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  • Diseases and Health Consequences of Air Pollution

    Volume 3: Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohammad Hadi Dehghani + 3 more
    • English
    Diseases and Health Consequences of Air Pollution, Volume Three, Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment is part of a three-volume series. This volume focuses on epidemiological studies and diseases attributed to ambient and indoor air pollutants. It opens with an overview of diseases and health consequences due to air pollution. The chapters discuss health conditions such as respiratory issues, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and blood pressure, diabetes, nervous system, brain, cancer, stroke—cerebrovascul... disease, and skin disease that are linked to exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants.The book also evaluates the health cost and economic burden of air pollution and offers risk management and solutions to mitigate the health implications of indoor and ambient air pollution. This book provides a single source solution and the latest information about the diseases attributed to air pollutants and their health impact. It will be a valuable reference for academicians, researchers, and students in environmental health, public health, and occupational health, as well as environmental engineers, meteorologists, epidemiologists, medical researchers, and environmental toxicologists.

  • Fundamental Principles of Oxidative Stress in Metabolism and Reproduction

    Prevention and Management
    • 1st Edition
    • Faiza Alam + 1 more
    • English
    Fundamental Principles of Oxidative Stress in Metabolism and Reproduction: Prevention and Management is a comprehensive resource for anyone needing awareness and recognition of oxidative stress as a basic component of disease to determine the precise treatment plan considering the cause of the disease. It describes the effects of oxidative stress in the human body, the detection of metabolic changes, psychological impact and effect on reproductive outcomes. In addition, it discusses alterations at the cellular level occurring due to oxidative stress along with the genetic aspects involved in its pathogenesis.

  • Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution

    Volume 2: Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment
    • 1st Edition
    • Mohammad Hadi Dehghani + 3 more
    • English
    Health Effects of Indoor Air Pollution, Volume Two, Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment is part of a three volume series. This volume covers the various classifications of indoor air pollutants and discusses the health impact of indoor pollutants, such as gaseous pollutants and particulate matter. It also examines epidemiological studies related to different air pollutants on health and the workplace. This book begins with an overview of classifications, sources, and occurrences of indoor air pollutants. It also examines the environmental and health impacts due to organic and inorganic air pollutants and how to mitigate them through exposure and risk management.Other sections explore “sick building syndrome,” which causes acute health and discomfort that appears to be linked to time spent in a building. Recent trends and control strategies for occupation exposure due to poor indoor air quality in industrial and nonindustrial workplaces to human health are also covered. This book is a valuable reference for academicians, researchers, and students in environmental health, public health, and occupational health, as well as environmental engineers, meteorologists, epidemiologists, medical researchers, and environmental toxicologists.

  • Low-Temperature Processing of Food Products

    Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry
    • 1st Edition
    • Seid Mahdi Jafari + 1 more
    • English
    Low-Temperature Processing of Food Products, Volume Seven in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for low-temperature processing of different food products. These processes are very important for achieving favorable sensory properties and energy usage. Divided in four sections, “Basics of low-temperature processing “, “Different types of cooling and freezing systems”, “Application of freezing in the food industry”, and “Design, control and efficiency of freezers”, all chapters emphasize basic texts relating to experimental, theoretical, computational, and/or applications of food engineering principles and relevant processing equipment to low-temperature unit operations.Written by experts in the field of food engineering, in a simple and dynamic way, this book targets industrial Engineers working in the field of food processing and within food factories to make them more familiar with the particular food processing operations and equipment.

  • Neurologie
    • 14th Edition
    • Jean Cambier + 3 more
    • French
    L’ouvrage• Devenu un « classique » dès sa première édition, l’Abrégé de neurologie présente, de façon claire, pratique et complète, les troubles neurologiques selon une approche sémiologique en s’appuyant sur l’anatomie et la physiologie et en intégrant les nouvelles connaissances apportées par la neuropsychologie et la neurogénétique. L’ouvrage décrit les affections neurologiques les plus fréquentes et propose une stratégie pour le diagnostic neurologique à la lumière de l’imagerie médicale et des explorations électrophysiologique... et métaboliques.• Cette 14e édition est entièrement revue et actualisée, en fonction notamment des évolutions des thérapeutiques et des méthodes diagnostiques. La structure de l’ouvrage a également été révisée, pour une meilleure lisibilité, en tenant compte des développements de certains sujets, et l’ajout de nouveaux chapitres : « Cervelet – Ataxies cérébelleuses », « Mouvements anormaux » et « Émotion, motivation, comportement et cognition ».• Cette nouvelle édition présente ainsi les connaissances actuelles en neurologie tout en conservant l’approche qui a fait la réputation de cet ouvrage : la place donnée la neurologie clinique et l’intégration de la sémiologie dans l’organisation structurelle et physiologique du système nerveux, dans le souci de les rendre compréhensibles pour tous.Le publicCet abrégé s’adresse aux étudiants de 2e et 3e cycles de médecine. Il intéressera également les neurologues et tous les praticiens confrontés à des symptômes ou à des troubles neurologiques.Les auteursJean Cambier † était membre de l’Académie de médecine et professeur de clinique neurologique.Maurice Masson est neurologue, professeur des universités.Catherin... Masson est neurologue, praticien hospitalier.Henri Dehen † était professeur de neurologie.

  • Animal Models of Disease Part A

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 185
    • English
    Animal Models of Disease, Part A, Volume 185 in the Methods in Cell Biology series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including New mouse model to study aneurysm development, Mouse Model of Secondary Cystic Echinococcosis, Modelling childhood cancer in Drosophila, Analysis of immunohistomorpholog... changes in the colonic mucosa in a high-saturated fat and high-cholesterol fed streptozotocin/nicot... diabetic rat model, Establishment of an orthotopic Glioblastoma mouse model for preclinical studies, Lateral Fluid Percussion Injury as a Model for Traumatic Brain Injury, Ovarian and colorectal peritoneal carcinomatosis in mouse models, and more.Other chapters cover Genetically engineered mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma, Radiotherapy protocol in cancer mouse models, Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases: Methodology and evaluation, Methodology for the induction of myocardial infarction and cardiac function evaluation, Behavioral assessment of fine socio-sexual olfactory cues detection in a mouse model of neurodegeneration, Heat shock and thermotolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans: an overview of laboratory techniques, and Using the model cestode Taenia crassiceps for the study of cysticercosis.

  • Exosomal RNA

    Role in Human Diseases and Therapy
    • 1st Edition
    • Debalina Bhattacharya + 2 more
    • English
    Exosomal RNA: Role in Human Diseases and Therapy provides an in-depth study of exosomes and their RNA in the context of a variety of diseases. The book explores the diagnostic and therapeutic potential of exosomal RNA as biomarkers across a range of different conditions, including cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular and renal disease, as well as bacterial infections and tissue repair. The link between exosomal RNA expression and neurodegenerative disease is also explored. The book goes on to share the significance of exosomal RNA in preserving cellular function, with special attention given to their role in the autophagy process.This book also gives an overview of the isolation, characterization, and potential applications of exosomal RNA, providing researchers with an understanding of how they can be manipulated and utilized for the treatment of various diseases and conditions. This is an ideal reference for researchers in the field of molecular biology, cell biology, and related fields, as well as those involved in the development of therapeutics and personalized medicine.

  • Radiomics and Radiogenomics in Neuro-Oncology

    An Artificial Intelligence Paradigm - Volume 1: Radiogenomics Flow Using Artificial Intelligence
    • 1st Edition
    • Sanjay Saxena + 1 more
    • English
    Radiomics and Radiogenomics in Neuro-Oncology: An Artificial Intelligence Paradigm, Volume One: Radiogenomics Flow Using Artificial Intelligence broadly encompasses the study of life-threatening brain and spinal cord malignancies, including primary lesions and those metastasizing to the central nervous system. Radiomics is an approach to medical imaging used to extract many quantitative imaging features using different data characterization algorithms, while radiogenomics, which has recently emerged as a novel mechanism in neuro-oncology research, focuses on the relationship of imaging phenotype and genetics of cancer. Sections in this book discuss several AI approaches that have been applied to conventional and advanced medical imaging data. These AI-based R-n-R tools have the potential to stratify patients into more precise initial diagnostic and therapeutic pathways and permit better dynamic treatment monitoring in this period of personalized medicine. While extremely promising, the clinical acceptance of R-n-R methods and approaches will primarily hinge on their resilience to non-standardization across imaging protocols and their capability to show reproducibility.

  • A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing Swallowing Dysfunction in Older People

    • 1st Edition
    • Pere Clave´ + 1 more
    • English
    A Multidisciplinary Approach to Managing Swallowing Dysfunction in Older People provides comprehensive coverage on oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD), focusing on older patient phenotypes. The book provides the knowledge needed for translational researchers and professionals to aid in the detection, diagnosis, treatment and management of OD, ultimately improving patient quality of life. OD has been recently considered a geriatric syndrome because of its high prevalence, the increase of life-expectancy and the need to be managed by a multidisciplinary approach. This reference takes a novel approach to OD, covering all aspects as a geriatric syndrome, examining a complicated and multi-level topic in a succinct way. Contents include the most innovative information available in current literature combined with practical applications to improve the diagnosis and treatments of OD as a geriatric syndrome. This is the perfect reference for translational researchers, physicians and healthcare professionals dealing with OD.

  • The neurobiology of Alcohol Use Disorder

    Neuronal mechanisms, current treatments and novel developments
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 175
    • English
    The Mechanisms Behind Developing Dependence, Sub-groups, and Novel Approaches to Treatment, Volume 174 in the Neurobiology of Alcohol Abuse series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Substitution therapy in alcohol treatment, with a focus on mechanisms and possibilities, Designing and analyzing studies on treatments for alcohol dependence, The harm reduction approach for treatment of alcohol dependence, Current treatments for alcohol dependence, with a suggested focus on mechanisms and possibilities, Metabolomics in relation to alcohol dependence with focus on possibilities for precision medicine, and Repurposing drugs for treatment of alcohol dependence.

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