Published December, 2009
By Pierre-Alain Clavien and Jean-Francois Dufour
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Signaling Pathways in Liver Diseases, 2nd edition focuses on signaling pathways which are particularly important in liver diseases. The increasing frequency of surgery on steatotic and cirrhotic liver obliges liver surgeons and hepatologists to understand the molecular mechanisms at play in these situations and how they can be influenced.

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Published November, 2009
By Albert L. Baert, Emanuele Neri, Davide Caramella, Helmut Hintner and Mirco Cosottini
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Medical Radiology
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The second and principal section addresses the clinical applications of MRA in various parts of the body, including the neck vessels, the spine, the thoracic aorta and pulmonary vessels, the heart and coronary arteries, the abdominal aorta and renal arteries, and peripheral vessels.

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Published November, 2009
By Thomas Dittmar and Kurt S. Zanker
Publisher: Springer
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This volume examines the dual role of stem cells in health and disease. It details strategies on the use of embryonic stem cells and embryonic-like stem cells in regenerative medical purposes as well as strategies on the elimination of cancer stem cells.

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Published September, 2009
By Vijay Gorantla, Faith Zor, Jelena M. Janjic and Fatih Zor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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This book summarizes rapid progress and innovation in transplantation and regenerative medicine - the merger of reconstructive plastic surgery and transplantation - called Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation. This merger includes a wide variety of previously impossible translplantations using grafts derived from organ donors.

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Published June, 2009
By Nadey S. Hakim
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: New Techniques in Surgery Series
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Written by a mixture of European and US physicians and surgeons, this book deals with organ failure and the way it can be managed artificially without requiring a transplant. Each chapter compares the artificial organ to currently available transplants.

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Published May, 2009
By David L. Berger
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine
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Published May, 2009
By Neil Scolding, David Gordon and Neil J. Scolding
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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This book examines various techniques currently used in the rapidly-developing field of neural transplantation for CNS repair. From the laboratory to the clinic it provides thorough and essential protocols to aid current and future neuroscientists.

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Published April, 2009
By Volker Schumpelick, Hans-Peter Bruch and Hans Konrad Schackert
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
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Behandelt werden Themen aus allen Bereichen der Chirurgie - unter Berucksichtigung der klinischen Forschung wie der Grundlagenforschung. Der Band zum neuesten Stand der chirurgischen Forschung erscheint noch vor der Prasentation der Ergebnisse bei der 126.

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Published March, 2009
By David Talbot and Anthony D'Alessandro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book describes the different uses of donors of organs after cardiac death around the world, based on different laws and logistical issues around the world. Developments have allowed these programmes to flourish such that in 2006 25% of UK kidney transplants were from such donors.

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Published March, 2009
By Niranjan Bhattacharya and Phillip Stubblefield
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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Cord blood is a significant source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for the treatment of blood and genetic disorders.

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