Published March, 2012
By Charles N. Serhan and Patrick Y-K Wong
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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PAF, and adhesion as well as interactions of inflammatory cells with endothe 1 i um. the contro 1 and regu 1 at ion of renal function by lipid mediators generated during cell-cell i nteracti ons between rena 1 mesangi a 1 cells and 1 eukocytes has generated insight into the cell biology and regulatory role of these mediators in the kidney.

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Published March, 2012
By Stanislav S. N. Gorb and Stanislav Gorb
Publisher: Springer
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In 1974 when I published my book, Biological Mechanism of Attachment, not many pages were required to report on the attachment devices of insect cuticles. Gorb now describes the present day level of our knowledge, to which he has personally contributed so much, and a research team working on biological microtribology has gradually developed, also.

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Published March, 2012
By Ulrich Lüttge and André Läuchli
Publisher: Springer
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In biology, the very big global and thevery small molecular issues currently appear to be in the limelight ofpublic interest and research funding policies. This in itself shows that we need a whole ladder of levels with increasingly finer steps from the global impact to the molecular bases of SALINITY relations.

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Published March, 2012
By Gaudenz Dolf and G. Dolf
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Verlag AG)
Series: Experientia Supplementum
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Although DNA fingerprinting is a very young branch of molecular genetics, being barely six years old, its recent impact on science, law and politics has been dramatic.

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Published March, 2012
By Michael D. Petraglia and Jeffrey I. Rose
Publisher: Springer
Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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This book examines the evolution of human populations in Arabia. Coverage includes environmental change and its impact on human populations, the movement and dispersal of populations, and the origin and spread of food producing economies.

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Published March, 2012
By Norbert Freinkel
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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It is abundantly clear that a number of subtle abnormalities in hypothalamic function are associated with human obesity. The issue is made even more complex by the fact that there may be subgroups of obese in whom hypothalamic function may be abnormal, whereas many obese may have nearly normal hypo thalamic function.

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Published March, 2012
By J. Marshall Clark and Fumio Matsumura
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The volume which resulted from this symposium, -Membranes Receptors and Enzymes as Targets of Insecticidal Action-, details a number of bio chemical modes of action of insecticides on the insect nervous system.

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Published March, 2012
By Carlos Arturo Navas and Jose Eduardo Carvalho
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Successful aestivation requires the selection of a proper microhabitat, variable degrees of metabolic arrest and responsiveness to external stimuli, the ability to sense the proper time of year for emergence, the preservation of inactive tissue, and much more.

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Published March, 2012
By Alex F. Roche and Alex Roche
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The Burg Wartenstein Symposia have become rightly celebrated for achieving their original purpose: to be of service and interest to the anthropological profes sion as a whole and to contribute to related sciences.

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Published March, 2012
By Gene Spiller
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Recently, however, this area of research has enjoyed a renaissance unparalleled in the history of the food and nutritional sciences, a reawakening which has occurred primarily as a result of epidemiology reports that suggested a positive relationship between plant fiber ingestion and health.

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