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THE ISLETS OF LANGERHANS
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| By: |
Md. Shahidul Islam (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£249.99 |
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£137.49 |
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£112.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9400731949 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789400731943 |
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| Publisher: |
SPRINGER |
| Pub. date: |
27 May, 2012 |
| Edition: |
2010 ed. |
| Series: |
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 654 |
| Pages: |
798 |
| Description: |
This book examines the molecular and cellular processes in islet development, gene expression, and physiology and reviews how a better understanding of the pancreatic islet will advance efforts to develop new therapeutic approaches for diabetes. |
| Synopsis: |
When new fellows join my lab, I give them some reading materials so that they can orient themselves in their assignment in a new eld. When fellows leave my lab, some after writing their dissertations, I prefer to give them a book as a symbolic present. I was longing for a book that contained something on more or less eve- thing about the islets. At the same time, I wished it contained information as recent as possible. There are a few such books in the market but they are pretty outdated. I started picking islets myself from October 1990, when I joined the Rolf Luft Center, Karolinska Institutet. Over the years my fascination for islet research remained high. Since last year, I felt a stronger urge to do more for these mysterious and hidden mini-organs that are directly or indirectly involved in the pathogenesis of all forms of diabetes that affects ?250 million people in the world. After I launched the Islet (landesbioscience. com/journals/islets) and founded the Islet Society (isletso- ety. org), there was a momentum that could be utilized to create something equally meaningful i. e. this book. The idea cracked in September 2008. Starting September 19, 2008, I contacted an estimated 90% of the authors who published anything on the islets during 2007-2008 and who could be traced from the internet. |
| Illustrations: |
XX, 798 p. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Springer |
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Non-returnable |
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