Jamie A. Goode

Over recent decades vast amounts of biological data have been accumulated. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to apply traditional theoret…

Although normally thought of as a sex hormone, recent research has highlighted the numerous and significant effects that oestrogen has on the CNS, ext…

Cigarette smoking is estimated to lead to 4.9 million premature deaths per year worldwide. This is predicted to rise to 10 million by 2020. In western…

This book features scientists from a broad spectrum of disciplines discussing recent data on aggression in laboratory animals with particular referenc…

Much recent research in evolutionary developmental biology has focused on the origin of new body plans. However, most evolutionary change at the popul…

This book brings together contributions from key investigators in the area of Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channel structure and function. It co…

The field of neural transplantation is at a crucial stage, with important clinical trials on transplantation in patients with Parkinson's disease near…

Evolutionary psychology and behavioural genetics are two successful and important fields in the study of human behaviour, but practitioners in these s…

A comprehensive volume examining the fundamental questions raised by reductionists' theory about levels of explanation necessary to understand biologi…

This book draws together contributions from basic, pharmaceutical and clinical sciences aimed at a better understanding of the structure and function …

This book explores the possibility that life exists on Mars. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of the early evolution of life in hydrothermal …

Both timely and topical, this book examines the most important aspects of the relationship between alcohol consumption and health. Drawing together mu…

This book features contributions from experts in cell biology, genetics, neurobiology, immunology and structural biology. The unifying element is that…

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises a group of idiopathic diseases of the intestine characterized by chronic inflammation of the bowel with per…

Dengue virus is a member of the Flaviviridae family, which includes viruses associated with human diseases such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis…

This book brings together contributions from key investigators in the area of pathological pain. It covers the molecular basis of receptors and channe…

Sensory Guidance of Movement Chairman: Mitchell Glickstein, 1998 In the past few years there has been an increasing recognition of the multiplicity of…

The past decade has seen mounting global concern regarding viral outbreaks such as SARS, avian influenza and West Nile virus. In 2004 and 2005, report…

Chronic inflammation predisposes to some forms of cancer and the host response to malignant disease shows several parallels with inflammation and woun…

This exciting book brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of experts to discuss the importance of pulsatile signalling in the in…

Over the last several years, immunologists have re-discovered the importance of regulatory lymphocytes, formerly termed 'suppressor cells'. Many recen…

This title provides an extremely helpful analysis of genes that may be associated with autoimmunity, and answers questions such as how these genes can…

ATP, the intracellular energy source, is also an extremely important cell–cell signalling molecule for a wide variety of cells across evolutionarily d…

A comprehensive review of recent work on chromatin and non-histone proteins, this book arises from the interactions of a multidisciplinary group of sc…

This book explores the possibility that life exists on Mars. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of the early evolution of life in hydrothermal …

Experts in their respective fields present papers concerned with the range of human diseases caused by defective or abnormal functioning of cell adhes…

Empathy is the process that allows us to share the feelings and emotions of others, in the absence of any direct emotional stimulation to the self. Hu…

Oxygen sensing is a key physiological function of many tissues, but the identity of the sensor, the signalling pathways linking the sensor to the effe…

Rice is the most important food crop for half the world's population. Over the last three decades, the imporvement in human nutrition and health in As…

Cl- absorption and HCO3- secretion are intimately associated processes vital to epithelial function, itself a key physiological activity. Until recent…

Environmental statistics is a rapidly growing discipline that is important not only as a division of professional and academic statistics, but also in…

Brings together key new results of interdisciplinary collaborations among various research fields on rhodopsin including the photoreceptive mechanism …

This book draws together contributions from cell and developmental biologists, structural biologists, geneticists and clinical scientists aimed at a b…

Heart failure is the main cause of death and disability in the industrialized world. There is a major need for novel therapeutics for prevention and r…

This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date account of where we stand in immunological strategies for preventing or treating type 1 diabetes (T1D). Br…

The potential lipotoxic effect of accumulation of fatty acids in non-adipose tissues is thought to be a major component in the development of insulin …

The astounding diversity of the immune system and the complexity of its regulatory pathways makes immunology a combinatorial science. Computational an…

Prominent clinicians and researchers from diverse disciplines discuss the basic cell and molecular biology of steroid action and sex steroids' effects…

Understanding stem cells at the molecular level is essential to understanding their behaviour in a physiological context. This volume in our acclaimed…

The field of lymphokine research has grown in parallel to the exciting developments around the two sets of cells which defend the body. While lymphoki…

This book explores existing and potential strategies for using the genome sequences of human, mouse, other vertebrates and human pathogens to solve ke…

Foremost neurophysiologists and psychophysicists provide pertinent information on the nature of representation at the earliest stages as this will con…

Tissue engineering takes advantages of the combined use of cultured living cells and three-dimensional scaffolds to reconstruct adult tissues that are…

Retinal dystrophies are the major causes of incurable blindness in the Western world. Our insight into their aetiology has improved remarkably over th…

The heat shock, or cell stress, response was first identified in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila. This was later related to the appearance of n…