Development and Reproduction in Humans and Animal Model Species /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mueller, Werner A. (Autor), Hassel, Monika. (Autor), Grealy, Maura. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Development and Reproduction: An Introduction
  • Stages and Principles of Animal Development Terms of Developmental Biology
  • The Start: Fertilization, Activation of the Egg and a First Series of Cell Divisions (Cleavage)
  • Model Organisms in Developmental Biology I: Invertebrates
  • Development of Important Model Species II: Vertebrates
  • The Human
  • In Preparation for New Life I: Sex Determination and Sexual Development
  • In Preparation for New Life II: Gametogenesis: The Development of Egg Cells and Sperm and Their Provision with Heritable Reserves
  • Specification of Body Axes and Localized Fate Allotment by External and Maternal Cues
  • Positional Information, Embryonic Induction and Pattern Formation by Cell-Cell-Communication
  • Controlling Signals, Signal Propagation and Signal Transduction
  • Development and Genes
  • Application- Oriented Experiments with Early Vertebrate Embryos: Cloning, Transgenic Animals
  • Morphogenesis: Shaping by Active Cell Movement, Differential Cell Adhesion and Cell Death
  • Long Distance Wanderers and the Various Fates of the Neural Crest Cells
  • The Nervous System and Central Sensory Organs
  • Heart and Blood Vessels
  • Stem cells, Regeneration, Regenerative Medicine
  • Growth Control and Cancer
  • Metamorphosis and its Hormonal Control
  • Immortality or Ageing and Death: What is Nature's Aim?
  • Evolution of Development.