Bell ringing: in life and medicine

Calcium signalling: Ringing changes to the ‘bell-shaped curve’

The stimulation of cells with agonists that activate phospholipase C, and hence increase the cytoplasmic concentration of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3), often produces complex intracellular Ca2+ signals, such as Ca2+ waves [1]. The key to understanding how Ca2+ waves propagate was the observation that the Ca2+ wave velocity and concentration gradient was maintained as the Ca2+ waves swept ...

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Ringing in the New Year

www.landesbioscience.com oxidative Medicine and cellular Longevity 1 The excitement and enthusiasm for the New Year brings with it new thoughts and innovative promises for pioneering avenues of drug discovery and new treatment strategies for a host of disorders. Such thinking is not only optimistic, but also necessary considering the economic costs healthcare brings to any country. For example,...

Ringing the changes

Visualization in Medicine and Life Sciences

taught around the world, visualization in medicine fills the need for a comprehensive text. .... group medical visualization in the german society for computer science. ...... the spatial relations between pathologic lesions and life-critical struc-. Date shared: May 04, 2015 | File name: 012 Visualization in Medicine Theory, Algorithms, and Applications Bernhard Preim, Dirk Bartz.pdf | Downloa...