Product Description: This volume synthesizes pathways in respiratory mechanics and the dynamics of air-blood and blood-cellular gas exchange for students and teachers in respiratory physiology. The authors strive to make physiology fun to learn. This aspect of knowledge acquisition is reflected in the way topics are approached, for example by using playing cards in what is coined ‘Respi-CARDology’...read more

Product Description: This work provides the reader with various sets of questions and answers related to basic human physiology. The questions are formulated to test concepts and assess the thinking process in physiology and to discover any misperceptions in the current knowledge of physiology...read more

Product Description: This volume discusses antiphospholipid autoantibodies (aPL) syndrome which is characterized by an increased risk of arterial thrombosis, thrombo-cytopenia and recurrent foetal loss in women. The book discusses the different types of aPL, which includes a description of lupus anticoagulants and antibodies selective for anionic phospholipids; the role of essential cofactors for binding of aPL and the possibility of protein-phospholipid complexes...read more