Sportliche Höchstleistungen werden heute oft nur noch unter Schmerzen erbracht und viele Sporttreibende leiden unter schmerzhaften Bewegungs- und Leistungseinschränkungen.
This volume is based on a workshop "e;Modulation of Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity in Nervous Systems"e; held in n Ciocco, Castelvecchio, Pascoli, Italy, from September 8th to 13th, 1987.
The effect of calcium antagonists on heart muscle and blood circulation is the reason that they have found widespread clinical application for a number of years.
This book gives a survey of the architecture of the Golgi apparatus, as revealed by morphological and cytochemical studies with a variety of cell types.
Estimates reveal that there are some 200 million heterozygous carriers of abnormal hemoglobins genes worldwide, and tens of thousands of severely affected patients.
Alfons Staudach has been a long-time member of the Anatomic Institute of Karl Franzens University in Graz, where he has devoted particular atten- tion to the deeper understanding, appreciation and visualizion of gross ana- tomic details.
Endocrinologic investigations during pregnancy have focused in the last decades on placental hormones, the maternal endocrine system and maternal fetal interactions.
This monograph has been written in the hope that it will prove of value to medical students and clinicians, to Honours undergradu- ates in appropriate branches of the natural sciences, and to repro- ductive biologists in general.
According to Valentin (1833) and Luschka (1862), the first description of the structure now known as the carotid body must be ascribed to a Swiss physiolo- gist - Albrecht von Haller - who, in 1762, called it the ganglion exiguum.
In their contribution to the first edition of this Handbook, entitled "e;The Teeth,"e; LEHNER and PLENK (1936) discussed the tissues constituting the "e;perio- dontium"e; rather briefly.
The Editorial Board and the Publishers of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology wish to express their profound grief at the untimely death of Professor Peter Baker.
The foundation needed for the understanding and hence the treatment of a disease is a knowledge of the natural morphology and physiology of the affected organ and the system to which it belongs.
The observations made by Paracelsus concerning the dose-effect relationship of poison are generally just as applicable to health- threatening vibration.
The study of the functional organization of the first synapse of the centripetal visual pathway at the outer plexiform layer level (OPL) ought to be made through the application of combined histological, electrophysiological, and neurochemical techniques.
The mature vertebrate retina is a highly complicated array of several kinds of cells, capable of receiving light impulses, transforming them into neuronal membrane currents, and transmitting these in a meaningful way to central processing.
This volume on the clinical anatomy of the neurocranium, the orbit and the craniocervical junction is intended to provide a precise and detailed account for the use of neurosurgeons, otorhinolaryngologists, neuroradiologists and roentgenologists.
