Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination - Chapter 1: Threats and consequences of untreated wastewater on freshwater environments

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Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination, Volume 1, 1 January 2022
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation and Goal 3: Good health and well-being by arguing that SW resources, aquatic ecosystems, and unsuccessfully treated wastewater on water courses must be effectively treated to prevent hostile health risks that have long-term as well as short-term effects on human health.
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Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination - Chapter 3: Effect of wastewater from industries on freshwater ecosystem: Threats and remedies

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Microbial Consortium and Biotransformation for Pollution Decontamination, Volume 1, 1 January 2022
This chapter aligns with Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 3: Good health and well-being, and Goal 14: Life below water by summarizing different types of wastewater, its effects on freshwater ecosystem, and remedies to reduce the effect of these effluents on freshwater ecosystem and indirectly on humans.
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Exercise to Prevent and Manage Chronic Disease Across the Lifespan - Chapter 31: Exercise and Alzheimer’s disease

Exercise to Prevent and Manage Chronic Disease Across the Lifespan, 2022, Pages 413-421
This book chapter advances SDG #3 and #10 by outlining the pathophysiology associated with Alzheimer’s disease and provide an overview of the impact of exercise programs on cognition, physical functional abilities, behavioral, and psychological symptoms and quality of life.
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Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology (Third Edition): Chapter 42 - Traffic-related air pollution and the developing brain

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Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology (Third Edition), 2022, Pages 833-843
This chapter focuses on the adverse effects of air pollution on the developing brain and discusses the evidence from human and animal studies suggesting that exposure to elevated air pollution during pre- and early postnatal development is associated with a number of behavioral and biochemical adverse effects.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders - Chapter 19: Alzheimer diseases

Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition), Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, 2022, Pages 313-336
This book chapter advances SDG #3 and #10 by reviewing several key topics that influence our understanding of pathogenic mechanisms and lead to the identification of novel therapeutic strategies. These include the diagnostic spectrum of MCI and AD, genetic risk alleles associated with late-onset AD, structures of gamma-secretase and tau, imaging and fluid biomarkers, the role of microglia and neuroinflammation, and novel animal models of AD.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition) - Chapter 29 - Infections and nervous system dysfunctions

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition)
Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
2023, Pages 481-500
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health as well as Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by examining how various pathogens cause a variety of central nervous system (CNS) dysfunctions and the mechanisms of these changes.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition) - Chapter 10: Muscular dystrophy

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition)
Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
2023, Pages 147-164
This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing the most recent scientific advances that have improved diagnostic abilities and showcasing experimental studies of gene therapy and conventional pharmacological treatments to lead to effective treatment of these hereditary disorders.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition) - Chapter 15: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition)
Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
2023, Pages 233-251
This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by highlighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease of the motor system characterized by focal and then generalized weakness leading to paralysis and death from respiratory failure.
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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition) - Chapter 17: Huntington disease

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Neurobiology of Brain Disorders (Second Edition)
Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
2023, Pages 275-292
This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing information on the clinical features, ethics, and neurobiology of HD and the exciting approaches being employed today to advance understanding of underlying mechanisms in an effort to develop therapies that would delay the onset and slow progression of this disease.
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Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Sixth Edition): Chapter 213 - Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D Viruses

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Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Sixth Edition)

2023, Pages 1125-1133.e4
This content supports the SDG Goal 3: Good health and well-being by providing information on Hepatitis B and Hepatitis D Viruses.
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