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A new presentation of physiological regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic applications is given in this book. It represents a collection of the most up-to-date information in cholecystokinin (CCK) research, especially focusing...

This volume forms part of a prestigious series and covers the latest advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of asthma. Our understanding of asthma has changed dramatically in recent years, and much...

A large number of chemical agents are known which affect blood and blood-forming organs. The purpose of this volume is to review the sig­ nificant advances made over the past several years regarding such chemical agents. The...

In the cardiovascular sciences, an increasing demand for the use of modern methods of cell biology has developed. The use of specific cell culture models of the various tissues involved is essential for most of these novel...

The present book is the outcome of a symposium on magnesium and excitable membranes, held in September 1989 on the occasion of the 12th annual meeting of the European Neuroscience Associ­ ation in Torino. Leading specialists...

In 1976, when Springer-Verlag commissioned Professors Giebisch, Tosteson, and Ussing to edit what was destined to become a monumental five-volume Handbuch (" Membrane Transport in Biology", 1978 [Vols I, II, III] and 1979 [Vols...

This book complements the successful series of Workshops on the Au­ tomation of Cytogenetics which have been sponsored for more than a decade by the European Community (EC). The contributed papers all arise from pre­ sentations...

Historical Perspective In 1842, in a paper entitled "Further Development of a General Law of Vital Periodicity", which was part of a series of seven Lancet papers on periodicities in health and disease, Thomas Laycock wrote:...

Mit dem Erscheinen des 3. Bandes ist der Atlas der Anatomie des Menschen abgeschlossen. Der im Vor­ wort zum 1. Band angegebene Plan für Inhalt, Umfang und Gestaltung war auch Leitlinie für die Gliederung des vorliegenden...

Die im Vorwortdes 1. Bandes dargelegte Gliederung des Atlasses der Anatomie des Menschen blieb unveran­ dert. Unsere Absicht, die Ganzheit des Organismus auch in der Bilderfolge zu veranschaulichen, fUhrte zu der ...

An ever greater number of our contemporaries will reach a very much greater age than their ancestors. Longevity is one of the most fertile fields for paradoxes: it is clear that the same causes do not produce the same effects...

Over the last twenty years there has been an explosive growth in our understanding of the molecular, cellular, and anatomical changes that occur in the days and weeks following brain injury. It is now clear that training and...

IntroductionClassical enzyme kineticsClassical dose-response curves and the Hill coefficientClassical association and dissociation kinetics and exponential fitsNumerical methodsPreparing the computerInstallation of Octave for different...

Outline.- Outline.- Mutations and Alignments.- Stochastic Models of Mutations and Structural Analysis.- Modulus Structure Theory.- Super Pairwise Alignment.- Multiple Sequence Alignment.- Network Structures of Multiple Sequences Induced by Mutation.-...

Self-Organizing Network Environments.- Bio-inspired Framework for Autonomic Communication Systems.- Towards a Biologically-inspired Architecture for Self-Regulatory and Evolvable Network Applications.- Biologically Inspired Synchronization for Wireless...

This book contains the proceedings of the 11 'h international symposium dedicated to the understanding of animal "Life in the Cold", held at Jungholz (Austria), August 13-18, 2000. In 55 chapters contributed by researchers from...

In this volume of Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology  there a contributions by M.D. Swope, E. Lolis, F.Hofmann, L. Lacinova, N.  Klugbauer, M. Hermann, P. Berger, S.S. Shen, J.S. Kim, M.E. Weksler, M...

Every cell has developed mechanisms to respond to changes in its environment and to adapt its growth and metabolism to unfavorable conditions. The unicellular eukaryote yeast has long proven as a particularly useful model...

This book represents Part 2 of a venture started by distinguished neuroscientists to visualize and advertise the experimentally advantageous preparations of the crustacean nervous system. The advantage is a combination of ease...

(Chapters 11 to 14) summarise important features of the biological clock at the level of whole animal covering all vertebrate classes (fish to mammal). Chapters 15 and 16 are on long term (seasonal) rhythms in plants and higher...

For the first time, this book offers a critical review of the calcification process of the organic and inorganic phases of mineralized tissues focusing on the earliest phases. It includes a methodological chapter which provides...

Rudern wird von vielen Menschen in ihrer Freizeit als klassische Amateursportart betrieben. In diesem Buch behandeln Sportwissenschaftler die modernen Methoden der Leistungsdiagnostik und Trainingssteuerung am Beispiel Rudern...

In the operation of reasoning, the mind does nothing but run over its objects, as they are supposed to stand in reality, without adding any thing to them or diminishing any thing from them. If I examine the Ptolomaic and...

About ten years aga devices and equipment were developed for producing quantitative images in vivo of the distribution of substanees with positron­ emitting radionuclide label of very short half-life (down to only several...

Walther Birkmayer, one of the co-discoverers of the neuro­ chemical causes of Parkinson's disease and of its treatment by neurotransmitter-replacement therapy, and his former col­ laborator and colleague Peter Riederer have...

Der rasch zunehmende Wissensstand auf dem Gebiet der angeborenen, unspezi- schen Immunität wird laufend in einer Vielfalt ausgezeichneter Monographien fest- halten, in denen hervorragende Wissenschafter ihr Fachgebiet ...

GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is the main neurotransmitter regulating sleep. The majority of drugs presently in use for the treatment of sleep disorders act by enhancing GABAergic neuronal inhibition. The GABA system is,...

This book constitutes the revised selected proceedings of Second International Symposium on Biomedical and Computational Biology, BECB 2022, held as a virtual event in August 2022.The 58 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and...

This book presents the latest findings in the field of cardiac mechanobiology in health and disease.Cardiac mechanobiology provides knowledge of all aspects of mechanobiology of the heart. Cardiomyogenesis is discussed as well as the mechanobiology of...

The concepts of the neuroendocrine system and the immune system emerged more or less simultaneously in the second half of the 20th century. Although these systems have a high degree of autonomy, it has also become clear that they interact in many ways...

This new volume, a part of the Proteomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics and Systems Biology series, will explain how proteomic studies of post-translational modifications (PTMs) can be applied to neurodegenerative diseases and relevant studies. The goal...

More than fifty years after its initial discovery by Rita Levi Montalcini and Stanley Cohen and the proposal of the neurotrophic theory, nerve growth factor (NGF) has become the prototype of a family of biologically active molecules called neurotrophic...

This book provides an overview of the innovations in crop phenotyping using emerging technologies, i.e., high-throughput crop phenotyping technology, including its concept, importance, breakthrough and applications in different crops and environments...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become pervasive in most areas of research and applications.  While computation can significantly reduce mental efforts for complex problem solving, effective computer algorithms allow continuous improvement of AI...

This book presents cutting-edge research and developments in the field of medical and biological engineering, which a special emphasis on activities carried out in the Asian-Pacific region. Gathering the proceedings of the 11th Asian-Pacific Conference...

Population genomics is revolutionizing wildlife biology, conservation, and management by providing key and novel insights into genetic, population and landscape-level processes in wildlife, with unprecedented power and accuracy. This pioneering book...

The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a serious global pandemic in just eight months. Nearly every country and territory in the world has been affected by the virus. The virulence and infection rate of the virus are profound, and has required...

This book reviews the recent research into biological aspects of suicide behavior and outlines each of the varied, recent approaches to prevent suicide. Suicidal behavior, perhaps, is the most complex behavior that combines biological, social, and...

Mathematical, statistical, and computational methods enable multi-disciplinary approaches that catalyse discovery. Together with experimental methods, they identify key hypotheses, define measurable observables and reconcile disparate results. This...

This second edition expands upon and updates the vital research covered in its predecessor, by presenting state-of-the-art multidisciplinary and systems-oriented approaches to complex diseases arising from and driven by the acute inflammatory response...