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Carbohydrates are ubiquitous, essential molecules, as important as nucleic acids and proteins yet less well understood. Mounting data demonstrate that microbial and mammalian glycans and their protein-binding partners (lectins) play central roles in all innate and adaptive immune responses.

This volume of The Year in Immunology series features reviews of topics in human immunology, including B1 B cells, BCL-2 family members, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, reverse vaccinology, anti-b2-glycoprotein I, the role of autoimmunity In thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's Disease), long pentraxin PTX3 as a paradigm for humoral pattern recognition molecules, and control of inflammatory heart disease by CD4+ T cells.

Climate change is already beginning to affect New York State and these impacts are projected to grow. At the same time, the state has the ability to develop adaptation strategies that will address many climate-related risks, thereby reducing impacts and taking advantage of possible opportunities.

The fourth installment of "The Year in Immunology" series features reviews of novel approaches in the investigation of immunoregulatory mechanisms.

The volume features current basic, clinical, and translational research on aspects of skeletal morphogenesis and remodeling in health and disease. Papers survey vital new insights into the mechanisms of bone development and restructuring, including cellular and mechanical triggers, receptors and signaling pathways.

This volume presents two meeting reports from recent scientific conferences and a third paper of draft consensus guidelines for treating Shwachman-Diamond syndrome.

This volume presents reports from three recent scientific meetings on special topics.

The genetic dissection of human primary immunodeficiency is expanding at full speed, in at least two directions.

Includes reviews on central nervous system control of glucose and energy metabolism; stearoyl CoA desaturase in obesity and metabolism; circadian disruption and metabolic dysfunction; incretin hormones; and, more.

Recently, much attention has been focused on aging and obesity and the pivotal roles these conditions play in the development of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.

The social environment has an enormous influence in altering behavior, neuroendocrine function, immune system activity, and cardiovascular and metabolic function.

This Annals volume includes scholarly summaries of scientific achievement by winners and finalists candidates of the 2010 Prix Galien USA, Prix Galien International, and Prix Galien Bro Bono Humanitarian Awards ( http://www. prix-galien-usa. com/index.

This volume explores the latest clinical and basic science advances in the field of reproductive sciences. Contributions from leading experts in the field cover a wide breadth of topics from in vitro fertilization to stem cell biology.

This is the second installment of this annual review series presents invited papers published in collaboration with the United States Society for Ecological Economics.

This volume features the proceedings of the In the 6th Asian Society for Mitchondrial Research and Medicine and highlights recent advances in mitochondria research.

This volume explores cancer as an individualized problem and addresses the impact of recent advances in cancer biology, genetics, tumor profiling, and medical technology in the personalization of cancer predisposition, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and therapy development.

This volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences covers recent and new developments in all fields of neuroendocrinology, including neuroendocrine control of reproduction, stress, growth and metabolism, and hypothalamic neuropeptidergic systems.

This volume features a discussion of recent advances related to the cellular and molecular mechanisms mediating the generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and their role in the pathogenesis of human disease, with a particular focus on the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.

The volume highlights recent and new developments in all fields ofneuropeptides in biological homeostasis regulation such as bodyweight and metabolism, reproduction, osmotic pressure reproduction. Special attention given to the phylogenetic aspects ofneuroendocrinology, from invertebrates to mammals includinghumans.

* Explores recent scientific and clinical advances in the treatment of thalassemia * Examines research working to build an understanding of adult complications associated with living with thalassemia * Looks at research making progress toward finding a cure through bone marrow and cord blood transplants, or gene therapy.

This field of women's health and disease has been attracting the attention of the scientific community over the past 50 years. At the dawn of the 21st century a substantial amount of accumulated knowledge has found its way to clinical application giving rise, however, to new pertinent questions.

Aging, reproductive physiology, demography, evolutionary biology, endocrinology, and epidemiology - just to name a few - are all disciplines that are actively looking at similar phenomena. Aging and reproductive aging are inextricably linked.

A fundamental property of hematopoetic stem cells is their capacity to self-renew, thus providing, in principle, a limitless source of daughter cells and with the same functional properties. This volume presents the most recent developments, and their clinical implications, in hematopoietic stem cell research.

This volume features an important collection of review articles highlighting the top science and developments in the field of evolutionary biology. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www. blackwellpublishing. com/nyas.

This volume brings together a collection of articles that crosses traditional boundaries of scientific expertise under the common theme of transport phenomena. Transport phenomena in relation to fluid, thermal, biological, materials, and space sciences are investigated.

This volume explores the evolution of infectious agents that are sexually-transmitted or transmissible in humans and animals.

Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life, including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.

Myasthenia gravis (MG), an acquired immune syndrome affecting proteins at the neuromuscular junction, causes significant muscular functional impairment and can compromise patients quality of life, including fatigue, disability, and increased mortality rates.

This volume features invited scholarly papers on the topic of molecular and integrative physiology of the musculoskeletal system by clinician-scientists who work at both the bench and the bedside.

Addiction Reviews 3 features refereed reviews of topics of interest to specialists in addiction. Contributions that NIAAA and investigators interested in alcoholism have made to the field of addiction is the focus of this volume.