Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts.

The Theory of Endobiogeny Volume 1: Global Systems Thinking and Biological Modeling for Clinical Medicine offers researchers and clinicians a detailed introduction to the theory of Endobiogeny.

Bring the Quiz Time fun to family game nights and classroom learning with over 400 trivia questions about the human body!

Translational Biotechnology: A Journey from Laboratory to Clinics presents an integrative and multidisciplinary approach to biotechnology to help readers bridge the gaps between fundamental and functional research.

Many studies of the neural bases of language processes are now conducted with functional and structural neuroimaging.

The FactsBook series has established itself as the best source of easily accessible and accurate facts about protein groups.

More than 100 years ago, Dr Casimir Funk suggested the existence of a family of organic substances that are essential for life and thus introduced the concept of "e;vital amines"e; as essential nutrients with a specific action, requiring only minute amount with the power to cure a specific disease.

¿Sabías que Neptuno es el planeta más ventoso del sistema solar?

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with updated techniques and discussions on topics such as gene suppression, editing, and reprogramming; cardiac gene therapy vectors and promoters; cardiac gene delivery methods; pulmonary hypertension; and patient screening and measuring the efficacy of cardiac gene therapy.

This book discusses principles, methodology, and applications of microbiological laboratory techniques .

The interaction of immune function and nutrition underlies the low-grade chronic inflammation involved in the etiology of many common obesity-associated and age-related chronic disease conditions.

This edited volume records the critical historical developments in thermal physiology and makes them accessible to new and senior thermal biologists and scientists in related fields.

Bioenhancers have been used in Ayurveda historically and are now being investigated for their pharmacological effi cacy.

Epigenetics refers to the study of changes in organisms that are caused by modifications of gene expression instead of alteration of the genetic code itself.

Rapidly developing technology also gives direction to our lives in the field of health and medicine.

Cuerpo y saber está compuesto por tres capítulos que reflexionan sobre el objeto de estudio de la psicomotricidad.

This book uniquely presents conceptual understanding as well as advancements in the field of endocrinology.

Unravelling Complexities in Genetics and Genomics: Impact on Diagnosis Counseling and Management reviews recent advances in defining genetic and genomic factors that play important roles in diseases in humans.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current progress in muscle contraction and cell motility research.

This is a self-contained monograph on human voice.

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will.

This book discusses the application of the concepts of fractals and chaos to biomedical phenomena.

This conference brought together scientists from diverse disciplines such as biomedical and electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, neurology, neuroscience, psychophysiology and psychology to discuss the application of nonlinear dynamics in the study of brain function.

An international panel of speakers trace the progress of human genetics from its beginning to the present day, in various communities in different countries.

Advanced techniques of statistical inference are proposed for applications in human biology research.

Visual cognition is an important area of biocybernetics.

Genes exist predominantly as families with related structures and functions, particularly within eucaryotic organisms.

This volume focuses on novel developments in our basic understanding of the anatomy, molecular biology and cell biology of the normal human pancreas and the mechanisms underlying changes in chronic pancreatitis.

Recent advances in auditory neuroscience are characterized by a close interaction between neurophysiological findings, psychophysical effects and integrative models that attempt to bridge the gap between neuroscience and psychophysics.

Biofluid mechanics is the study of a certain class of biological problems from a fluid mechanics point of view.

This book contains selected works on the biomechanics of the hand accumulated in the Biomechanics Laboratory of Mayo Clinic over the past eleven years.

This manual guides the student through an organised regional study of the human brain proceeding from caudal to rostal direction.

The book presents a new scientific approach to the problem of biomechanical systems description.

With advances in our understanding of the molecular biology of human diseases and the development of efficient gene transfer techniques, the treatment of such diseases as cancer and infectious disease using gene therapy has progressed from a distant prospect to a distinct possibility in a very short time.

This book explains how the car, as a structure, behaves in various types of accidents.

This book is intended for students of medicine, dentistry and allied health professions.

This volume is a compilation of recent research work on the problem of osteoporosis in Asia.

Linus Pauling called haemoglobin the most interesting and important of molecules.

Aluminium is the most abundant metal ion in the biosphere and we are continuously exposed to it in our everyday life through food, beverages, pharmaceutical products, etc.

This book is written by several authors based on their wide experience and on materials painstakingly accumulated through many years of practice.

This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1995 "e;Humans in the Australasian Region"e;.

Half a billion years of evolution have turned the eye into an unbelievable pattern detector.

This important book provides new information about the inter-disciplinary field of tissue banking and related clinical applications, and complements the previous two volumes.

Advances in Tissue Banking is the first authoritative publication to encompass this interdisciplinary field, which is now providing hundreds of thousands of tissue grafts for transplant surgery every year worldwide (400,000 grafts in the USA alone annually).

This is a user-friendly monograph designed for medical students as well as graduate students and postdoctoral trainees in medicine and other health-related sciences who need a comprehensive overview of thermoregulation.

This book provides a most complete overview of physiological and psychophysical properties of perceptual systems in man and animals.

The articles in this volume are the results of discussions among biophysicists, neurobiologists and mathematicians with research interests in auditory mechanics and signal processing.

This series has now established itself as the leading publication on the multi-disciplinary subject of tissue banking.

The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) is a special growth factor for the induction of new bone formation.

With the completion of human genome sequencing, human genetics is poised for major developments in functional genomics, molecular diagnostics, pathogenesis of complex multifactorial diseases and gene-based therapy.