Jacques Zimmer Editor 2010 At the Forefront of Modern Immunology It is an interesting and even exciting experience to be the editor of a scientific book. After the decision of producing the book has been made together with the publisher, the first step is to establish the list of topics to be covered and the list of […]

Jan C.M. Marijnissen l Leon Gradon´ Editors 2010 Inhalation and Health Effects

Lorenzo Alibardi 2010 A Model System With Implications for Tissue Regeneration in Mammals The present review covers a very neglected field in regeneration studies, namely, tissue and organ regeneration in reptiles, especially represented by the lizard model of regeneration. The term “regeneration” is intended here as “the ability of an adult organism to recover damaged or completely lost body […]

Edited by Edwin Michael Robert C. Spear 2010 Modelling parasite transmission has made enormous strides since the seminal models of Ross for describing malaria transmission developed during the early 1900s (Ross, 1911). McDonald’s use of the early malaria models to show that killing adult mosquitoes would be particularly effective in reducing infection transmission was a major advance in demonstrating […]

Edited by Thomas P. Jahn Gerd P. Bienert 2010 Sixteen years have passed since human aquaporin-1 (AQP1) was discovered as the first water channel, facilitating trans-membrane water fluxes. Subsequent years of research showed that the water channel AQP1 was only the tip of an iceberg; the iceberg itself being the ubiquitous super family of membrane intrinsic proteins (MIPs) that […]

Edited by Anna Catania 2010 It is clear that the melanocortins are of immense academic interest. Further, these molecules have remarkable potential as pharmaceutical agents for treatment of multiple human and veterinary disorders and diseases. The evidence to support academic interest and clinical applications lies in significant part within the chapters of this book, chapters written by noted experts […]

Edited by Kenneth Söderhäll 2010 The total number of animal species range up to around 1,000,000 species, of which invertebrates constitute more than 95%, including a vast diversity of organisms from unicellular protozoans to the much more complex echinoderms and protochordates. Insects are by far the largest group of animals within the invertebrates and have received a large amount […]

Edited by Steeve Hervé Thany 2010 The aim of this volume is to summarize our understanding on the insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. This area of research received great impetus from the identification of the first subunit sequences to be used as neonicotinoid insecticide target sites. The first chapter illustrates the finding that the insect central nervous system is extremely […]