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• Title:Comparative physiology, natural animal models, and clinical medicine : insights into clinical medicine from animal adaptations / Michael A. Singer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Singer, Michael A. (Michael Allan), 1940-
  
• Published/Created:London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QY58 .S617 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Physiology, Comparative.
  Diseases.
  
• Medical Subjects: Disease Models, Animal.
  Adaptation, Biological--physiology.
  Physiological Processes--physiology.
  Physiology, Comparative.
  
• Description:xvii, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781860947827
  1860947824
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. Diabetes Mellitus
  Blood Glucose Values in Birds
  Do Birds Suffer Adverse Consequences from a High Blood Glucose Concentration
  Anatomic and Physiologic Design Features
  Concluding Remarks and Future Research
  Ch. 2. Chronic Renal Failure
  Metabolic Rate and Renal Function
  Nitrogen and Urea Metabolism and Protein Turnover
  Additional Aspects of Renal Failure
  Natural Animal Model
  Bear and Small Mammal Hibernators
  Concluding Remarks and Future Directions
  Ch. 3. Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease
  Atherosclerosis in Mammals
  Biology of the Arterial System: Implications for the Genesis of Atherosclerosis in Mammals
  Genesis of Atherosclerotic Lesions
  Natural Animal Model: The Fish
  Fish Coronary Circulation
  Fish Coronary Artery Thickenings
  Genesis of Fish Lesions
  Biomechanical Factors in Fish
  Dietary Influences and Role of Cholesterol in Fish
  Biology of the Vascular Smooth Muscle in Fish
  Concluding Remarks: What Can We Learn From the Fish as a Natural Model?
  Ch. 4. Disuse Osteoporosis and Disuse Muscle Atrophy
  Disuse Osteoporosis
  Disuse Muscle Atrophy
  Ch. 5. Ammonia Toxicity
  Ammonia Tolerance and Metabolism
  Brain Ammonia Metabolism
  Glutamatergic Neurons
  Glutamate, a Neurotransmitter and the "Glutamate-Glutamine" Cycle
  Mechanism of Ammonia Neurotoxicity
  Effects on Brain Energy Metabolism
  Effects on Glutamatergic Synapses
  Ammonia and the Fish Central Nervous System
  Ch. 6. Hypoxia/Ischemia
  Cerebral Blood Flow: Its Regulation
  Brain Energy Metabolism
  Oxygen and Oxygen/Glucose Deprivation and the Brain
  Natural Animal Models.