Anatomy Books

Coronary circulation research is advancing at a rapid rate. Not only are inno­ vative techniques for studying myocardial perfusion being developed, new mechanisms related to coronary blood flow control and mechanics are also...

It is essential to know all of the intricate lymph pathways when performing surgery for esophageal cancer in order to determine the extent of lymph node metastasis. Professor Sato has undertaken, at the request of the TNM...

MOTOOMI NAKAMURA As we approach the 21st century, ischemic heart disease is the major cause of death in most of the developed nations of the world. Since the 1970s, much effort and expense have led to designs of coronary...

Coronary heart disease is one of the major health problems in indus­ trialized nations because of its high incidence and severity. Recent innovations in medical and surgical treatment of coronary heart dis­ ease have increased...

Cardiovascular dynamics is a field in which modelling and systems analysis have formed an extremely important discipline. For example, understanding of even such a fundamental function of the circulation as the relationship...

Cardiovascular fluid mechanics is now used as a tool in determining diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis by physicians and surgeons working in the fields of cardiology and angiology. The text is based on a considerable amount of...

Strong body odor is a condition for which, until now, there have been few treatment methods. The Japanese authors, encouraged by the willingness of Oriental patients to undergo radical treatment, have developed the subcutaneous...

At the Fifth International Neuromuscular Meeting held in Tokyo in 1994, leading experts in the field came together to discuss the physiology and pharmacology of neuromuscular receptor sites and neuromuscular blocking agents...

At the Mie International Symposium held in Japan in April 1994, leading scientists reviewed recent advances in the understanding of the contractile mechanism in smooth muscle. The present volume collects the papers presented at...

The regulation of the organism has traditionally been ascribed to two distinct systems-the nervous and the endocrine. Though coordination between the two systems has been acknowledged, researchers and authors have tended to...

Information flow as nerve impulses in neuronal circuits is regulated at synapses. The synapse is therefore a key element for information processing in the brain. Much attention has been given to fast synaptic transmission,...

A research project entitled Biomechanics of Structure and Function of Living Cells, Tissues, and Organs was launched in Japan in 1992. This data book presents the original, up-to-date information resulting from the research...

Sendai virus (SeV) is not just a mouse pathogen but is evolving into a cutting-edge component of biotechnology. SeV reverse genetics originating from a pure academic need to settle long-held questions in the biology and...

Die Untersuchung frischer (unfixierter) menschlicher Organe und Gewebe an einfachen Isolationspraparaten, die manchem heute als eine primitive und veraltete Methode erscheinen mag, wird - mit guten Grunden! - an den ...

Die Arbeit steckt sich das Ziel, auf Grund des bisher vorliegenden und durch eigene Untersuchungen ergiinzten Tatsachenmaterials eine moglichst vollstiindige und ins einzelne gehende Darstellung der MiBbildungen und Anomalien...

Die Untersuchungen im Laboratorium sind fur die Diagno­ stik und Therapie bei intern Kranken otter eine wichtige Ergan­ zung del' klinischen Beobachtung. Fur die klinische Forschung sind sie unentbehrlich. Mit Recht geht die...

Aus dem vorher Geschilderten ergibt sich kurz zusamme~gefaf3t, folgendes: I. Schadel Nr. 1 und 2 weisen in allen ihren charakteristischen Merk­ malen den reinen Priscatypus auf. II. Die Schadel Nr. 3, 4, 5 und 6 stimmen in...

Biological sensors are usually remarkably small, sensitive and efficient. It is highly desirable to design corresponding artificial sensors for scientific, industrial and commercial purposes. This book is designed to fill an...

In einer Besprechung eines der letzten Bände dieses Handbuches bemängelt ein Kritiker, daß das Erscheinen der einzelnen Bände sich zeitlich so weit hinaus­ ziehe, daß das Handbuch als Ganzes bei dem raschen Fortschritte der...

This book was written in an attempt to fill a serious gap in medieal literature. A coneise anatomieal text, incorporating an atlas of the vaseular anatomy of the vertebral column and spinal cord, it has been designed to suit...

In der Frage, ob das Prinzip von Virchow oder das von Rokitansky als Grundlage fUr die Sektionsmethode richtiger sei, sind die Meinungen geteilt. Zweifellos haben beide Methoden ihre Vorziige. Allein richtig ist es wohl, die...

Die medizinische Forschung strebt von der morphologischen Einzelarbeit mehr und mehr den großen Zusammenhängen zu, in der Hoffnung, auf diesem Wege das Wesen der krankhaften Veränderungen besser zu verstehen. Dieses Verständnis...

This new volume provides a concise overview of the most basic and exciting chapters of comparative medicine with regards to physiology and function in healthy individuals. The book includes core concepts in anatomy and physiology in human and animal...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Biologie - Krankheiten, Gesundheit, Ernährung, Note: 1,0, Hochschule Anhalt - Standort Bernburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zu einer ausgewogenen Ernährung gehört die Aufnahme von ausreichend Ballaststoffen...

This open access book discusses three areas in which Germany has long-standing experience and solutions that are valuable for other countries-care education, care insurance and standards for age-friendly city neighborhoods. It introduces the development...

This book provides an overview of single-cellisolation, separation, injection,lysis and dynamics analysis as well as a study of their heterogeneity usingdifferent miniaturized devices. As an important part of single-cell analysis, differenttechniques...

In this second special issue on signal transduction leading specialists in their fields again present overviews of topics related to the highly topicalsubject of signal transduction. The first contribution, by Keppler, deals ...

This book constitutes the first comprehensive discussion and collection of facts and functions of unconventional secretory pathways, some of which are of importance in human disease and pathology. The function of ABC ...

The osteoclasts in Paget's disease are abnormal both in num­ ber and size and show nuclear inclusions as well as cytoplasmic inclusions that suggest a viral etiology for Paget's disease. Use of in vitro model systems for...

This book is centered on a comprehensive list of MHC peptide motifs and ligands as known to date, together with selected T cell epitopes, arranged in an easy-to-read fashion. This information is put into context by chapters on...

The high affinity IgE receptor (FceRI) plays a central role in allergic diseases including asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, food and drug allergy. Manipulating the function of this receptor is important for...

This thesis presents a scalable, generic methodology for microbial phenotype prediction based on supervised machine learning, several models for biological and ecological traits of high relevance, and the deployment in metagenomic datasets. The results...

In his master thesis Thorsten Will proposes the substantial information content of protein complexes involving transcription factors in the context of gene regulatory networks, designs the first computational approaches to predict such complexes as well...

Matthias Kaeding discusses Bayesian methods for analyzing discrete and continuous failure times where the effect of time and/or covariates is modeled via P-splines and additional basic function expansions, allowing the replacement of linear effects by...

In this book, concerned with the spatial and structural repre­ sentation of the cell and its particular specializations, the author hasdeviatedconsiderablyfrom the usual planfor other books related to this subject and has...

Both functions of the mammalian ovary, the endocrine and (synthesis and secretion of steroid hormones) and exocrine (production of ova), depend upon the presence and cyclic growth of follicles, as the depletion of primordial...