Published December, 2011
By K. Kochsiek, P. Frick, A Prader, G. A. Martini and M. Brandis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Ergebnisse der Inneren Medizin und Kinderheilkunde. Neue Folge Advances in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
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Published December, 2011
By William J. Kovacs and Sergio R. Ojeda
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The ideal resource for students entering the field, the Textbook of Endocrine Physiology aims to provide for all a solid basis in fundamentals of endocrinology and for some, inspiration for the pursuit of advanced medical or graduate studies in the field.

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Published December, 2011
By Joyce Tombran-Tink, Colin J. Barnstable and Thomas W. Gardner
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Ophthalmology Research
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This book helps readers understand the impact of vision impairment in people living with diabetes, rather than seeing diabetic retinopathy solely as a medical problem, and explores what we know and don't know about the ways diabetes affect the eye.

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Published December, 2011
By Orlo H. Clark and Aliya Khan
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Parathyroid and Calcium Disorders provides a concise overview of current knowledge in the area of parathyroid function, hormone regulation and disease states. The text educates the reader using a case-based approach, presenting up-to-date evidence in the field.

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Published December, 2011
By I. J. Chopra and V. Cody
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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The physiology and metabolism of thyroid hormones were areas of intense research investigation during the 1970s. A list of over 500 references, although probably still incomplete, should lead a reader to at least a few important articles in each area relevant to thyroid hormone physiology.

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Published December, 2011
By Philip L. Ballard, Roberta A. Ballard and Philip Ballard
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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When I was first ap proached by Springer-Verlag regarding a monograph on my interests in the area of fetal lung development, I imagined that it would be relatively easy to summarize my contributions, plus the work of other investigators as needed for proper perspective.

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Published December, 2011
By John W. Everett
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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Although a role of the nervous system was recognized for the reflex-like induction of ovulation in rabbits and cats and the in duction of pseudopregnancy in rats and mice, and although there was even some evidence of neural participation in ovulation in rats, a major central neural role in the female cycle of most species was not apparent.

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Published December, 2011
By Fred A. Kincl
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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The account of "neonatal sterilization" is the story of the advocates of direct effect of steroids on the gonads and those who believed in the indirect influence, mediated through the hypothalamus and/or the pituitary gland.

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Published December, 2011
By August Epple and Jack E. Brinn
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Zoophysiology
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This approach required an arbitrary reduction of the num ber of references, and we therefore join the chorus of recent authors who beg their colleagues for understanding if some of their publications do not appear in the bibliography.

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Published December, 2011
By S. Ohno
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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Had Escherichia coli of 200 million years or so ago been endowed with the foresight to anticipate the eventual emergence of and subsequent dominance by mammals of this Earth, they would no doubt have equipped themselves, in anticipation of the coming cer tainty, with the lac operon to deal with lactose in the suckling mammalian infant's gut.

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