When WILHELM RUHLAND developed his plan for an Encyclopedia of Plant Physiol- ogy more than three decades ago, biology could still be conveniently subdivided into classical areas.
As plant physiology increased steadily in the latter half of the 19th century, problems of absorption and transport of water and of mineral nutrients and problems of the passage of metabolites from one cell to another were investigated, especially in Germany.
The discovery of the reversible red far-red control of plant growth and development and the subsequent in vivo identification and isolation of the photoreceptor pigment, phyto- chrome, constitutes one of the great achievements in modern biology.
At the 6th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, held in Carleton University, Ottawa in 1968, it was decided that the 7th should be held in Czecho- slovakia, following an invitation by Dr.
This book summarizes the papers presented at the International Symposium on vascular smooth muscle, organized in combination with the XXV Interna- tional Congress of Physiological Sciences by the German Society of Angiology e.
The Meyerhof Symposium on "e;Molecular Bioenergetics and Macromolecular Biochemistry"e; took place in Heidelberg from the 5th to the 8th of July, 1970.
HERBERT FISCHER Max-Planck-Institut fur Immunbiologie, Freiburg-Zahringen With 3 Figures Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of the organizers of the 22nd Mosbach Colloquium, Msrs.
Phenomena as diverse as tuberculin sensitivity, delayed sensitivity to soluble proteins other than tuberculin, contact allergy, homograft rejection, experimental autoallergies, and the response to many microorganisms, have been classified as members of the class of immune reactions known as delayed or cellular hypersensitivity.
Why should there be a handbook of sensory physiology, and if so, why now' The editors have asked this question, marshalled all of the arguments that seemed to speak against their project, and then discovered that most of these arguments really spoke in favor of it: there seemed to be no doubt that the attempt should be made and that it should be made now.
Die Fragen nach verantwortlichem Forschen und nach der Verantwortung des einzelnen Wissenschaftlers rücken wieder verstärkt in den Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses.
Nuclear Medicine techniques have advanced to such a degree that biochemical transparency of the human body has reached the doorstep of medical application.
Das Vorwort, obwohl selten gelesen, erfüllt die subjektiv wich tige Aufgabe, dem Autor für alle Fälle ein Alibi in der einen oder anderen Hinsicht zu verschaffen.
Die Anwendung der PLANcKschen und EINSTEINschen Vorstellungen über den quantenhaften Wirkungsaustausch zwischen Strahler und Feld und über die diskontinuierliche Struktur der elektromagnetischen Wellen (Photonen) auf biologische Probleme war im Jahre 1922 ein Gedanke, der vielen allzu kühn, ja phantastisch erschien.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
Although lots of books have been published about herbaltherapy, a comprehensive overview of the adverse effects ofbotanical medicines is not available.
