I am very happy and honoured to have so many famous contrib- utors from around the world presenting their knowledge and experience in this book, including Dr.
This book contains the contributions to an European symposium on "e;Trace Elements in Environmental History"e;, held from June 24th to 26th at GCittingen, FRG.
This 16th volume of Advances in Neurosurgery contains a selection of pa- pers presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Neurosurgery, held in Munster on 3-6 May 1987.
The following papers were presented at an international workshop on benzo- diazepine receptor ligands, memory and information processing, held during the 15th CINP meeting in Puerto Rico in December 1986 and organised by the editors and T.
Starting in 1986, the European School of Oncology has expanded its activities in post- graduate teaching, which consisted mainly of traditional disease-orientated courses, by promoting new educational initiatives.
One of the most impressive works of scholarship in the field of experimental pharmacology has been the Heffter-Heubner Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie, internationalized some years ago under the title Handbook 0/ Experimental Pharmacology and kept up to date by a series of numbered Ergiin- zungswerke or supplementary volumes which have now replaced in importance the original Handbuch.
Elucidation of the mechanisms of pathogenesis underlying the diseases caused by viruses and bacteria has fascinated scientists for many years in two ways.
In the summer of 1988, under NATO sponsorship, approximately 80 scientists lived and worked together in Plymouth for two weeks to evaluate the ecological role of protozoa in the sea.
The picture on the following page is being reproduced here, at the request of the partici- pants in the Advanced Research Workshop "e;Amino Acid Availability and Brain Function in Health and Disease"e;.
The purpose of this book is to investigate the suitability and applicability of available methods for analyzing the human and ecological risks involved in the release of genetically-modified microorganisms.
It is apparent that wilt diseases continue to be a major problem in crop production because of the number of crops affected, the number and genetic variability of pathogens involved, and their widespread occurrence throughout tropical and temperate regions under a variety of cropping systems.
This volume is based on a workshop "e;Modulation of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in Nervous Systems"e; held in n Ciocco, Castelvecchio, Pascoli, Italy, from September 8th to 13th, 1987.
This volume contains the contributions to the workshop "e;The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in The Immune System"e; which took place at "e;11 Ciocco"e; in the hills north of Lucca, Italy, September ~-12, 1986.
The fact that none of the known DNA polymerases is able to initiate DNA chains but only to elongate from a free 3' -OH group raises the problem of how replication is initiated, both at the replication origin and on Okazaki frag- ments.
Medical Parasitology is primarily intended to be an illustrated textbook which provides a review ofthe most important species ofparasite which occur in man; their areas ofdistribution, morphology and development, the typical disease symptoms resulting from infection, epidemiology and also methods of detection and indications for therapy.
In diesem Buch werden die verschiedenen Viren (Hepatitis-B-Virus, Hepatitis-Non-A-Non-B-Viren, Cytomegalievirus, Epstein-Barr-Virus, Papovaviren, HIV), die Blut, Plasma und Plasmapräparate kontaminieren können, besprochen.
In 1979, a conference on x-ray microscopy was organized by the New York Academy of Sciences, and in 1983, the Second Interna- tional Symposium on X-ray Imaging was organized by the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation.
Genetic constraints on adaptive evolution can be understood as those genetic aspects that prevent or reduce the potential for natural selection to result in the most direct ascent of the mean phenotype to an optimum.
