Cell Cycle Checkpoints and Cancer is about mechanisms of normal and cancer cell cycling, checkpoint control, and the link of mitogenic signalling and cell cycle machinery. Checkpoint mechanisms from yeast to man are addressed to allow a comprehensive understanding of the cell cycle. Applications to current and future anticancer therapies are discussed.
Written by internationally renowned leaders in the field, this definitive textbook comprehensively covers all aspects necessary to manage a patient with heart failure, and is essential reading for consultant cardiologists, those in training, general physicians and those caring of the elderly, cardiothoracic surgeons, primary care doctors, pharmacists, and specialist nurses.
Revised to reflect the increasing emphasis on clinical anatomy and make this popular atlas more user-friendly. Sixty new dissection photographs have been added along with 250 clinical notes. Includes new layout, color-coded icons, and orientational diagrams.
Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop.
The student-to-student, step-by-step guide to surgery clerkship success There is no better way to ace the surgery clerkship exam and impress on the wards than First Aid for the Surgery Clerkship. Completely updated throughout, the Second Edition includes a guide to excelling in the clerkship, a high-yield review of core material, common exam and "pimp" questions, and a section of "classifieds" including scholarship opportunities.
