A Clinician's Guide to Sperm DNA and Chromatin Damage
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43221
Armand Zini, Ashok Agarwal, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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This comprehensive, up-to-date text, which brings together the key practical elements of the rapidly evolving field of sperm DNA and chromatin abnormalities, is divided thematically into five main sections. Part I discusses human sperm chromatin structure and nuclear architecture, while part II presents laboratory evaluation of sperm DNA damage, including SCSA, SCD, TUNEL and Comet assays, and cytochemical tests. Biological and clinical factors in the etiology of sperm DNA damage are discussed …
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- Other Authors
- Zini, Armand
- Agarwal, Ashok
- Responsibility
- Armand Zini, Ashok Agarwal, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 605 p.)
- ISBN
- 9783319718156
- 9783319718149 (print ed.)
- 9783319718163 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Chromatin - pathology
- DNA Damage
- Infertility, Male - etiology
- Spermatozoa - pathology
- Abstract
- This comprehensive, up-to-date text, which brings together the key practical elements of the rapidly evolving field of sperm DNA and chromatin abnormalities, is divided thematically into five main sections. Part I discusses human sperm chromatin structure and nuclear architecture, while part II presents laboratory evaluation of sperm DNA damage, including SCSA, SCD, TUNEL and Comet assays, and cytochemical tests. Biological and clinical factors in the etiology of sperm DNA damage are discussed in part III, including oxidative stress, abortive apoptosis, cancer, and environmental and lifestyle factors. Part IV presents clinical studies on the utility of sperm DNA damage tests, both with natural and ART-assisted pregnancies, and debates the clinical utility of such tests. Finally, part V discusses current treatment options, such as antioxidant therapy, varicocelectomy, advanced sperm processing techniques and the use of testicular sperm. We are now beginning to better understand the unique organization of the sperm chromatin, as well as the nature and etiology of sperm DNA damage. Written and edited by worldwide experts in andrology, A Clinician's Guide to Sperm DNA and Chromatin Damage is an excellent resource for reproductive medicine and REI specialists, urologists, reproductive biologists and any professional working with the infertile male.
- Contents
- Part I. Human Sperm Chromatin Structure -- 1. Sperm Chromatin: An Overview -- 2. Sperm Nucleoproteins (Histones and Protamines) -- 3. Sperm Nuclear Architecture -- Part II. Laboratory Evaluation of Sperm Chromatin and DNA Damage -- 4. Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay (SCSA®): Evolution from Origin to Clinical Utility -- 5. TUNEL Assay -- 6. TUNEL Assay by Benchtop Flow Cytometer in Clinical Laboratories -- 7. The Comet Assay -- 8. Sperm Chromatin Dispersion (SCD) Assay -- 9. Cytochemical Tests of Sperm Chromatin Maturity -- 10. Is There an Optimal Sperm DNA Test? -- Part III. Etiology of Sperm DNA Damage: Biological and Clinical Factors -- 11. Oxidative Stress -- 12. Apoptosis in Ejaculated Spermatozoa and in the Normal and Pathological Testes: Abortive Apoptosis and Sperm Chromatin Damage -- 13. Defective DNA Repair in Spermiogenesis -- 14. Defective Spermatogenesis and Sperm DNA Damage -- 15. Sperm Chromatin and Lifestyle Factors -- 16. Cancer and Sperm DNA Damage -- 17. Sperm Chromatin and Environmental Factors -- 18. Sperm DNA Damage and Oocyte Repair Capability -- Part IV. Clinical Studies on Utility of Sperm DNA Damage Tests -- 19. Experimental Studies on Sperm DNA Fragmentation and Reproductive Outcomes -- 20. Sperm DNA and Natural Pregnancy -- 21. Sperm DNA and ART (IUI, IVF, ICSI) Pregnancy -- 22. Sperm DNA and Pregnancy Loss After IVF and ICSI -- 23. Sperm DNA Tests Are Clinically Useful: Pro -- 24. Sperm DNA Tests Are Clinically Useful: CON -- Part V. Treatment Options for Men with Sperm DNA Damage -- 25. Antioxidant Therapy -- 26. Varicocelectomy -- 27. Physiological Intracytoplasmic Sperm Insemination Based on Hyaluronic Acid-Binding Ability -- 28. Advanced Sperm Processing/Selection Techniques -- 29. Use of Testicular Sperm for ICSI: Pro -- 30. Debate on the Use of Testicular Sperm for ICSI: Con -- 31. Strategies to Diminish DNA Damage in Sperm Samples Used for ART -- 32. Sperm DNA Testing: Where Do We Go from Here?
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- e-Book
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- Online
Introduction to health care planning, design and construction
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat25873
Burgun, J. Armand.
(2nd ed.)
--Chicago, IL:
American Hospital Association
, 2008.
- Call Number
- WX 140 B954 2008
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Call Number
- WX 140 B954 2008
- Author
- Burgun, J. Armand
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Publisher
- American Hospital Association
- Date of Publication
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 143 p.
- ISBN
- 9780872588486
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Hospital Design and Construction
- Facility Design and Construction
- Format
- Book
- Location
- Halifax Infirmary
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 3 weeks
Radiation Therapy for Skin Cancer
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat40737
Armand B. Cognetta Jr., William M. Mendenhall, editors.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2013.
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Superficial radiation has been utilized by dermatologists for skin cancer and inflammatory diseases since the early 1900s. This textbook is the progeny of multiple previous editors from 1926 on dedicated to its safe and effective usage of radiation therapy. The rapid advancements in the field of Radiation Oncology, including electron beam therapy and tomotherapy, alongside the introduction of corticosteroids for dermatologic disorders and advancement in cutaneous surgery, have until recently ec…
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- Cognetta Jr., Armand B
- Mendenhall, William M
- Responsibility
- Armand B. Cognetta Jr., William M. Mendenhall, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 251 p. : 50 illus., 38 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781461469865
- 9781461469858 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Radiotherapy - methods
- Skin Neoplasms - radiotherapy
- Abstract
- Superficial radiation has been utilized by dermatologists for skin cancer and inflammatory diseases since the early 1900s. This textbook is the progeny of multiple previous editors from 1926 on dedicated to its safe and effective usage of radiation therapy. The rapid advancements in the field of Radiation Oncology, including electron beam therapy and tomotherapy, alongside the introduction of corticosteroids for dermatologic disorders and advancement in cutaneous surgery, have until recently eclipsed the utilization of this safe and effective modality. Dermatologists look to our Radiation Oncology colleagues for help with many complex cancer scenarios, such as deeply invasive head and neck squamous cell carcinomas with or without perineural invasion, Merkel Cell Carcinoma, various sarcomas, and certain melanomas ranging from lentigo maligna to metastatic melanoma. This textbook has a greatly expanded section that will serve as a vital reference for all cutaneous oncologists.
- Contents
- 1. Physical Aspects of Dermatological Radiotherapy -- 2. Radiobiology -- 3. Radiation and Cell Kinetics -- 4. Radiation Safety and Protection -- 5. Adverse Sequelae of Cutaneous Radiation and Radio Dermatitis -- 6. Treatment Planning -- 7. Current Use of Dermatologic Radiotherapy in the United States and Canada -- 8. Radiation Therapy of Cutaneous Malignancies -- 9. Electron Beam in Dermatology -- 10. Brachioradiotherapy in Dermatology -- 11. Radiation of Benign Dermatoses -- 12. Ultrasoft Radiation (Grenz Ray) -- 13. Radiation Treatment of Skin Lymphomas -- 14. Radiation Therapy for Perineural Invasion -- 15. Radiation For Kaposi's Sarcoma -- 16. Equipment and Financial Aspects of Radiation in a Dermatologic Office Setting (Getting Started).
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Sperm Chromatin : Biological and Clinical Applications in Male Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30045
edited by Armand Zini, Ashok Agarwal.
--New York, NY:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2011.
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- Location
- Online
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- Author
- Zini, Armand
- Other Authors
- Agarwal, Ashok
- Responsibility
- edited by Armand Zini, Ashok Agarwal
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2011
- ISBN
- 9781441968579
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Chromatin - pathology
- DNA Damage - physiology
- Infertility, male - etiology
- Spermatozoa - pathology
- Andrology
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Reproductive medicine
- Genetics
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Surgical Endocrinopathies : Clinical Management and the Founding Figures
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39168
Janice L. Pasieka, James A. Lee, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2015.
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This book covers the clinical management including diagnosis, localization and physiology, for a number of clinical diseases treated by endocrinologists and surgeons. Following each chapter there is a 3-4 page biographical sketch of the person behind the clinical endocrinopathy, whose name is closely associated with the disease. The field of endocrine surgery is rich in history and this is the first text to bring together in one place the person behind the disease and the pioneers of the field.…
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- Pasieka, Janice L
- Lee, James A
- Responsibility
- Janice L. Pasieka, James A. Lee, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 405 p. : 163 illus., 76 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319136622
- 9783319136615 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Endocrine Surgical Procedures
- Endocrine Surgical Procedures - history
- Endocrine System Diseases
- Physicians - history
- Research Personnel - history
- Abstract
- This book covers the clinical management including diagnosis, localization and physiology, for a number of clinical diseases treated by endocrinologists and surgeons. Following each chapter there is a 3-4 page biographical sketch of the person behind the clinical endocrinopathy, whose name is closely associated with the disease. The field of endocrine surgery is rich in history and this is the first text to bring together in one place the person behind the disease and the pioneers of the field. The text covers both the current management of endocrine surgical diseases, and also provides a historical background by highlighting the person for whom these discoveries were named. Surgical Endocrinopathies is of great value to endocrine surgeons, ENT surgeons, endocrinologists, internal medicine physicians, and medical historians.
- Contents
- Thyroid Physiology -- Emil Theodor Kocher -- Karl von Basedow -- Jan Wolff and Israel L. Chaikoff -- Hyperthyroidism and Thyroiditis -- Robert James Graves -- Henry Stanley Plummer -- Hakaru Hashimoto -- Fritz de Quervain -- George W. Crile -- Multinodular Goiter -- Hugh Spear Pemberton -- Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma -- John Richard Farndon -- Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Papillary, Follicular, and Oncocytic (Hürthle) Cell Cancer -- Karl Hürthle -- Update of the Treatment Guidelines for Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer -- Frank Lahey -- Thomas Dunhill -- Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Diagnosis and Workup -- Sir Richard Owen -- Fuller Albright -- James Bertram Collip -- Surgical Management of Hyperparathyroidism -- Felix Mandl -- Oliver Cope -- Parathyroidectomy: Post-Operative Considerations/Complications -- FrantiĊĦek Chvostek -- Armand Trousseau -- Theodor Billroth -- Adrenal Physiology -- Thomas Addison -- Primary Aldosteronism -- Jerome W. Conn -- Cushing's Syndrome -- Harvey Cushing -- J. Aidan Carney -- Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma -- Charles Horace Mayo -- Arthur M. Shipley -- Emil Zuckerkandl -- Insulinomas -- Sir Fredrick Grant Banting -- Charles Herbert Best -- Allen Oldfather Whipple -- William J. Mayo -- Gastrinoma -- Robert Milton Zollinger -- Edwin H. Ellison -- VIPoma -- John V. Verner Jr. and Ashton B. Morrison -- Glucagonoma -- Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors -- Carcinoid Syndrome -- Sigfried Oberndorfer -- von Hippel-Lindau Disease -- Eugen von Hippel and Arvid Lindau -- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 -- Paul Wermer -- Norman W. Thompson -- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2 Syndromes -- John H. Sipple.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Cancer
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44635
Gerald Soff, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
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In this book, leaders in the field explore our current understanding of thrombosis and hemostasis in cancer and address key questions on the subject. Among the topics discussed are the mechanisms that cancers use to activate the coagulation system, and those by means of which an activated coagulation system can lead to more aggressive cancer growth. Clinical chapters examine the role of thrombosis prophylaxis and treatment, central line-associated thrombosis, and cancer-associated hemorrhage. S…
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- Soff, Gerald
- Responsibility
- Gerald Soff, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 203 p.)
- Series Vol.
- v. 179
- Series Title
- Cancer treatment and research
- ISBN
- 9783030203153
- 9783030203146 (Print ed.)
- 9783030203160 (Print ed.)
- 9783030203177 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 0927-3042
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Anticoagulants - adverse effects
- Antineoplastic Agents - adverse effects
- Hemostasis
- Neoplasms - complications
- Thrombocytopenia - chemically induced
- Thrombosis
- Specialty
- Hematology
- Medical Oncology
- Abstract
- In this book, leaders in the field explore our current understanding of thrombosis and hemostasis in cancer and address key questions on the subject. Among the topics discussed are the mechanisms that cancers use to activate the coagulation system, and those by means of which an activated coagulation system can lead to more aggressive cancer growth. Clinical chapters examine the role of thrombosis prophylaxis and treatment, central line-associated thrombosis, and cancer-associated hemorrhage. Subsequent chapters deal with the management of chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia, anticoagulation in the presence of brain metastases, and other unique challenges in the interaction of thrombosis and hemostasis in cancer. It has been 150 years since Armand Trousseau first described the well-known association between cancer and an increased risk of thrombosis, which may be considered the first paraneoplastic syndrome ever identified. More recently, numerous studies have indicated that activation of the coagulation system by cancer not only increases the likelihood of thrombosis, but is also associated with a more aggressive cancer phenotype. By familiarizing readers with the latest developments in this complex and challenging field, the book offers a valuable resource for scientists and clinicians alike.
- Contents
- 1. Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Cancer. Scope of the Problem and Overview -- 2. Pathophysiology 1: Mechanisms of Thrombosis in Cancer Patients -- 3. Pathophysiology 2: The Role of Platelets in Cancer Biology -- 4. Risk of Thrombosis in Cancer: Clinical Factors and Role of Primary Prophylaxis -- 5. Biomarkers of Cancer-Associated Thromboembolism -- 6. Thrombotic Risk from Chemotherapy and Other Cancer Therapies -- 7. Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism in Cancer. Historical Perspective and Evolving Role of the Direct Oral Anticoagulants -- 8. Etiology and Management of Upper-Extremity Catheter-Related Thrombosis in Cancer Patients -- 9. Management of Thrombocytopenia in Cancer Patients -- 10. Microangiopathy in Cancer: Causes, Consequences, and Management -- 11. Thrombosis in the Philadelphia Chromosome-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms -- 12. Anticoagulation in the Setting of Primary and Metastatic Brain Tumors -- 13. Bleeding Disorders Associated with Cancer.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
