Physiology category: 1850 books

Cover of Conn's Handbook of Models for Human Aging
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

Conn's Handbook of Models for Human Aging, Second Edition, presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting lifespan, methods of age determination, use in research and the disadvantages/advantages of use. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this updated edition is designed as the only...
Cover of Recent Advances in Transthyretin Evolution, Structure and Biological Functions
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2009

Since its ?rst description in 1942 in both serum and cerebrospinal ?uid, transthyretin (TTR) has had an eventful history, including changes in name from “prealbumin” to “thyroxine-binding prealbumin” to “transthyretin” as knowledge increased about its functions. TTR is synthesised in a...
Cover of Prions and Diseases

Prions and Diseases

Volume 2, Animals, Humans and the Environment

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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012

Volume II features a variety of animal and human prion diseases, including the newly-identified atypical forms of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie in animals, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy in humans, prions in the environment, Tau pathology in human prion disease, transmission...
Cover of Hermaphroditism in Humans: Enlighten Yourself
by Sarah Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014

Hermaphrodites are probably the most misunderstood people on earth. Often shunned by "straight" and "homosexuals" alike, their life is often a hard path. Ridiculed by society as a whole theirs is not a life they have chosen, but what fate and nature have given them. Hopefully this book will give a better understanding of them.
Cover of Mechanisms Underlying Host-Microbiome Interactions in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018

Only recently have we begun to appreciate the role of microbiome in health and disease. Environmental factors and change of life style including diet significantly shape human microbiome that in turn appears to modify gut barrier function affecting nutrient & electrolyte absorption and inflammation....
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Insectes

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016

Le terme «insecte» a longtemps désigné tous les arthropodes à six pattes, mais cette définition a évolué au cours des années 1980. Le terme insecte au sens large a été remplacé par celui d'hexapode et les Insectes ne désignent plus qu'une classe au sein de la superclasse des Hexapodes qui regroupe...
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Oiseaux

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016

On connaît plus de 9 800 espèces d'oiseaux vivants. Les spécialistes ne sont pas d'accord sur la classification des oiseaux les plus évolués, les passereaux. En effet, en raison du très petit nombre de fossiles et des grandes ressemblances entre espèces, on n'est pas encore parvenu à établir un ...
Cover of Surrénales

Surrénales

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016

Les glandes surrénales furent découvertes en 1543 par B. Eustachi, mais leur rôle n'apparut qu'en 1855 lorsque T. Addison décrivit la maladie bronzée et la rattacha à une destruction de ces glandes. C. E. Brown-Séquard (1856) démontra expérimentalement qu'elles étaient indispensables à ...
Cover of Mammifères

Mammifères

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016

Dans l'état actuel des connaissances, définir scientifiquement ces vertébrés que l'on nomme couramment mammifères est une véritable gageure que nous ne nous proposons pas de tenir. Il semble pourtant, a priori, parfaitement possible, voire facile, de trouver des caractères généraux et communs à...

Os

Cover of Os

Os

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016

Seuls constituants du corps des vertébrés qui soient normalement préservés après la mort grâce à leur minéralisation élevée, les tissus du squelette (os, dents, cartilages) ont été longtemps considérés comme formant la charpente inerte de l'organisme. Toute l'évolution de la biologie s'inscrit en...
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Œil humain

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016

L'œil est l'organe de la vision (cf.  vision -Neurophysiologie); récepteur des phénomènes lumineux, l'œil les focalise pour projeter l'image sur la rétine qu'il renferme . Celle-ci, à son tour, analyse cette image, commence à la coder et, par l'intermédiaire du nerf optique puis des voies optiques...
Cover of Allergy Bioinformatics
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015

The book introduces the bioinformatics resources and tools available for the study of allergenicity. Allergy symptoms affect more than 25% of the population in industrialized countries. At the same time, biotechnology is a rapidly developing field, which often involves the introduction of potentially...
Cover of Toward a More Loving and Caring World
by Don Ayre
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

CREATING A MORE LOVING AND CARING WORLD AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION -As a private practitioner in a family and child therapy, Don Ayre observed that when we have a more balanced awareness of life as a four dimensional process that integrates the material, intellectual, emotional...
Cover of Surface Anatomy Speedy Study Guides
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014

There are many parts of the medical field that talks about the science of the internal systems of the body. The anatomy that depicts the exterior parts of the body such as the body dimensions, the breasts, and the external organs is called surface anatomy. Surface anatomy is the first anatomy that...
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