This volume presents new information on both the basic and practical aspects of skin biology. Topics discussed include connective tissue components of the skin; immunology and cell biology; the development and degeneration of cutaneous structures and appendages; mechanisms of skin damage and biochemical approaches to repair; and clinical approaches to skin replacement.

Product Description: Sunscreens are universally recommended by dermatologists not only to prevent the immediate effects of overexposure to sunlight but also to prevent skin cancer. While the former goal is immediately evident, the latter remains an unproven hypothesis and is a topic of some controversy...read more

Proceedings of the August 1995 meeting, presenting reports by physicists, chemists, clinicians, engineers, and biochemists on major developments in the delivery of oxygen to tissues. Papers are organized in sections on assessment of dysoxia, myocardial hypoxia-ischemia, tissue oxygen distribution, t

Product Description: Nanotechnology is an emerging and exciting area in the field of implants. Numerous promising developments have been elucidated regarding the use of nanotechnology to regenerate tissues. This important book highlights the potential of nanophase materials to improve hard and soft tissue applications...read more

Product Description: The ISOTT 2001 local organizing committee was pleased to welcome over 140 delegates from around the world to the 29th annual general meeting of the International Society for Oxygen Transport to Tissue. The meeting was held in historic Philadelphia, USA, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania from August 11 to 15, 2001...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Haematopoiesis is the normal formation and development of blood cells in the bone marrow. This book covers the formative (stem) cells and their growth in forming blood cells. In defining the stem cells it is possible to identify and purify very primitive haematopoietic progenitor cells...read more

Product Description: These volumes differ from the current conventional texts on bone cell biology. Biology itself is advancing at breakneck speed and many presentations completely fail to present the field in a truly modern context. This text does not attempt to present detailed clinical descriptions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Tissue heterogeneity is a subject of long-standing interest in liver pathophysiology. Recent advances in the cell and molecular biology of hepatocytes and sinusoidal cells have yielded new insights into how liver cells differentiate and establish their functional compartmentation at the hepatic lobule level. This book contains a collection of reviews on the current cellular and molecular concepts supporting the functional units of liver tissue and their impact in disease. To understand the pathogenesis of liver diseases it is necessary to know about the different liver cell properties and their functional interdependencies. This book describes interrelated hepatic cell functions and dysfunctions, providing a more comprehensive view of liver tissue functioning homeostasis.

Product Description: This book explores several subtypes of muscarinic receptors that modulate smooth muscle activity. Main topics include a classification of muscarinic receptors, biochemical responses that occur in smooth muscle, the role of muscarinic receptors in the function of gastrointestinal and genitourinary smooth muscle, and prejunctional muscarinic receptors in smooth muscle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Profiling human skin as a real and symbolic boundary between human beings and the external world, a biological and cultural study discusses the skin's vulnerability to pollutants, the risks of cosmetic procedures, and ways to keep skin healthy.

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Offers profiles of nearly two hundred American colleges, shares information on academic climate, support services, Black student organizations, and social life, and includes information on tuition, Black faculty, student body, and financial aid

Product Description: Skin bioengineering is an expanding field of investigative and clinical dermatology. This guide describes all commercially available techniques and instruments. It provides a thorough overview of methods for noninvasive investigation of skin function...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive review of skeletal differentiation and repair, with emphasis on the locally acting growth factors believed to be involved in normal skeletal formation as well as fracture repair. The authors integrate information from classical studies comparing it to information on recent advances in skeletal biology...read more

Product Description: On the occasion of the European Congress on Wound Healing and Skin Physiology (Bochum, Germany, November 1992), an international team of scientists and clinicians discussed the core topics in this important field of dermatological and surgical research...read more

Product Description: This publication represents an up-to-date summary of the current understanding of reoxygenation injury in skeletal muscle and outlines future directions of those who will lead the way in this field. Skeletal muscle is generally more tolerant of ischemia reperfusion injury than other organ systems such as brain, heart, kidney, liver and bowel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now in its second edition, this volume provides a comprehensive guide to the principles, methodology, and clinical applications of single fiber electromyography (SFEMG). The book provides complete information on equipment, analysis of SFEMG recordings, recording procedures during voluntary muscle contraction and electrical stimulation, and SFEMG findings in various neuromuscular disorders...read more