Advances in Medicine and Biology

Preface; Hair Zinc Status & Determinants of Hair Zinc of Vancouver Preschoolers & the Usefulness of these Determinants as a Screening Tool for Marginal Zinc Deficiency; Autoimmunity to Neuronal Proteins in Neurological Disorders; Biomaterials in Blood-Contacting Devices: Complications & Solutions; Ergometric Investigation of Work Capacity Ontogeny: Influence of Exogenic & Endogenic Factors; Embryonic Stem Cells: MHC Expression & Immunogenicity of Stem Cell-Derived Cellular Therapeutics; Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells & Biocompatible Polymers in SCI Repair; Gene Overexpression, Silencing & Disruption as Functional Genomics Tools in Trichoderma; Helicobacter Pylori Infection & Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease -- Barrett's Esophagus -- Esophageal Carcinoma Sequence; Gender & Health; Fragile X Related Gene Family: 3 Members Involved in Brain & Muscle Development; Inhibiting Viral DNA Polymerase for HBV Therapy; Cardiac Effects of Growth Hormone Treatment in Pediatric Populations; Reading Errors in Young Adults with Vermis or Cerebellar Hemispheric Lesions; Predictors of Smoking Cessation in a Population of Pregnant Smokers in a National Database from 2004 to 2006; Extra Cellular Matrix Protein, Lysyl Oxidase, as a Therapeutic Target for Ocular Angiogenesis; Elastic System Fibers in the Mandibular Connective Tissue of Blotchy Shark: Ultrastructural Study; Diabetes & Women's Stroke Risk ; Subitizing & Counting by Visual Memory in Dyslexia & Dyscalculia Development -- Deficits -- Training -- Transfer; Hip Protector Devises to Prevent Hip Fractures of Older Adults; Early Diagnosis of Surgical Wound Infection following Spinal Instrumentation Surgery: Usefulness of White Blood Cell Differential; Physician Intervention for Smoking Cessation: Commentary; Index.