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  • The Ageing Immune System and Health

    Edited by Valquiria Bueno, Janet M. Lord, Thomas A. Jackson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The present book intends to provide an update on immunosenescence and how deficiencies in the immune system contribute to a higher susceptibility to infections, decline in organ function, reduced vaccination responses, age-related disease and the ageing process itself, negatively affecting longevity. Our focus is on the main changes in immune system cells and their products occurring during the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Nutrition, Exercise and Epigenetics: Ageing Interventions

    Edited by Byung Pal Yu ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the three most important aspects of ageing research: nutrition, physical exercise and epigenetics. The contributors discuss ways that age-related epigenetic imprints such as DNA methylation and histone acetylation are modified by these two interventions. The emphasis on epigenetics helps to illuminate the underlying mechanisms of anti-ageing interventions, as ageing and ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • New Insights to Neuroimmune Biology

    Edited by Istvan Berczi ...
    New Insights to Neuroimmune Biology investigates the mechanisms that and functions of the Neuroimmune Regulatory Supersystem. Covering molecular regulation of cytokines in brain astrocytes, immunoregulation by the sympathetic nervous system, circadian regulation of immune reactions, antigen recognition by the CNS, the modulation of the immune response by head injury, neurogenic inflammation, the ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Special Focus on the Biology of Aging

    Edited by Vincent J. Cristofalo, M. Powell Lawton ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)

    $49.49 USD

  • Advances in Geroscience

    Edited by Ronald Kohanski, Felipe Sierra ...
    This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a new scientific discipline termed Geroscience. Geroscience examines the molecular and cellular mechanisms that might explain why aging is the main risk factor for most chronic diseases affecting the elderly population. Over the past few decades, researchers have made impressive progress in understanding the genetics, biology and physiology of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Elderly Care in India

    Societal and State Responses

    Edited by S. Irudaya Rajan, Gayathri Balagopal ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly. In addition to the very limited state support and near total dependence on the family for long-term social care and economic support, the changing dynamics between generations in the family structure and privatization of health care in ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology

    Edited by Motonari Kondo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In the summer of 1988, my developmental biology professor announced to the class that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) had finally been purified. Somehow, I never forgot the professor’s words. When I started working in Dr. Irv Weissman’s labo- tory at Stanford as a postdoctoral fellow, I realized that the findings mentioned by the professor were from Weissman’s laboratory and had been published in ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Oxidative Stress in Aging

    From Model Systems to Human Diseases

    Edited by Satomi Miwa, Kenneth Bruce Beckman, Florian Muller ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Oxidative Stress in Aging: From Model Systems to Human Diseases discusses the role of free radicals in aging in different animal models, as well as the relevance of free radicals on age-related diseases and pathological conditions in humans (following an introduction section of the basics and theory of free radicals). Human aging is a complex phenomenon - not everyone gets the same diseases and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Effects of Aging and Environment on Vision

    Edited by Donald Armstrong, Michael F. Marmor, J. Mark Ordy ...
    This book derives from a symposium conducted in San Francisco CA, entitled "Environmental Design for Optimum Vision in the Elderly" that was sponsored by the American Aging Association, October 11-12, 1985. Presentations from this symposium comprise the core content of this volume. However, manuscripts have also been accepted from additional authors whose topics and research findings increase the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Immunohistochemistry: Basics and Methods

    by Igor B. Buchwalow, Werner Böcker ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

    $215.09 USD

  • The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures

    Edited by Nancy Giunta, Gaynell M. Simpson, Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ambient Assisted Living

    6. AAL-Kongress 2013 Berlin, Germany, January 22. - 23. , 2013

    Edited by Reiner Wichert, Helmut Klausing ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    In this book, leading authors in the field discuss development of Ambient Assisted Living. The contributions have been chosen and invited at the 6th AAL congress, Berlin. It presents new technological developments which support the autonomy and independence of individuals with special needs. As the technological innovation raises also social issues, the book addresses micro and macro economical ... Read more

    $188.09 USD