Table of Contents: “…Repairing Brain Cells in Stroke Victims; Dialogue 10. Reversing Macular Degeneration; Dialogue 11. My Stem Cells, My Cancer.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Angiogenesis Study Models -- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Retinal Angiogenesis -- Animal Models of Choroidal Neovascularization -- Rodent Models of Oxygen-Induced Retinopathy -- Animal Models of Diabetic Retinopathy -- Neovascularization in Models of Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion -- Molecular Characterization -- Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis in Formation of the Human Retinal Vasculature -- IGF-1 and Retinopathy -- Hypoxia and Retinal Neovascularization -- Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 and VEGF Induction -- The Role of Protein Kinase C in Diabetic Retinal Vascular Abnormalities -- Eph Receptor Tyrosine Kinases: Modulators of Angiogenesis -- Adenosine in Retinal Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis in Oxygen-Induced Retinopathy -- The Regulation of Retinal Angiogenesis by Cyclooxygenase and the Prostanoids -- Extracellular Proteinases in Ocular Angiogenesis -- Oxygen-Independent Angiogenic Stimuli -- Growth Factor Synergy in Angiogenesis -- Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor and Angiogenesis -- Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Adult Vasculogenesis -- Applications to Clinical Conditions -- Retinopathy of Prematurity -- Angiogenesis in Sickle Cell Retinopathy -- Diabetic Retinopathy -- Systems for Drug Delivery to the Posterior Segment of the Eye -- Novel Therapeutic Strategies For Posterior Segment Neovascularization -- Choroidal Neovascularization in Age-Related Macular Degeneration—From Mice to Man.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Evans and Peter McCaffery -- Binding of retinoids to ABCA4, the photoreceptor ABC transporter associated with Stargardt macular degeneration / Ming Zhong and Robert S. Molday -- Fluorescence-based technique for analyzing retinoic acid / Leslie J. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- The Exosporium of B.cereus Contains a Binding Site for gC1qR/p33: Implication in Spore Attachment and/or Entry -- Immunity in Borreliosis with Special Emphasis on the Role of Complement -- Murine CR1/2 Targeted Antigenized Single-Chain Antibody Fragments Induce Transient Low Affinity Antibodies and Negatively Influence an Ongoing Immune Response -- The Third Complement Component as Modulator of Platelet Production -- In Vivo Biological Responses in the Presence or Absence of C3 -- Complement Activation of Drusen in Primate Model (Macaca fascicularis) for Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- Exploring the Complement Interaction Network Using Surface Plasmon Resonance -- Glycosylation as a Target for Recognition of Influenza Viruses by the Innate Immune System -- Immune Effects of Autoantigen-Associated RNA -- Induction and Evasion of the Type I Interferon Response by Cytomegaloviruses -- Pore Formers of the Immune System -- Pathogen-Specific Innate Immune Response -- Flagellin Signalling in Plant Immunity -- Ancient Origin of the Complement System: Emerging Invertebrate Models -- Biological Roles of Lectins in Innate Immunity: Molecular and Structural Basis for Diversity in Self/Non-Self Recognition -- Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry:Potential for Investigating Innate Immunity Proteins.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Ward -- Complement activation of drusen in primate model (Macaca fascicularis) for age-related macular degeneration / Takeshi Iwata -- Exploring the complement interaction network using surface plasmon resonance / Daniel Ricklin and John D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Part I Global Issues -- Preventive Nutrition: From Public to Personal Recommendations and Approaches to Behavior Change -- Public Health Benefits of Preventive Nutrition:  Global Perspective -- Nutritional and Dietary Supplements – Code or Concern -- The Trans Pacific Partnership: Global nutrition at risk -- Nutrient density and health: How to develop global nutrient density metrics -- The Influence of Polypharmacy on Nutrition -- Diet-gene interactions: haptoglobin genotype and nutrient status -- Part II Cancer Prevention -- The Role of Diet and Nutrition in Lung Cancer -- Epigenetics of Endocrine Tumors in Women and Dietary Prevention -- The role of nutrition and diet in prostate cancer -- Dietary Supplements and Cancer Risk:  Epidemiologic Research and Recommendations -- Nonnutritive Components in Foods and Cancer Risk -- Part III Cardiovascular Disease Prevention -- Diet Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention --  N-3 and N-6 fatty acids Reduce Risk for Cardiovascular Disease -- Trans Fatty Acids: summary of the evidence relating consumption to cardiovascular outcomes and the efficacy of prevention policy to reduce levels in the food supply -- Nutrition Aspects of Stroke Prevention -- B Vitamins Influence Vascular Cognitive Impairment -- Part IV Diabetes and Obesity -- Childhood obesity: new paradigms on susceptibility, co-morbidities and interventions -- The W omen’s Health Initiative: Lessons for Preventive Nutrition -- Role of Fiber in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes -- Nutrition Issues and Recommendations in the Management of Diabetes and Prediabetes in Older Adults -- The Effects of Diabetes and Obesity on the Skeleton -- Nutritional Concerns for Bariatric Surgery -- Composition, Production, Consumption and Health Effects of Added Sugars -- Low calorie sweeteners and weight management -- Part V Prevention of major disabilities: Geriatrics -- Diet, Osteoporosis, and Fracture Prevention: The Totality of the Evidence -- Optimizing Nutrition to Delay Age Related Macular Degeneration -- Micronutrients and Immunity in Older People -- Part VI Prevention of major disabilities: Adults and Children -- Gastric Acid Secretions, Treatments and Nutritional Consequences -- The impact of micronutrients on inflammation and health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- HIV and Nutrition -- Folic acid during pregnancy may reduce the risk of certain types of severe congenital heart defects – time for action?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Fast and Robust Algorithm for Fundamental Matrix Estimation -- Biologically-Inspired Supervised Vasculature Segmentation in SLO Retinal Fundus Images -- Assessment of Retinal Vascular Changes Through Arteriolar-to-Venular Ratio Calculation -- Automatic Segmentation of Vertebrae in Ultrasound Images -- Towards an Automatic Clinical Classification of Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- Optical Flow Based Approach for Automatic Cardiac Cycle Estimation in Ultrasound Images of the Carotid -- Statistical Textural Distinctiveness in Multi-Parametric Prostate MRI for Suspicious Region Detection -- Automatic Detection of Immunogold Particles from Electron Microscopy Images -- Specular Reflectance Suppression in Endoscopic Imagery via Stochastic Bayesian Estimation -- Characterization of Medical Images Using Edge Density and Local Directional Pattern (LDP) -- Angiography Images for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Patients -- Retinal Blood Vessels Differentiation for Calculation of Arterio-Venous Ratio -- Graph Structuring of Skeleton Object for Its High-Level Exploitation -- Vehicle Detection Using Approximation of Feature Pyramids in the DFT Domain -- Real-Time Speed-Limit Sign Detection and Recognition Using Spatial Pyramid Feature and Boosted Random Forest -- Automatic Nacre Thickness Measurement of Tahitian Pearls -- Automated Wheat Disease Classification Under Controlled and Uncontrolled Image Acquisition -- Color Space Identification for Image Display -- Application of the General Shape Analysis in Determining the Class of Binary Object Silhouettes in the Video Surveillance System -- Speedy Character Line Detection Algorithm Using Image Block-Based Histogram Analysis -- Detecting Parked Vehicles in Static Images Using Simple Spectral Features in the ‘SM4Public’ System -- Road Detection in Urban Areas Using Random Forest Tree-Based Ensemble Classification -- Application of the Polar–Fourier Greyscale Descriptor to the Automatic Traffic Sign Recognition -- Camera-Based Lane Marking Detection for ADAS and Autonomous Driving -- Handling Inter-object Occlusion for Multi-object Tracking Based on Attraction Force Constraint -- Indian Sign Language Recognition Using Kinect Sensor -- Automatic Planning of Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Chapter Five: Current trends and promising clinical utility of IPSC-derived MSC (iMSC) -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Generation of iMSCs from iPSC -- 3 General characteristics of iMSC in comparison to primary MSC -- 4 Properties of iMSC that may cater to large scale production of homogenous clinical grade MSCs -- 5 Applications of iMSC -- 6 Scaling up -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Six: Drug metabolic activity as a selection factor for pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatic progenitor cells -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and methods -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Ethics approval and consent to participate -- References -- Chapter Seven: Cardiac cell sheet engineering for regenerative medicine and tissue modeling -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cell sheet engineering -- 3 Development of human cardiac tissue for regenerative medicine -- 4 Tissue function evaluation technologies -- 5 For the improvement of human cardiac tissue function -- 6 Tissue models for disease research -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter Eight: Mesenchymal stem cells in osteoarthritis: The need for translation into clinical therapy -- Abstract -- Abbreviations -- 1 Properties of MSCs for regenerative medicine -- 2 Functional effects of mesenchymal stem cells on OA -- 3 MSCs therapy for human osteoarthritis -- 4 MSCs therapy for OA in small animal model -- 5 MSCs therapy for OA in large animal model -- 6 Mechanisms of action of mesenchymal stem cells in cartilage repair -- 7 MSCs derived factors in cartilage repair -- 8 MSCs derived extracellular vesicles in cartilage repair -- 9 Future, challenges and controversies -- References -- Chapter Nine: hPSC-derived RPE transplantation for the treatment of macular degeneration -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Differentiation methods of hPSC-derived RPE -- 3 Characterization of hPSC-derived RPE.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Part I Technology, Innovations and Sustainability -- Modelling Technology Transfer in Green IT with Multi Agent System -- Application Offloading using Data Aggregation in Mobile Cloud Computing Environment -- Living Lab (LILA): An Innovative Paradigm for Community Development: Project of "XploR" Cane for the Blind -- Regenerator Losses in a Free Piston Stirling Engine -- Adopting Business Analytics to Leverage Enterprise Data Assets -- Enterprise Architecture for Innovation Realization and Sustainability -- Developing Medical Record for Follow-up of Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration -- Mobile Computing in the Construction Industry -- Mapping Business Aligned IT Perspective Patterns -- An Approach towards Assessing Effective IT Governance Setting -- Implementing a Mass Customization Business Model in the Health Industry -- Genetic Algorithms Systems for Wind Turbine Management -- Qualitative and Quantitative Study on Videotaped Data for Fire Emergency Response -- Albot: Do Virtual Words Strengthen the Credibility of Artificially Intelligent bots? …”
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