Published February, 2007
By Connie Allen, Valerie Harper, Thomas Lancraft and Yuri Ivlev
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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1. Objectives and Review Material. Each experiment begins with the necessary background information to successfully complete the activity. These include text, pop-up links to images and definitions and where appropriate animations to clarify key physiological processes. This material may be accessed at any point during the lab activity.

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Published January, 2007
By Peter W. Lucas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely crush, cut, shear or grind food, and shows how teeth adapt to diet. Showing how tooth form can be understood using considerations of food fracture, it is essential reading for physical anthropologists, dental and food scientists.

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Published January, 2007
By Benno M Nigg, W. Herzog, Walter Herzog and BM Nigg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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The latest edition of this classic in the field presents a unique and comprehensive account of the mechanics of the neuro-musculo-skeletal system. Written for students and researchers of biomechanics, the book covers key areas including the properties of biomaterials, common measuring techniques and modeling.

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Published January, 2007
By Irving P. Herman and Irving Herman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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Addresses the physical and engineering aspects of human physiology by using and building on first-year college physics and mathematics. This work aims to offers an understanding of physical issues concerning the human body, in part by developing and then using simple and subsequently more refined models of the macrophysics of the human body.

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Published January, 2007
By Setsuro Ebashi and Iwao Ohtsuki
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This volume covers the entire spectrum of research on troponin and related muscle proteins, including pathophysiological and clinical aspects. It details recent advances in work on the genetic disorders of cardiac troponin and ryanodine receptor proteins.

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Published December, 2006
By Matti Weckstrom, Pasi Tavi and Matti Weckstroem
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to cardiac mechanotransduction. Cardiac Mechanotransduction is of interest to basic life sciences, like physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology, but also to clinicians working with heart-related problems, such as cardiologists and internists.

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Published December, 2006
By George A. Bray, Louisiana State University and Donna Ryan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Endocrine Updates
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This timely book provides an overview of topics related to obesity. These include associated health risks, childhood obesity, genetics, evaluation, treatment, behavioral strategies, and successes and failures in preventing obesity.

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Published December, 2006
By Per Andersen, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss and John O'Keefe
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford Neuroscience Series
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The hippocampus is a remarkable structure embedded within the medial temporal lobe of the brain. This volume offers an account of what the hippocampus does, how it does it and what happens when things goes wrong. It also illustrates how research focusing on this brain structure has revealed principles of wider generality for the whole brain.

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Published December, 2006
By John M. Squire, David A.D. Parry and Andrey Kajava
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Fibrous proteins act as molecular scaffolds in cells providing the supporting structures of our skeletons, bones, tendons, cartilage, and skin. This volume covers such topics as Beta-Structures in Fibrous Proteins; B-Silks: Enhancing and Controlling Aggregation; Beta-Rolls, Beta-Helices and Other Beta-Solenoid Proteins; and more.

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Published December, 2006
By Ermanno Bonucci
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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For the first time, this book offers a critical review of the calcification process of the organic and inorganic phases of mineralized tissues focusing on the earliest phases. The book is set to become an important reference source for the shelves of bone densitometry labs across the world.

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