Physiology

From biology to culture to the new new economy, the buzzword on everyone's lips is "e;meme.

Pain is a symptom of many clinical disorders, afflicts a large proportion of the population and is largely treated by pharmacological means.

Der Anregung der Verlagsbuchhandlung, ein Lehrbuch der chemischen Physiologie zu verfassen, bin ich im Jahre 1936 gern nachgekommen, weil es mir reizvoll erschien, Tatsachenmaterial und theoretische Vor­ stellungen dieser Wissenschaft vor allem im Sinne einer allgemeinen bio­ logischen Chemie zu ordnen und zusammenzufassen.

This concise introduction to the gastrointestinal system encapsulates the fundamental facts and principles of this rapidly growing and changing specialty.

This two-part book provides the most advanced biochemical and histochemical analytical methods on neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, and neuropeptides described by international specialists.

Signal transduction comprises the intracellular biochemical signals which induce the appropriate cell response to an external stimulus.

How big is a baby polar bear?

The Protective Arm of the Renin Angiotensin System: Functional Aspects and Therapeutic Implications is the first comprehensive publication to signal the protective role of a distinct part of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), providing readers with early insight into a complex system which will become of major medical importance in the near future.

Diabetic Neuropathy identifies the most accurate early biomarkers of nerve damage to better understand pathophysiology and diagnose diabetic neuropathy in the clinical care of patients, and in particular, permit an accurate evaluation of future therapies in clinical trials.

This brief explores the biological effects of long-term radiation on astronauts in deep space.

Amyloid fibrils are associated with a range of pathological disorders including Alzheimer's Disease, Down's syndrome, diabetes, cardiomyopathies, and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

In this compendium of current studies on olfaction and taste - the most comprehensive yet to appear in this series - the chemical senses are elucidated from points of view ranging from anatomy, electrophysiology, molecular biology (especially chemoreceptor gene cloning), biochemistry, and psychophysics to the latest clinical and technological applications of chemosensory research.

adjustment to the many dramatic changes which have occurred in the last quarter century.

Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts.

Neuroendocrine Perspectives, Volume 3 provides information on amine and peptide biochemistry.

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This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers the area of mechanisms in regeneration.

In knapper Form wird in diesem Buch die Physiologie der vegetativen Funktionen des Menschen behandelt, die in der Regel ohne Einschaltung des Bewußtseins ablaufen.

Almost fourteen percent of American children over age six and twelve percent of adolescents are obese, more than double the rate of thirty years ago.

This book provides the latest research progress on genome editing in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and includes bioinformatics research methodology of genome editing.

This volume explores microRNA function in a wide array of human disorders, providing a clinical basis for precision medicine and personalized therapies using these molecules.

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of recent advances in drug and non-drug therapies for obesity and diabetes.

It is now widely accepted that there are important links between inactivity and lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and that exercise can bring tangible therapeutic benefits to people with long-term chronic conditions.

This volume thoroughly explores of the functional role of microRNAs in cancer.

This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.

Wenn ich mit der Hand an den heißen Ofen komme, werde ich sie unter Schmerzempfindungen äußerst schnell zurückziehen, und das ist gut für mich, denn dadurch werde ich vor weiteren Ver­ brennungen bewahrt.

“Dino” Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

The popular narrative of "e;globesity"e; posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess.

This is the first comprehensive book exclusively dedicated to anorectal physiology and the importance of diagnostic tools in guiding the evaluation and treatment of anorectal dysfunction.

While the health consequences and mechanisms by which visceral fat causes disease are well-studied, relatively less is known about ectopic fat, its patterns of deposition and its effects on the pathoetiology of type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease.

An elephant lost part of a front leg and had trouble getting around.

GIVING NURSES THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY KNOWLEDGE TO THRIVE IN MODERN PRACTICE Combining all the benefits of traditional textbook learning with additional videos and online resources that take you further.

Advances in Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Volume 5, presents three papers that cover the different physiological and chemical aspects of biology, from functional morphology at one end to behavior at the other end of the spectrum.

Two new volumes of Methods in Enzymology continue the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Disease Mechanisms and Therapy provides the latest information on a condition that is characterized by motoneuron loss and muscle atrophy, and is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality.

The Structure and Function of Muscle, Second Edition: Volume II: Structure, Part 2 deals with various aspects of muscle structure, including physiology and microanatomy.

Unless new discoveries are made in the prevention or treatment of stroke, Alzheimer's Disease and depression, the number of patients with these diseases is sure to increase dramatically by the year 2050.

In this book, scientists pioneering the field have compiled a series of focused chapters to highlight the relevance of the BCL 2 family of proteins in apoptosis, physiology and disease.

The Principles of Nutrition for Practitioners and Students discusses the principles of nutrition-a subject which becomes more and more terrifying to the learner with each addition to the complex of vitamins.

International Review of Neurobiology, Supplement 1: Neurobiology of the Trace Metals Zinc and Copper represents a first report in the study of the neurobiology of zinc and copper.

Roughly one in every five patients referred to a neurologist suffers from headaches; the majority have migraines.

This is a motley document, the product of many, presented for what it is.

This book contains the refereed contributions from the 41st annual meeting of ISOTT.

Protides of the Biological Fluids: Metal Binding Proteins, Tumor Markers, Monoclonal Antibodies covers the proceedings of the 31st Colloquium by the same title, held in Brussels, Belgium in 1983.

The Heart and Toxins brings together global experts to provide the latest information and clinical trials that make the connection between genetic susceptibility, gene expression, and environmental factors in cardiovascular diseases.

„Von den Grundlagen zur Klinik“, so lautete das Motto des 18.

Join Ackerley the Acanthostega and travel back in time 4,500 million years to the Precambrian period, when our planet first formed.

The field of capillary-tissue exchange physiology has been galvanized twice in the past 25 years.