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Seizures are more common early in life than in adulthood. Bidirectional interactions between seiz...

Exercise is the act of increasing metabolic rate for the purpose of enhancing physical fitness. E...

The mammalian gastrointestinal mucosa is a rapidly self-renewing tissue in the body, and its home...

The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall, thereby allowing...

Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is a ubiquitous internalization process in eukaryotic cells. ...

Vascular smooth muscle (VSM) constitutes most of the tunica media in blood vessels and plays an i...

This is the first book on X and Y chromosomal disorders to address these common but rarely diagno...

The nematode C. elegans is one of the most important model organisms for understanding neurobiolo...

This collaboration of two physiologists and a gastroenterologist provides medical and graduate st...

This book reviews the molecular genetics of the thalassemia syndromes, inherited hemoglobin disor...

This collaboration of two physiologists and a gastroenterologist provides medical and graduate st...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Alexander disease, a rare and devastating neurologic...

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This book discusses our intimate relationship with and dependence on water, how the body regulate...

Classically, the central nervous system (CNS) was considered to contain neurons and three main ty...

The kidney is innervated with efferent sympathetic nerve fibers reaching the renal vasculature, t...

This book focuses on the role of the endocannabinoid system in local and systemic inflammation, w...

The lymphatic system develops and functions in parallel with the blood circulatory system (termed...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infectio...

Many proprotein convertases (PC), especially furin and PACE4, are involved in pathological proces...

Environmental heat stress is associated with a marked decrease in orthostatic tolerance (OT), whi...

This e-book will review special features of the cerebral circulation and how they contribute to t...

Adolescent brain development is a fascinating, newly developing field that has so much to offer a...

This book reviews important aspects of polycystic kidney diseases, the latest scientific understa...

Hypertension is defined by an increase in systemic blood pressure above limits considered normal,...

This book focuses on the structural, biochemical, and diverse functional properties of the endoth...

This presentation describes various aspects of the regulation of tissue oxygenation, including th...

For the past decade or more, much of cell biology research has been focused on determining the ke...

The lymphatic system develops and functions in parallel with the blood circulatory system (termed...

This book reviews important aspects of polycystic kidney diseases, the latest scientific understa...

Scientists are deciphering the biology of the tumor cell at a level of detail that would have bee...

The kidney is innervated with efferent sympathetic nerve fibers reaching the renal vasculature, t...

Food and water are necessary for survival, but can only be obtained via ingestive behavior (feedi...

Lecture provides an overview of the progress made in molecular medicine applying genetics and gen...

An intelligent agent interacting with the real world will encounter individual people, courses, t...

The brains of males and females, men and women, are different, that is a fact. What is debated is...

Scientists are deciphering the biology of the tumor cell at a level of detail that would have bee...

Pulmonary hypertension is a life-threatening disease with no known cure. Here we provide a concis...

The mysterious disease of cancer, including breast cancer, has plagued mankind since the dawn of ...

Food and water are necessary for survival, but can only be obtained via ingestive behavior (feedi...

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a disease encompassing a group of disorders mainly characterized ...

Environmental heat stress is associated with a marked decrease in orthostatic tolerance (OT), whi...

The nematode C. elegans is one of the most important model organisms for understanding neurobiolo...

This is the first book on X and Y chromosomal disorders to address these common but rarely diagno...

Clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) is a ubiquitous internalization process in eukaryotic cells. ...