Physiology

This indispensable title rethinks the neurologic examination in a format tailored, modified, and specialized for neurocritical illness.

Lung diseases are leading causes of death and disability globally, with about 65 million people suffering from COPD, and 334 million from asthma.

This book offers a summary and discussion of the advances of inflammation and infection in various cancers.

Many significant achievements in new ultrasound technologies to measure bone and models to elucidate the interaction and the propagation of ultrasonic waves in complex bone structures have been reported over the past ten years.

This book aims at providing insights into the collagen superfamily and the remarkable diversity of collagen function within the extracellular matrix.

This book integrates topics in basic research and clinical medicine as well as molecular and cell biology.

This comprehensive Monograph examines all peripheral and central mechanisms of regulating the secretion of milk from the lactating breast.

This edited book focuses on the recent advances in our understanding of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), combining epidemiology and clinical diagnosis, with genetics and immunological aspects as well as the role of proteostasis and mitochondria before diving into new therapies including stem cell based approaches.

Medicinal plants and their derived products remain as an indispensable source of bioactive molecules that serve as either drug candidates or lead compounds for drug design and discovery.

This book provides an overview of the latest experimental work on sex-based differences in lung function and inflammation.

This volume of the series Cardiac and Vascular Biology presents the most relevant aspects of vascular mechanobiology along with many more facets of this fascinating, timely and clinically highly relevant field.

Pericytes were originally discovered and named more than hundred years ago as contractile cells around the blood vessel endothelial cells.

This second volume of Defining Physiology: Principles, Themes, Concepts.

This book focuses on C-type lectin receptors, a newly emerging family of pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) and a crucial part of the human innate immune system.

Respiratory diseases are leading causes of death and disability globally, with about 65 million people suffering from COPD, and 334 million from asthma, the most common chronic disease.

Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.

Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.

This book covers different omics aspects related to the extracellular matrix (ECM), namely specific omics resources focused on the extracellular matrix (e.

The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a serious global pandemic in just eight months.

Vaccines against antigenically stable pathogens, or pathogens that only exist in a limited number of serotypes, have been very successful in the past and have drastically decreased the incidence and lethality of many diseases.

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

This book discusses unique ion channels and transporters that are located within epithelial tissues of various organs including the kidney, intestine, pancreas and respiratory tract.

This book discusses the unique ion channels and transporters found within the epithelial tissues of various organs, including the kidney, intestine, pancreas and respiratory tract.

This proceedings volume highlights a selection of papers presented at the 7th International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, during March 19-23, 2018.

This contributed volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the roles played by 5-HT2B receptors in humans.

This book discusses major changes in our understanding of the most prevalent non-orthopedic, sports-related condition - overtraining syndrome (OTS), arguing that it should be considered as the manifestation of burnout in athletes, rather than simply the result of excessive training.

Life support systems are an integral part of crewed spacecraft designs and habitation systems.

This book discusses unique ion channels and transporters that are located within epithelial tissues of various organs including the kidney, intestine, pancreas and respiratory tract.

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.

This book brings together the most up-to-date information about the physiology of progestogens.

This third edition introduces the exciting world of how human movement is created and how it can be enhanced.

This book offers a reliable source of information on the latest advances and current trends in the medical and clinical sciences.

Most of us eat (or incorporate into our bodies) quite a bit of stuff that does not look, act or function even remotely like us.

This book sheds new light on "e;inducible"e; lymphoid organs (ILOs): antigen presentation sites that are generated de novo in peripheral tissues under various pathogenic conditions.

This book shares the experimental findings and views in current multidisciplinary medical science combining both basic and applied research aimed at resolving problematic health issues.

Macrophages are core components of the innate immune system.

This book illustrates, that the fungal cell wall is critical for the biology and ecology of all fungi and especially for human fungal pathogens.

This book reviews the assessment of human performance and the role of different exercise modes both in a laboratory and clinical setting.

This book covers in detail the mechanisms for how energy is managed in the human body.

This third edition provides 2900 multiple choice questions on human anatomy and physiology, and some biophysical science, separated into 20 chapters and 68 categories.

Obesity is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adults as well as in obese children.

Skin physiology assessment is moving from a descriptive approach to a deeper understanding of biophysical and biochemical processes in the stratum corneum, such as epidermal barrier function and stratum corneum hydration.

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.

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

Given the at times confusing new information concerning the human microbiome released over the last few years, this book seeks to put the research field into perspective for non-specialists.

Symptoms of the breast in gravid women commonly represent physiological changes, however they may also be related to serious underlying breast disease; this challenging dilemma is aggravated by diagnostic and therapeutic limitations imposed by safety issues regarding the mother and fetus.

This contributed volume emphasizes the potential of stem cells to be pertained in the urology field and attempts to disclose the history of the field up to the latest advances to date.

This book covers subjects that have major impacts on society, such as the mechanism of maternal-fetal transfer of vitamin A, and the effects of alcohol on retinoic acid signaling and mammalian embryonic development.

This book provides a comprehensive, organized, and concise overview of xenobiotic metabolic enzymes and their health implications.

This book provides an introduction to qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology.