Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

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.

Connections define the functions of neurons: information flows along connections, as well as growth factors and viruses, and even neuronal death can progress through connections.

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.

This book provides a comprehensive description of sterols and their novel biological roles in mammalian signaling, the book covers their biosynthesis and structure, describes sterol receptor -mediated actions, their tissue distribution and their role in disease.

This book addresses hot issues in the research and management of difficult-to-treat medical disorders that are commonly encountered, but for which the underlying mechanisms are often unknown.

This book offers an authoritative review of biopharmaceuticals and their clinical relevance.

Protein homeostasis, or "e;Proteostasis"e;, lies at the heart of human health and disease.

In this book, experts in the field discuss the latest research in developmental neuroendocrinology.

This atlas provides valuable information on crucial aspects of sperm examination as well numerous meaningful color illustrations.

This fifth edition of "e;Engineering Physiology"e; has the same purpose as the earlier prints: to provide physiological information which engineers, designers, supervisors, managers and other planners need to make work and equipment "e;fit the human.

Saliva as a unique sample for health assessment is gaining attention among researchers of different fields in the last 20 years; being reflected in an impressive increase in the number of papers published studying saliva from different biological aspects in human and veterinary species.

This unique, case-based guide provides a thoughtful and comprehensive overview of the genetic basis of male infertility for the practicing clinician.