Intro -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- UROBIOLOGY -- THE CELL -- THE CELL WALL -- CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION -- DNA STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION -- CELL DIVISION -- REGULATION OF THE CELL CYCLE -- TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS -- ENERGY PATHWAYS -- MECHANISMS OF SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION -- EPITHELIAL MEMBRANE FLUIDITY AND TRANSPORT -- ATPases -- PROTEIN TRAFFICKING and POLARITY in RENAL EPITHELIUM -- POLARISED TARGETING OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS IN THE KIDNEY -- EPITHELIAL CELL POLARITY AND DISEASES -- MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING AND TRANSPORT -- SPHINGOLIPIDS -- STRUCTURE and FUNCTION of RECEPTORS -- MECHANISMS of SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION -- ROLE OF MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING IN PLASMA MEMBRANE SOLUTE TRANSPORT -- WATER TRANSPORT ACROSS CELL MEMBRANES -- THE EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM- SENSING RECEPTOR -- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY of THE ANDROGEN RECEPTOR -- MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID in BLOOD CELLS -- CELL VOLUME -- STRESSORS -- THE PATHOBIOLOGY of CELL VOLUME -- OXIDATIVE AND NITROSATIVE STRESS -- OXYGEN SENSING AND MOLECULAR ADAPTATION TO HYPOXIA -- RESPONSES TO CELL STIMULATION -- ATP DEPLETION -- REGULATION OF IRON METABOLISM -- ACUTE METHEMOGLOBINEMIA -- PURINE AND URATE METABOLISM -- DIOXYGEN ACTIVATION -- THE FREE RADICALS -- OXIDATIVE STRESS -- REOXYGENATION -- NITRIC OXIDE -- OXIDATIVELY MODIFIED PROTEINS IN CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE ( CRF) -- THE OZONE -- THE CYTOCHROME P450 SYSTEM -- HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS -- SMOKING -- ALCOHOL -- DIABETES MELLITUS -- PATHOBIOLOGY OF DM -- CELLULAR MECHANISM IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS -- ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCTS ( AGEs) -- DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY -- DIABETIC POLYNEUROPATHY -- NEUROPATHIC PAIN -- MULTIPLE DISCIPLINARY INTERVENTION for DIABETIC NEUROPATHY -- INSULIN RESISTANCE SYNDROME -- CYTOKINES -- CYTOKINE REGULATION OF THE MACROPHAGE SYSTEM -- CHEMOKINES -- APOPTOSIS -- HAEMOSTASIS -- ANAEMIA -- WOUND HEALING -- OXIDANT- MEDIATED TISSUE INJURY -- SOFT TISSUE INJURY. WOUND HEALING -- COMPLICATIONS OF WOUND HEALING -- MOIST WOUND HEALING -- DIETARY INTERVENTION -- BIOMEDICAL ASPECTS OF ANTIOXIDANTS -- BIOMEDICAL ASPECTS OF COENZYME Q and , - TOCOPHEROL -- Coenzyme Q10 ( CoQ10 ) -- VITAMIN E -- SELENIUM -- BOWEL DYSBIOSIS -- GLUTAMINE -- GLUTATHIONE -- NADH -- ASCORBATE FUNCTION AND METABOLISM IN THE HUMAN ERYTHROCYTE -- α - LIPOIC ACID -- REGULATION OF CELLULAR MAGNESIUM -- INOSITOL -- TAURINE -- DIETARY INTERVENTION for PROSTATE CANCER -- SURGICAL METABOLISM and NUTRITION -- THE SKELETAL HEALTH -- INVOLUNTARY WEIGHT LOSS AND PROTEIN- ENERGY MALNUTRITION -- NUTRITION and WASTING -- PROTEIN- ENERGY MALNUTRITION ( PEM) -- DIETARY INTERVENTION for CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION -- CACHEXIA IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENTS -- ANTIOXIDANTS and PROGRESSION of HIV DISEASE -- OBESITY -- NUTRITIONAL and METABOLIC EFFECTS of ALCOHOLISM -- THE ELEMENTS and INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE -- NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT in CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS -- UROTRAUMATOLOGY -- RESPONSES TO SURGERY -- TRAUMA -- TRAUMA SCORING SYSTEMS -- GUNSHOTS -- ACUTE ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME -- IMMUNE SUPPRESSION/ MODULATION OF INJURY -- BLOOD LACTATE -- HYPERCOAGULABILITY FOLLOWING MULTIPLE TRAUMA -- COST- EFFECTIVENESS IN TRAUMA CARE -- HYPOTHERMIA -- RESUSCITATION -- ACUTE ISOVOLAEMIC HAEMODILUTION -- TRAUMATIC RETROPERITONEAL HAEMATOMA -- ABBREVIATED LAPAROTOMY -- POSTOPERATIVE CARE OF THE TRAUMA PATIENT -- MULTIPLE ORGAN SYSTEM FAILURE (MOSF) -- ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL CELLS -- MULTIPLE ORGAN SYSTEM FAILURE ( MOSF) -- INTERVENTION -- POSTINJURY PAIN -- HIV TRAUMA PATIENT -- THE ROLE OF COMPLEMENT SYSTEM IN TRAUMA AND INFECTION -- THE SPINAL CORD INJURY -- PATHOBIOLOGY -- STATES OF SHOCK -- INTERVENTION FOR ACUTE SPINAL CORD INJURY -- UROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS -- URINARY TRACT INFECTION -- AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA -- VOIDING DYSFUNCTION -- RISK OF BLADDER TUMOURS. URINARY STONES -- SPINAL CONTROL OF PENILE ERECTION -- SEXUAL PROBLEMS -- FERTILITY DYSFUNCTION -- SPINAL CORD INJURY IN CHILDREN -- SPINAL CORD INJURY IN OLDER PATIENT -- REHABILITATION -- INFLAMMATION and INFECTION -- IMMUNITY -- PATHOBIOLOGY of INFLAMMATION and INFECTION -- TROPISM -- DRUG INTERACTIONS and ANTI- INFECTIVE THERAPIES -- GENTAMICIN -- THE ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE -- FLUCONAZOLE and ITRACONAZOLE -- HOSPITAL ACQUIRED UTI -- FOURNIER'S GANGRENE -- URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS -- URINARY TRACT INFECTION in ADULTS -- URINARY TRACT INFECTION in THE ELDERLY -- URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN -- RECURRENT UTIs -- URINARY TRACT INFECTION in THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST -- LOWER URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS -- UPPER URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS -- PARASITIC and FUNGAL INFECTIONS, SCHISTOSOMIASIS, FILARIASIS and TRICHOMONIASIS -- GENITOURINARY TUBERCULOSIS -- GENITOURINARY FISTULAS -- SEPSIS SYNDROME -- UROSEPSIS -- SEPTIC SHOCK -- MODS/ SIRS -- MOLECULAR MEDICINE -- MOLECULAR MEDICINE -- USES OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE -- URO -ONCOLOGY -- NEOPLASIA -- THE BIOLOGY OF METASTASIS -- INTERVENTION FOR CANCER -- CANCER CHEMOPREVENTION -- NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE SURGICAL ONCOLOGY PATIENT -- PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES -- UROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION -- LOCAL ANAESTHESIA for UROLOGIST -- CATHETERS and CATHETERISATION -- URETERAL STENTS -- BIOFILMS -- CYSTOURETHROSCOPY -- HOMEOSTASIS -- FLUID and ELECTROLYTE -- BLOOD TRANSFUSION -- URORADIOLOGY -- GENERAL URORADIOLOGY -- IMAGING PROCEDURES -- BIOGERNOTOLOGY -- PATHOBIOLOGY -- POLYPHARMACY in THE ELDERLY -- PERIOPERATIVE CARE in THE ELDERLY -- THE UROLOGIC PATIENT -- PRACTICAL BASIC GENERAL UROLOGY -- DIAGNOSTIC BIOTECHNOLOGIES -- PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT -- INFORMED CONSENT -- BUCCAL MUCOSA AS A ROUTE FOR SYSTEMIC DRUG DELIVERY -- ALLERGY -- PATHOBIOLOGY -- BIOETHICS -- GLOSSARY.