Arachidonic acid metabolites are known to playa regulatory role in a number of biological systems, in which they function as microenviron- mental hormones and intracellular signal mediators.
On three occasions and at different locations, conferences were held to honor the eightieth birthday of Professor Herbert Frohlich: on the 18th December, 1985, in Liverpool, England; on the 14th February, 1986, in Stuttgart, Germany; and on the 8th March, 1986, on the Palm Coast, Florida.
The history of medicine is dotted with the episodic appearance of new discoveries, scientific breakthroughs, and the development of new schools of medicine, and each has contributed to the evolution of the art and science of the practice of medicine.
This book is based on the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Mesenchymal-Epithelial Interactions in Neural Development"e; which was held in Berlin during March 1986.
The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Gangliosides and Modu- lation of Neuronal Functions"e; was held at the University of Stutt- gart-Hohenheim, Federal Republic of Germany, on October 20 - 24, 1986.
The Editorial Board and the Publishers of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology wish to express their profound grief at the untimely death of Professor Peter Baker.
New methods in immunocytochemistry and hybridization techniques enable the pathologist active in diagnosis to clarify more effectively problems in the classification and prognosis of tumors.
There have been many significant microbiological, biochemical and technological advances made in the understanding and implementation of anaerobic digestion processes with respect to industrial and domestic wastewater treatment.
The strong trend in the Biological Sciences towards a quantitative characterization of processes has promoted an increased use of thermo- dynamic reasoning.
In recent years, papillomaviruses in general and human papillo- maviruses in particular have been recognized as possible agents of important diseases, including some forms of human cancer.
Oral birth in the Australian gastric brooding frog Rheobatrachus sUus 2 Preface I have deliberately chosen the title picture to the preface, which shows the oral birth of a young gastric brooding frog (Rheobatrachus situs), to draw the reader's attention to the preface since I wish to explain why the book was written and illustrated in the way it now appears.
The close association between blood glucose control and the well-being of the patient, as well as the risk for the development of the "e;late"e; complications of 3 diabetes, make it necessary to attain near normalisation of blood glucosel- ).
In May 1984 the Swedish Council for Scientific Research convened a small group of investigators at the scientific research station at Abisko, Sweden, for the purpose of examining various conceptual and mathematical views of the evolution of complex systems.
By the end of the last century, the only region in all of Europe where the natural vegetation remained untouched over large expanses was Eastern Europe.
The Plant Root and the Rhizosphere was a major topical feature of the first International Symposium on Factors Determining the Behavior of Plant Pathogens in Soil held at the University of California, Berkeley in 1963.
Rapidly increasing interest in the problems of air pollution and source-receptor relationships has led to a significant expansion of knowledge in the field of atmospheric chemistry.
Biotechnology has come to a stage where, by replacing some of the age- old practices of breeding, it can produce novel and improved plants and animals that can better serve human beings and their purposes.
Exposure to polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and -furanes at very low concentrations is of particular interest with respect to possible human health risks.
On May 25,1978, the Commission on Toxicology ofthe Division of Clinical Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established its Subcommittee on Environmental and Occupational Toxicology of Cadmium following aseries of Commission meetings in Kristiansand, Norway.
The following papers were presented at an international symposium on the mechanisms and treatment of nausea and vomiting in man held in Oxford in 1984.
Report, the editors replaced the term "e;speciation"e; wherever it occurred by "e;identification and quantification,"e; or "e;description of abundance,"e; or "e;reactivity,"e; or "e;transformation"e; of a chemical species, according to whichever one of the four meanings the author had evidently meant to convey.
This book should be regarded as the continuation to my previous book Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin Embryo, edited by the Academic Press in 1973, rather than as a new edition.
It will be a long time before the quality of this profusely illustrated book is overtaken and the present spate of books on the subject of obstetric ultrasound may, as a result, suffer a numerical set-back - especially with translation into English which will "e;deliver the milk on everyone's doorstep"e;.
