Robbins' Pathologic Basis of Disease, Volume 1Presenting the latest edition of this popular, comprehensive and practical text of pathology. Written with great clarity for easy readability, this reference offers detailed discussions of genetic disorders, cellular injury and death, neoplasia, the skeletal system and soft tissue tumors, and much more. Completely revised and updated, this edition is even more user-friendly with the use of text boxes for key topics in each chapter and a new full-color design. Features 1200 excellent 4-color illustrations! |
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Page 212
... amyloid . This physicochemical aggregation gives to amyloid its polariscopic characteristics . The increased intensity of the birefringence of Congo red - stained amyloid is related to the high order of regularity and parallelism of the ...
... amyloid . This physicochemical aggregation gives to amyloid its polariscopic characteristics . The increased intensity of the birefringence of Congo red - stained amyloid is related to the high order of regularity and parallelism of the ...
Page 215
... AMYLOID OF AGING . Two well - documented forms of amyloid deposition occur with aging . Senile cardiac amyloidosis refers to the deposi- tion of amyloid in the heart of elderly patients ( usually in the eighth and ninth decades of life ) ...
... AMYLOID OF AGING . Two well - documented forms of amyloid deposition occur with aging . Senile cardiac amyloidosis refers to the deposi- tion of amyloid in the heart of elderly patients ( usually in the eighth and ninth decades of life ) ...
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... amyloid ) involves some form of process- ing or proteolytic degradation . However , several critical questions remain unan- swered . Taking first the case of reactive systemic amyloidosis , we know that SAA is an acute phase reactant ...
... amyloid ) involves some form of process- ing or proteolytic degradation . However , several critical questions remain unan- swered . Taking first the case of reactive systemic amyloidosis , we know that SAA is an acute phase reactant ...
Contents
Cellular Injury and Adaptation | 1 |
Inflammation and Repair | 39 |
Fluid and Hemodynamic Derangements | 87 |
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