Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

Surgeons confronted with acute trauma are frequently under great pressure to act quickly.

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.

Die Zahl der verfügbaren Beta-Rezeptor-Antagonisten und Narkose­ mittel hat in den letzten Jahren erheblich zugenommen.

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.

Of all the classes in the animal kingdom, birds represent the best known.

No one has counted the enzymes in the human organism, and probably their profuse number can only be estimated from the restrictions the finite mass of genetic material imposes.

It was with great pleasure that I accepted Professor Wackenheim's invitation to write the preface of this most interesting monograph.

In recent years the inferior olive and its projection to the cerebellum have attracted considerable interest.

Wilhelm His, one of the founders of developmental neurobiology, was convinced "e;that the processes of generation and development obey fundamental and simple laws and submit to the general laws of nature"e; (His 1901).

Studies on cell kinetics in untreated animals have for the most part been done on or- gans in which many proliferating cells can be found.

This book covers the principal reports and discussions which have been presented during the "e;Symposium on Anaerobic Metabolism and Lactic Acid"e; which was held in Anzere (Wallis, Switzerland) from 19th till 20th January 1978 under the patronage of the European Society of Cardiology.

Research on aplastic anaemia has until recently been limited to clinical description, morphology and epidemiology.

The question of how man has emerged must be as old as human thought itself.

This preface is addressed to the reader who wishes to inquire into the prevailing concepts, hypotheses and theories about development of sensory systems and wants to know how they are exemplified in the following chapters.

I fancy that many of you, like myself, have woken up in the night with a "e;sleeping"e; arm or leg.

This book summarizes the papers presented at the symposium "e;Dynamics and Regulation of the Arterial System"e; held at Erlangen on 28-30 October 1977 in honor of Professor Erik Wetterer.

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Life is always intimately bound up with structure and with the continuous transformation which structures undergo.

On February 21 and 22, 1975, an International Workshop on the "e;Genetics of Diabetes Mellitus"e; was held in Gottingen, West-Germany.

This section will consider the structure and function of muscle receptors, as well as the central nervous system mechanisms with which they are concerned.

The details of the receptor mechanism are not yet fully understood for any sensory system.

The function of the vestibular system is not as obvious as those of vision, hearing, touch or smell.

In planning The Handbook volumes on Audition, we, the editors, made the decision that there should be many authors, each writing about the work in the field that he knew best through his own research, rather than a few authors who would review areas of research with which they lacked first hand familiarity.

In the fifteen years since the thalidomide disaster teratology has become a science in its own right, distinct from its progenitors, experimental embryology and develop- mental biology, but bearing many of the familiar features of both parents.

It was when the author of this book was working in the Department of Human Anatomy at Oxford University that Prof.

The present volume covers the physiology of the visual system beyond the optic nerve.

This volume is a collection of essays which attempts to summarize the recent progress in the field of photoreceptor and retinal physiology.