July 8, 2012

Immunosuppression - Role in Health and Diseases


Immunosuppression - Role in Health and Diseases



Edited by Suman Kapur and Maristela Barbosa Portela, ISBN 978-953-51-0152-9, Hard cover, 470 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: February 24, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license, in subject Immunology, Allergology and Rheumatology
DOI: 10.5772/1897

A need for a book on immunology which primarily focuses on the needs of medical and clinical research students was recognized. This book, "Immunosuppression - Role in Health and Diseases" is relatively short and contains topics relevant to the understanding of human immune system and its role in health and diseases. Immunosuppression involves an act that reduces the activation or efficacy of the immune system. Therapeutic immunosuppression has applications in clinical medicine, ranging from prevention and treatment of organ/bone marrow transplant rejection, management of autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. It brings important developments both in the field of molecular mechanisms involved and active therapeutic approaches employed for immunosuppression in various human disease conditions. There was a need to bring this information together in a single volume, as much of the recent developments are dispersed throughout biomedical literature, largely in specialized journals. This book will serve well the practicing physicians, surgeons and biomedical scientists as it provides an insight into various approaches to immunosuppression and reviews current developments in each area.

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July 4, 2012

Gene Therapy - Developments and Future Perspectives


Gene Therapy - Developments and Future Perspectives

Edited by Chunsheng Kang, ISBN 978-953-307-617-1, Hard cover, 356 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: June 22, 2011 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Medical Genetics
DOI: 10.5772/748

The aim of this book is to cover key aspects of existing problems in the field of development and future perspectives in gene therapy. Contributions consist of basic and translational research, as well as clinical experiences, and they outline functional mechanisms, predictive approaches, patient-related studies and upcoming challenges in this stimulating but also controversial field of gene therapy research. This source will make our doctors become comfortable with the common problems of gene therapy and inspire others to delve a bit more deeply into a topic of interest.

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June 24, 2012

Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection


Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

Edited by Bernhard Resch, ISBN 978-953-307-718-5, Hard cover, 246 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: November 25, 2011 under CC BY 3.0 license, in subject Infectious Diseases
DOI: 10.5772/1496


In this online Open Access book on "Human RSV Infections", several distinguished authors contribute their experience in respiratory syncytial virology. A major focus lies on the fascinating pathophysiology of RSV and represents recent and actual work on different mechanisms involved in the complex pathogenesis of the virus. The second section elucidates epidemiologic and diagnostic aspects of RSV infection covering a more clinical view of RSV disease. At last, treatment modalities including the search for a vaccine that is still not in sight are discussed and conclude this book, thus building up a circle that runs from experimental models of RSV related lung disease over clinical aspects of disease to the latest news of therapeutic and prophylactic approaches to human RSV infection.

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