Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

This book analyzes the basic science and treatment of male factor infertility with Dr.

This second edition provides 2400 multiple choice questions on human anatomy and physiology, and some physical science, separated into 40 categories.

This book provides an extensive guide for exercise and health professionals, students, scientists, sport coaches, athletes of various sports and those with a general interest in concurrent aerobic and strength training.

Now in its revised and updated second edition, this text provides a practical way of teaching genetic counseling helping skills.

This books provides the most up-to-date reviews on current advances in our understanding of the regulation of heat shock protein responses.

This brief explores the biological effects of long-term radiation on astronauts in deep space.

This book provides a comprehensive account of vascular biology and pathology and its significance for health and disease.

This book provides information on a wide variety of  issues ranging from genetics to clinical description of the syndromes, genetic testing and counseling, and clinical management including surveillance, surgical and prophylactic interventions, and chemoprevention.

This book describes the most commonly methods used for the study of the internal anatomy of teeth and provides a complete review of the literature concerning the current state of research employing contemporary imaging tools such as micro-CT and CBCT, which offer greater accuracy whether using qualitative or quantitative approaches.

This book gives an overview of the current knowledge on the most common neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Lewy body dementia,Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and additional less common neurodegenerative diseases.

This book presents a thorough and critical review of current  knowledge about  the age of onset of mental disorders.

These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton's work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time.

This book is written to help and enable students in how to observe biological specimens in terms of viscosity, mass, elasticity and work producing elements.

This unique text discusses the wide range of causes and pathophysiologic conditions contributing to recurrent implantation failure (RIF) and the current treatment approaches to best approach this challenging patient population.

Dysmenorrhea is estimated to effect upwards of 70% of women during their lifetime and "e;heavy menstrual periods"e; is one of the most frequently given reasons for hysterectomy in the United States.

This comprehensive, up-to-date text, which brings together the key practical elements of the rapidly evolving field of sperm DNA and chromatin abnormalities, is divided thematically into five main sections.

This book provides a cutting-edge review of polyglutamine disorders.

The three-dimensional organization of the DNA inside the eukaryotic cell nucleus has emerged a critical regulator of genome integrity and function.

This ambitious sourcebook surveys both the traditional basis for and the present  state of indigenous women's reproductive health in Mexico and Central America.

This atlas focuses on selected aspects of cochlear anatomy as illustrated by material prepared by the microdissection technique, a three-dimensional perspective not possible with standard histological approaches.

This unique, comprehensive text on the male factor infertility experience centers on the current background, applications and techniques for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), one of the more commonly utilized procedures in modern assisted reproduction for male infertility, offering insights into the rationale and indications for ICSI and providing an up-to-date discussion on male factor diagnostic tests and microsurgical techniques for ICSI itself.

Whatever are your beliefs, background, education, political views or interests, one thing is sure: this book will engage you, teach you something new, and more importantly make you to re-think deeply about critical aspects of your daily-life, including sex, love, food, physical activities, diseases, work and stress, and how you see and deal with other people, other animals, and the planet in general.

The book provides a reference for years to come, written by world-renowned expert investigators studying sex differences, the role of sex hormones, the systems biology of sex, and the genetic contribution of sex chromosomes to metabolic homeostasis and diseases.

The over-arching goal of this volume is to help infertility practitioners evaluate and manage their patients with poor semen quality.

Atrial Fibrillation from an Engineering Perspective provides an up-to-date overview of techniques developed for acquisition, modeling, and analysis of noninvasive, bioelectrical signals reflecting this common arrhythmia.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the structure, function and pathophysiology of the pulmonary vasculature.

This volume of the series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences describes findings from space and accompanying ground research related to spatial orientation, posture and locomotion, cognition and psychomotor function.

This book offers a collection of expert reviews on the use of plant-based antioxidant therapies in disease prevention and treatment.

The second edition of this encyclopedia presents about 1000 chapters and includes thousands of biologically important signaling molecules and the content is built on the core concepts of their functions along with early findings written by some of the world's foremost experts.

This proceedings volume highlights a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 16-20, 2015.

The fields of rare diseases research and orphan products development continue to expand with more products in research and development status.

This book spans topics in both congenital and acquired right heart disease providing readers with detailed information on the physiology, anatomy and myocardial mechanics of the right ventricle (RV), while describing the use of echo and MRI imaging to diagnose, and new developments in surgery and cardiac catheterization to treat.

This is the first book compiling current research on the gut-bone signaling axis and its implications in the pathophysiology of GI and bone diseases.

This Brief is devoted to the CFTR protein and cystic fibrosis, and it provides an updated perspective of the genetic, functional and cellular processes involved in this conformational disorder.

This title reflects the exponential growth in the knowledge and information on this subject and defines the extensive clinical translation of cardiovascular genetics and genomics in clinical practice.

Two sigma receptor subtypes have been proposed, sigma1 and 2.

This book describes the field of osteocardiology, an exciting and new sub-discipline within cardiovascular science, which will become the cornerstone for defining the timing and treatment of cardiovascular calcification in the future.

This book is unique in that it provides the reader with the most up-to-date terminology used to describe the human nervous system (central and peripheral) and the related sensory organs, i.

This book presents an overview of the diagnostic performance of non- or semi-invasive tests for endometriosis in peripheral blood, endometrium, saliva, peritoneal fluid and urine.

This book presents descriptive overviews of gene editing strategies across multiple species while also offering in-depth insight on complex cases of application in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

This didactic book clearly and systematically describes the anatomical-surgical fundamentals of cranial neurosurgery, relating them to norm variants, imaging modalities and interdisciplinary aspects.

This volume represents an up-to-date overview on pre-Menopause and Menopause, with their respective clinical implications and therapies.

The main goal of this book is to form a high-quality platform in which well-known and emerging pioneering basic, translational and clinical scientists can present their latest, exciting findings in the studies of redox signaling in the pulmonary vasculature.

Five leaders in the field of mammalian preimplantation embryo development provide their own perspectives on key molecular and cellular processes that mediate lineage formation during the first week of life.

Since the first edition of this book was published, new knowledge has been gained on Vitiligo.

This book examines in detail the clinical implications of those diseases that either are primarily triggered by air pollution or represent direct consequences of air pollutants.

This book presents a timely collection of reviews by experts in periconception and fertilization.

This book combines the most recent knowledge on the maternal, i.

This book covers the latest developments in the therapeutic implications of angiogenesis, ranging from angiogenesis in the brain, angiogenesis in cancer, angiogenesis' role in atherosclerosis and heart disease as well as metabolic disorders and peripheral vascular disease.

The mammalian genome is constantly challenged by exogenous and endogenous threats.