Cleanroom Microbiology for the Non-Microbiologist

Cleanroom Microbiology for the Non-Microbiologist, Second Edition
by David M. Carlberg (Author)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 216 pages
* Publisher: CRC; 2 edition (October 28, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 084931996X

Book Description
This new edition of Cleanroom Microbiology explains the consequences of microbiological contamination, what contamination is all about, how microorganisms grow, and how they can be controlled. The book also introduces the types, sources, control, and elimination of organisms encountered in the manufacture of sterile products as well as the applications for bacterial detection, avoidance of contamination, and cleanroom design considerations. Several sections of this new edition are revised including eliminating illustrations of obsolete equipment. The author has rewritten the text according to new standards and practices for controlling microbial contamination in cleanrooms.

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The Complement System: Novel Roles in Health and Disease

The Complement System: Novel Roles in Health and Disease
by Janos Szebeni (Editor)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 592 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 10, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1402080557

Book Description
The Complement System: Novel Roles in Health and Disease surveys the advances in basic and applied research on the complement system over the past few years. Complement is a major protein network in blood that has been traditionally conceived as part of the immune system, a proinflammatory cascade engaged in nonspecific antimicrobial defence. However, it became clear recently that this system also plays an essential role in specific, adaptive immune responses, as well as in many basic physiological processes including cardiovascular regulation, pregnancy and tissue regeneration, just to mention a few.
Complement proteins are widely involved in the immune evasion tactics of infectious microbes and cancer cells, and derangement of complement function contributes to numerous autoimmune, allergic and acute catastrophic diseases. Because pharmacological manipulation of the complement system provides therapeutic benefit in many of these conditions, we may be very close to widespread clinical use of a new class of drugs influencing complement activation or action. In fact, complementology may be one of the most versatile and dynamic subdisciplines in medicine today. The 25 reviews of this volume, written by prominent experts, provide state-of-art insights into the various aspects of an amazing progress in this field.

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