Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

Leading workers in the field of human reproduction provideboth basic knowledge and useful practical information inthis book about the most critical phase in the developmentof a new human being: the first twelve weeks of life.

Das Buch enthält die Übersichtsreferate und Gastvorlesungen, die auf der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft im August/September 1990 in Hannover gehalten wurden.

The great strides made in the field of morphological methods during the past decades have perhaps found their most spectacular expression in the functional exploration of the nervous system.

(Director: Pierre J.

Although Prader-Willi syndrome was first described 35 years ago, it was following detection of an interstitial chromosome 15q deletion in some affected patients ten years ago that it became a major focus of multidisciplinary scientific interest.

Never has so much progress been reported in immunology as at this congress.

In den letzten Jahren ist aus der molekularbiologischen Forschung heraus eine Analysetechnik für die breitere Anwendung entwickelt worden, die nach ihrer Ausführungsform "DNA-Hybridisierungstechnik" und nach ihrem Anwendungsbereich "Gen-Analyse" genannt wird.

The Second International Symposium on Narcolepsy was held at Fairchild Auditorium, Stanford University, on 6-7 July 1985 under the presidency of Drs.

Molecular biology has always been a discipline of rapid development.

Schuldet der Arzt Unterhalt für ein Kind, dessen Geburt er aufgrund einer Indikation nach § 218a StGB hätte verhindern sollen?

Modem Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was first introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1.

Menschliches Leben erscheint in seinen natürlichen Grundlagen wesentlich bestimmt von der ästhetischen Grundfunktion der geistigen Haltung.

In 1954, when I obtained my B.

This volume emphasizes the comparative approach to under- standing vertebrate renal function.

The editors and the publisher are pleased to present another volume in this series of monographs.

Nearly 10 years have elapsed since I finished writing the first edition of Intro- duction to Molecular Embryology.

Modern Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was first introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1.

Since 1978 this textbook, to the gratification of its authors and publisher, has found an undiminished readership.

Lactogenic hormone activity was first observed in bovine pituitary extracts by Stricker and Griiter in 1928, working in Bouin's laboratory in Strasbourg.

Upon wresting the control of the earth from the Titans, Zeus assigned the task of creating living creatures to two Titan brothers who had sided with him in the epic battle just concluded.

The purpose of this monograph is to describe theoretical aspects of the interpretation of data obtained from experiments performed with labeled hormones.

Approximately one third of the mass of a mammalian red blood cell is hemo- globin.

Several compounds are associated with experimentally induced neoplasms in the urinary systems, and especially the kidneys, of laboratory animals.

During the last years much attention has been given to the investigation of the roles of specific growth modulators acting on liver cell populations.

The book gives a review of the state-of-the-art of recent investigations of the adipositas diabetes syndrome of sand rats kept under laboratory conditions and given various diet regimes.

Mitochondrial transport systems are essential to mitochondrial function and therefore to energy homeostasis within the cell.

Due to sensitive molecular biological techniques, our understanding of chromosomal aberrations is steadily increasing.

Einsatzmöglichkeiten des Neuromonitorings in der klinischen Anästhesie und Intensivmedizin sind Thema dieses Bandes.

The studies described here were carried out in the Neuroregul- ation Group, Department of Physiology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

Everyone has heard of nature's "e;biological clocks"e;, the phenomenon of periodic activity in plants, animals and humans.

The author of this Foreword has recently retired after spending 25 years in academia and 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry.

Ataxia-telangiectasia or A-T is a fatal progressiveneurological disease of children.

Applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigate the mutagenicity of chemicals and other agents.

Biological cell membranes regulate the transfer of matter and informa- tion between the intracellular and extracellular compartments as basic survival and maintenance functions for an organism: This volume contains a series of reviews that are concerned with how biological plasma membranes regulate the transport of chloride between the intracellular and extracellular compartments of a cell.

Major advances have been made in the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis, the disease that still affects more than 50 percent of the population in the highly industrialized countries.

Why have another book in the bone-calcium field?

A new approach using comparative neuromorphology is taken inthis study dealing with the organization of the efferentnuclei of cranial nerves.

Since the discovery of the pancreatic secretagogue secretin by W.

Since the thalidomide (Contergan) tragedy about 30 years agothe induction of prenatally-induced morphological orfunctional defects has been an area of extensive research.

The European School of Oncology came into existence to respond to a need for informa- tion, education and training in the field of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of knowledge lea-ding to a molecular understanding of the mechanisms of ac-tion of calcium on excitation and contraction coupling andits role in the regulation of contractility.