Books written by Julie Whelan

  • Cocaine: Scientific and Social Dimensions
    Cocaine: Scientific and Social Dimensions

    This book should appeal to an unusually wide range of specialists and also to non-specialist readers concerned about the increasing problems of drug dependence.

  • Aluminium in Biology and Medicine
    Aluminium in Biology and Medicine

    Prominent contributors address issues regarding the toxicity of aluminum which causes an encephalopathy in renal dialysis patients and is also known to damage animals and plants via acid rain.

  • Exploring Brain Functional Anatomy with Positron Tomography
    Exploring Brain Functional Anatomy with Positron Tomography

    Details the application of positron emission tomography (PET) to the mapping of human cerebral cortical function. Coverage includes all aspects of PET technology.

  • Biology of Vitamin E
    Biology of Vitamin E

    The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and ...

  • Neurobiology of Incontinence
    Neurobiology of Incontinence

    Neurophysiologists, neurologists, neuroanatomists, neuropharmacologists, urologists, gynaecologists, colorectal surgeons, nurses, and biomedical engineers concerned with prosthesis design, will all find this book of interest to them.

  • Synthetic Peptides as Antigens
    Synthetic Peptides as Antigens

    The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and ...

  • IgE, Mast Cells and the Allergic Response
    IgE, Mast Cells and the Allergic Response

    Reviews recent basic research into IgE, mast cells, and the allergic response and the relevance of this work to human pathophysiology, and discusses new methods of treatment.

  • Metastasis
    Metastasis

    Much of the emphasis in this volume is placed on mechanisms operating at the cell surface, including the contribution of cell adhesion molecules, and of fibronectin and other extracellular matrix components, to the behaviour of normal and ...

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Documents the latest results and opinions on the causes and possible cures for this disorder. Coverage includes retroviral involvement, immunity, pathophysiology and pharmacological treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome.

  • Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Disease
    Autoimmunity and Autoimmune Disease

    This work focuses on the autoimmune processes that have now been proven to underlie a number of serious diseases, including diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

  • Plasticity of the Neuromuscular System
    Plasticity of the Neuromuscular System

    Also discusses the plasticity of the neuromuscular system during regeneration after injury, and in the modification of muscle properties and movement patterns in disease states by changes in sensory input or by electrical stimulation.

  • Health and Disease in Tribal Societies
    Health and Disease in Tribal Societies

    ... food resource. Ecology ofFood and Nutrition 2, 307-321 LOTKA, A.J . (1956, orig. 1924) Elements of Mathematical Biology, Dover, New York MCCARTHY, D. & MCARTI-IUR, M. (1960) The food quest and the time factor in aboriginal economic life ...