Zoology category: 2375 books
Endocrinology Neuroendocrinology Neuropeptides
Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Budapest, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 13: Endocrinology, Neuroendocrinology, Neuropeptides, Part I offers a lengthy discussion of the research, experiments, and investigations on endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, and neuropeptides.
This selection, divided into five parts with 47 chapters, features...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This volume brings together various theories of how aberrations in mitochondrial function and morphology contribute to neurodegeneration in idiopathic and familial forms of Parkinson’s disease. Moreover, it comprehensively reviews the current search for therapies, and proposes how molecules are...
Mouse as a Model Organism
From Animals to Cells
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Cell culture based research is important for our understanding of biological processes at the cellular and molecular level. Using this approach, the previous decades have produced a wealth of mechanistic information in all areas of biomedical research. Such in vitro research, however, lacks the complexity...
by David R. Witty, Brian Cox
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 57, provides a review of eclectic developments in medicinal chemistry, with this volume including chapters on the CaSR field, CFTR modulators in cystic fibrosis, macrocycles, VMAT2 inhibitors, and Big Data in Drug Discovery.
Provides extended, timely reviews...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Strategies of Immune Regulation provides an overview of the state of knowledge on how immune regulation works. Many working scientists have taken the time to set down their views in one of two categories: (a) ""conventional"" short papers with standard documentation, (b) short...
Progestins and the Mammary Gland
From Basic Science to Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Progestins play a key role in reproductive endocrinology and as pharmaceutical drugs for contraception and in combined hormone therapy. To further our understanding of progestin action in the mammary gland, an international symposium, attended by leading researchers from academia and industry, was...
Development of Responsiveness to Steroid Hormones
Advances in the Biosciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Development of Responsiveness to Steroid Hormones is a collection of papers presented at the Bat-Sheva Seminar of the same name which was held in Rehovot, Israel, on October 18-26, 1978 and sponsored by the Bat-Sheva de Rothschild Foundation for the Advancement of Science in Israel in cooperation...
by Gerald Litwack
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Thyroid hormone, Volume 106*,* the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series first published in 1943 provides up-to-date information on crystal structures and basic structural studies on neurotrophins and their receptors, neurotrophin functions and the biological actions of neurotrophins...
Brain Receptor Methodologies
Amino Acids. Peptides. Psychoactive Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Brain Receptor Methodologies: Part B Amino Acids. Peptides. Psychoactive Drugs is the second of the two-part first volume of the Neurobiological Research series, which provides a comprehensive view of various subdisciplines within neurobiology. The first volume (Parts A and B) deals with the area...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
This volume provides a transdisciplinary and translational review of many of the leading murine models used to study the mechanisms, mediators and biomarkers linking energy balance to cancer. It provides a review of murine models that should be of interest to basic, clinical and applied research investigators...
Dynamics of Degeneration and Growth in Neurons
Proceedings of the International Symposium Held in Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, May 1973
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Dynamics of Degeneration and Growth in Neurons is a collection of papers presented at the International Symposium on the Dynamics of Degeneration and Growth in Neurons, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 16-18, 1973. Contributors explore the dynamics of degeneration and growth of central and peripheral...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
State of the art reviews by experts in the fields of neuroscience, immunology, microbiology/infectious diseases and pharmacology addressing the convergence of the immune system (neuroinflammation) and the loss of neurons (neurodegeneration). Many of the diseases that are discussed in the book are...
Wild Cultures
A Comparison between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
How do chimpanzees say, 'I want to have sex with you?' By clipping a leaf or knocking on a tree trunk? How do they eat live aggressive ants? By using a short stick with one hand or long stick with both? Ivorian and Tanzanian chimpanzees answer these questions differently, as would humans from France...
by Michael Braby
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
As fascinating as they are beautiful, butterflies are a pleasure to watch and an important group of invertebrates to study. This second edition of the award-winning book The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia is a fully updated guide to all butterfly species on Australia's mainland and...