Presenting both the concerns and problems of beer consumption as well as the emerging evidence of benefit, "Handbook of Beer Health and Disease Prevention" offers a balanced view of today's findings and the potential of tomorrow's research. From a beverage of warriors to a cheap and affordable commo[...]

Covers the structure and classification of adhesion molecules, immunohistochemical localization, junctional, functional and inflammatory adhesion molecules and molecular imaging. This book discusses adhesion molecules in relation to signaling pathways, gene expression, arginine, stem cells, neutroph[...]

Chronic alcohol use is associated with heart, liver, brain, and other organ pathology. Alcohol is a drug of abuse and a caloric food and it causes poor intake and absorption of nutrients, thus playing a major role in many aspects of clinical consequences. Alcohol use lowers consumption of fruit and [...]