Note: Fertility & -- Infertility For Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgements -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How This Book Is Organised -- Icons Used in This Book -- Part I: Making Babies as Nature Intended -- Chapter 1: In the Beginning -- Making Babies: An Inefficient Process at Best -- How Aging Affects Fertility -- Things to Think About Before You Conceive -- Timing Your Baby: The Big Picture -- Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Birth Control -- Gene Genie: Looking at the Family Tree -- Getting Pregnant: Was It Easier for Grandma? -- Chapter 2: Taking Baby Steps -- Biology for Baby Makers: Reviewing Male and Female Anatomy -- Putting Male and Female Parts Together: Having Sex (At the Right Time) -- Conceiving a Baby: How Sex Should Work -- Making Sure That You're Healthy - Before Conception -- Behaving Yourself When Trying to Conceive -- Finding Information -- Part II: Planning a Pregnancy -- Chapter 3: We're Trying! We're Trying! (to Get Pregnant) -- Predicting Ovulation: Kits, Sticks, and Software -- Practice Makes Perfect -- Positive Thinking - Home Pregnancy Tests -- Coping with That Time of the Month Again: The Pain of Not Getting Pregnant -- Looking at Your Lifestyle -- Eating for Two? Sampling a Fertility Diet -- Looking at Supplements - Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, and More -- Turning to Complementary Therapies -- Chapter 4: You, Your Fertility, and Your GP -- Deciding When the Time is Right to See Dr G Practitioner -- Thinking About FAQs for Your First Visit -- Carrying Out Tests on Your First Visit -- Choosing Over-the-counter Remedies: Placeboes or Simple Solutions? -- Chapter 5: Great Expectations . . . But: Early Pregnancy Loss -- Getting 'a Little Bit' Pregnant - It's Possible -- Suffering a Miscarriage. , Ectopic Pregnancy: When the Embryo Is Developing in the Wrong Place -- Picking Yourself Up after a Loss -- Part III: Tests and Investigations -- Chapter 6: Moving on Up: Seeing a Specialist -- Seeking Dr Specialist -- Working with Dr Specialist -- Facing the Stranger in Your Sex Life -- Understanding What Dr Specialist Says -- Chapter 7: Finding the Female Problem: Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3 -- Cataloguing the Common Tests: ABCD HSG -- Understanding Female Infertility Problems -- Reversing Sterilisation -- Understanding Diseases That Affect Fertility -- Chapter 8: It's a Man Thing: When Tests Reveal Sperm Problems -- Sounding Out Semen Analysis -- Interpreting Your Partner's Test Results -- Reversing a Vasectomy -- Overcoming Cancer and Male Fertility: The News Is Cautiously Optimistic -- Part IV: Eureka! Possible Solutions -- Chapter 9: Doing Your Homework: Researching Fertility Clinics and Funding Treatment -- Dealing with First Reactions -- Researching Fertility Clinics -- Footing the Bill: Who Will Pay? -- Chapter 10: All The 'I's: Introducing IUI, IVF, and ICSI -- Doing the Groundwork -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Discovering IUI, IVF, and ICSI - the Basics -- Deciding How Long to Keep Trying -- Thinking Ahead: Health Effects of Fertility Treatment -- Chapter 11: Giving Mother Nature a Helping Hand: Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) -- Deciding How Much Treatment You Need -- Treating Luteal Phase Defects -- Acquiring Help through AI -- Moving Up to Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation -- Boosting Progesterone -- Chapter 12: Making Test-Tube Babies: IVF -- Starting an IVF Cycle: A Roller Coaster Ride of Emotions -- Taking a Shot in the Dark: Time for hCG -- Going for the Gold: The Egg Retrieval -- Doing His Duty: Your Partner Is Busy, Too -- Answering Common Egg Retrieval Questions -- Chapter 13: ICSI: It Only Takes One Good Sperm!. , Understanding How ICSI Works -- Knowing Who Can Benefit from ICSI -- Recognising a Good Sperm When You See One -- Thinking Ahead: Things to Know about ICSI -- Chapter 14: 'Babies on Ice': Egg Freezing and Fertility Treatment -- Freezing Eggs: Coming In from the Cold -- Reaping the Benefits of Egg Freezing -- Completing the Job: Thawing, Fertilisation, and Transfer -- Creating a Storm in a Test Tube - The Controversy over Freezing Eggs -- Chapter 15: Giving, Receiving, and Sharing: Egg Donor Treatments -- Using Donor Eggs: The Whys and Wherefores -- Finding an Egg Donor -- Taking Steps to Egg Donation -- Getting Support -- Chapter 16: Creating an Embryo: Amazing Teamwork in the Lab -- Recognising a Good Egg -- Sorting Suitable Sperm -- IVF: Making an Embryo 'in Glass' -- Taking the Call from Embryology -- Grading an Embryo -- Looking at Your Uterine Lining -- Hatching Embryos - Come on Out, Guys -- Blast Off! Considering a Blastocyst Transfer -- 'One Embryo or Two?' -- Transferring Your Embryo -- Keeping Your Feet and Your Spirits Up after the Transfer -- Do's and Don'ts for the Two-Week Wait -- Part V: Post-First Cycle: How You May Feel and What You Can Do -- Chapter 17: Waiting and Hoping: Surviving the Two-Week Wait after Embryo Transfer -- Technically, You're Pregnant - Waiting for the Proof -- Sensing Every Little Twinge: The Truth about Pregnancy Symptoms -- Preparing for 'But What If?' - Having a Plan B -- Saying 'No' to Home Pregnancy Tests -- Responding to Positive News -- Considering the Next Step If IVF Doesn't Work -- Chapter 18: What's in Your Freezer? Frozen Embryo Transfers -- Facing a Few Facts about Frozen Embryos -- Discovering Why Embryos Are Frozen -- Understanding the Process of Cryopreservation -- Dealing with the Ethical Issues of Embryo Freezing -- Chapter 19: If at First You Don't Succeed: Trying IVF More than Once. , Calculating the Odds: Success Rates per IVF Cycle -- Going Back for Seconds? Considering Your Options -- I'm Okay, You're Okay - Checking On the State of Your Union -- Exploring Some Controversial Fertility Treatments -- Gearing Up for More Cycles -- Giving Up on Fertility Treatments? Considering When to Let Go -- Part VI: Different Strokes for Different Folks: Options for Non-Traditional Families -- Chapter 20: Third-Party Reproduction: You and You and Me and Baby Make . . . Four! -- Preparing Yourselves for Using a Donor -- Borrowing from the Sperm Bank -- Using Donor Eggs -- Receiving Donor Embryos - Embryo Adoption -- Surrogacy: Borrowing a Uterus for Nine Months -- Traditional Surrogacy - The Road Less Travelled -- Telling the Family or Keeping It to Yourself -- Chapter 21: Safe Options for Same-Sex Couples and Single Mums -- Examining the Issues That You May Face as a Same-Sex Couple -- Adoption in the Gay and Lesbian Community -- Going It Alone: Fertility Issues for the Single Parent -- Chapter 22: Ready-Made Families and Other Choices -- Opting to Adopt -- Trying Out Foster Parenting First -- Deciding to Live Child Free -- Working with Children -- Chapter 23: New Advances and Ethical Dilemmas -- Looking Down the Road: Long-Term Health Effects of Fertility Medication -- Selecting the Sex: When You Absolutely, Positively, Want a Boy Or a Girl -- Selective Reduction: Making the Hardest Choice -- Dividing Up the Leftover Embryos -- Putting Old Genes into New Skins: Cytoplasmic Transfer -- Posthumous Conception: Legal and Ethical Issues -- Cloning and Human Concerns -- Saving Stem Cells for Research -- 'Welfare of the Child': Asking Clinics to Decide Who's Fit to Parent -- Making Mistakes in the Lab: When Saying You're Sorry Isn't Enough -- Where Is All This Leading? New Fertility Frontiers -- Part VII: The Part of Tens. , Chapter 24: Ten Tips to Get You Through Treatment (and Keep You Sane!) -- Give Yourself Time -- Don't Panic -- Remember You're Not Alone -- Don't Blame Yourself -- Listen to Friends - Occasionally -- Don't Delay Treatment -- Don't Freak about the Financing -- Don't Get Needled about Needles -- Share Your Treatment Experience -- Coming to Terms with No Success -- Chapter 25: Ten (Okay, Seven) Groups of Fertility Medications and Where to Find Them -- Gonadotrophins -- GnRH Agonists -- GnRH Antagonists -- hCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) Intramuscular -- hCG Subcutaneous Recombinant -- Progesterone -- Clomiphene Citrate -- Locating What You Need -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- The Chemistry of: Copper, Silver and Gold -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Copper -- 1. History -- 2. Occurrence and Metallurgy of Copper -- 3. The Element -- 4. The Chemistry of Copper -- 5. Copper(0) Compounds and Compounds Containing Copper-Metal Bonds -- 6. Copper(I) Compounds -- 7. Copper(II) Compounds -- 8. Copper(III) Compounds -- 9. Analysis of Copper -- Chapter 2. Silver -- Introduction -- 1. The Element -- 2. Compounds of the Element -- 3. Analysis of Silver -- Chapter 3. Gold -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Element -- 3. The Chemistry of Gold -- 4. Alloys -- 5. Hydrides -- 6. Halides -- 7. Cyanides -- 8. Oxides -- 9. Hydroxides and Oxyacids -- 10. Sulphides, Selenides and Tellurides -- 11. Nitrides, Azides, Phosphides and Arsenides -- 12. Nitrates -- 13. Thiosulphates, Selenates, Selenites, Thiocyanates and Selenocyanates -- 14. Organometallic Chemistry -- 15. Complexes -- 16. Analytical Chemistry -- Index -- Contents of Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry -- Independent Opinion.

Note: Cover -- Conjugated Polymers: Properties, Processing, and Applications -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface to Fourth Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Editors -- Contributors -- 1 Conjugated Polymer-Based OFET Devices -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 State of OFET Technology/Applications/Commercialization Efforts -- 1.3 Recent Developments in Polymer OFET Materials - From Crystalline Polythiophenes to Donor-Acceptor Polymers -- 1.4 Charge Transport in Polymer OFETs -- 1.5 Role of Disorder -- 1.6 Charge Carrier Mobility and Artefacts -- 1.7 Stability of OFETs -- 1.8 Outlook -- References -- 2 Electrical Doping of Organic Semiconductors with Molecular Oxidants and Reductants -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Basics of Doping in Organic Materials -- Comparison to Doping of Inorganic Materials -- Effects of Doping -- 2.3 Criteria for Dopant Choice -- 2.4 Survey of Dopants -- p-Dopants -- n-Dopants -- 2.5 Device Examples -- OLEDs -- OFETs -- OPVs -- 2.6 Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Electric Transport Properties in PEDOT Thin Films -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Chemistry of PEDOT -- Chemical vs. Electrochemical Polymerization of PEDOT:X -- Chemical Water Dispersion: PEDOT:PSS -- PEDOT:Biopolymer Dispersion Polymerization -- Tuning the Oxidation/Doping Level Chemically vs. Electrochemically -- 3.3 Electronic Structure of PEDOT: From a Single Chain to a Thin Film -- Nature of Charge Carriers and Electronic Structure of PEDOT Chains -- Density of States of PEDOT: From a Single Chain to a Thin Film -- Band Gap and Optical Transitions in PEDOT -- 3.4 Morphology of PEDOT -- Brief Review of Experimental Data for PEDOT:X and PEDOT:PSS (GIWAXS, TEM, AFM) -- Morphology of PEDOT: A Theoretical Perspective -- 3.5 Electrical Conductivity -- Basic Thermodynamics of Thermoelectrical Processes -- Temperature Dependence. , Secondary Doping -- Acid-Base Effect -- 3.6 Optical Conductivity -- Basic Definitions and Relations -- Methodologies for Measuring the Dielectric Function -- Optical Conductivity and Permittivity of PEDOT -- Concluding Remarks on PEDOT Optical Conductivity -- 3.7 Transport Properties of PEDOT: A Theoretical Perspective -- Basics of the Hopping Transport: Semi-Analytical Approach and Kinetic Monte Carlo -- Boltzmann Approach to Conductivity Based on the Model of an Ideal Crystal -- Multi-Scale Modelling Based on the Realistic Morphology -- 3.8 Mixed Electron-Ion Transport in PEDOT -- Devices Utilizing Mixed Electron and Ion Conductivity -- Experimental Results -- Modelling of Mixed Electron-Ion Transport in PEDOT -- Calculation of Ion Diffusion in PEDOT -- 3.9 Conclusions and Outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Thermoelectric Properties of Conjugated Polymers -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Models of Thermoelectric Properties -- 4.3 Microstructure of Semiconducting Polymers -- 4.4 Thermoelectric Power Factor of Semiconducting Polymers -- Introduction -- Polyacetylene -- Polyaniline -- Poly(ethylenedioxythiophene) -- Poly(3-hexylthiophene) -- Poly( 2,5-bis(3- alkylthiophen-2 -yl) thieno [3,2- b]thiophene) -- Co-Polymers -- n-Type Polymers -- 4.5 Thermal Conductivity of Polymers -- Introduction -- Thermal Conductivity of Undoped Semiconducting Polymers -- Electronic Contribution to Thermal Conductivity -- 4.6 ZT for Polymers -- 4.7 Outlook -- References -- 5 Electrochemistry of Conducting Polymers -- Introduction -- 5.1 Fundamentals -- Electropolymerization: Mechanism, Techniques, Synthesis Control -- Electrochemical Doping: Charge Carriers, Redox vs. Capacitive Behavior and Related Properties -- Relaxation Effects -- Electrochemical Characterization of an ECP in a Given Electrolytic Medium -- Determination of HOMO-LUMO Levels by Cyclic Voltammetry. , 5.2 New Trends in Electrosynthesis of Conducting Polymers -- New Monomers -- New Electrolytic Media -- 5.3 Nano-Objects and Nanocomposites -- Nano-Objects -- Nanocomposites -- 5.4 Applications -- Energy Storage -- Actuators and Drug Delivery -- Molecular Imprinting ECP -- Biosensors and Related Materials -- Anticorrosion -- Electrochromism and Electrofluorochromism -- Conclusion and Future -- References -- 6 Electrochromism in Conjugated Polymers - Strategies for Complete and Straightforward Color Control -- 6.1 Introduction to Electrochromic Polymers -- 6.2 Electrochromism in Conjugated Polymers -- 6.3 The Electrochromic Toolbox -- Electrochromic/Optical Contrast -- Colorimetric Analysis -- Switching Speed/Response Time -- Coloration Efficiency/Charge-to-Switch -- Optical Memory/Bistability -- Switching Stability -- 6.4 Synthesis of Soluble Electrochromic Polymers -- 6.5 Developing Structure- Property Relationships for Color Control in Cathodically Coloring ECPs -- Effect of the Choice of Heterocycle, the Building Block of ECPs -- Steric Effects of Introducing Functional Groups -- Expanding the Color Palette through Copolymerization -- Developing Broadly Absorbing Systems for Black and Brown Hues -- 6.6 Anodically Coloring Systems -- 6.7 Controlling Solubility, Contrast, and Redox Properties -- Tuning Solubility -- Tuning Contrast -- Tuning Redox and Switching Properties -- 6.8 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments and Notes -- References -- 7 Mechanical Properties of Semiconducting Polymers -- 7.1 Introduction and Background -- Semiconducting Polymers as a Subset of All Solid Polymers -- 7.2 Deformation in Solid Polymers -- Mediation of Mechanical Energy -- Elasticity and Plasticity -- Fracture -- 7.3 Mechanical Properties and Measurement Techniques -- Overview of Mechanical Properties -- Common Measurement Techniques -- 7.4 Effects of Physical Parameters. , Effects of Elastic Mismatch and Adhesion -- Effects of Film Thickness -- Effects of Strain Rate -- 7.5 Effects of Molecular Structure and Microstructure -- Role of Molecular Weight -- Role of Alkyl Side Chains -- Role of Molecular Structure and Backbone Rigidity -- Role of Intermolecular Packing -- 7.6 Glass Transition Temperature and Measurement Techniques -- The Glass Transition in Semiconducting Polymers -- Techniques to Measure the T[sub(g)] of Semiconducting Polymers -- 7.7 Theoretical Modeling -- Molecular Structure and Atomistic Simulations -- Polymer-Chain Size and Phase Behavior -- Coarse-Grained Simulations and Continuum-Based Methods -- 7.8 Composite Systems -- Effects of Molecular Mixing -- Polymer-Fullerene Composites -- 7.9 Conclusion and Outlook -- References -- 8 Magnetic Field Effects in Organic Semiconductors -- Low and High Fields, Steady State and Time Resolved -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Review of Various Mechanisms -- The Hyperfine Mechanism -- Mechanisms Related to Triplet Excitons -- The Δg Mechanism -- Thermal Spin Polarization -- Magnetic Field Effect in Excited-State Spectroscopies of Films -- Steady State -- Time Resolved Magnetic Field Effects -- 8.3 Experimental Studies -- Magnetic Field Effects in Organic Devices at Low Fields -- Magneto-Photo-Induced Absorption in Films -- High Field Magneto-Photocurrent in Organic Bulk Hetero-Junction Photo-Voltaic Cells -- Transient Magneto-Photoinduced Absorption in Donor-Acceptor Copolymers -- 8.4 Summary -- References -- 9 Organic Electro-Optic Materials -- 9.1 Historical Overview -- 9.2 Introduction to Electro-Optic (EO) Activity -- 9.3 Pre-2005 Polymeric OEO Materials and Devices -- 9.4 Post-2005 Macromolecular OEO Materials and Devices -- 9.5 Applications -- 9.6 Other Organic Materials for Optical Modulation -- 9.7 Future Prognosis -- Acknowledgments -- References. , 10 Establishing the Thermal Phase Behavior and its Influence on Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconducting Polymers -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Single-Component Systems -- Crystallization and Melting -- Glass Transition -- Polymorphism -- Liquid Crystallinity -- 10.3 Multi-Component Systems -- Polymer Semiconductor:Solvent Systems -- Polymer Semiconductor:Small Molecule Systems -- Polymer Semiconductor:Polymer Systems -- 10.4 Time/Temperature/Transformation Phase Diagrams -- 10.5 Conclusions -- References -- 11 Poly(3-alkylthiophenes): Controlled Manipulation of Microstructure and its Impact on Charge Transport -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 P3AT Structural Characterization -- Small Angle Neutron Scattering -- UV-Vis Absorbance -- Differential Scanning Calorimetry -- X-Ray Scattering -- Atomic Force Microscopy -- Charge Carrier Mobility -- Concluding Remarks -- 11.3 Advances in Solution Processing Methods -- 11.4 Deposition Methods -- Spin-Coating -- Drop-Casting -- Inkjet Printing -- Dip-Coating -- Solution Shearing -- 11.5 Semiconductor Crystalline Structure in Flexible and Stretchable Devices -- 11.6 Conclusions -- References -- 12 Microstructural Characterization of Conjugated Organic Semiconductors by X-Ray Scattering -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Fundamentals of X-Ray Scattering -- Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering (WAXS) -- Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) -- 12.3 Applications in Conjugated Semiconductors (Selected Examples) -- Crystal Structure and Molecular Packing of Small-Molecules for Organic Thin-Film Transistor (OTFT) -- Estimation of Volume Fraction of Phases in Bulk Heterojunction (BHJ) Photovoltaics -- Probing the Surface and the Bulk of Small-Molecule Thin Films -- Microstructural Evolution for P3HT:PCBM During Spin-Coating from One Solvent -- In Situ GISAXS for Probing Phase-Separation Evolution using Multiphase Modeling Based onTSI. , Co-Solvent Processing for Reducing Domains Over-Coarsening by Influencing the Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation.

Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, by Jeremy M. Johnston -- Part I. The Cubhood of Wahb -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Part II. The Days of His Strength -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Part III. The Waning -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Annotations to Wahb -- Afterword, by Charles R. Preston -- Bibliography.

Note: Cover image -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright page -- Contents of Volume 2 -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Patterns of Development in Insect Parasites -- I Introduction -- II The Idiobiont-Koinobiont Dichotomy -- III Patterns of Parasite Development and Growth -- IV Parasite Development and Host Ecology -- V Developmental Strategies -- VI Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- Chapter 2: Games Parasites Play: The Dynamic Roles of Proteins and Peptides in the Relationship between Parasite and Host -- I Parasitism-Induced Changes: Host Responses or Parasite-Directed Host Manipulation? -- II Parasitism- and Polydnavirus-lnduced Peptides and Proteins in Insect Hosts -- III Parasitic Effects on Endogenous Proteins, Enzymes, and Peptides -- IV Comparisons with Parasitism- and Virus-Induced Changes in Other Systems -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 3: Hormonal Interactions between Insect Endoparasites and Their Host Insects -- I Introduction and Terminology -- II Hormones Controlling Insect Development: An Overview -- III Parasite Hormones Relative to Those of Their Hosts -- IV Direct or Indirect Host Endocrine Effects on Endoparasites -- V Direct or Indirect Effects of Endoparasites on Host Endocrine System -- VI Limitations -- VII Possible Solutions -- VIII Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 4: Reproductive Disturbances Induced by Parasites and Pathogens of Insects -- I Introduction -- II Microparasites -- III Nematodes -- IV Cestodes -- V Endoparasitic Insects -- VI Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Behavioral Effects of Parasites and Pathogens in Insect Hosts -- I Introduction -- II Review of Altered Behavior in Parasitized Insects -- III Potential Benefits to Parasite -- IV Potential Benefits to Host -- V Considerations for Future Research -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 6: Redirection of Host Metabolism and Effects on Parasite Nutrition. , I Introduction -- II Insect Parasitism and Host Viability -- III Altered Metabolite Levels in Host Tissues -- IV Metabolic Alteration in Insect Hosts -- V Basis for Metabolic Alterations: Hormones, Viruslike Particles, and Parasite Mediation -- VI Nutritional Consequences of Metabolic Redirection and Physiological Alteration -- VII "Host Regulation" and Its Role in Redirecting Host Metabolism and Physiology -- VIII Enantiostasis and Metabolic Regulation -- IX Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Teratocytes: Developmental and Biochemical Characteristics -- I Introduction -- II Origins -- III Distribution within Taxonomic Groups -- IV Developmental Characteristics -- V Physiological and Biochemical Characteristics -- VI Interactions of Teratocytes, Venoms, and Polydnavirus -- VII Conclusion and Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 8: The Polydnavirus Life Cycle -- I Introduction -- II Life Cycle -- III Future Directions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 9: Polydnavirus Genome Organization -- I Introduction -- II Polydnaviruses as Part of Biological Systems -- III Multipartite Genome Structure -- IV Genome Packaging -- V Intraspecific Genomic Complexity -- VI Transcription and Gene Families -- VII Polydnavirus Transmission, Integration, and Replication -- VIII Polydnavirus Evolution -- IX Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 10: Venoms of Parasitic Hymenoptera as Investigatory Tools -- I Introduction -- II Uses of Venoms in Addressing Questions in Various Scientific Fields -- III Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 11: Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Mosquito Susceptibility to Plasmodium and Filarioid Nematodes -- I Introduction -- II Immune Mechanisms in Mosquitoes -- III Genetic Control of Susceptibility/Refractoriness -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 12: Cellular Defense Responses of Insects: Unresolved Problems -- I Introduction. , II Main Events in Insect Immune Reactivity -- III Specific Problems in Insect Immunity -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 13: The Response to Foreign Tissue Transplants in Insects -- I Introduction: What Is the Significance of Studying Graft Rejection in Insects? -- II Historical Perspective -- III Mediation and Regulation of the Roach Graft Response -- IV Discussion and Conclusions: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 14: Regulation of Insect Hemolymph Phenoloxidases -- I Introduction -- II Prophenoloxidase Activation -- III Control Mechanisms of the Cascade -- IV Conclusion -- Index to Volumes 1 and 2.

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