Developmental biology

This book provides an overview of current knowledge, ideas and trends in the field of induced acclimation of plants to environmental challenges.

This book explores various nanotechnology applications and their effect on the food industry, innovation and environmental issues.

This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology and the effects of nanoparticles on agricultural systems, their interactions with plants as well as their potential applications as fertilizers and pesticides.

This book offers a comprehensive compilation of biotic and abiotic factors that affect lychee production and commercialization.

This book reviews three-dimensional (3D) stem cell culture and proof of concept for organ regeneration.

This book discusses the two different cellular approaches that are pursued in regenerative medicine: cell therapy and tissue engineering.

This book provides systematic information on the lychee and modern tools to promote its sustainable growth and development.

This book covers recent advances in all aspects of bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) for stroke treatment, while also providing comprehensive information on human clinical trials and animal models of stroke.

This book summarizes the development of highly tolerant cultivars via plant breeding, genomics, and proteomic approaches.

This book, published in two volumes, provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter's "e;The Biology of Lampreys"e; published more than 30 years ago.

The book integrates our understanding of the factors and processes underlying the evolution of multicellularity by providing several complementary perspectives (both theoretical and experimental) and using examples from various lineages in which multicellularity evolved.

This book will focus on the differentiation and regulation of subsets of CD4+ T cells.

The functional characterization of a key enzyme in the phosphatidylinositol (PI) signaling pathway in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is the focus of the research summarised in this thesis.

Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have accompanied mankind from its very early beginnings.

This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology.

This volume explores the latest developments in a novel area of molecular biology and a hot topic in the field of oncology: cancer stem cells.

There is hardly an area of research developing so quickly and raising so many promises as stem cell research.

Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into all types of cells within the body, thus have great therapeutic potential for regenerative medicine to treat complicated disorders, like Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.

This book provides an overview of the role and function of regulatory RNAs that lack protein-coding potential in key reproductive tissues.

This book features the most cutting-edge work from the world's leading laboratories in this field and provides practical methods for differentiating pluripotent stem cells into hematopoietic lineages in the blood system.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the properties of various stem cell types, the mechanisms of their behaviors and their potential clinical application.

This is the thirteenth volume in a series which presents current understanding of stem cells and cancer stem cells.

Phosphatases, such as TNAP are fundamental in regulating the roles of cellular, and consequently numerous body functions.

Cell signalling lies at the heart of many biological processes and currently is the focus of intense research interest.

The objectives of this volume are to present an up-to-date (literature survey up to 2001) account of the biology of Artemia focusing particularly upon the major advances in knowledge and understanding achieved in the last fifteen or so years and emphasising the operational and functional linkage between the biological phenomena described and the ability of this unusual animal to thrive in extreme environments.

Many biological facts are irreconcilable with the assumption that larvae and adults evolved from the same genetic stock.

Since the end of the second world war special international interest has been devoted to the economically' underdeveloped countries.

Thanks to enormous scientific efforts of the last decades, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and in vitro production (IVP) have now been introduced successfully in the practice of human infertility treatment and cattle breeding programs.

This book contains 26 contributions dealing with the biology of aquatic oligochaetes and covers a wide range of topics including taxonomy, morphology, ultrastructure, embryology, reproduction, feeding biology, ecotoxicity, community studies, and species distribution.

A cutting-edge survey of formal methods directed specifically at dealing with the deep mathematical problems engendered by the study of developing systems, in particular dealing with developing phase spaces, changing components, structures and functionalities, and the problem of emergence.

The formation of roots is in some respects one of the least fundamentally understood of all plant functions.

Cellular and Molecular Control of Neuronal Migration provides an up-to-date collection of reviews on the molecular and cellular principles of neuronal migration in the mammalian brain.

With the discovery of stem cells capable of multiplying indefinitely in culture and differentiating into many other cell types in appropriate conditions, new hopes were born in repair and replacement of damaged cells and tissues.

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), a type of adult stem cells, have attracted the attention of scientists and physicians alike due to their unique biological properties and potential for disease treatment.

This volume describes the latest findings on transcriptional and translational regulation of stem cells.

The book "e;Salicylic acid: A Plant Hormone"e; was first published in 1997 and was praised for its excellent balance of traditional and modern topics.

With a particular emphasis on tumor dormancy in breast, lung, prostate, and liver cancers, as well as in melanoma, this first volume of a new Springer series focuses on the interrelationship between biological processes of aging and tumors-both dormant and quiescent.

Cilia are tiny microtubule-based organelles projecting from the plasma membrane of practically all cells in the body.

The field of regenerative medicine has developed rapidly over the past 20 years with the advent of molecular and cellular techniques.

The book will discuss the molecular mechanisms of cancer diseases, stem cell proliferation and transformation into cancer cells beyond the physiological processes that occur in normal stem cell biology.

Immunocytochemistry of plant cells is the first book exclusively dedicated to this topic.

Timing, racing, combating, struggling and targeting are some actions through which cellular fate could be reflected and evaluated.

The existence of 'cancer stem cells' (CSCs) has been a topic of heated debate for the last few years within the field of cancer biology.

The difference among pluripotent stem cells, multipotent stem cells, and unipotent stem cells is pointed out.

Vast therapeutic applications of the following specific stem cells in disease and tissue injury are discussed: embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, human hair follicle stem cells, bone marrow-derived human mesenchymal stem cells, adipose-derived stem cells, periodontal/progenitor cells, cancer stem cells, and breast cancer stem cells.

Brain diseases can have a large impact on patients and society, and treatment is often not available.

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world.

Cell-cell adhesion is fundamental for the development and homeostasis of animal tissues and organs.

Fungi are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground.

The seventh in Springer's landmark series of edited volumes on one of the highest-profile subjects in contemporary medicine and scientific endeavour, this volume sets out to cover a staggering range of research into the medical applications of stem cell research.