Pathology. Understanding Human Disease

Book Review: Understanding Human Anatomy and Pathology

The aging-disease false dichotomy: understanding senescence as pathology

From a biological perspective aging (senescence) appears to be a form of complex disease syndrome, though this is not the traditional view. This essay aims to foster a realistic understanding of aging by scrutinizing ideas old and new. The conceptual division between aging-related diseases and an underlying, non-pathological aging process underpins various erroneous traditional ideas about agin...

Human Pathology

The popularity of this text is attested by the fact that this, the 5th edition, was necessitated after a lapse of but 3 years. Certain, but by no means major, revisions have been made in this edition. The style is concise and lucid. A number of the illustrations are excellent and most of the others are good. One of its most attractive features is the inclusion of an adequate bibliography after ...

IFN-g in human Chagas disease: protection or pathology?

An apparently paradoxical role for IFN-γ in human Chagas’ disease was observed when studying the pattern of cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) obtained from two groups of chagasic patients after specific stimulation with Trypanosoma cruzi-derived antigens. The groups studied were 1) patients treated with benznidazole during the acute phase of Trypanosoma cruzi infe...

Automatic Understanding of Acoustic Speech Signal Pathology

In this work, parts of the research concerning a new concept of applying computer technique in pathological speech analysis have been presented. This new concept assumes that during the pathological speech analysis we are not aiming neither at the establishing of such or other signal parameters nor at the trying to classify them, but we tend to understand automatically the causes of deformation...