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Vascular smooth muscle (VSM) constitutes most of the tunica media in blood vessels and plays an i...

Seizures are more common early in life than in adulthood. Bidirectional interactions between seiz...

Adolescent brain development is a fascinating, newly developing field that has so much to offer a...

This e-book will review special features of the cerebral circulation and how they contribute to t...

This book reviews the molecular genetics of the thalassemia syndromes, inherited hemoglobin disor...

This presentation describes various aspects of the regulation of tissue oxygenation, including th...

This is the first book on X and Y chromosomal disorders to address these common but rarely diagno...

Many proprotein convertases (PC), especially furin and PACE4, are involved in pathological proces...

Hypertension is defined by an increase in systemic blood pressure above limits considered normal,...

Classically, the central nervous system (CNS) was considered to contain neurons and three main ty...