Physiology

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?

Did you know the nose is part of the respiratory system?

Did you know that there are more than 600 muscles in your body?

Did you know that the left lung is smaller than the right lung?

Did you know that the heart is a muscle in the circulatory system?

Did you know that your eyes will continue to grow until you are a teenager?

Did you know that ears are a part of the auditory system?

Did you know that the brain is the third largest organ in the body?

Did you know that bones keep the organs inside our bodies safe?

Thoroughbreds are born ready to race.

This book offers a basic understanding of the complex mechanisms that protect the brain from harmful substances while still allowing for essential functions such as nutrient transport and waste removal.

Biology of Sex is a lively and intellectually challenging textbook.

Biology of Sex is a lively and intellectually challenging textbook.

This book presents a survey of research on neuronal behaviour after denervation.

This volume describes and illustrates neural pathways, their interrelationships, and their blood supply, and is aimed particularly at students of neuroanatomy, particularly medical students.

Endurance Fitness provides detailed coverage of the scientific principles on which the general theories of physical fitness are based.

This volume is primarily concerned with the entomology of Monarch butterflies and the debate regarding their northward and southward migratory patterns.

This invaluable handbook provides a basic knowledge of muscle action and co-ordination with which students of occupational therapy can applying specific techniques to specific conditions of muscle insufficiency for the restoration of function.

Physiology, unlike most biological sciences, is characterized less by methods of study than by its goal, the understanding of the complex interactions at the cellular and organismic levels.

Since the end of World War II, BCG has almost exclusively held the stage in discussions of the problem of protective vaccination against tuberculosis.

This book reveals emerging theory in the nebulous area between neurophysiology and behavioural science which is of such vital importance in the mental health field.

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.

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Graceful stingrays, massive whales, and spiny sea urchins live deep in the ocean.

Sleep and dreaming are manifestations in higher organisms of a fundamental 'circadian rhythm' of inactivity-activity.

The rumen is an object of study for many types of biological scientist, from anatomists to microbiologists, and more recently even mathematicians.

A collection of contemporary work in various areas of eye-movement research with an emphasis on physiological aspects is presented in this book.

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

Research in neural modeling and neural networks has escalated dramatically in the last decade, acquiring along the way terms and concepts, such as learning, memory, perception, recognition, which are the basis of neuropsychology.

Interest in interleukin-1 (IL-1) has increased dramatically over the last decade, but has been largely restricted to immunologists, cell biologists and those studying inflammation and cancer.

This volume is a summary of the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Vitamin B6 and Carbonyl Catalysis, held in Osaka, Japan, 15-19 October 1990.

An Introduction to Human Blood Groups provides an introduction to human blood groups.

Human Body Composition: Approaches and Applications focuses on approaches to the description of human physique; clarification of the role of factors determining and modifying body composition; and assessment of biological and medical significance of individual differences in body composition.

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.

Blood and Tissue Antigens documents the proceedings of the International Symposium on Blood and Tissue Antigens held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 17-19, 1969.

Plasma Lipids: Optimal Levels for Health compiles reports on optimal blood lipid levels.

Volume One of Hormones and the Fetus contained a generalization of the role of hormones during fetal life.

Written by the world's two leading researchers in steroid biochemistry this volume describes the ways in which hormonal concentration is regulated during pregnancy.