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Plant genomics and biotechnology have recently made enormous strides, and hold the potential to benefit agriculture, the environment and various other dimensions of the human endeavor. It is no exaggeration to claim that the twenty-first century belongs to...
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Springer
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2015-06-19
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?Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide. Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for rational engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis, the signal transduction pathways...
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Springer
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2015-05-30
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Abiotic stresses such as high temperature, low-temperature, drought, and salinity limit crop productivity worldwide. Understanding plant responses to these stresses is essential for rational engineering of crop plants. In Arabidopsis, the signal transduction pathways...
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Springer
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2015-05-30
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Discussing recent advances in the field of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) research from a multidisciplinary perspective, Matrix Metalloproteinase Biologyis a collection of chapters written by leaders in the field of MMPs. The book focuses on the challenges of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-05-27
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This book covers the identification and role of endogenous lung stem cells in health and disease, particularly the most recent advances. In addition, it discusses the rapidly growing field of stem cells and cell therapy as it relates to lung biology and disease as well...
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Springer
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2015-05-23
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Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Cell Therapy for Brain Injury is a thorough examination of using state-of-the-art cell therapy in the treatment of strokes and other traumatic brain injuries. This invaluable book covers this niche topic in depth from basic stem cell biology and principles of cell...
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Springer
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2015-05-15
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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the latest advances in basic and translational research in the field of reconstructive transplantation and its potential therapeutic implications. Dr. Thomas E. Starzl and Dr. Raimund Margreiter, both pioneers in the...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2015-05-13
Collection :
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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The book considers signaling events from the zygote embryo through to the blastocyst with relevant data from embryonic stem (ES) cells, including dialogue with the extracellular environment and with the maternal tract during the implantation process. Application of the...
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Springer
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2015-05-08
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Dieses gut verständliche Werk bringt Licht ins Dunkel des komplizierten wirtschaftlichen Themas Rente und Vorsorge und erklärt die wichtigsten Dinge, von denen heutzutage auch ein nicht studierter Ökonom wissen sollte. Und es regt an zu einem neuen Mittel der Vorsorge...
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Springer Spektrum
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2015-04-22
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Over the past 50 years, biotechnology has been the major driving force for increasing crop productivity. Particularly, advances in plant genetic engineering technologies have opened up vast new opportunities for plant researchers and breeders to create new crop...
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Springer
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2015-04-21
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This volume presents the most current reviews on how cancer stem cells (CSCs) hypothesis dictates that the continued proliferation of a tumor is dependent on a sub-population of self-renewing and asymmetrically dividing neoplastic stem cells that supply a largely...
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Springer
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2015-04-20
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This book explores the unresolved paradox at the heart of population aging, namely how to account for the fact that death rates from most non-communicable diseases rise as people age, yet aggregate death rates from such diseases have decreased overall despite an...
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Springer
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2015-04-16
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This book examines how biotechnology can improve livestock breeding and farming, and thereby also animal products. In the first chapters the reader will discover which techniques and approaches are currently used to improve animal breeding, animal health and the value...
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Springer
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2015-04-07
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The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity...
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Springer
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2015-03-27
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Wie hat sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg das Verhältnis der Medizin zum Tod und zum Sterben verändert? Daniel Schäfer zeichnet die spannende Geschichte einer langen Annäherung nach. Sein Buch ist im Kern medizinhistorisch, entfaltet aber mit vielfältigen Bezügen zu...
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Springer Spektrum
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2015-03-18
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Veteran clinicians offer a unique framework for understanding the psychological origins of behaviors typical of Alzheimer's and other dementias, and for providing appropriate care for patients as they decline. Guidelines are rooted in the theory of retrogenesis in...
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Springer
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2015-03-18
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This book examines one of the most important demographic changes facing the United States: an overall aging population and the increasing influence of Latinos. It also looks at the changing demographics in Mexico and its impact on the health and financial well-being of...
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Springer
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2015-03-18
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How do we forget? Why do we need to forget? This book intends to answer to these and other questions. It aims to demonstrate that each one is who it is due to their own memories. Thus, distinguish between the information we should keep from those we should forget is an...
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Springer
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2015-03-14
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Die Biografie Johann Sebastian Bachs wird unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Resilienz betrachtet: Wie ist es dem großen Komponisten gelungen, trotz zahlreicher Verluste, Rückschläge und Grenzsituationen sein außerordentliches schöpferisches Potenzial zu entfalten? Inwieweit...
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Springer
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2015-03-13
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This work provides a state-of-the art overview on the most relevant aspects of cell polarity.Volume 2 discusses the physiological and pathophysiological relevance of cell polarity. It especially focuses on pathophysiological conditions in which one or several aspects of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-02-24
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