This book is a compilation of 48 authoritative chapters, written by leading experts who highlight the huge progress made ...
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Although best known for its role in heart disease, the sarcomere--the fundamental unit of muscle contraction--is also involved ...
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The recent cloning and identification of a large number of serotonin (5-HT) receptors-a major family of therapeutic targets-holds ...
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This volume provides a comprehensive look at the biology of plastids, the multifunctional biosynthetic factories that are ...
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Living organisms are open thermodynamic systems whose functional structure has developed and been kinetically frozen during ...
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This wide ranging work provides a complete representation of the present state of knowledge of the vascular endothelium. ...
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This wide ranging work provides a complete representation of the present state of knowledge of the vascular endothelium. ...
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Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have ...
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The book begins with a discussion of current welfare thinking and how this might be relevant to sheep husbandry. The adaptations ...
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This is a reader that gives a complete overview of the history of photosynthesic carbon metabolism research up to the very ...
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Tissue Mechanics, Second Edition is about the mechanics of tissues for use at the advanced undergraduate level or above. ...
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This series of atlases of topographic and pathotopographic human anatomy is a fundamental and practically important book ...
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Transforming Growth Factor-ß in Cancer Therapy, Volumes 1 and 2, provide a compendium of findings about the role of transforming ...
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Psoriasis is an inherited skin disease that has been diagnosed in 4.5 million adults in the United States. About 10 percent ...
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Trees at their Upper Limit presents a complete modern synthesis of current knowledge on the ecophysiology of tree growth ...
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Preface Tumor development and progression occur as a result of cumulative acquisition of genetic alterations affecting oncogenes ...
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In Chapter 1 of this volume, Janos Szolcsányi reviews this early research, which culminated with the seminal studies of ...
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This volume introduces some basic theories on computational neuroscience. Chapter 1 is a brief introduction to neurons, tailored ...
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This book presents a series of models in the general area of cell physiology and signal transduction, with particular attention ...
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Urodynamics provides a simple yet practical guide to the functional investigation of patients with incontinence and voiding ...
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