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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