Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

This book brings together the most up-to-date information about the physiology of progestogens.

Practitioners are increasingly adopting a personalised medicine approach to individually tailored patient care, especially disease diagnosis and treatment with the use of biomarkers.

This is the first textbook to comprehensively cover the experimental methods used in biomechanics.

This new volume of our successful book series Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology focuses on the need for and use of animal models when studying endometriosis.

This third edition introduces the exciting world of how human movement is created and how it can be enhanced.

This book presents the latest insights into all the critical aspects of Klinefelter's Syndrome, in order to promote a more homogeneous a medical approach to this condition, leading to better and more "e;evidence-based"e; support, and improving patient satisfaction.

Under the name of Frontotemporal Dementias (FTD) numerous hereditary and sporadic disorders are listed.

This book offers a reliable source of information on the latest advances and current trends in the medical and clinical sciences.

Most of us eat (or incorporate into our bodies) quite a bit of stuff that does not look, act or function even remotely like us.

This book sheds new light on "e;inducible"e; lymphoid organs (ILOs): antigen presentation sites that are generated de novo in peripheral tissues under various pathogenic conditions.

Lipids are responsible not just for constituting cellular membrane but also for storing energy, transducing signaling, and modifying proteins.

This book shares the experimental findings and views in current multidisciplinary medical science combining both basic and applied research aimed at resolving problematic health issues.

Macrophages are core components of the innate immune system.

How do electrical activity and calcium signals in neurons influence the secretion of peptide hormones?

This book illustrates, that the fungal cell wall is critical for the biology and ecology of all fungi and especially for human fungal pathogens.

This book focuses on the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system.

This book reviews the assessment of human performance and the role of different exercise modes both in a laboratory and clinical setting.

This book covers in detail the mechanisms for how energy is managed in the human body.

This third edition provides 2900 multiple choice questions on human anatomy and physiology, and some biophysical science, separated into 20 chapters and 68 categories.

This book comprehensively addresses female and male fertility preservation.

This book provides a comprehensive update on the management of multiple pregnancy, which is becoming more common, and is associated with increased maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity.

This practical book focuses on the most recent advances in fertility preservation in oncological and non-oncological patients.

Obesity is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adults as well as in obese children.

The fourth edition of this book updates and elaborates on the seven dimensions of maternal emotional health that have significant impact on delivery, postpartum adaptation, infant health, and early childhood development.

This thoroughly revised third edition provides a comprehensive grounding on hereditary heart diseases with special emphasis on the genetic aspects of these conditions.

This book presents an up-to-date and comprehensive review of female contraception, offering an extensive overview of contraception types, including oral, injectable, emergency, and various cervical barrier contraceptives.

Lipids are responsible not just for constituting cellular membrane but also for storing energy, transducing signaling, and modifying proteins.

This atlas is the result of research involving over 3,000 patients consecutively recruited since 2004.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

Skin physiology assessment is moving from a descriptive approach to a deeper understanding of biophysical and biochemical processes in the stratum corneum, such as epidermal barrier function and stratum corneum hydration.

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of various aspects of long non-coding RNAs.

This is the first comprehensive book exclusively dedicated to anorectal physiology and the importance of diagnostic tools in guiding the evaluation and treatment of anorectal dysfunction.

Signal transduction comprises the intracellular biochemical signals which induce the appropriate cell response to an external stimulus.

This uniquely accessible volume challenges professionals to understand-and help correct-health disparities, both at the patient level and in their larger social contexts.

This textbook will support graduate students with learning materials rich in the basic concepts of stem cell biology, in its most widespread and updated perspective.

The field of anatomy is dynamic and fertile.

Given the at times confusing new information concerning the human microbiome released over the last few years, this book seeks to put the research field into perspective for non-specialists.

Fully revised and updated with the most current information, the third edition of this practical clinical text covers all aspects of the rapidly advancing field of preimplantation genetic testing (PGT).

Symptoms of the breast in gravid women commonly represent physiological changes, however they may also be related to serious underlying breast disease; this challenging dilemma is aggravated by diagnostic and therapeutic limitations imposed by safety issues regarding the mother and fetus.

This contributed volume emphasizes the potential of stem cells to be pertained in the urology field and attempts to disclose the history of the field up to the latest advances to date.

This is a reference handbook for young researchers exploring gene and cell therapy.

DNA is under constant challenge from environmental and endogenous metabolic assaults.

This book covers subjects that have major impacts on society, such as the mechanism of maternal-fetal transfer of vitamin A, and the effects of alcohol on retinoic acid signaling and mammalian embryonic development.

Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) is a highly versatile model with a genetic legacy of more than a century.

This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions.

This book provides a comprehensive, organized, and concise overview of xenobiotic metabolic enzymes and their health implications.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of breast MRI for screening high-risk women, including those with familial-genetic hereditary predisposition and previous chest radiation therapy, typically lymphoma survivors.

This atlas contains a large number of original photographs illustrating the anatomy, research methods, and structural features of the structure of the lymphatic apparatus in oncological diseases.

The world population is rapidly aging-it is estimated that by 1950, around 17% of the population will be elderly.

This book provides an introduction to qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology.