An international symposium on Wilson's and Menkes' diseases

Copper storage diseases: Menkes, Wilsons, and cancer.

The trace element copper is vital to the healthy functioning of organisms. Copper is used in a multitude of cellular activities including respiration, angiogenesis, and immune responses. Like other metals, copper homeostasis is a tightly regulated process. Copper is transported from dietary intake through the serum and into cells via a variety of transporters. There are a variety of copper chap...

First International Symposium on Venereal Diseases and the Treponematoses, 1956.

The 5th International Symposium on Inherited Diseases of the Pancreas.

chronic pancreatitis (ICP), the role of this endogenous trypsin inhibitor has been debated. Rolf Graf presented convincing data that SPINK-1 and monitor peptide not only inhibit trypsin in vitro but also participate in a feedback mechanism regulating trypsinogen secretion from pancreatic acinar cells. Both peptides are upregulated and induced as acute phase proteins during infl ammation, cancer...

International Symposium 2015Oral and Craniofacial Development and Diseases

International Symposium on Hepatotoxicity

This volume is another in the series on Medical Genetics published by the National Foundation-March of Dimes and edited by Daniel Bergsma, M.D. The book is a multiauthored series of monographs with three to fifteen papers in each of the following categories: Cytogenetics and Cell Biology, Clinical Genetics, Biochemical Genetics, Population Genetics, Animal Models of Human Disease, and Future Tr...