Textbook of Physiology

Howell's Textbook of Physiology

This well-known textbook of physiology has been thoroughly revised by a team of editors and other contributing authorities collaborating with Professor Fulton, in all numbering 24. While the fluent prose style of the original has been preserved newer developments have been presented de novo rather than worked into the older text. Some sections on old topics have been rewritten completely. The p...

A Textbook of Physiology

Those facts which should be included in any good textbook of physiology are reviewed, together with a systematic consideration of the subject matter of general physiology, the neuro-muscular mechanisms, the circulation, respiration, metabolism, excretion, reproduction, and the internal secretions. The book does not afford the more detailed information necessary for the advanced worker. Moreover...

Textbook of Physiology

serotonin in platelets or other organs. Giarman and Schanberg (Biochem. Pharmacol. 1:301, 1959) showed that iproniazid does indeed hinder reserpine-induced release of serotonin from storage granules in rat's brain. Recently, the same has been found to be true about release of catecholamines from rabbit's atria. These objections and criticisms are raised here only to present one of the apparent ...

A Textbook of Physiology

then 0 on'v temporary value, also certain hav FleS ^ave held the floor perhaps for years but e outlived their usefulness must be discarded modified on account of recent work disproving them. This publication is fortunate in its author in this respect and the present edition maintains the high standard of its predecessors. Although it is a heavy book it is well bound with a flexible back so that...

A Textbook of Physiology