Molecular Biology in Medicine

Timothy M. Cox, John Sinclair (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2004
Blackwell Science Inc. (Verlag)
978-0-86542-784-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Molecular biology is beginning to reshape the way diseases are investigated, how illness in patients is screened and diagnosed and how a variety of conditions is treated. This work provides a clinical framework to the science, and explains the clinical significance and issues which surround it.

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Molecular biology is beginning to reshape diseases are investigated, illness in patients is screened and diagnosed and how we treat a variety of conditions. This work provides a clinical framework to the science. It explains the clinical significance and issues which surround the laboratory-based science taught in biological sciences courses. The book fuses science and medicine in a way that demonstrates the clinical relevance of this emerging discipline.

Inhalt

Part 1 Molecular biology at the centre of human disease: haemophilia A. Part 2 Workings of the human genome: DNA, RNA and proteins; analyzing human genes and their products; the control of human gene expression; medical genetics. Part 3 Inherited disorders of the human genome: monogenic diseases; inherited cancer; polygenic diseases. Part 4 Somatic mutation of the human genome: immune diversity; autoimmunity; cancer. Part 5 Diagnostic and therapeutic applications of molecular biology: bacterial infections; viral infections; recombinant products; pre-natal diagnosis; gene therapy; ethics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2004
• Zusatzinfo: 218 line illustrations, 11 halftones, 43 colour photographs
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 219 x 276 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• ISBN-10: 0-86542-784-4 / 0865427844
• ISBN-13: 978-0-86542-784-6 / 9780865427846
• Zustand: Neuware