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Title Advances in medicine and biology. Volume 15 / Leon V. Berhardt, editor.

Imprint New York : Nova Science Publishers, ©2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 417 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ADVANCES IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY; ADVANCES IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY ; Contents ; Preface; Stem Cell-like Cells and Plant Regeneration ; Abstract ; Introduction ; 1. Where Are Plant (Pluri/Toti) Potent Stem Cell-like Located? ; 2. Physiological Determinants Occurring during Totipotency or Pluripotency Acquisition ; 2.1. A Complex network of stresses; 2.2. How to increase totipotentiality: the practical point of view ; Effect of osmotic stress pretreatment ; Effect of exogenous abscisic acid pretreatment ; Effect of hypoxia pretreatment ; Effects of polyamine pretreatment.
Ethylene and totipotentiality 3. Somatic Cell Reorganization during Dedifferentiation and Stemness Acquisition ; 3.1. Subcellular reorganization in SCL cells ; 3.2. Cell wall reorganization in SCL cells ; 4. Dedifferentiated and Senescent Cells: Common Genetic Regulation? ; 4.1. Comparing dedifferentiated and senescent cell transcriptomes: the merged transcriptome ; 4.2. Nucleus shape, chromatin organization and epigenetic modifications ; 5. Acquisition of Totipotency: When Developmental Genes are also Induced ; 6. Towards New Insight into Plant Stem Cells ; Acknowledgments.
Material and Methods Plant Material; Plant Pretreatments ; Culture Conditions ; Estimation of Embryogenesis Levels; Histology ; Ethylene Experiments ; Quantitation of Secreted AGPs in Culture Medium ; List of Abbreviations ; References; Amputations in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus ; Abstract ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Epidemiology of Lower Extremity Amputations in Diabetes ; 3. Risk Factors for Diabetes-Related Lower Extremity Amputations ; 3.1. Age ; 3.2. Diabetes Duration; 3.3. Gender; 3.4. Peripheral Arterial Disease ; 3.5. Loss of Protective Sensation; 3.6. Infection ; 3.7. Ethnicity.
3.8. History of Prior Foot Ulceration 3.9. Foot Deformities-Structural Pathology and Altered Biomechanics ; 3.10. Poor Glycaemic Control -- Hyperglycemia ; 3.11. Retinopathy ; 3.12. Nephropathy ; 3.13. Arterial Hypertension; 3.14. Dyslipidemia ; 3.15. Low Body Mass Index ; 3.16. Smoking ; 3.17. Psychological and Socio-Economical Problems ; 4. Prevention of Amputations ; 5. Indications of Lower Extremity Amputation; 5.1. Determination of the Level of Amputation; 6. Impact of Diabetes-Related Lower Extremity Amputations; 6.1. Re-Amputation; 6.2. Subsequent Mortality; 6.3. Economic Burden.
6.4. Quality of Life- Psychological Burden 7. Conclusions ; References; FcÞRs on Human Neutrophils: Emerging Patho-Physiological Concerns ; Abstract ; Introduction; Expression of FcÞRs on Human Neutrophils ; Isoform Expression and Structure; FcyRs Constitutively Expressed in Human Neutrophils ; Inducible FcÞR Isoform in Human Neutrophils ; The FcÞrIIb Question ; The Neonatal FcR; Polymorphisms; Signalling ; DRMs, Common Element of Signalling Through Fc Rs ; Activating Pathways ; Inhibitory Mechanisms; Functional Cooperation ; Patho-Physiological Implications ; ANCA-Associated Diseases.
Subject Medicine.
Biology.
Medicine
Biology
Médecine.
Biologie.
medicines (material)
biology.
medicine (discipline)
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
Biology
Medicine
Added Author Bernhardt, Leon V.
ISBN 9781612091877 (electronic bk.)
1612091873 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000051428716
DEBBG BV043090967
DEBSZ 421580224
GBVCP 803627556

 
    
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