Molecular Methods for Virus Detection

Molecular Methods for Virus Detection
by Danny L. Wiedbrauk (Editor), Daniel H. Farkas (Editor)

Product Details:
* Spiral-bound: 386 pages
* Publisher: Academic Press; 1st edition (January 15, 1995)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0127489207

Book Description:
Molecular diagnostic procedures have been described in a number of recent books and articles. However, these publications have not focused on virus detection, nor have they provided practical protocols for the newer molecular methods.
Written by the inventors or principal developers of these technologies, Molecular Methods for Virus Detection provides both reviews of individual methods and instructions for detecting virus nucleic acid sequences in clinical specimens. Each procedure includes quality assurance protocols that are often ignored by other methodology books. Molecular Methods for Virus Detection provides clinically relevant procedures for many of the newer diagnostic methodologies.

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Cancer Immunotherapy: Immune Suppression and Tumor Growth

Cancer Immunotherapy: Immune Suppression and Tumor Growth
by George C. Prendergast (Editor), Elizabeth M. Jaffee (Editor)

Product Details:
* Hardcover: 428 pages
* Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (June 1, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0123725518

Book Description
There has been major growth in understanding immune suppression mechanisms and its relationship to cancer progression and therapy. This book highlights emerging new principles of immune suppression that drive cancer and it offers radically new ideas about how therapy can be improved by attacking these principles. Following work that firmly establishes immune escape as an essential trait of cancer, recent studies have now defined specific mechanisms of tumoral immune suppression. It also demonstrates how attacking tumors with molecular targeted therapeutics or traditional chemotherapeutic drugs can produce potent anti-tumor effects in preclinical models. This book provides basic, translational, and clinical cancer researchers an indispensable overview of immune escape as a critical trait in cancer and how applying specific combinations of immunotherapy and chemotherapy to attack this trait may radically improve the treatment of advanced disease.

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