The availability of bovine genome sequences has opened new research avenues for cattle biodiversity and diseases. Cattle also have a critical role in climate change, land degradation and water shortage. This new book presents current research in the immunity, nutrition, fertility and diseases of cattle. Topics include innate and acquired immunity; epigenetics, nutrogenomics and metagenomics; hormone regulation of bull fertility; diseases like abomasal displacement; and ozone and clinoptilolit as disease treatments. This book also presents information about local adaptation, selection and biodiversity of native species and breeds of domesticated cattle in South America, East Asia and East Europe. This book was written by experts in each area, from institutions located in Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, South Korea and the United States.

This book presents current research in the study of pharmacology. Topics discussed include antidepressants therapy; monitoring antidepressant therapy by using heart rate variability; tianeptine and sertraline; gender differences in response to antidepressants; organotin polyethers as anticancer drugs; geldanamycin derivatives as promising anticancer drugs; design of novel anticancer drugs utilising busulfan for optimising pharmacological properties; advances in drug discovery to assess cholinergic neurotransmission; models of intestinal drug permeability and pharmacopoeial quality of antimicrobial and antiviral formations.