Published January, 2012
By Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and SSIEM
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: JIMD Reports
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JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.

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Published January, 2012
By Makoto Kuro-o
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) have been recognized primarily as autocrine/paracrine factors that regulate embryonic development and organogenesis. These endocrine FGFs share a common structural feature that enables the endocrine mode of action at the expense of the affinity to FGF receptors.

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Published January, 2012
By Susan M. Webb, R.A. Hoffman, Manuel L. Puig-Domingo, Russel J. Reiter and Roger A. Hoffman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Harderian glands, first described by Jacob Harder in two species of deer in 1694, are large, intraorbital glands which, with but few exceptions, are found in all land vertebrates.

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Published January, 2012
By G. Giebisch and Gerhard H. Giebisch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Membrane Transport in Biology
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With contributions by numerous experts

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Published January, 2012
By Winifred G. Nayler
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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"What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning.

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Published January, 2012
By Allison D. Fryer, Arthur Christopoulos and Neil M. Nathanson
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors have played a key role in the advancement of knowledge of pharmacology and neurotransmission since the inception of studies in these fields. This volume also describes physiological analyses of muscarinic receptors and their roles in regulating the function of the brain and of a variety of peripheral tissues.

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Published January, 2012
By K.L. Schmidt, W. Mohr, G. van den Berghe, Ursula Gresser, Nepomuk Zollner, R.D. de Abreu, G. Calabrese, D.J. McCarty, B.T. Emmerson, B. Gathof, M. Gonella, U. Gresser, I. Kamilli, J.G. Puig, H.A: Simmonds, R.W.E. Watts, N. Zöllner, W. Gröbner, W. Löffler, G. Nuki, D. Perrett, F. Roch-Ramel, M. Schattenkirchner, J.T. Scott, O. Sperling, R. Terkeltaub, H.F. Woods, Klaus L. Schmidt and Nepomuk Zoellner
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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One person in four in the industrialized countries suffersfrom hyperuricemia and is therefore at risk of developinggouty arthritis, nephrolithiasis, or any of the otherconsequences of urate deposition.

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Published January, 2012
By Charles M. Peterson, Lois Jovanovic-Peterson and Bent Formby
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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As with fetal pancreas rudiments in culture, transplanted fetal pancreas tissue loses its exocrine character, while continuing to develop and maintain endocrine function.

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Published January, 2012
By Xu Peng and Marc Antonyak
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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These include methods and technique for using different organisms for cardiovascular developmental research, using cell and molecular biology methods to study cardiovascular development, as well as other available techniques for cardiovascular development research.

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Published January, 2012
By Essam Kotb
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Microbiology
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Stress, high blood pressure, smoking, pollution, fast foods, overweight, excessive travelling, surgery, less movement are common features in our modern life. By the year, 2020 cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) may cause an estimated 25 million deaths per year, thus antithrombotic therapy is of great interest.

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