Biology, life sciences

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.

The phenomenon of chirality occurs in many disciplines of natural sciences, such as elementary particle physics, chemistry of molecules, biopolymers and crystals, pharmacology, biology (snails, winding plants), and medicine (handedness).

The book collects the contributions to the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Speech Recognition and Understanding: Recent Advances, Trends and Applications"e;, held in Cetraro, Italy, during the first two weeks of July 1990.

Earth scientists, who have worked together for 6 years in the priority pro- gram "e;Hydrogeochemical Processes in the Hydrological Cycle Within the Unsaturated and Saturated Zones"e;, have summarized the results of their research in this volume.

The contents of this volume derive loosely from an EMBO worksh9P held at EMBL (Heidelberg) towards the end of 1989.

The book provides a comprehensive account of ticks andtick-borne diseases occurring in tropical and subtropicalareas.

PCR, developed at Cetus Corporation/USA by Henry A.

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

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

The eighth workshop in this series on Mechanisms in B-Cell Neoplasia 1990 was held in Wilson Hall at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland on March 28-30.

"e;What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning.

Being both broad - perception and motor organization - andnarrow - just onegroup of animals - at the same time, thisbook presents a new unified framework for understandingperceptuomotor organization, stressing the importance of anecological perspective.

The chapters in this volume describe a powerful emerging approach for the therapy of disease.

Almost two centuries ago proteins were recognized as the primary materials (proteios = primary) oflife, but the significance and wide role of peptides (from pepsis = digestion) in practically all life pro- cesses has only become apparent in the last few decades.

This study on the human midbrain examines how specific neuroanatomical structures are involved in the aging process and in certain degenerative diseases of the nervous system.

Bei automatischen Spracherkennungssystemen erweist sich ein Wechsel des Sprechers als besonderes Problem: Ein zuvor durch eine andere Person trainiertes Erkennungssystem hat eine deutlich erhöhte Fehlerwahrscheinlichkeit.

Latest issue in the CURRENT TOPICS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY se-ries which has been gaining a great deal of reputation as aprimary source for reviews in neuroendocrinology and relatedareas in the past few years.

The application of immobilized enzymes in medicine is the main objective of this book.

Plants, fungi, and viruses were among the first biological objects studied with an electron microscope.

All living organisms are exposed to rapidly changing environmental conditions which may lead to external stress.

Inorganic Nitrogen in Plants and Microorganisms summarizes new experimental data, ideas and conclusions on the whole metabolic spectrum: - transport through the cell membranes, - the distribution within plant organs, - nitrate and nitrite reduction with their complicated genetic and physiological regulation, - the assimilation of ammonium and dinitrogen.

Die Datenmengen, die bei der Modellierung, der Simulation und der Überwachung von Umweltprozessen anfallen, sind heute schon so groß, daß sie nur noch mit Supercomputersystemen in verantwortbaren Zeiten sinnvoll bearbeitet werden können.

"e;The problems involved in separating complex macromolecules require under- standing not only the chromatographic process but also the physicochemical behavior of the solutes.

Supercomputing is an important science and technology that enables the scientist or the engineer to simulate numerically very complex physical phenomena related to large-scale scientific, industrial and military applications.

A host of environmental factors regulate the embryonic development of neurons.

Genital Papillomavirus Infections provides a state of the art survey on the clinical aspects, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of genital papillomavirus infections, written by experts in the respective fields.

Rarely have the many mechanisms that might underlie neural plasticity been examined as explicitly as they are in this broad, lavishly illustrated treatment of plasticity in the somatosensory system.