Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences

The Pocket Guides to Biomedical Sciences series is designed to provide a concise,
state-of-the-art, and authoritative coverage on topics that are of interest to
undergraduate and graduate students of biomedical majors, health professionals
with limited time to conduct their own searches, and the general public who are
seeking for reliable, trustworthy information in biomedical fields.

Editorial Board
Sascha Al-Dahouk, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany
Frank Austin, Mississippi State University
K. Balamurugan, Alagappa University, India
Rossana de Aguiar Cordeiro, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Lisa Gorski, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Baochuan Lin, U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
Russell Paterson, University of Minho, Portugal
Yiqun Zhou, Roche Pharmaceuticals

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