs and signaling in those chapters not specifically devoted to pathogens. Reviews background in first 5 chapters then offers chapters on cancers and apoptosis and on bacteria and viruses.

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Published November, 2010
By Shin-Ho Chung, Olaf S. Anderson, Vikram Krishnamurthy and Vikram V. Krishnamurthy
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Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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This book deals with recent breakthroughs in ion-channel research that have been brought about by the combined effort of experimental biophysicists and computational physicists, who together are beginning to unravel the story of these exquisitely designed biomolecules.

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Published November, 2010
By Philippe M. Fauchet and Lorenzo Pavesi
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Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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More profound understanding of the nature of light and light-matter interactions in biology has enabled many applications in the biology and medical fields.

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