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  • Reproductive Genetics

    Edited by Sean Kehoe, Lyn Chitty, Tessa Homfray ...
    Series series Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Study Group
    Great progress has been made in genetics in recent years, with significant consequences for the field of reproductive genetics. The ability to identify genetic defects before implantation, to diagnose fetal abnormalities and to introduce screening programmes means that genetic testing now has a major role in preventive medicine. The 57th RCOG Study Group brought together a range of experts to ... Read more

    $155.19 CAD

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  • Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body

    by Elizabeth Ettorre ...
    This book is all about reproductive genetics, a sociological concept developed to define the use of DNA-based technologies in the medical management and supervision of reproduction and pregnant women. In a searching analysis, Elizabeth Ettorre uncovers the hidden social processes involved in the development of these technologies.Focussing on prenatal screening, she explores how the key concepts of ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Issues and Reviews in Teratology

    Volume 5

    Edited by H. Kalter ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Why Efforts to Expand the Meaning of "Teratogen" Are Unacceptable Disagreement about nomenclature in teratology is not new. Dissent even about the very fabric of the discipline-what congenital malformations consist of-has often been voiced. Time, instead of resolving such diffi culties, has sometimes worsened them. For example, in the past it was agreed that congenital malforma tions are ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Maternal Influences on Fetal Neurodevelopment

    Clinical and Research Aspects

    Edited by Andrew W. Zimmerman, Susan L. Connors ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Novel Approaches into the Origins of Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Fetal Physiology Foundation Over the past two decades, autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that is defined by behavior and was once believed to be rare, became recognized in increasing numbers of children and recently received distinction as an “epidemic” [1]. While numbers of affected children have steadily increased, our ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Embryo

    Normal and Abnormal Development and Growth

    Edited by Michael G. Chapman, J. Gedis Grudzinskas, Tim Chard ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    A variety of new techniques that promise to revolutionize the clinical management of early pregnancy are fully detailed in this state-of-the-art book. Leading international researchers describe fast-moving topics such as embryo manipulation and the diagnosis of congenital abnormalities. The technology of assisted reproduction has made it possible to study living embryonic material for the first ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Omics Approaches in Breast Cancer

    Towards Next-Generation Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapy

    Edited by Debmalya Barh ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females that accounts for highest cancer specific deaths worldwide. In the last few decades research has proven that breast cancer can be treated if diagnosed at early stages and proper therapeutic strategy is adopted. Omics-based recent approaches have unveiled the molecular mechanism behind the breast tumorigenesis and aid in identification of next ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD

  • Informed Consent in Predictive Genetic Testing

    A Revised Model

    by Jessica Minor ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This important book proposes revising the current informed consent protocol for predictive genetic testing to reflect the trend toward patient-centered medicine. Emphasizing the predictive aspect of testing, the author analyzes the state of informed consent procedure in terms of three components: comprehension of risk assessment, disclosure to select appropriate treatment, and voluntariness. The ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Prenatal Diagnosis

    by Mark I. Evans ...
    A comprehensive reference on diagnosis and evaluation of reproductive risks and genetically related high-risk pregnancies. Authored by international group of experts, this book is organized according to diagnostic method, source of reproductive risk, and system under evaluation. Features the latest imaging technology, a review of genetics, molecular biology, and cytogenetics, and special chapters ... Read more

    $171.19 CAD

  • Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences

    Edited by Lucy R. Green, Robert L. Hester ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring. Obesity of the mother and father produces obesity in their offspring, so we are caught up in an intergenerational cycle, ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD

  • Preimplantation Genetics

    Edited by Yury Verlinsky, A. Kuliev ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Yury Verlinskyand Anver Kuliev Reproductive Genetics Institute, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, 836 W. Wellington chicago, IL 60657 Although introduction of a first trimester prenatal diagnosis by chorionic viIIus sampling (CVS) has considerably improved the possibility for prevention of genetic diseases, it requires a selective abortion in case of an affected fetus. Following the direction of an ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Hormones, Intrauterine Health and Programming

    Edited by Yves Christen, Jonathan R Seckl ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The authors address in particular the role of hormones and their links with other maternal environmental mediators in developmental programming. The crucial nature of the placenta as an interface and target between maternal and foetal environments is addressed. Emphasis is made on the emerging science of epigenetics as a potential explanation for how environmental events that occur during brief ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Epigenetics, the Environment, and Children’s Health Across Lifespans

    Edited by David Hollar ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This stimulating volume addresses vital questions about gene/environment interactions as they affect cell health from the prenatal period through later life. Beginning with a tour of epigenetic processes in the human body, the book assembles current theoretical and empirical developments across the discipline, among them transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, the effects of maternal nutrition ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD