The problem of gastric cancer, with its multifaceted aspects, offers an example of diversified oncological research, which includes epidemiology, pathogenesis, histo- morphology, surgical and conservative therapy in its spectrum.
The many significant changes that have come about in the mental health service of different countries in the last two decades have made administrative and political decision making in the distribution of care services a much more hazardous business.
The study of the genetic regulation of immune response to natural multidetermi- nant immunogens was undertaken by the method of bidirectional selective breed- ing of High or Low antibody responder lines of mice.
Bone marrow transplantation, the goal which integrates hemato- logists, immunologists, geneticists, oncologists and specialists of several other fields, has overcome its state of stagnation in recent years.
Bewußtsein läßt sich nicht einfach auf der Basis von Transducereigenschaften peripherer Rezeptoren, etwa der Retina, sowie der Transformation, Kodierung und Weiterleitung der hier generierten Impulse zu spezifischen Schaltstationen im Thalamus und in der Kortex erklären.
The first oral contraceptive became available in 1960 and since then these sub- stances, which have been used by millions of women, have probably been the most widely studied group of drugs in medical history (Drill, 1966, 1977).
In spite of old vintage and 200 years of clinical use, digitalis remains an interesting therapeutic agent, to clinicians as well as to the pharmacologist, the biochemist, and colleagues in other diciplines of theoretic medicine.
The study of the biological effects of foreign chemicals (whether therapeutic drugs or chemicals present at work or in the environment) interests the biologist from a number of different and complementary viewpoints.
The International Biological Programme (IBP) was a cooperative effort on the part of scientists throughout the world, whose goal was an integrated study of the basic processes of biological productivity.
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been used with increasing frequency in recent years to study the surface mor- phology of normal, transformed and malignant leukocytes.
When STIEVE published his work on male reproductive organs in this handbook in 1930, a definitive treatment of the morphology of the accessory sex glands seemed accomplished.
The acid metabolism of certain succulent plants, now known as Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) has fascinated plant physiologists and biochemists for the last one and a half centuries.
This volume on the evolutionary aspects of neuro-endocrinology is based on contributions from the 7th International Symposium on Neurosecretion, which took place in Leningrad, on August 15-21, 1976.
