Physiology Books

This book invites readers on an enlightening journey into the fascinating world where animals intersect with the laws of nature.

This book explains how various animals have adapted to extreme conditions, and why humans need animals and should protect them.

This book summarizes experimentally-supported research on the therapeutic efficacy of plant extracts and their constituents on a range of respiratory diseases including infections. It discusses the pharmacological, cellular and molecular factors involved...

The book comprehensively reviews and provides detailed insight into the cellular and molecular signalling mechanisms involved in pathophysiology of various respiratory diseases, towards developing effective therapeutic strategies...

This book is written in a very easy-to-follow format, and explains the key concepts of biomedical statistics in a lucid yet straightforward manner. It explains how mathematical and statistical tools can be used to find answers to common research...

This book reviews the relationship between cytokines, glia, and neurons in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders and examines the mechanisms of action of the drugs used for the treatment of these disorders. Increasing evidence has suggested...

This book addresses a number of questions from the perspective of complex systems: How can we quantitatively understand the life phenomena? How can we model life systems as complex bio-molecular networks? Are there any methods to clarify the...

This book presents various computer-aided drug discovery methods for the design and development of ligand and structure-based drug molecules. A wide variety of computational approaches are now being used in various stages of drug discovery and...

This book provides an up-to-date review of the fundamentals of lipid metabolism and its role in cardiovascular diseases. Focusing on lipid transfer proteins in the circulation and cells, the role of important lipid transporters, the effect of recently...

This book offers an unparalleled source of information on in vivo assessment of nanoparticle toxicity by using Drosophila as a model organism. Nanoparticles have emerged as an useful tool for wide variety of biomedical, cosmetics, and...

This book focuses on the nutrients and nutraceuticals that promote active and healthy ageing - recently defined by the WHO as the process of development and maintenance of functional capacity that allows well-being at an advanced stage of life. There has...

The thesis focuses on the control of blood glucose devices and design of implantable devices, and offers valuable insights on diabetes mellitus and related physiology and treatments. Diabetes mellitus is a widespread chronic disease in the modern world...

This book will provide current understandings about two ubiquitously expressed metabotropic GPCRs, G-coupled purinoreceptor type 2 (P2Y) and Takeda G-protein-coupled bile acid receptor 5 (TGR5). G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest family...

This research topic was first established in China by Professor Shengzhao Long in 1981, with direct support from one of the greatest modern Chinese scientists, Xuesen Qian. In a letter to Shengzhao Long from October 22nd, 1993, Xuesen Qian...

Two questions could not be avoided in the avant-propos of this book; (i) what is the importance to man of ruminant livestock, and (ii) what results of practical relevance in the growing mountain of scientific verbiage could be...

The primary intent of this book is to familiarize the medical practitioner with the "nail unit" in a way which will render, correctly and more easily, the diagnosis of nail diseases. At the same time, it serves to encourage the...

This is the fourth in a series of books on Advances in Prostaglandin Research published by MTP Press. From laboratory and animal studies a large number of practical applications of prostaglandins have been identified. In some...

The Symposium on the Neural Basis of Behavior, from which this volume was produced, was held at the Alfred I. duPont Institute on June 7 and 8, 1979. It brought outstanding investigators in four fundamental areas of behavioral...

Mosquitoes and black flies are a constant threat to health and comfort, yet the modern chemical pesticides used to control them have cre­ ated serious ecological problems. Populations of resistant mosquitoes and black flies...

It is very clear nowadays that plants offer several opportunities for basic studies, e.g. on development and embryogenesis, and that the fundamental principles laid open contribute to the development of new tools for plant...

Molecular and Cell Biology of Human Diseases reviews the status of research on a range of sexually transmitted diseases whose incidence has paralleled the increase in HIV infection and examines the ways in which new methods...

The revolutionary progress made in this fascinating field of sexual reproduction inspired this generously illustrated volume. It includes 21 chapters written by experts, covering all aspects of the embryology of angiosperms,...

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) "Multisensory Control of Movement" held at SISSA, Trieste (Italy), July 3-12, 1994. The ASI took the format of a Summer School that we organized...

determined by an inability to move in response to touch. C. elegans develop through four larval stages following hatching and prior to adulthood. Adult C. elegans are reproductive for about the rst week of adulthood followed by...

Heat Shock Proteins and Whole Body Physiology is an exciting new book in the Heat Shock Proteins series which provides the most up-to-date review on novel mechanisms insights into the important role played by heat shock proteins in human physiology...

When new fellows join my lab, I give them some reading materials so that they can orient themselves in their assignment in a new eld. When fellows leave my lab, some after writing their dissertations, I prefer to give them a...

Foreword by Vadim Fedorov; Editorial, Andre Kamkin and Irina Kiseleva; List of Contributors; Part I: Molecular Mechanisms of Mechanotransduction in Cardiac Cells - 1 Titin and Titin-associated Proteins in Myocardial Stress-sensing and Mechanical...

Sex is the queen of problems in evolutionary biology. Generations of researchers have investigated one of the last remaining evolutionary paradoxes: why sex exists at all. Given that sexual reproduction is costly from an...

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Hannover, Germany, July 13-25, 1979

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A common approach to understanding the functional repertoire of a genome is through functional genomics. With systems biology burgeoning, bioinformatics has grown to a larger extent for plant genomes where several applications in the form of...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Biologie - Krankheiten, Gesundheit, Ernährung, Note: 1.75, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine voll ausgearbeitete ALN zum Thema "Depressionen". Die ALN ist auf Niveau der zweiten...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Biologie - Neurobiologie, Note: 1,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit Untersuchungen, die den Einfluss bestimmter Faktoren auf die Reaktionszeit des Menschen nach...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Biologie - Physiologie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Studienarbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema Schmerzmittel und auf welche Art und Weise dieser Themenkomplex im Deutschen Museum München...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Biologie - Krankheiten, Gesundheit, Ernährung, Note: 14 von 15 Pkt., , Veranstaltung: Wissenschaftspropädeutisches Seminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In meiner Seminararbeit wollte ich mich mit dem...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Biologie - Physiologie, Note: sehr gut (14 Punkte), , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen meiner Facharbeit beschäftige ich mich mit dem Muskelaufbau, verursacht durch ein Zusammenwirken von...