Field guide to medicinal wild plants

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Ingolf Bernhardt, J. Clive Ellory

This book describes our current understanding of the transport of ions, amino acids, nucleosides, sugars, water and gases across the red blood cell membrane. It also outlines the necessary theoretical background to understand the dynamics of membrane constituents together with the mechanisms of transport pathways (pumps, channels, carriers/cotransporters, residual passive permeability). Separate chapters describe our present ideas about membrane and metabolic disorders as well as red blood cell diseases like malaria, sickle cell disease, and hypertension. The latest findings are explained on the basis of a historical review and well-established principles. The book and its chapters are thus structured in a manner that makes the material accessible to beginners in the field of red blood cell physiology and biophysics. Active researchers will also benefit from this carefully organized compilation.

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Allan F. Platt

Evidence-Based Medicine for PDAs: A Guide for Practice is the first text to give medical practitioners and students the practical basics of PDAs and evidence-based medicine applications necessary for excellent, cost effective patient care. Offered in a clear and applicable format, this book covers information on the latest treatments, necessary equipment, basic software, reducing medical errors, and medical coding. Health care providers can review diagnoses, read about the latest therapy, check for harmful drug interactions, and obtain preventative information - even between patient examinations. Organized by an instructional case-based approach with an accompanying demonstration CD-ROM, this guide provides an interactive visual and auditory experience to accommodate all types of learners. A great resource to help medical educators, students and practicing clinicians integrate EBM into their daily patient care in a practical way.

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Hartmut Glossmann, Jörg Striessnig

The current volume provides detailed experimental protocols used to study plasma membrane ion channels as pharmacological targets. Coverage includes molecular and biochemical characterization of ion channels; fuctional analysis of ion channels after reconstitution, expression, or in cells; and specific methods and tools. This wealth of information will benefit academic and industrial researchers and graduate students in pharmacology, biochemistry, physiology, and biophysics.

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Martin Goldstein and Inge F. Goldstein

1) What is science?; 2) Facts; 3) Snow on cholera; 4) Is heat a substance?; 5) Who is mad?; 6) Science - search for understanding; 7) Science - the goal of generality; 8) Science - the experimental test; 9) The experimenter and the experiment; 10) Measurement and its pitfalls; 11) Where do hypotheses come from?; 12) The dispassionate scientist; 13) The cultural roots of science; 14) Logic and mathematics; 15) Probability; 16) Statistics.