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Adequate blood supply to the eye is an important prerequisite for normal visual function. Over the past 40 years our knowledge of ocular blood flow regulation has improved significantly. This reader-friendly textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge of ocular blood flow. Lavishly illustrated, it evaluates the wide array of methods that have been used to measure ocular blood flow. Furthermore, it not only offers the reader an evidence-based summary of the physiological and pharmacological properties of ocular blood flow regulation, but also demonstrates the ocular blood flow abnormalities in different vascular diseases. This book will enhance the understanding of all who are interested in learning more about ocular blood flow in health and disease.
This book highlights the role and mechanism of different metal nanocomposites toward oxidative stress-induced metabolic disorders including metabolic pathways affected by oxidative stress and related pathophysiology. The book includes an illustrative discussion about the methods of synthesis, characterization, and biomedical applications of metal nanocomposites. It focuses on the therapeutic approaches for metabolic disorders due to oxidative stress by nano delivery systems. Moreover, the book includes chapters on nanotherapeutic approaches toward different diseases, including diabetes mellitus, obesity, cardiovascular disorders, cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's di...
This book provides the most up-to-date information on the ever-growing class of peptides with high biological activity, which function as hormones or neurotransmitters and have analogous structures. These peptides include the Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP), the Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptides (PACAP 38 and PACAP 27), the Peptide Histidyl-Isoleucylamide and the Histidyl-Methionine Peptide (PHI and PHM), Helodermin, Helospectin, the Growth Hormone Releasing Factor (GRF), Glucagon, the Glucagon-like Peptides I and II, Oxyntomodulin, Glicentin and Secretin.Selection, organization and special subject matter: The contributors to this volume who are leading experts in their...
Recent research findings on vascular intestinal peptide (VIP), pituitary adenyl cyclase activating peptide (PACAP), and other members of the secretin/glucagon family of peptides are reported by leaders in the field. The role of these peptides in the regulation of gene expression, developmental and neurotrophic processes, as well as endocrine and gastrointestinal functions are addressed and their basic clinical implications discussed.
本書中著重於台灣驗光人員之臨床運用重要觀念,提供驗光人員視覺照護之學習。由多位視光學科系任教老師參考目前台灣視光教育環境合著而成,從視力、屈光狀態、他覺與自覺式驗光、眼肌肉、斜視至雙眼視覺等理論與檢查重點加以整理論述,希望提供給初步學習視光學者基本的概念,讓從事視覺檢查時能夠清楚明瞭其相關理論,明確了解眼睛視覺之相關機轉與運用。 視光學涵蓋眼球生理、視覺光學、配鏡學與儀器學等範圍,需要與各個科目觀念互相搭配。因此,在學習視光學的當下,必須將其他科目的理論基礎加以運用。通常當檢查結果有異常時,並非單單只有一個部份出現問題,可能發生於眼睛構造、功能或是協調性上或多重問題。希望讀者在利用本書學習視光學的範疇下,能夠將所學的相關觀念與知識融會貫通,確實的運用於照護國人視覺健康。
Extensively revised and updated, the new edition of AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection is an essential reference resource providing a comprehensive overview of the biological properties of this etiologic viral agent, its clinicopathological manifestations, the epidemiology of its infection, and present and future therapeutic options. - Expanded section on clinical manifestations includes new chapters on cardiovascular, renal and dermatologic manifestations of HIV infection - Additional chapters on molecular diagnostic techniques, the role of host genetic variation in HIV infection and its manifestations, the discovery and development of new HIV medicines, analysis of HIV dynamics using mathematical models, toxicities of antiretroviral therapy, HIV drug susceptibility testing, practical therapeutics and the global impact of HIV and AIDS