Physiology

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?

Did you know that baby frogs look like fish when they hatch?

Your body goes through a cycle of five different stages when you sleep.

When you want to move, your brain sends a signal down your spinal cord.

Most humans only weigh a few pounds when they are born.

When you eat food, the muscles in your throat push it down a tube called the esophagus.

Nerve endings in your skin help you tell what something feels like.

Taste buds in your mouth tell your brain what flavor a food has.

Every smell you sense is made from tiny molecules floating in the air.

The center of your eye is known as the pupil.

Sound waves are a type of vibration in the air.

Did you know that teeth come in many different shapes?

Did you know that stomach muscles are involuntary muscles?