Medicine: general issues

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) genoß nicht nur als Gelehrter großes Ansehen, sondern wurde seiner spektakulären Vorlesungen wegen auch als akademischer Lehrer hoch geschätzt.

Der Aufsatz demonstriert anhand ausgiebig kommentierter zeitgenössischer Zeugnisse Goethes Reaktion auf die Arbeiten Fraunhofers, insbesondere auf die Entdeckung der dunklen Linien im Sonnenspektrum.

The international symposium "e;New Trends in Allergy"e;, held in Munich from July 13 to 15, 1990, brought together for the third time since 1980 some of the most experienced researchers working in the field of allergy.

0 d Den in diesem Band gesammelten Beiträgen geht es um konkrete Hinweise zur Überwindung der Kluft zwischen der naturwissenschaftlich-technischen und der geistig-sozialen Welt.

Carbohydrate as the primary product of photosynthesis has a vital role in the maintenance of life on this planet.

Alzheimer's disease is one of the major scientific, medical and social challenges of our time.

The contributions of this volume are concerned with transport phenomena in multimembrane systems and in simple epithelia.

The surface of the kidney presents a unique opportunity to study fun- damental processes in the living animal.

Part 3 of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (Concepts in Biochem- ical Pharmacology) applies the principles enunciated in Parts 1 and 2 to clinical pharmacology and toxicology.

A century has already passed since FRIEDRICH MIESCHER, working at Strasbourg and Basel, began his study of protamine, one of the basic nuclear proteins of cells.

The human face is invariably interesting, even as an object of embryologic analysis.

The progressive changes which occur during the life history of an individual metazoon are summed up under the term development.

This is the story of steroid-protein interactions as one investigator sees it.

There is a great deal of experimental work leading to the conclusion that immuno- suppression of any kind increases susceptibility to clinical or viral carcinogenesis.

It has long been known that every individual has a large number of antibodies of different specificities.

The contents of this monograph "e;Hypothalamic Control of Lacta- tion"e; are the result of studies by a nine-man team which has worked together for nine years.

Bradykinin is frequently referred to as an elusive substance; the editor of a comprehensive volume dealing with kinins thus has a difficult task.

In recent times it has come to be realized that pentoses are important as building blocks in the organism and as intermediate products in meta- bolism.

"e;When we give a definition it is for the purpose of using it"e;.

production of this volume of the Handbook.

Ever since arbovirus infections became known and their relative importance assessed, experiments were designed to elucidate the mode of transmission and the most important natural hosts responsible for perpetuating the infection in nature.

This volume contains seven chapters, based on papers presented at a Symposium on Insect Viruses, held in conjunction with the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New York, N.