Physiology

This book contains the refereed contributions from the 42nd annual meeting of ISOTT.

This textbook describes the biomechanics of bone, cartilage, tendons and ligaments.

Every year, around the world, between 250,000 and 500,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury (SCI).

This book offers physiology teachers a new approach to teaching their subject that will lead to increased student understanding and retention of the most important ideas.

This book is an informal autobiography by John West MD PhD.

This volume offers a comprehensive history of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), one of the major marine laboratories in the United States and a leader in using marine organisms to study fundamental physiological concepts.

This book surveys healthy and diseased vascular systems in a multitude of model organisms and systems.

This timely volume provides a comprehensive overview of glucocorticoids and their role in regulating many aspects of physiology and their use in the treatment of disease.

Empirical data on neural control of motor action and perception have not yet been put into the context of a coherent theory.

This book covers the fundamentals of biomechanics.

This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology.

The field of microbial endocrinology is expressly devoted to understanding the mechanisms by which the microbiota (bacteria within the microbiome) interact with the host ("e;us"e;).

This volume is the most recent installment of the Progress in Motor Control series.

To celebrate the Center for Perinatal Biology's 40th Anniversary, an illustrious group gathered at Loma Linda University in February 2013.

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This book describes the evolution of ideas relating to the mechanism of muscular contraction since the discovery of sliding filaments in 1954.

The study of how the brain processes temporal information is becoming one of the most important topics in systems, cellular, computational, and cognitive neuroscience, as well as in the physiological bases of music and language.

In a simplified form, epigenetics refers to heritable changes in phenotype that are not due to changes in the underlying DNA sequence.

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

The goal of this volume is to comprehensively cover a highly readable, updated and extended, overview on our present knowledge of positive and negative effects of UV exposure, with a focus on vitamin D and skin cancer.

Encephalitis lethargica ('sleeping sickness') was a mysterious disorder that swept the world in the decade following the First World War, before disappearing without its cause having been identified.

This book is meant to provide the most current knowledge regarding the mechanisms of action of A20, if its versatile functions and their validation in animal models of human disease and its promise as a diagnostic biomarker and therapeutic target.

Wouldn't it be great if there were a physics book that showed you how things work instead of telling you how?

Todays synthetic biologists are in the early stages of engineering living cells to help treat diseases, sense toxic compounds in the environment, and produce valuable drugs.

Todays synthetic biologists are in the early stages of engineering living cells to help treat diseases, sense toxic compounds in the environment, and produce valuable drugs.

The study of self-consciousness helps humans understand themselves and restores their identities.

Atherosclerosis represents the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world.

Assembles a collection of experts to provide a current account of different approaches (e.

The latest in a series of books from the International Hypoxia Symposia, this volume spans reviews on key topics in hypoxia, and abstracts from poster and oral presentations.

The brain is the most complex and highly of semi-permeable excitable membranes which specialised of all mammalian organs.

Taurine, or 2-aminoethane sulfonic acid, has long been known to be the major organic product formed from the breakdown of the sulfur-containing amino acids, methionine and cysteine.

It has been over 50 years since Hans Selye formulated his concept of stress.

This book dealing with stance and motion was planned in June 1986 at a meeting held in Moscow and Leningrad between a group of Soviet and French scientists interested in motor control.

The physiology of man is a complex subject.

Designed to meet the needs of undergraduate students, Introduction to Biomechanics takes the fresh approach of combining the viewpoints of both a well-respected teacher and a successful student.

Did you know that the average adult has about 60,000 miles (95,500 kilometers) of blood vessels?

Did you know the two largest bones in the body, the femur and the tibia, are both found in the legs?

Did you know that there are more than 600 named muscles in the human body?

Did you know the average adult takes 12 to 20 breaths per minute when not doing physical activity?

Did you know that more than 2.

Did you know that the human brain consumes about 20 percent of all energy used by the body?

In the 1900s, nearly 300 million people died from the smallpox disease.

Did you know that baby butterflies look like worms with legs?