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  • Ultrasound Diagnosis in Obstetrics and Gynecology Ultrasound Diagnosis in Obstetrics and Gynecology
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    Ultrasound Diagnosis in Obstetrics and Gynecology

    It will be a long time before the quality of this profusely illustrated book is overtaken and the present spate of books on the subject of obstetric ultrasound may, as a result, suffer a numerical set-back - especially with...
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  • The Tetracyclines The Tetracyclines
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    The Tetracyclines

    The history of antibiotics may weIl have begun with the ancient Sudanese-Nubian civilization (see Chapter 1, "Historical Introduction"), but this volume reflects a more contemporary appraisal of the antibiotic era. We have...
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  • Frontiers in European Radiology Frontiers in European Radiology
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    Frontiers in European Radiology

    The quantitative analysis of blood flow within central and peripheral blood vessels has attracted more and more interest, for with the rapid developments in vascular surgery and the introduction of percutaneous transluminal...
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  • Primary Health Care in the Making Primary Health Care in the Making
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    Primary Health Care in the Making

    Since the historieal conference held in Alma Ata in 1978, it has been possible to observe a reorientation of the medical profession. More and more, issues of health enter the stage and curative medicine is not just loosing...
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  • Dynamic Computed Tomography Dynamic Computed Tomography
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    Dynamic Computed Tomography

    The authors present their experience in more than seven years of dynamic computed tomography in clinical practice. Time density curves and characteristic examples in specific regions of interest enrich the presentation. Dynamic...
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  • Clinical Pharmacology of Antianginal Drugs Clinical Pharmacology of Antianginal Drugs
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    Clinical Pharmacology of Antianginal Drugs

    When I was asked some years ago by the editors of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology to edit a new volume on Antianginal Drugs, I agreed on the condition that, in accordance with my scientific background, primary...
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  • Toxicology of Inhaled Materials Toxicology of Inhaled Materials
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    Toxicology of Inhaled Materials

    This book deals with the methods and scientific basis of inhalation toxicology. It describes devices and facilities needed to expose animals to inhaled particles and gases as well as approaches to estimating or measuring the...
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  • Radiocontrast Agents Radiocontrast Agents
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    Radiocontrast Agents

    Contrast media are drugs by default. Had there been no default, there would be no need for a related pharmacology, and thus no need for this book. Radiographic contrast media (CM) are substances whose primary purpose is to...
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  • Antitumor Drug Resistance Antitumor Drug Resistance
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    Antitumor Drug Resistance

    The study of tumour resistance to anticancer drugs has been the subject of many publications since the initial discovery of the phenomenon by J. H. Burchenal and colleagues in 1950. Many papers have been published since then...
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  • Antimalarial Drug II Antimalarial Drug II
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    Antimalarial Drug II

    The construction of this volume has been guided by two personal convictions. Experience in the field of experimental chemotherapy, both in the pharmaceutical industry and academia, has convinced us that recent quantum ...
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  • Practice of High Performance Liquid Chromatography Practice of High Performance Liquid Chromatography
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    Practice of High Performance Liquid Chromatography

    During its short 20 year history High Performance Liquid Chro­ matography (HPLC) has won itself a firm place amongst the instrumental methods of analysis. HPLC has caused a revolution in biological and pharmaceutical chemistry...
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  • Pharmacology of the Eye Pharmacology of the Eye
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    Pharmacology of the Eye

    Roots of the theory and practice of ocular pharmacology may be traced to the ancient Mesopotamian code of Hammurabi and then to several papyri reflecting the clinical interests of the Egyptians. The evolution of its art and...
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  • Interferons and Their Applications Interferons and Their Applications
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    Interferons and Their Applications

    Today, the basic mood of researchers and clinical investigators, both at the center and on the periphery of interferon studies, is optimistic regarding the future of interferons as therapeutic substances. Many also feel these...
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  • Allergic Reactions to Drugs Allergic Reactions to Drugs
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    Allergic Reactions to Drugs

    According to most studies, allergic reactions represent 35%-50% of all untoward reactions to drugs, yet the pharmacological literature concerning the clinical aspects, diagnosis, and pathophysiological mechanisms of drug...
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  • Glucagon I Glucagon I
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    Glucagon I

    The Editorial Board of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology apparently did not hurry in suggesting production of a volume on glucagon since the present opus is number sixty-six in the series. This fact is even more...
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  • Radiology Today Radiology Today
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    Radiology Today

    This book reflects the views of an international faculty and provides an authoritative appraisal of modern radiology. It represents the sec­ ond volume in a planned series of competent overviews, and is mod­ eled on the...
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  • Pyretics and Antipyretics Pyretics and Antipyretics
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    Pyretics and Antipyretics

    Fever has always been recognised as the major sign of infectious disease as well as being associated with other illnesses. The suggestion of publishing a volume dedicated exclusively to the subject of fever in the Handbook of...
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  • Chemotherapy of Viral Infections Chemotherapy of Viral Infections
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    Chemotherapy of Viral Infections

    " . . . the motto for the therapeutics of the future will have to be de sedibus et causis pharmacorum. " P. EHRLICH, 1909 Exciting events in the basic disciplines of virology, immunology, and pharmacology continue to advance...
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  • Mediators and Drugs in Gastrointestinal Motility I Mediators and Drugs in Gastrointestinal Motility I
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    Mediators and Drugs in Gastrointestinal Motility I

    Since the exhaustive Handbook of Physiology (Alimentary Canal, Section 6, Motility) edited by CHARLES F. CODE in 1968, no complete survey of the morphological basis and the physiological control of intestinal motility has been...
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  • Cardiac Glycosides Cardiac Glycosides
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    Cardiac Glycosides

    Following the monographs by STRAUB (1924) and LENDLE (1935), this is the third contribution to the "Pharmacology of Cardiac Glycosides" within the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, which was founded by ARTHUR HEFFTER and...
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  • Cyclic Nucleotides Cyclic Nucleotides
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    Cyclic Nucleotides

    The purpose of the present volume, the first of two on the pharmacology, biochemistry, and physiology of cyclic nucleotides, is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology on the nature and role of these important...
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  • Pharmacology of Ganglionic Transmission Pharmacology of Ganglionic Transmission
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    Pharmacology of Ganglionic Transmission

    D.A. KHARKEVICH The history of the study of ganglionic substances begins with the paper of LANGLEY and DICKINSON (1889), who established the ability of nicotine to block the neurones in the superior cervical ganglion. This was...
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  • Tissue Growth Factors Tissue Growth Factors
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    Tissue Growth Factors

    From a logical point of view, cell division is regulated by the environment and by the ability of the cell to respond to the environmental signals. The terminology of the cell cycle, the elaborate mathematical models, and the...
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  • Psychotropic Agents Psychotropic Agents
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    Psychotropic Agents

    The description of the pharmacology of psychotomimetics, cannabis, and alcohol in this third volume concludes the discussion on psychotropic agents. As psychomotor stimulants these groups of psychotropic agents are of little or...
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  • Low Friction Arthroplasty of the Hip Low Friction Arthroplasty of the Hip
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    Low Friction Arthroplasty of the Hip

    The theme of this work is the application of the engmeermg theory of frictional torque to total hip replacement. The author adhered tenaciously to this theory, involving the use of a small-diameter femoral head, throughout the...
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  • Heme and Hemoproteins Heme and Hemoproteins
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    Heme and Hemoproteins

    The study of the biological effects of foreign chemicals (whether therapeutic drugs or chemicals present at work or in the environment) interests the biologist from a number of different and complementary viewpoints. Apart from...
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  • Snake Venoms Snake Venoms
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    Snake Venoms

    The past decade has been a period of explosion of knowledge on the chemistry and pharmacology of snake toxins. Thanks to the development of protein chemistry, nearly a hundred snake toxins have been purified and sequenced,...
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  • Fibrinolytics and Antifibrinolytics Fibrinolytics and Antifibrinolytics
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    Fibrinolytics and Antifibrinolytics

    Disturbances of haemostasis and thromboembolic disorders still constitute a great problem in clinical practice. Increasing insight into the mechanism of blood coagula­ tion has led to more effective therapy and prophylaxis...
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  • Kinetics of Drug Action Kinetics of Drug Action
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    Kinetics of Drug Action

    Most drugs, toxins, hormones, and the like bring about their biologic actions by reacting with specific receptors somewhere in the body. Scientists working in all areas of biologic science have shown increasing interest in the...
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  • Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids
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    Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids

    This volume was planned to provide a comprehensive survey of the role of the anabolic-androgenic steroids in the vital economy exclusive of the androgenic (sexual) functions. It seemed appropriate to bring together all of this...
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  • Antihypertensive Agents Antihypertensive Agents
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    Antihypertensive Agents

    Between 1950 and 1960, remarkable advances were made in the develQpment Qf antihypertensive drugs, but since then, prQgress has been less rapid. This dQes nQt mean that no. new drugs have been intrQduced: Qn the cQntrary, their...
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  • Radiologic Anatomy of the Brain Radiologic Anatomy of the Brain
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    Radiologic Anatomy of the Brain

    Despite all recent advances, the most important progress in neuroradiol­ ogy has been in our knowledge of the anatomy of the nervous system. DANDY'S injection of ventricles and cisterns with air, SICARD'S studies of the...
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  • Hypolipidemic Agents Hypolipidemic Agents
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    Hypolipidemic Agents

    The major cause of death in the Western world is some form of vascular disease; and principal among these forms is atherosclerotic heart disease (ASHD). Although much is known about the etiology and treatment of ASHD, there is,...
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  • Diagnostic Radiology Diagnostic Radiology
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    Diagnostic Radiology

    This book is a supplement to Volume V/I in the present series, Diag­ nostie Radiology, published in 1962. Despite the relatively long period of time whieh has elapsed sinee its publieation, that eomprehensive vol­ urne is still...
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  • Histamine II and Anti-Histaminics Histamine II and Anti-Histaminics
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    Histamine II and Anti-Histaminics

    In the preface to Part I of this volume, which appeared in 1966, we stated: " ... we had to leave the Antihistaminics for another volume of unpredictable dimensions. In 1924, eight pages inserted in a Chapter on Mutterkorn by...
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