Product Description: The KLK proteins and their encoding genes are increasingly attracting attention among scientists and clinicians worldwide as they represent interesting and functionally distinct biomarkers both under physiological and pathophysiological conditions...read more

Product Description: This volume on kallikrein-related peptidases (KLKs) reviews the role of these proteases as biomarkers in a wide range of malignancies including cancers of the lung, prostate, breast, ovary, kidney, stomach, and colon. It provides clinicians, physician scientists, and cancer researchers with in-depth overviews on the emerging clinical relevance of KLK protein or gene expression in these malignancies...read more

Product Description: Since the initial establishment of Robert Koch’s postulates in the nineteenth century, microbial protein toxins have been recognized as a major factor of bacterial and fungal virulence. An increasing number of proteins produced and secreted by various bacteria, yeasts and plants are extremely toxic and most of them developed remarkably "intelligent" strategies to enter, to penetrate and to finally kill a eukaryotic target cell by modifying or blocking essential cellular components...read more

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Product Description: Mittels theoretischer und empirischer Untersuchungen wird gezeigt, daß die ökonomische Schlechterstellung der neuen Länder Gerechtigkeitsprobleme aufwirft, die das individuelle Wohlbefinden und den sozialen Frieden im wiedervereinigten Deutschland gefährden...read more

Product Description: These papers are from a symposium which was organized with the following objectives: to bring together research-oriented clinicians and tumor biologists; to focus on mechanisms of factors of tumor biology with prognostic relevance; and to evaluate aspects of treatment oriented at tumor biology...read more

Product Description: In den 70er Jahren wurde die differentielle Psychologie von einer Krise uberschattet, der Konsistenzkontroverse. Zur Debatte stand, ob Menschen sich konsistent genug verhalten, um mittels allgemeiner Eigenschaftsbegriffe charakterisiert werden zu konnen...read more