Biology, life sciences

From its discovery in 1929 by Hans Berger until the late 1960s, when sensory visual and auditory evoked potentials were dis- covered and became popular, the EEG was the most important method of neurophysiological examination.

Der zehnte Band des bewährten und erfolgreichen Laborhandbuches für Analytiker stellt aktuelle Methoden der chemischen, klinisch-chemischen und Umweltanalytik praxisnah dar.

Pioneering work on hepatitis B virus and hepatitis delta virus, and the discovery of hepatitis B-like virus in animals during the 1970's has been followed, over the past ten years, by an explosion of interest in how these viruses replicate, maintain chronic infections, and cause liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma.

The fourth Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Symposium, devoted to the topic of dynamics and patterns in complex fluids, was held on October 26 and 27, 1989, in Nishinomiya City, Japan, where ten invited speakers gave their lectures.

In about 5% of all organ (kidney, liver) transplant recipients, malignancies occur as a late complication of the massive immunosuppression.

The present volume contains 17 lectures of the 41 st Mosbach Colloquium of the Gesellschaft fiir Biologische Chemie, held from April 5-7, 1990 on the topic "e;The Molecular Basis of Bacterial Metabolism"e;.

The objective of this series is to provide concise and critical information on current advances in the different domains of sensory physiology.

The subject of acid deposition remains one of the most urgent of our contemporary environmental problems.

Summarizing research progress achieved in 32 areas of cell biology covered in this series, this volume places special emphasis on the following topics: recognition in parasitic and symbiotic systems - the molecular biology and genetics of susceptibility and resistance of plants and animals to pathogens, parasites and symbionts - the cell to cell recognition and differentiation - the most challenging problems in developmental biology of plants and animals - the plasticity in cell to cell communication which plays a major role in cell differentiation and function.

Enzymes are applied in organic synthesis and in analytical chemistry, in industrial production processes of pharmaceuticals and in food processing.

In the present work, processes of cell proliferation, cell death, neurogenesis, and gliogenesis in the mouse hippocampus were studied.

Over the past few years, genetics research has been in a phase of remarkably sustained and continuous revolution.

Second in the series, High-Tech and Micropropagation, this work covers the micropropagation of trees and fruit-bearing plants, such as poplar, birches, larch, American sweetgum, black locust, Sorbus, sandalwood, Quercus, cedar, Persian walnut, date palm, cocoa, Citrus, olive, apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry, papaya, pineapple, kiwi, Japanese persimmon, grapevine, strawberry, and raspberry.

Investigations of the oxygen carriers range from the characterization of natural populations to measurements of tenths of nanometer distances between atoms.

Presented here is another classic from this series and deals with general aspects of micropropagation of plants for commercial exploitation.

Protein-protein interactions are involved in muscle contraction and signal transduction.

El Nino is a meteorological and oceanographic phenomenon, which occurs at irregular intervals in the eastern tropical Pacific.

COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY OF ANGIOSPERMS is a review of thedevelopmental processes leading to sexual reproduction inflowering plants.

The results, published in this book, present the outcome of a cooperative research between plant ecologists, physiologists and population geneticists.

Die Praxis der Erkenntnisgewinnung in den Bio-Wissenschaften arbeitet nach einem allgemein anerkannten Kanon von Verhaltensvorschriften, der sich auf Grund von Erfahrungen in der Forschungspraxis und nicht durch die theoretischen Reflexionen der Erkenntnistheorie herausgebildet hat.

It is a great honor and pleasure for me to introduce this book; an honor, because of the scientific renown and authority of the investigators who have edited the volume and contributed the chapters; a pleasure, because my own long-lasting interest in the baroreflexes has always gone in the same directions as those along which the authors of this book have conceived and organized their work.

A new presentation of physiological regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic applications is given in this book.

Our aim in this book is to present and enlarge upon those aspects of parallel computing that are needed by practitioners of computational science.

Progress in biological and biochemical research is based mainly on a better understanding of life processes on a molecular level.

Applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigate the mutagenicity and cancerogenicity of chemicals and other agents.

Anticlastogens in Mammalian and Human Cells covers research on the protection of chromosomes from the action of chemical mutagens by use of natural and synthetic antimutagens, which, because of their specific action on clastogenic damage are called anticlastogens.

Advances in Compararative and Environmental Physiology helps biologists, physiologists, and biochemists keep track of the extensive literature in the field.

Often being vastly underrated the human sense of smell playsan essential role in our life, e.

Biology of Antarctic Fish presents the most recent findings on the biology of fish in the unique environment of the Antarctic ocean.

This book covers those areas of theoretical population genetics that can be investigated rigorously by elementary mathematical methods.

In contrast to dementia of the Alzheimer type, the subject of dementia subsequent to cerebral ischemia has been discussed rather rarely.

Excellent illustrations and the latest technology from theclinic, practice and laboratory are compiled for both thepracticing urologist and the researching cytopathologist inthe book "e;Urinary Cytology.

Ecologists are increasingly being drawn into the task of addressing problems of environmental degradation.

In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry set out to publish review articles.

Constructional morphology explains features of organisms from a constructional and functional point of view.

This volume contains the collected papers of the NATO Conference on Neurocomputing, held in Les Arcs in February 1989.

A wide variety of hormones, neurotransmitters and growth factors exert their cellular effects by reacting first with membrane receptors resulting in an increase of intracellular calcium and the cellular response.

Eine der Behandlungsmöglichkeiten beim Vorliegen einer Depression ist die Gabe von selektiven Serotonin- aufnahmehemmern.

This book deals with the mechanism of signal transduction in vertebrate and invertebrate photoreceptors.

Our current understanding of a/~ T cell receptor (TCR) ex- pressing T cells advanced from function and specificity to the molecular organization ofthe TCR.

The author, experienced in industry and academia, presents a set of 15 recent review essays which identify and examine critical current issues of environmental management.

The dramatic development of chromatographic techniques, specially high per- formance or high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) has made possible the easy analysis of organic compounds, including drugs and drug components, for last two decades.

An integrated retrovirus effectively becomes part of the cellular genome, but with the difference that the virus to a large extent retains control over its own expression through nontranslated sequences in the long terminal repeat (L TR).

This is the ninth volume in a series dealing with induced lesions in laboratory animals.

In spite of a long history of intense investigation the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies remain a poorly understood family of neurodegenerative diseases.

Original study and a review of the pertinent literature are presented in this monograph on the early development of the neopallial wall and the choroidal area in vertebrates before the appearance of nerve cells.

This volume contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in Medicine"e; held in Evian, France, October 14- 26, 1990.