Life sciences: general issues

Although the function of nitric oxide in a regulatory capacity in the central and peripheral nervous system is widely recognized, the full scope of its actions and its interrelationships with other classes of regulatory molecules is just beginning to be comprehended.

The purpose of this module is to provide a survey of the rapidly expanding field of developmental biology and to introduce it to the student in a unifying way.

Medical and Veterinary Entomology is a comprehensive text and is primarily intended for graduate students and upper level undergraduates studying the medical and veterinary significance of insects and related arthropods.

It has been ten years since the publication of the third edition of this seminal text on plant virology, during which there has been an explosion of conceptual and factual advances.

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus (17071778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals.

This book outlines a framework for analysis of marine resource management incorporating ecological and economic considerations and technological feasibility.

Remarkable advances in imaging have increased the importance of MRI for diagnostic, treatment and management of epilepsy.

This is the first book to provide assessments of multidecadal changes in resources and environments of the Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) of the North Atlantic.

Ion channels are membrane proteins that act as gated pathways for the movement of ions across cell membranes.

Psychoneuroimmunology investigates the relationships between behavior, psychosocial factors, the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, and disease.

Modelling of marine ecosystems is a rapidly developing branch of interdisciplinary oceanographic research.

Leading experts in the field bring together diverse aspects of insect timing mechanisms.

The second edition of Horizontal Gene Transfer has been organized to provide a concise and up-to-date coverage of the most important discoveries in this fascinating field.

Why do unrelated organisms sometimes appear almost identical in details of the anatomy, behavior, physiology, and ecology?

In the early eighties when the H3 receptor was identified, many thought that an H3 ligand, an agonist or an antagonist, would become available as a therapeutic agent.

Hearing is a comprehensive, authoritative reference work covering both the physiological and perceptual aspects of hearing.

Isoelectric focusing (IEF) is a high-resolution, stand-alone technique that can be used as an analytical method or tool for protein purification.

Many professionals in the communicative sciences are relative newcomers to the understanding of genetics as it applies to communicative disorders.

The Handbook of Developmental Neurotoxicology provides a comprehensive account of the impacts, mechanisms, and clinical relevances of chemicals on the development of the nervous system.

Scott Shannon is an MD, president elect of the American Holistic Medical Association, and considered a national expert on holistic psychiatry.

The emotional attachment of a child to caregivers, and the attachment of the caregivers to the child, is of vital importance to the child's socioemotional development.

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987).

The volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise of the glutamatergic synapse and its environment.

Hereditary or genetic diseases featuring involuntary movements constitute a major aspect of the practice of neurology, functional neurosurgery, genetics, and many areas of basic and applied neuroscience research.

Neuroscience Perspectives provides multidisciplinary reviews of topics in one of the most diverse and rapidly advancing fields in the life sciences.

Computer access is the only way to retrieve up-to-date sequences and this book shows researchers puzzled by the maze of URLs, sites, and searches how to use internet technology to find and analyze genetic data.

Genetic Algorithms in Molecular Modeling is the first book available on the use of genetic algorithms in molecular design.

The FactsBooks Series has established itself as the best source of easily-accessible and accurate facts about protein groups.

Gene Expression Systems: Using Nature for the Art of Expression offers detailed information on a wide variety of gene expression systems from an array of organisms.

This is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of an authoritative introduction to ecological modelling.

Febrile Seizures is written by the most active researchers and clinicians in epilepsy research today.

The thalamus is a group of cells placed centrally in the brain that serve a critical role in controlling how both sensory and motor signals are passed from one part of the cerebral cortex to another.

Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain and dysfunction of glutamate transmission is the likely cause of a variety of diseases including neurodegeneration following cerebral ischemia, Huntington's chorea, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, spasticity, emesis, chronic pain, and schizophrenia.

Enzymes are indispensable tools in recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering.

It is widely recognized that analytical technologies and techniques are playing a pioneering role in a range of today's foremost challenging scientific endeavours, including especially biological and biomedical research.

Ecology, Genetics and Evolution of Metapopulations is acollection of specially commissioned articles that looks at fragmented habitats, bringing together recent theoretical advances and empirical studies applying the metapopulation approach.

Epilepsy is, after headache, the second most common neurological disorder.

CNS Regeneration focuses on some of the leading current neurological disease models and methods for promoting central nervous system regeneration.

An illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memoriesand how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thriveWe tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains.

Almost all evolutionary biologists, indeed all biologists, use particular features to study life.

It is impossible to predict the exact behavior of all biological systems and how these same systems are exemplified by patterns of complexity and regularity.

This book describes human hereditary ion channel diseases of voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels covering the diverse fields of medicine myology, neurology, cardiology, and nephrology requiring a wide and interdisciplinary readership.

Amphibians and reptiles are the most numerous, diverse, and frequently encountered animals on the Caribbean islands.

Investigation of the functional architecture of the human brain using modern noninvasive imaging techniques is a rapidly expanding area of research.

Brain Mapping: The Disorders is the first comprehensive text to describe the uses of the latest brain mapping technologies in the evaluation of patients with neurological, neurosurgical and psychiatric disorders.

Recent research into the anatomy and pathophysiology of the blood-brain and blood-spinal cord barriers suggests that a breakdown in these barriers can result in several diseases affecting the central nervous system (CNS).

Agricultural crops are prominent features of an increasing number of variously perturbed ecosystems and the landscapes occupied by these ecosystems.

Currently Drosophila is a dominant experimental model in developmental biology and in gene regulation in eukaryotes.

The art of natural history is often both compelling and emotive, as well as emblematic of society's view of the world.

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