Overview
- Editors:
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John B. Longenecker
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
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David Kritchevsky
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Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, USA
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Marc K. Drezner
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Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Heart Disease and Cancer
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- Richard H. Adamson, Unnur P. Thorgeirsson
Pages 211-220
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- Vic C. Knauf, Daniel Facciotti
Pages 221-228
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NIH Initiative
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- Peter Greenwald, Carolyn Clifford, Susan Pilch, Jerianne Heimendinger, Gary Kelloff
Pages 229-239
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Back Matter
Pages 249-267
About this book
There is a unique nutritional commonality developing in research relating to coronary heart disease and cancer. The primary aim of this conference was to provide a forum for the leading researchers, clinicians, educators and administrators in these two fields to present a program on heart disease and cancer which included a) the major historical milestones, b) the present areas of greatest interest in research and therapy, c) the latest nutritional, molecular, and biotechnological advances, and d) a perspective on the most promising areas for future research and therapy. Scientists have long contended that research marches on the feet of methodology. Thus there are numerous examples of research fields opening secondary to methodological advances. Some examples are: 1) thin layer and gas-liquid chromatography which, along with high pressure liquid chromatography have broadened the line of advances in lipid research and 2) peR and the resultant impact on molecular biological approaches to several fields of science. The organizers of this conference thought the time was propitious for bringing together knowledge on newer aspects of molecular biological research with current advances in the two major areas of degenerative disease--coronary heart disease and cancer. Our knowledge of these "killer diseases" has expanded greatly in the past few years and the advance has been catalyzed by use of an array of molecular biological techniques. Thanks to these, medical thinking in these areas is changing from considerations of treatment to strategies for prevention.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
John B. Longenecker
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Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, USA
David Kritchevsky
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Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
Marc K. Drezner