Leech Biology and Behaviour: Anatomy, physiology, and behaviour
Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
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Author : Roy T. Sawyer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
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Author : Roy T. Sawyer
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
ISBN : 9780198576235
Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
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Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN : 9780198573777
Author : Roy T. Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Sawyer, a well-known leech specialist, surveys the most recent research on this biologically and medically important group of animals. Useful to neurobiologists, molecular biologists, zoologists, and ecologists, these volumes include coverage of the leech's increasingly important role in neurobiological and neurophysiological studies.
Author : Kenneth J. Muller
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781936113095
In the 19th century, the medicinal applications of leeches prompted basic research into their neurobiology, reproduction, development, and anatomy; subsequently, leeches became an important model for understanding the nervous system. In this monograph, each chapter provides a narrative account of experimental work on a particular area of leech neurobiology, and explains its significance for the broader field of neuroscience. The appendices describe methods for maintaining and manipulating leeches in the laboratory and include an atlas of neurons in the leech Hirudo medicinalis. Extensively illustrated, this book is a classic in the field and is considered a "must read" for neuroscientists and those interested in leech biology. It has been out of print for many years; however, some recent inquiries have prompted us to reprint it and make it available at an affordable price.
Author : Colleen Driscoll
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Leeches
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Author : Robert G. W. Kirk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1780230680
Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.
Author : Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107015561
Focusing on comparative cognition in cephalopods, this book illuminates the wide range of mental function in this often overlooked group.
Author : K. Livingston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1475707169
This volume records the proceedings of a Limbic System Sympos ium held at the University of Toronto, November 5-6th, 1976 as a satellite event to the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience. The Symposium was designed in part as a tribute to James Papez on the 40th anniversary of the publication of his epochal paper "A Proposed Mechanism of Emotion". Papers by MacLean, Yakovlev, and Angevine provide personal recollections of Papez and an assessment of the significant contri bution he made to breaking down the still formidable barriers that separate our concepts of brain, mind, emotion, and behavior. Against this background subsequent speakers presented new information that further illuminates the anatomical, physiological and biochemical mechanisms underlying limbic system function. Viewed in juxtaposition this new information from "disparate" fields of neuroscience provides an increasingly coherent picture of the neuronal organization subserving a dynamic limbic system that we can now begin to visualize in operational and transactional terms. The final section of the symposium focusses on the recently identified "kindling" phenomenon which is viewed as a general model of neural plasticity and more particularly as a model of experi mentally induced limbic system dysfunction. Using this model it is possible to display, analyse, and experimentally manipulate long lasting changes in limbic system activity, which develop over ex tended periods of time and are expressed in a variety of behavioral end points involving learning and memory, seizure activity, and changes in emotionality and behavior.