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This volumes features contributions on the latest advances in thechemistry, biology and clinical applications of the thymosins fromleading scientists and clinicians working in the field.

This volume recognizes the rapidly expanding research linkingaging, age-related diseases, and the delicate balance betweenneurodegeneration and cancer.

The new century brings challenges and opportunities with an agingpopulation and the rise of food prices and health care costs. Scientific advances are changing the way we approach and define thescientific questions about nutrition. We can now develop molecularand genomic approaches to human intervention.

This volume features expert, refereed reviews of timely topics ineach of the areas relevant to addiction science and clinicalpractice to aid researchers and practitioners interested inaddictions. Authors from the United States, EU, Asia and elsewhereprovide an international perspective on the problems and practices.

This volume examines various approaches to neuroprotection,including methods for neuroprotection, mechanisms involved inneuroinjury, pharmacologic agents associated withneuroprotection. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual booksor as a journal. .

This second volume in The Year in Neurology series focuses onpresent reviews covering novel approaches to our understandingneurological diseases through both basic science and clinicalapproaches.

This volume highlights key presentations from a meeting of international experts from academia, industry and government convened to discuss the scientific and clinical basis for the successes and failures of recombinant cytokines and cytokine antagonists as therapeutic agents, and possible strategies for improving their clinical success.

This third installment of The Year in Diabetes and Obesity review series includes reviews with a special focus on metabolic syndrome and health. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal.

A recent upsurge of research examining inositol phospholipids (IP) membrane-bound species fundamental to cell signaling continues underscore the role of this pathway in both normal and disease-associated cellular physiology.

The latest volume of "The Year in Evolutionary Biology" series of the Annals features six synthetic reviews and two perspectives.

This volume examines the wide-ranging psychiatric and neurologic consequences of war affecting every level of human organization from the nation state to the molecular. The volume present these consequences from a multitude of perspectives and modes of inquiry; from the intrapsychic to the empirical.

This volume examines the phytoalexin resveratrol and the ongoing studies about its effects on lifespan and health.

The Year in Diabetes and Obesity will fulfill a critical need in by publishing timely, thought-provoking reviews on the molecular, basic, and clinical aspects of diabetes and obesity.

This is the inaugural volume in a new series of reviews. Each annual volume will contain authoritative reviews of developing research topics in antimicrobial therapeutics. Authors will describe how the research being reviewed can be applied to real-world problems.

The latest edition of The Year in Human and Medical Genetics is focused on exploring new trends in Mendelian genetics. While Mendelian genetics is often seen as an out-dated discipline of interest to rare patients and few scholars, there have been many ground-breaking discoveries have been made in Mendelian genetics in the last decade.

Addiction Reviews 3 features refereed reviews of topics of interest to specialists in addiction. Contributions that NIAAA and investigators interested in alcoholism have made to the field of addiction is the focus of this volume.

This volume features invited scholarly papers on the topic of molecular and integrative physiology of the musculoskeletal system by clinician-scientists who work at both the bench and the bedside.

* Features papers on from leading scientists on current topics in cognitive neuroscience * Explores a variety of issues on the brain and behavior * Examines challenges and opportunities in social neuroscience * Part of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences series .

PET-CT imaging is a powerful tool in diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Its application as a prognostic tool in various malignancies is well established. This volume encompasses the latest trends and developments of PET-CT imaging in non-neoplastic disease along with its application in clinical decision-making.

Barrett's esophagus is a disorder in which the lining of the esophagus is damaged by stomach acid. People suffering from this disorder are at an increased risk for esophageal cancer.

This volume presents reports from three recent scientific meetings on topics in emerging fields. The first report comes from the New York Stem Cell Foundation s Fifth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference convened in October 2010 at the Rockefeller University in New York City.

Waterfronts are attractive areas for many often competing uses in New York City and are seen as multifunctional locations for economic, environmental, and social activities on the interface between land and water.

The genetic dissection of human primary immunodeficiency is expanding at full speed, in at least two directions.

This Annals volume presents proceedings of the conference "Basic and Clinic Ocular Motor and Vestibular Research," held as a tribute to the career of Dr. Richard John Leigh in Buenos Aires, Argentina from March 25 27, 2011.

The volume features current basic, clinical, and translational research on aspects of skeletal morphogenesis and remodeling in health and disease. Papers survey vital new insights into the mechanisms of bone development and restructuring, including cellular and mechanical triggers, receptors and signaling pathways.

Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life, including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.

Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life, including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.

This volume explores the evolution of infectious agents that are sexually-transmitted or transmissible in humans and animals.

This volume brings together a collection of articles that crosses traditional boundaries of scientific expertise under the common theme of transport phenomena. Transport phenomena in relation to fluid, thermal, biological, materials, and space sciences are investigated.

This volume features an important collection of review articles highlighting the top science and developments in the field of evolutionary biology. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www. blackwellpublishing. com/nyas.