Category: Basic Science

By Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff

ISBN-10: 0826118763

ISBN-13: 9780826118769

"Three leader evils that grasp over us are sickness, previous age, and dying. to review and keep watch over senescence, Metchnikoff proposed the institution of a brand new medical self-discipline he named 'gerontology.' during this vintage textual content at the prolongation of existence, Metchnikoff means that technological know-how can be inspired and helped in each real way in its activity of elimination the ailments and behavior that now hinder human existence from working its basic path, and his trust is that, have been the duty complete, the good reason behind pessimism could disappear. Metchnikoff used to be capable of proclaim himself an optimist, and located, in organic technology, for the current new release a desire, or no less than an finish in the direction of which to paintings, and for destiny generations a potential success of that hope." - From the advent by means of Gerald Gruman, MD, PhD

By John G. Webster

ISBN-10: 1439808473

ISBN-13: 9781439808474

The Physiological dimension Handbook provides an intensive variety of themes that surround the topic of size in all departments of drugs. The guide describes using tools and strategies for sensible measurements required in medication. It covers sensors, thoughts, undefined, and software program in addition to info on processing structures, computerized facts acquisition, relief and research, and their incorporation for diagnosis.

Suitable for either instrumentation designers and clients, the instruction manual allows biomedical engineers, scientists, researchers, scholars, wellbeing and fitness care body of workers, and people within the scientific gadget to discover the several equipment to be had for measuring a selected physiological variable. It is helping readers pick out the main appropriate technique by means of evaluating replacement equipment and their benefits and disadvantages.

In addition, the booklet offers equations for readers taken with learning functions and fixing diagnostic difficulties coming up in scientific fields now not unavoidably of their forte. it is also really expert info wanted through readers who are looking to examine complicated functions of the topic, evaluative evaluations, and attainable parts for destiny research.

By Earl Usdin, Richard Kvetnanský, Irwin J. Kopin

ISBN-10: 0080205887

ISBN-13: 9780080205885

Catecholamines and pressure covers the lawsuits of the foreign Symposium on Catecholamines and tension, held in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia on July 27-30, 1975.
This booklet often specializes in catecholamines and tension, providing papers particularly discussing the mind, neurohumoral legislation in rigidity, and alterations brought about by way of rigidity. a suite of papers take on the catecholamine synthesizing and degrading enzymes less than rigidity. different papers are dedicated to themes on catecholamine synthesis and degradation lower than tension; liberate, point, and excretion of catecholamines in tension; and catecholamines and pressure in guy.
This textual content may be useful to scholars and specialists in body structure, biology, and comparable fields.

By Daniel P. Todes

ISBN-10: 0801866901

ISBN-13: 9780801866906

ISBN-10: 0801873746

ISBN-13: 9780801873744

Russian physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov is most famed for his improvement of the idea that of the conditional reflex and the vintage scan during which he expert a puppy to salivate on the sound of a bell. In Pavlov's body structure manufacturing unit: test, Interpretation, Laboratory firm, Daniel P. Todes explores Pavlov's early paintings in digestive body structure in the course of the buildings and practices of his landmark laboratory -- the body structure division of the Imperial Institute for Experimental medication. In Lectures at the paintings of the most Digestive Glands, for which Pavlov gained the Nobel Prize in 1904, the scientist often said the experiments of his coworkers and said that his conclusions mirrored "the deed of the whole laboratory." This novel declare prompted the prize committee a few consternation. was once he on my own deserving of the prize? interpreting the interesting content material of Pavlov's clinical notes and correspondence, unpublished memoirs, and laboratory guides, Pavlov's body structure manufacturing facility explores the significance of Pavlov's directorship of what the writer calls a "physiology manufacturing unit" and illuminates its courting to Pavlov's Nobel Prize-winning paintings and the learn on conditional reflexes that it.Todes seems to be at Pavlov's functionality in his quite a few roles as laboratory supervisor, experimentalist, entrepreneur, and clinical visionary. He discusses alterations wrought by way of executive and advertisement pursuits in technology and sheds mild at the pathways of medical improvement in Russia -- making transparent Pavlov's own achievements whereas additionally analyzing his variety of laboratory administration. Pavlov's body structure manufacturing unit hence addresses problems with value to historians of technological know-how and scientists at the present time: "big" as opposed to "small" technological know-how, the dynamics of scan and interpretation, and the advance of study cultures.

By Mulchand S. Patel, Frank Jordan

ISBN-10: 0824740629

ISBN-13: 9780824740627

Thiamine: Catalytic Mechanisms in general and ailment States brings jointly the latest advancements in thiamine diphosphate (TDP)-requiring enzyme study and information the mechanisms of catalysis and structure-function relationships, in addition to pathophysiological features of a spectrum of illnesses linked to TDP-requiring enzymes. supplying new insights into neurogenerative ailments, this quantity affiliates defects within the functionality of TDP-dependent enzymes with a variety of metabolic problems and illness states and gives novel features of thiamine enzymes in chiral synthesis in addition to new views at the mobile position of thiamine triphosphate and thiamine triphosphates.

By John West

ISBN-10: 0127445013

ISBN-13: 9780127445014

ISBN-10: 0323154557

ISBN-13: 9780323154550

Pulmonary gasoline trade, quantity I: air flow, Blood circulate, and Diffusion considers the mechanisms of gasoline trade within the lung. This quantity consists of 9 chapters that quite talk about the jobs of air flow, blood move, and diffusion in pulmonary gasoline alternate.
The starting bankruptcy in short strains the background of the chemistry and physics of pulmonary fuel trade. the following chapters are dedicated to the momentous advancements that came about close to the tip of the second one global warfare advances which confirmed the fashionable foundation of fuel. the remainder chapters describe the mechanism of gasoline trade within the alveoli, the way it crosses the blood-gas barrier, and how during which ventilation-perfusion relationships make certain the potency of alternate.
This e-book should be of significant gain to pulmonologists and researchers within the biomedical box.

By John S. Axford

ISBN-10: 0306477823

ISBN-13: 9780306477829

This ebook comprises the lawsuits of the 6th Jenner Glycobiology and medication Symposium, held 14-17 September, 2002, in Seillac, France.

This publication highlights the most recent advancements in glycoimmunology, together with glycosylation-dependent bacterial and viral infections, lectin and proteoglycan-dependent interactions in leukocyte homing approaches to lymphoid tissues and infected tissues, congenital defects in glycosylation of glycoproteins and glycolipids, and the function of carbohydrates in tumour improvement and neuropathology, together with Creutzfeldt-Jakob sickness.

By Hans-Hartmut Peter, Werner J. Pichler, Ulf Müller-Ladner

ISBN-10: 3437232568

ISBN-13: 9783437232565

ISBN-10: 3437590480

ISBN-13: 9783437590481

Profitieren Sie von den rasanten Fortschritten in der klinischen Immunologie! Das deutschsprachige Standardwerk zur klinischen Immunologie wurde komplett neu bearbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf den klinischen Aspekten auch seltenerer Krankheitsbilder, die durch viele Abbildungen und Fallberichte veranschaulicht werden. Highlights der three. Auflage:

• Angeborenes und adaptives Immunsystem
• Angeborene und erworbene Immundefekte
• Entzündlich rheumatische Systemerkrankungen
• Organbezogene Autoimmunopathien
• Allergische Krankheitsbilder
• Lymphoproliferative Syndrome, Gammopathien und Lymphome
• Informative Kasuisten

By Robert J. Leonard

ISBN-10: 0195090039

ISBN-13: 9780195090031

Take a seat with a duplicate of Netter's plus a wide volume of espresso and also you are stable to head. transparent and concise, Leonard does a great activity of slicing during the proverbial fats and hammers away on the evidence.

By Derek Walters

ISBN-10: 0531045811

ISBN-13: 9780531045817

Discusses such elements of chemistry as burning; energetic ingredients; acids, bases, and salts; water; electrolysis; parts; and atoms and molecules.