epub |eng | 2015-10-24 | Author:Michal Schwartz

Over the past two decades, neurodegenerative diseases have often been linked to chronic inflammatory processes within the brain or the spinal cord tissue. Again, as we have seen in this ...

epub |eng | 1987-03-21 | Author:Davis, Daniel M.

7 Missing Self Klas Kärre would later chair the committee that decides the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but in 1981, while writing his PhD thesis, he was less ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Tak W. Mak & Mary E. Saunders & Bradley D. Jett [Mak, Tak W. & Saunders, Mary E. & Jett, Bradley D.]

III Toxoids As described in Chapter 13, the disease caused by a pathogen may be entirely due to its production of exotoxins. Thus, vaccinating a host against the exotoxin protects ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-19 | Author:Doan, Thao & Melvold, Roger & Viselli, Susan & Waltenbaugh, Carl [Doan, Thao]

Figure 14.2 Asthma. Asthma is a reversible airway obstruction often caused by the release of inflammatory mediators from mast cells upon encounter with allergen. These inflammatory mediators cause the loosening ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Sompayrac, Lauren M. [Sompayrac, Lauren M.]

HIGH ENDOTHELIAL VENULES A second anatomical feature common to all secondary lymphoid organs except the spleen is the “high endothelial venule” (HEV). The reason HEVs are so important is that ...

epub |tur | 2014-07-10 | Author:Daniel M. Davis [Davis, Daniel M.]

One reason why this is not guaranteed to work out is that there can be great variety in the tumour cells themselves – even in a single patient. Even within ...