Hakutulokset: Jamie A. Goode
yhteensä 192 hakutulosta
The Genetics and Biology of Sex Determination
Although nature employs a wide variety of sex-determining mechanisms, it is only comparatively recently that the tools have become available for these to be explored at the …
Stem Cells
Understanding stem cells at the molecular level is essential to understanding their behaviour in a physiological context. This volume in our acclaimed Novartis Foundation series …
Cortical Development
To understand the brain and its devastating diseases, we need to reveal the mechanisms that produce it and the ways in which it can constantly change throughout a lifetime. This …
Development of the Cardiac Conduction System
The pacemaking and conduction system (PCS) is vital for generating and synchronizing the heart beat. Dysfunction of this system can be a direct cause of cardiac conduction …
Osteoarthritic Joint Pain
Osteoarthritis is a chronic degenerative disease associated with joint pain and loss of joint function. It has an estimated incidence of four in every 100 people and significantly …
Biology of Extracellular Molecular Chaperones
The heat shock, or cell stress, response was first identified in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila. This was later related to the appearance of novel proteins within stressed …
Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance: Origins, Evolution, Selection and SpreadChairman: Stuart B. Levy, 1997 Over the last 50 years, the rapid increase in the use of antibiotics, not only in …
Genetics of Autoimmunity
This title provides an extremely helpful analysis of genes that may be associated with autoimmunity, and answers questions such as how these genes can be identified, and how the …
Empathy and Fairness
Empathy is the process that allows us to share the feelings and emotions of others, in the absence of any direct emotional stimulation to the self. Humans can feel empathy for …
Understanding Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction
Cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.9 million premature deaths per year worldwide. This is predicted to rise to 10 million by 2020. In western countries it kills half of …
Mechanisms and Biological Significance of Pulsatile Hormone Secretion
Many endocrine systems use the intermittent or pulsatile release of hormones to transmit complex information into cellular compartments of the body. Although the actual …
The Molecular Basis of Skeletogenesis
This book brings together a cross-fertilization of ideas between human molecular genetics, developmental biology, tissue biology and the biochemistry of cell signalling pathways, …