Physiology

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.

This book addresses hot issues in the research and management of difficult-to-treat medical disorders that are commonly encountered, but for which the underlying mechanisms are often unknown.

This fifth edition of "e;Engineering Physiology"e; has the same purpose as the earlier prints: to provide physiological information which engineers, designers, supervisors, managers and other planners need to make work and equipment "e;fit the human.

Saliva as a unique sample for health assessment is gaining attention among researchers of different fields in the last 20 years; being reflected in an impressive increase in the number of papers published studying saliva from different biological aspects in human and veterinary species.

This volume focuses on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBRs), a special class of infectious disease outbreaks or pandemics in which the combined capacity of the world's private and government resources becomes severely strained.

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The way a cell undergoes malignant transformation should meet their capacity of surviving in the microenvironment of the organ where the cancer will develop.

This book focuses on recent advances regarding clinical conditions and ailments whose mechanisms remain unclear, limiting our ability to treat them.

This book provides an analytical and thorough review of clinical electrophysiology of vision, and the progress made in the field in the past decade.

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

This ambitious and comprehensive handbook represents an essential contribution to our current understanding of interactions between heart and brain, a research topic generating growing interest.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the latest developments in the field of the genomics of cardiac disease.

This book sheds new light on ferroptosis, as an only recently recognised form of regulated cell death.

This book collects and reviews, for the first time, a wide range of advances in the area of human aging biomarkers.

This is the first book addressing in full the most important aspects of the angiotensin-(1-7), the key peptide of the protective axis and the main component in the new modulatory concept of the renin-angiotensin system.

Our knowledge of cerebellar functions and cerebellar disorders, called ataxias, is increasing considerably.

This book offers an ultimate clinical guide to all the medical issues related to  triathlon - a very popular Olympic and international sport, and the most modern of all the endurance activities.

This book takes readers on a journey around the world and through time, accompanied by a modern neurosurgeon who reviews historical techniques and instruments used for cranial opening.

The Organizing Committee of the 15th International Conference on Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases compiled a group of junior investigators to provide reviews on the topics they presented at the Puerto Vallarta Bioactive Lipids conference, as part of the book series, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB).