All ebooks in the collection "Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology" - Springer

Doping in Sports

Peter Hemmersbach , Detlef Thieme

Doping in sports and the fight against it has gained increasing attention in recent years. The pharmacological basis for a possible performance enhancement in competitive sport through the administration of prohibited substances and methods as well as the analytical...

Sensory Nerves

Brendan J. Canning , Domenico Spina

Adenosine Receptors in Health and Disease

S. Jamal Mustafa , Constance N. Wilson

Since their discovery approximately 25 years ago, adenosine receptors have now emerged as important novel molecular targets in disease and drug discovery. These proteins play important roles in the entire spectrum of disease from inflammation to immune suppression....

Bone Marrow-Derived Progenitors

Katalin Kauser , Andreas-Michael Zeiher

The ambitious goal of this volume is to provide – in chapters written by accomplished scientists and experts in their field – a comprehensive overview of the currently available information related to the therapeutic utility of adult bone marrow-derived cells. With...

The Vascular Endothelium I

Annie Higgs , Salvador Moncada

This wide ranging work provides a complete representation of the present state of knowledge of the vascular endothelium. The volume comprises 20 chapters by experts who have made significant contributions to research in the vascular endothelium. The text discusses the...

The Vascular Endothelium II

Annie Higgs , Salvador Moncada

This wide ranging work provides a complete representation of the present state of knowledge of the vascular endothelium. The volume comprises 20 chapters by experts who have made significant contributions to research in the vascular endothelium. The text discusses the...

RNA Towards Medicine

Jan Barciszewski , Jürgen Brosius , Volker A. Erdmann

Developments over the past few years have revealed the remarkable versatility of RNA in any compartment of the cell, tasks that had been thought to be exclusively in the realm of proteins and even beyond. The chapters in this book written by leading investigators in the...

Stem Cells

Kenneth Boheler , Anna M. Wobus

Signi?cant advances in stem cell research and their potentials for therap- tic applications have attracted the attention of the scienti?c community and captured the imagination of society as a whole. Not so long ago, the study of most stem cells, other than those that...

Cannabinoids

Roger G. Pertwee

Less than 20 years ago the ?eld of cannabis and the cannabinoids was still c- sidered a minor, somewhat quaint, area of research. A few groups were active in the ?eld, but it was already being viewed as stagnating. The chemistry of cannabis 9 9 was well known, ?...

Atherosclerosis: Diet and Drugs

Arnold Eckardstein

Cardiovascular diseases continue to be the leading cause of death in the - jority of industrialized countries. The most frequent underlying pathology, namely atherosclerosis, and its clinical sequelae, namely coronary heart d- ease, cerebrovascular disease and...