Publisher's Synopsis
The major emphasis in this text is on cellular and molecular pathogenesis in relation to important areas of general pathology, with a focus throughout on elucidating basic mechanisms of disease at the cellular, biochemical and molecular levels.;The expert contributors examine mechanisms of cell and tissue injury; regulation of cell and tissue responses to injury; cytokines and inflammatory disease; cell and tissue adaptations to injury; biochemical and molecular regulation of angiogenesis and wound repair; cellular and molecular regulation of immune responses; pathobiology of immunodeficiency diseases; vascular pathobiology; pathophysiology of thrombosis and blood-clotting disorders; environmental pathobiology; molecular pathology of infectious diseases; cellular and molecular mechanisms of multistage carcinogenesis; and oncogenes/proto-oncogenes, growth factors and tumour suppressor genes in neoplasia.;Also examined are the molecular pathology of oncogenic viruses; stromal-epithelial interactions in normal and neoplastic development; cytogenic basis of disease; biochemical and molecular genetics of inherited disease; and pathobiology of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
