Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

Das Buch beschäftigt sich vor dem Hintergrund der biologischen Evolution mit den Risiken der menschlichen Geburt.

This book is dedicated to the memory of Walter Brendel, late Professor of Experimental Surgery and Chairman of the Institute for Surgical Research at the University of Munich, Germany.

All up-to-date aspects of DNA technology are discussed partly in review lectures but mostly in research articles in this volume: new methods, population statistics for different restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP's), new developments dealing with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), biostatistical aspects of single locus and multi locus profiles as well as examples of practical applications in paternity testing and forensic stain analysis.

"e;What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning.

How do certain substances, known as growth factors, cause blood to be built in the human body?

This volume forms part of a prestigious series and covers the latest advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology and treatment of asthma.

This study on the human midbrain examines how specific neuroanatomical structures are involved in the aging process and in certain degenerative diseases of the nervous system.

Together with the two previous volumes of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology on histamine and antihistamines the present publication yields a picture of a still rapidly developing field of research.

Alcohol abuse, alcohol intolerance, alcohol dependence and other alcohol-related disabilities are some of the most challenging public health problems facing our modern-day society.

Leading international experts contribute to this selection of reviews covering the merging fields of growth factors, differentiation factors, and cytokines.

The basic thesis for this study was that the telencephalon is needed to make decisions in new situations.

Das Buch enthält die Referate und wesentlichen Diskussionsbeiträge einer Tagung der Evangelischen Akademie Bad Boll zum Thema "Ein Kind um jeden Preis?

The structural and chemical limitations to respiratory gas exchange existing between the ambient medium and the cell are comprehensively treated.

The 5th edition of this successful Glossary has been completely revised, updated and supplemented by up-to-date terms used in genetic engineering and molecular genetics.

Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Aspekte der koronaren Herzkrankheit, von der heute nahezu jeder 2.

In the cardiovascular sciences, an increasing demand for the use of modern methods of cell biology has developed.

The last ten years have witnessed a remarkable increase in our awareness of the importance of events subsequent to transcriptional initiation in terms of the regulation and control of gene expression.

This state-of-the-art review links the experimental data into a cohesive and critical account of CNS regeneration.

This volume aims to give a comprehensive overview of the cellular mechanisms underlying the process of secretion in vertebrate, particularly mammalian, exocrine glands.

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This volume contains papers presented at the international conference on "e;Transgenic Mice and Mutants in MHC Research"e;, held in Bar Harbor, Maine, in June, 1989.

The third volume of "e;Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics"e; contains the th scientific contributions presented at the 13 Congress of the International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics, held on October 19-21, 1989 in New Orleans, USA.

This volume contains the contributions to a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI In- ternational Congress of Physiological Sciences in Espoo, Helsinki, Finland, July 15-17,1989.

Dieses Buch stellt das erste deutschsprachige Werk dar, in dem die neuen, grundlegenden Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Molekularbiologie und Molekulargenetik vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Bedeutung für die klinische und wissenschaftliche Humanmedizin beschrieben und diskutiert werden.

Any professional concerned with immunology will be interested in this book dedicated to the memory of Milan Hasek, former director of the Prague Institute of Experimental Biology and Genetics.

When computed tomography (CT) was developed and introduced by Hounsfield (1973), a new era of clinical diagnostic potential began.

Klinische Forschung hat als Forschung am kranken Menschen besonders hohen ethischen Anforderungen zu genügen.

Histological observations of human embryos hitherto have been carried out using paraffin sections of 5 to 10 um thickness, stained with the H-E method or simply with carmine.

Quantitative anaesthesia - exact registration of the degree of anaesthesia - has long been the anaesthetist's dream.

When survival is challenged by the cold, animals react by employing both behavioral and physiological solutions.

The recent interest in the pharmacology of the skin and the treatment of its diseases has come about for two reasons.

Bone grafting is an essential technique in bone and joint surgery.

Dieses Sammelwerk gibt neben einer Einführung in die makroskopische Anatomie der Regenbogenforelle eine detaillierte Beschreibung der Histologie der einzelnen Organe bzw.

Frühkindliche funktionelle Seitneigeasymmetrie in der oberen Halswirbelsäule ist altersspezifischer Ausdruck menschlicher Lateralität und Hintergrund für die Entwicklung funktioneller und morphologischer Asymmetrien in anderen Regionen des Haltungs- und Bewegungssystems.

The recent interest in the pharmacology of the skin and the treatment of its diseases has come about for two reasons.