Leech Biology and Behaviour: Anatomy, physiology, and behaviour
Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
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Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
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Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
ISBN : 9780198576235
Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Leeches
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Author : Roy T. Sawyer
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 1986
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ISBN : 9780198573777
Author : Roy T. Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 39,1 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 : 36,21 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 : 40,81 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Leeches
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Author : Robert G. W. Kirk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 37,57 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 : Gordon M. Shepherd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190636114
In order to focus on principles, each chapter in this work is brief, organized around 1-3 wiring diagrams of the key circuits, with several pages of text that distil the functional significance of each microcircuit
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Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2007
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ISBN : 3938616857
The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) refl ects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late addition to a series of German societies of science and medicine that began with the »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften«, founded in 1910 by Leipzig University's Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), who wrote: »We want to establish a ,German' society in order to gather German-speaking historians together in our special disciplines so that they form the core of an international society«. Yet Sudhoff, at this time of burgeoning academic internationalism, was »quite willing« to accommodate the wishes of a number of founding members and »drop the word German in the title of the Society and have it merge with an international society«. The founding and naming of the Society at that time derived from a specific set of historical circumstances, and the same was true some 80 years later when in 1991, in the wake of German reunification, the »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie« was founded. From the start, the Society has been committed to bringing studies in the history and philosophy of biology to a wide audience, using for this purpose its Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie. Parallel to the Jahrbuch, the Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie has become the by now traditional medium for the publication of papers delivered at the Society`s annual meetings. In 2005 the Jahrbuch was renamed Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, reflecting the Society's internationalist aspirations in addressing comparative biology as a subject of historical and philosophical studies.