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L. Nover and L. Hightower Though the roots of experimental stress biology at the cellular and organismic level can be traced back to the middle of the last century (Nover 1989), a decisive breakthrough came only in 1962 with...

erebellar ataxia is a failure in muscular coordination that re­ C sults from a slow, progressive deterioration of neurons in the cerebellum. An estimated 150,000 people are affected by the he­ reditary ataxias and related...

A Cytoplasm Connexon or Hemichannel Cytoplasm external loop I - P. M. N-Termlnus Fig. 1. 1. Topology of gap junction channels. (A) Cap junction channels, extending from the cytoplasm of one cell to the cytoplasm of another, are...

1. 1 Contexts The principal issue with which this monograph deals is the role of the hippocam­ pus in establishing and using representations of contexts for information processing. However, before this issue can be addressed...

This book is about the role of cholecystokinin (CCK) in the neurobiology of anxiety and panic attacks. An up-to-date review of the topic is given in a multidisciplinary perspective ranging from neurochemistry to human behavior...

Claus W. Heizmann and Katharina Braun ore than 10,000 articles were published in 1994 on calcium, M 2 emphasizing the widespread interest and progress in Ca +­ 2 related research. This book focuses mainly on Ca + -binding pro­...

Already as a young boy, I used to walk with my late father, an ardent naturalist at heart, though to his regret not by profession, in the fields and woods on Mt. Carmel where we lived. My father, being largely an amateur...

An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment. Volume 2, Part E of this series is dedicated to ozone...

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary...

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. loteTest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary...

Jakob Johann von Uexküll und der Umweltbegriff.- Die Entdeckung ökologischer Zusammenhänge.- Was ist eine Kulturlandschaft?.- Die Sicht auf die Natur und tatsächliche oder vermeintliche Verluste.- Sehnsuchtsort Wildnis.

Carina Klein examines the quality of the existing modern ammonoid zonation based on three methods, being Unitary Associations (UA), Constrained Optimization (CONOP) as well as Ranking and Scaling (RASC). The author sets out which of these three methods...

Fernanda Antunes Carvalho addresses an issue of key importance to the field of systematics, namely how to foster taxonomic work and the dissemination of scientific knowledge about species by taking full advantage of electronic data and bioinformatics...

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Biology - Genetics / Gene Technology, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik), course: Mikrosystemtechnik, language: English, abstract: A process for the...

Yom 17. bis 21. September 1962 fand in der Vogelwarte Garmiseh­ Partenkirehen ein Symposium fiber die Fragen der Orientierung der Tiere statt. Die Anregung zu diesem Treffen ging von Professor HENRI PIERON, Paris, aus. Die...

Ecology is the science of the relationships between living organisms and their envi­ ronment . . It is concerned with the web of interactions involved in the circulation of matter and the flow of energy that makes possible life...

Cerebrovascular disease is today the cause of death in a fifth of the population in countries of modern technology. It seems legitimate that society expects medi­ cine to analyse the causes of this menace and, as far as it is...

The protection of human health and food and fiber resources against the ravages of pests of many sorts is a continuous struggle by all people in the world. The use of chemical pesticides as an aid in this struggle is now also...

In most of the developed countries of the,World, significant efforts to control the pollution of surface waters have been underway for decades, and particularly the last 10-15 years. These efforts have focused mainly on...

Over the last decade or two marine scientists have become more aware of the role of freshwater outflow in coastal waters. Some have raised the question whether or not regulation of river flow may change the biological ...

In evolutionary biology, "intelligence" must be defined in terms of traits that are subject to the major forces of organic evolution. Accordingly, this volume is concerned with the substantive questions that are relevant to the...

After reading the manuscript, some biologists inquired why, on the basis of the broad experimental material presented in this book, we had not come up with a model describing the operation of the cerebellum. To answer this...

Man as a biological species and as a member of the community of organisms that has evolved over the billions ofyears on this planet has to face competition for his resources in the same way as any other species. In the course...

th st On June 20 and 21 1985 the third workshop on "Azospirillum: Geneties, Physiology, Eeology" took place at the University of Bayreuth, West Germany, organized by the geneties department. There were about 80 partieipants,...

The present book is the outcome of a symposium on cal­ cium electrogenesis and neuronal functioning, held in January 1985 in the Ringberg Castle of the Max Planck Society, located at the Tegernsee in Bavaria. People from...

The past two decades may well become known as the golden era of neurobiology. This field, that in the first half of this century seemed far too complex to be investigated with the low resolution techniques available to the...

This volume arose from a discussion meeting entitled "Applied Psychophysiology in Cardiovascular Research: Clinical and Methodological Issues" held in May 1984 in Linz, Federal Republic of Germany. The meeting was orga­ nised...

Rapidly increasing interest in the problems of air pollution and source-receptor relationships has led to a significant expansion of knowledge in the field of atmospheric chemistry. In general the chemistry of atmospheric trace...

Many books from symposia describe the current status in well established fields of research, where much is known and where the loose ends are only details in the picture. The topic dealt with here does not fall into this...

The rat brain is the most widely used animal model in neurobio­ logy. The frequency of its use underlines the need for stereotaxic atlases of the rat brain. The first attempt to fulfill this require­ ment was made by Krieg...

l Tumor transformation produces numerous antigenic alterations ), particularly 2 among the glycoconjugates, sugars linked to each other, to lipids and to proteins , 3). Many blood group antigens are identified as ...

The tidal coastline presents a fascinating ecological world. Rocky shores with their recurrent zonation of algae and sessile invertebrates demonstrate the orderliness of nature, apparently obeying general explan­ atory...

very important, especially the comparison of vertebrate and invertebrate transduction mechanisms. The workshop was very successful and the outcome of the discussions proved it worth the effort. To no small extent has that...

Report, the editors replaced the term "speciation" wherever it occurred by "identification and quantification," or "description of abundance," or "reactivity," or "transformation" of a chemical species, according to whichever...

0 Behavioral Reaction Effect of Effect of Species Route of Dose of Reference - 0 oxytocin vasopressin treatment oxytocin (mol/animal) p r-' 11 Extinction of active avoidance Facilitation Opposite Rat i. p. 2x 10- SCHULZ et al...

The present volume is the results of 6 years' work by our team, during which time 2300 CT scans of the pituitary region were carried out. This was made possible by the close collaboration between physicians and technicians in...

By the end of the last century, the only region in all of Europe where the natural vegetation remained untouched over large expanses was Eastern Europe. Information on the vegetation of this region however, remained mostly...

free from any of the overtones that often constrain professional fisheries meetings. The present volume is the result. This volume aims to be useful as an appraisal of the state of the art by a mixed collection of insiders and...

Over the last decades the developments and applications of electromyo­ graphic and electroneurographic methods have been of great value in giv­ ing us insights into the functions of various neuronal systems. More re­ cently,...

Arachnids rarely come to mind when one discusses arthropod neurobiology. In fact much more is now known and written about the nervous systems of insects and crustaceans. Several arguments have led us to conclude, however, that...

Photochemical oxidants are secondary air pollutants formed under the influence of sunlight by complex photochemical reactions in air which contains nitrogen oxides and reactive hydrocarbons as precursors. The most adverse...

To watch a curious young macaque explore and manipulate his immediate surroundings must surely delight and amaze us all. The monkey selects a particular objectfor scrutiny, reaches out and grasps it, handles it delicately with...

P. Marler* and H. S. Terrace** *The Rockefeller University Field Research Center Millbrook, NY 12545 **Dept. of Psychology, Columbia University New York, NY 10027, USA For the first half of this century, theories of animal...

The purpose of the present volume is to give a comprehensive and up-to-date 2 survey of the nature and role of calcium ions (Ca +) in the regulation of cel­ 2 lular function. Since Ca + has gained in interest over the past...

At the present time several techniques are available for studying quantitatively global and regional blood flow and metabolism of the human brain. How­ ever, many scientists working in the clinical and research field who would...

Neurochemical Techniques in Insect Research properly emphasizes the insect. It only scratches the surface of the exploding repertoire of general neuro­ chemical techniques that can be applied to insect research in 1985. But it...

Over 200 neuroscientists met at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Biophysikalische Chemie in Gottingen between April 7th-9th 1983 in order to honour a foreign member of the Institute, namely Sir John Carew Eccles, who celebrated his...