Springer Japan: 783 books
Kawasaki Disease
Current Understanding of the Mechanism and Evidence-Based Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
This book provides the most up-to-date information on the clinical research into and medical management of Kawasaki Disease, and opens the door for new pathological insights. Its nearly 50 sections cover basic research, genetic backgrounds, bacterial and biological evidence, and medical treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Cardiovascular fluid mechanics is now used as a tool in determining diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis by physicians and surgeons working in the fields of cardiology and angiology. The text is based on a considerable amount of clinical and experimental data on blood flow in the heart and large vessels...
Coronary Circulation
Basic Mechanism and Clinical Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Coronary heart disease is one of the major health problems in indus trialized nations because of its high incidence and severity. Recent innovations in medical and surgical treatment of coronary heart dis ease have increased the importance of accurate diagnostic methods for determining the severity...
Arthroplasty 2000
Recent Advances in Total Joint Replacement
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Joint replacement surgery has seen remarkable progress and development in recent years both in prostheses and in surgical technique. A prime concern has been improved durability, for which a major factor is reduction of the polyethylene wear that leads to osteolysis. This book presents an update on...
Marine Protists
Diversity and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This comprehensive book provides a unique overview of advances in the biology and ecology of marine protists. Nowadays marine protistology is a hot spot in science to disclose life phenomena using the latest techniques. Although many protistological textbooks deal with the cytology, genetics, ecology,...
Electricity and Magnetism
New Formulation by Introduction of Superconductivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The author introduces the concept that superconductivity can establish a perfect formalism of electricity and magnetism. The correspondence of electric materials that exhibit perfect electrostatic shielding (E=0) in the static condition and superconductors that show perfect diamagnetism (B=0) is given...
Large A.C. Machines
Theory and Investigation Methods of Currents and Losses in Stator and Rotor Meshes Including Operation with Nonlinear Loads
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In this monograph the authors solve the modern scientific problems connected with A.C. motors and generators, based first on the detailed consideration of their physical phenomena. The authors describe the theory and investigative methods they developed and applied in practice, which are considered...
by Mamoru Watanabe
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
This book describes about 30 years of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on butterfly sperm competition. It considers the reproductive morphology and sperm utilisation interests of males and females, which shape the mating tactics of each sex. Females of most butterfly species mate multiple...
Vertebrate Photoreceptors
Functional Molecular Bases
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This book provides a series of comprehensive views on various important aspects of vertebrate photoreceptors. The vertebrate retina is a tissue that provides unique experimental advantages to neuroscientists. Photoreceptor neurons are abundant in this tissue and they are readily identifiable and easily...
Reproductive and Developmental Strategies
The Continuity of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book provides new insights into the universality of biological systems in animal reproduction and development by a comparative study of a variety of mechanisms in animals ranging from basal invertebrates to vertebrates, including mammals.
Animals accomplish genetic diversity through meiosis...
Cytokine Frontiers
Regulation of Immune Responses in Health and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This book guides the reader through the latest research on the cytokine network, covering signaling pathways, control of the immune response, and potential therapeutics. Different cytokines stimulate diverse responses in various phases of inflammation and immunity, including the innate immune response,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
This book presents recent topics on the development, differentiation, and myelination of Schwann cells, as well as pathological mechanisms and therapeutic approaches for peripheral neuropathies, such as Charcot–Marie–Tooth diseases, amyloid polyneuropathy, immune-mediated neuropathy and diabetic...
Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain I
Neurobiology
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The discovery of adult neurogenesis caused a paradigm shift in the neurosciences. For more than 100 years, it was believed that adult neurons do not regenerate. Joseph Altman and Fernando Nottebohm found proof to the contrary and changed the course of history. Their research, included here, provides...
Dispersing Primate Females
Life History and Social Strategies in Male-Philopatric Species
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Why do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history strategies than males in female-philopatric species? Why did females in human societies come to show enormous variation in the patterns of marriage, residence and mating activities?
To tackle these...