Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

Pernille Rørth has led research labs at top institutions around the world, including European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept. of Embryology, U.S.A., and has published numerous highly appreciated scientific papers in the fields of genetics and cell biology. She also served as Executive Editor (Editor-in-Chief) of The EMBO Journal for five years. Her previous novels ‘Raw Data’ and ‘Tumble Hitch’ (Springer, 2016 & 2018),

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List of abbreviations.

1 Requesting and interpreting tests.

2 Disturbances of water, sodium and potassium balance.

3 Acid-base balance and oxygen transport.

4 Renal disease.

5 Disorders of calcium, phosphate and magnesium metabolism.

6 Diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia.

7 Disorders of the hypothalamus and pituitary.

8 Abnorma

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Reproduction Under Safe Conditions.

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 What is Stress?

1.3 Reproduction and Stress.

1.4 Reproduction, Stress and Energy are Intrinsically Interrelated.

1.5 Interaction of Stress and Reproduction.

1.6 Evolution of Germ Cells.

1.7 Vari

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Einleitung 15

Über dieses Buch 15

Konventionen in diesem Buch 16

Törichte Annahmen über den Leser 16

Symbole in diesem Buch 17

Wie es jetzt weitergeht 17

Teil I: Die Bausteine des Körpers 19

Kapitel 1 Die Sprache der Anatomie und Physiologie 21

Wie der Körper aufgebaut ist 21

Beziehen wir mal Position! 25

Antworten zu den Fragen zur Terminologie 28

Kapitel 2 Die Chemie des Lebens

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