Title | Frontiers in Biomedicine [electronic resource] / edited by Allan L. Goldstein |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4217-9 |
Descript | XIII, 361 p. online resource |
I. Molecular Biology and Clinical Advances in the Genetics and Treatment of Aging, Osteoporosis, and Alzheimerโs Disease -- Aging: Genes and Molecular Mechanisms -- Advances in Preventive Medicine: Nutrition and Immune Function in the Elderly -- Advances in the Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Development and Disease -- New Concepts in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Osteoporosis -- Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimerโs Disease -- โSenility โ โ The Epidemic of the 20th Century -- II Pathophysiology and Clinical Advances in Infectious Diseases, Septic Shock, and Aids -- Influenza: Advances in Knowledge of Impact and Approaches to Control -- Recent Advances in the Treatment of Hepatitis C -- Recent Advances in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Septic Shock -- Discoveries of Novel Biological Means of Controlling HIV and HIV Disease -- Advances in the Understanding of Pediatric HIV-1 Infection -- A Pathologist Looks at AIDS -- III. Antioxidants and Advances in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease -- The Role of Nutritional and Pharmacological Antioxidants in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease -- Advances in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction -- IV. Molecular Biology of the Brain and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Nicotine Receptors in the Brain: Novel Approaches to the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Advances in Guillain-Barreโ Syndrome and Immune Neuropathies -- V. Pathogenesis and Treatment of Crohnโs Disease, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Inflammatory Diseases of the Bowels and Lungs, and Pulmonary Diseases -- Pathogenic Mechanisms in Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- The Pathogenesis and Treatment of Asthma as an Inflammatory Disease -- Advances in the Treatment of Mucus Clearance Disorders -- VI. Advances in Bone Marrow Transplantation and Vaccines for the Treatment of Cancer and Infectious Diseases -- New Strategies in the Use of Bone Marrow (or Hematopoietic Stem Cell) Transplantation to Treat Cancers of the Blood -- Gene-Based Vaccines -- 200 Years After Jenner: The Search for a Cancer Vaccine -- Cancer Vaccines Come of Age -- VII. Advances in Surgery -- Endoscopy:Advances in Surgical Treatment -- Intracranial Aneurysms: Recent Advances in Management 325 -- VIII. The Important Role of the Orphan Drug Program in Medicine -- 15 Years of the Orphan Drug Act: What Lies Ahead?