Medical : Physiology

Adding new chapters in this second edition on the role of the primary care physician, cultural influences, and environments that promote obesity, Bray and Bouchard, both affiliated with Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, present a review of the latest treatment regim more...

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The newly revised and updated Hormones, Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of human hormones, viewed in light of modern theories of hormone action and in the context of current understanding of subcellular and cellular architecture and classical organ physiology. Each chapter presents a physiological description of the hormone system under consideration, followed by a listing of the mode-of-action of the hormone. This book includes significant advances in the molecular biology of receptors, hormones, and studies of hormone action that have transpired over the past five years. The text updates the material on enzymes related to steroid metabolism and new hormone systems, as well as providing a new chapter on hormones and cancer. more...

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This long-awaited update of the classic, The Human Nervous System , stands as an impressive survey of our knowledge of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system. The book has been completely redone and brought up-to-date. An impressive and respected cast of international authors have contributed 37 chapters on topics ranging from Brain Evolution, all phases of Brain Development, to all areas of the adult brain and peripheral pathways, along with careful descriptions of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system, brainstem and cerebellum. The Human Nervous System, Second Edition will again serve as the gold standard, providing a one-stop source of up-to-date information about our knowledge of the human nervous system. more...

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Based on the authors' own research papers in human-like biomechanics. Containing six chapters and an appendix, this book presents a comprehensive introduction into modern geometrical methods to be used as a unified research approach in two apparently separate fields: mathematical biomechanics and humanoid robotics. more...

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Natural Killer (NK) cells are large granular lymphocytes of the innate immune system and are involved in direct innate immune reactions against viruses, bacteria, and other triggers of pathology. This book focuses on the nature of recognition events by NK cells and address how these events are integrated to trigger these effector functions. more...

Price: $149.00