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The inherited ataxias

Table of Contents: “…-- SCA1 project overview -- Friedreich's ataxia -- Frataxin protein function -- Epigenetic factors in the pathogenesis of FRDA -- HDAC inhibition in patient with Friedreich's ataxia -- Nicotinamide in patient with Friedreich's ataxia -- Phase II open label trial of nicotinamide.…”
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Plant abiotic stress /

Table of Contents: “…Benfey -- Low temperature tolerance / Matsuo Uemura -- Salinity tolerance / Stuart Roy -- Heavy metal tolerance / Leon V. Kochian -- Epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress response / Viswanathan Chinnusamy -- Genomics of plant abiotic stress tolerance / Hans J. …”
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From germ cell specification to gonad formation

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Germ cells: the ultimate stem cell -- Germ plasm specifies germ cells -- The genetics of early Drosophila development: maternal effect mutations -- The body pattern of the embryo is preformed during oogenesis by localization of RNA -- In Drosophila, the Oskar protein is necessary and sufficient to organize germ plasm -- Oskar RNA transport, localization and translation are regulated at many levels -- Epigenetic control of early germ cell development -- Transcription -- Germ cell migration -- Wunen -- Signaling pathways -- The life cycle of germ cells -- Growth of the gonad -- Genetic analysis of stem cell maintenance and differentiation -- Conserved aspects of germ cells.…”
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Cell determination during hematopoiesis

Table of Contents: “…Gill -- The biology of lymphoid tissue inducer cells / Stephane Chappaz and Daniela Finke -- A pair-wise relationships model of hematopoietic fate determination / Geoffrey Brown ... [et al.] -- The epigenetics of haematopoiesis / Karen Brown.…”
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Plant secondary metabolites for human health : extraction of bioactive compounds /

Table of Contents: “…Latha -- Functional Foods and Nutritional Epigenetics: Review on Scope, Role, and Health Benefits / K. …”
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Diabetes, the global picture the world's greatest public health challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: UN recognition of diabetes -- Obesity and Diabesity -- Modernization and high diabetes prevalence -- Age specific prevalence of diabetes: Nauru -- The 10 top nations for diabetes prevalence: 2010 -- Global epidemic of type 2 diabetes prediction -- Undiagnosed diabetes -- Increasing diabetes prevalence in China -- The sugar disease in India -- The Middle-East: world diabetes hot-spot -- Diabetes prevalence in Qatar, Australia, Japan -- Diabetes increase in rural communities -- AusDiab mortality follow-up -- Diabetes in indigenous Australians -- Type 1 diabetes in the young -- Population based diabetes register -- Childhood diabetes incidence and trends -- Type 1 diabetes incidence in Finnish children -- Incidence of diabetes in end-stage renal failure -- Age of death: general population vs. diabetes -- Mauritius surveillance study -- First study in a developing country -- Predictors for CVD deaths -- Genetic-environment interaction -- Epigenetics: a new paradigm for prevention -- Developmental plasticity -- Diabetes prevalence in Cambodia -- Poverty and diabetes.…”
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Stem Cells in Neuroendocrinology

Table of Contents: “…A brief overview of techniques for modulating neuroendocrine and other neural systems -- Basics of stem cell biology as applied to the brain -- Human pluripotent-derived lineages for repairing hypopituitarism -- Recapitulating hypothalamus and pituitary development using ES/iPS cells -- Regulation of body weight and metabolism by tanycyte-derived neurogenesis in young adult mice -- Genetic dissection of the neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to stressful challenges -- Pituitary stem cells: quest for hidden functions -- Pituitary stem cells during normal physiology and disease -- Epigenetic mechanisms of pituitary cell fate specification -- Advances in stem cells biology: new approaches to understand depression -- Perspective on stem cells in developmental biology, with special reference to neuroendocrine systems. .…”
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Host genetic factors that limit HIV and AIDS

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Overview of candidate gene association studies of HIV and AIDS -- Key role for genetic variants involved in cell entry and host defenses -- Homozygous CCR5 32 basepair deletion prevents HIV Infection -- Acquired Immunity: HLA Class 1 proteins -- Key mediators of HIV progression -- Innate Protection: HLA and KIRS interactions in HIV disease -- Overview of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) -- Overwhelming influence of HLA class I on HIV Progression and control of HIV viral load -- Non-HLA genetic associations with extreme phenotypes -- No new variants identified that prevent HIV infection -- Discovery of chromosome 22 associations with HIV-associated nephropathy -- Future studies -- Epigenetic, proteomic, functional studies -- Potential role of rare variants.…”
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The origins of schizophrenia

Table of Contents: “…Gejman -- Genetic architecture of schizophrenia : the contribution of copy number variation / Maria Karayiorgou, Rebecca Levy, and Bin Xu -- The epigenetics of schizophrenia -- Animal models of the maternal infection risk factor for schizophrenia / Paul H. …”
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Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive Why Human Connection from Before Birth Matters / by Sansone, Antonella

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Colorectal cancer and the rare variant hypothesis

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Cancer: a somatic evolutionary process -- Colorectal cancer: a good model to study -- Two clear cut familial forms: FAP and HNPCC -- Mutation selection balance for dominants and recessives: application to FAP -- APC gene found by positional cloning -- Loss of heterozygosity proved its role in sporadic cancers -- Selection for mutations in the APC "mutation cluster region" -- HNPCC mismatch repair genes found by candidate guess -- Mutated genes in colorectal cancer include p53 and wnt pathway, occur in adenoma to carcinoma sequence -- Arguments for and against need for genomic instability in cancers -- Epigenetic changes -- Mathematical model of normal and cancerous crypt -- Types of familial cancers: mostly rarer than FAP and HNPCC -- Approaches to studying multifactorial inherited susceptibility -- HLA and disease: the model -- Role of linkage disequilbrium -- Principles of SNP association analysis -- Rare missense variants in the APC gene confer susceptibility -- The "rare variant hypothesis" for multifactorial inherited susceptibility: exemplified by study of colorectal adenomas.…”
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Vitamin C : new biochemical and functional insights /

Table of Contents: “…IVC as multi-target anti-cancer agent. IVC and epigenetics. IVC in hypoxia. Overview of recent clinical trials. …”
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Shakespeare and the evolution of the human umwelt : adapt, interpret, mutate / by Day, Timothy Ryan

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Praxis as a Perspective on International Politics / by Hellmann, Gunther

Table of Contents: “…Psychology, Biology and the Notion of Praxis -- Introduction -- The psychology of feelings, cognition and behaviour -- Evolutionary legacy -- From culture to cognition -- Behavioural genetics -- Cultural epigenetics? -- Practising praxis -- Psychobiology of praxis -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Practice, Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Contingency -- Introduction -- On the problem of cooperation in game theory and beyond -- Contingency and the logic of social facts -- A Humean approach to uncertainty? …”
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Perinatal programming the state of the art /

Table of Contents: “…The past and future of perinatal medicine -- Experimental models of low birth weight--insight into the developmental programming of metabolic health, aging, and immune function -- Cardiovascular consequences of IUGR : experimental aspects -- Fetal programming of endocrine function in IUGR offspring depends on the cause of low birth weight : evidence from animal models and the human FIPS-study -- Intrauterine corticosteroids for lung maturation : observations of HPA axis function and cardiac autonomic balance in the neonate -- Feast or famine : in the fast lane to puberty -- Early life origins of diabetes and obesity : general aspects and the thin-fat baby paradigm -- The outcome in offspring of obese mothers -- Short and long term effects of gestational obesity : clinical observations -- Emerging role of neuroendocrine programming in obesity -- Genetic influences on the long-term effects of the perinatal environment on energy homeostasis and offspring obesity -- Perinatal programming in offspring of diabetic mothers : clinical data -- Experimental observations on perinatal programming in offspring of diabetic mothers -- Prenatal infections and long-term mental outcome : modeling schizophrenia-related dysfunctions using the prenatal Poly I : C model in mice -- Prenatal programming of cognition and emotion in humans : from birth to age 20 -- Perinatal programming of allergy -- Perinatal origin of testicular germ cell cancer : possible involvement of developmental re-programming -- Epigenetic adaptation during early life -- Toward a unifying concept on perinatal programming.…”
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The future of criminology

Table of Contents: “…/ Rolf Loeber -- Developmental origins of aggression : from social learning to epigenetics / Richard E. Tremblay -- Biology of crime : past, present, and future perspectives / Adrian Raine and Jill Portnoy -- Self-control, then and now / Terrie E. …”
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Plant stress biology : progress and prospects of genetic engineering /

Table of Contents: “…Srivastava -- Application of Plant Stress for Enhanced Biofuel Production / Shritoma Sengupta, Debalina Bhattacharya, and Mainak Mukhopadhyay -- Improving Plant Adaptation/Tolerance Under Stress Conditions: Future Prospects / Ranjeet Kaur and Rupam Kumar Bhunia -- MicroRNAs as a Potential Tool to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerancein Plants / Chandra Pal Singh -- Molecular Approaches for Engineering Plants Resistant to Viruses / Nirbhay Kumar Kushwaha, Shweta Roy, Mansi, and Praveen Soni -- Plant Responses to Weeds, Pests, Pathogens, and Agrichemical Stress Conditions / Rituparna Saha, Debalina Bhattacharya, and Mainak Mukhopadhyay -- Stomatal Adaptive Response in Plants Under Drought Stress / Hasthi Ram, Amandeep Kaur, Nishu Gandass, Megha Katoch, Shweta Roy,Nirbhay Kumar Kushwaha, and Praveen Soni -- Understanding the Epigenetic Regulation of Plants Under Stressand Potential Application in Agriculture / Shweta Roy, Nirbhay Kumar Kushwaha, and Praveen Soni -- Understanding the Mechanism of Drought Tolerance in Pearl Millet / Praveen Soni -- Biotic Stress on Wheat: An Overview / Pankaj Kumar Singh, Sunita Singh, and Girish Chandra Pandey -- Effect of Water Scarcity and High Temperature on Wheat Productivity / Vidisha Thakur and Girish Chandra Pandey -- Insect Pest Management of Agricultural Crops / Ritika, Nikita Bhati, Shreya, and Arun Kumar Sharma -- Impact of Stress Factors on Plants for Enhancing Biomass Generations Towards Biofuels / Dipankar Ghosh, Shrestha Debnath, and Kamalendu De.…”
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Pathways to peace : the transformative power of children and families /

Table of Contents: “…Sue Carter and Stephen W. Porges -- Epigenetics : significance of the gene-environment interface for brain -- Development / Eric B. …”
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The Charnoly body : a novel biomarker of mitochondrial bioenergetics / by Sharma, Sushil, Ph. D., D.M.R.I.T

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Architecture is a verb / by Robinson, Sarah (Architect)

Table of Contents: “…-- Extended Organisms -- The Primacy of Movement -- Primordial Techne -- Inhabiting-The Matrix of Habitual Action -- 4 Questioning Perception -- Umwelt and Affordances -- Niche Construction -- Neural Plasticity and Epigenetic Change -- Knowledge Is External -- Reprogramming Sensory Life -- Architectural Affordances -- 5 Constructing Consciousness -- Consciousness Is Rhythmic -- The Natural History of Consciousness -- Art Structures Consciousness -- The Future Enters Through the Work of Art -- Laminated Consciousness -- 6 Taxonomy of Interactions -- Structures of Consciousness -- Archaic Consciousness -- Magic Consciousness -- Mythical Consciousness -- Mental-Rational Consciousness -- Integral Consciousness -- 7 The Primacy of Breathing -- Affirming the Breath -- Empathy and Entrainment -- The Epistemology of the Skin -- Cultures of Breathing -- A Brief Study of Desert Thermal-Cultural Devices -- Resisting -- Touching -- Haptic Perception -- 8 Homo Faber -- Resonating -- Music: A Technology of Bonding -- Buildings as Musical Instruments -- Sound as a Building Material -- Dancing -- Kinesthetic Awareness -- Mechanisms of Mutuality -- Making -- 9 Collective Dreaming -- Imagining -- Complementarity -- Suspension -- Metaphor: Patterning Fields -- Remembering -- Storytelling -- Narrative and Self -- Empathy and Story -- 10 This Lesser, Rebellious Field -- Abstracting -- From Panoptics to Peripheral Vision -- Learning From the Japanese Garden -- Framing -- Thinking -- Improvisation -- Nature of the Medium -- The Bottom-Up/Top-Down Dialectic -- 11 The Soil of the Sensible -- Integration -- Inhabiting -- Eating -- Sleeping -- Being Bored -- Walking -- An Architecture of Moments -- Playing -- Counterforms -- Visceral Urbanism -- Healing -- 12 Fields of Care: Concluding Thoughts -- Taxonomy of Interactions Appendix -- Index.…”
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