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Erythropoietin, Volume 105, the latest release in the Vitamins and
Hormones series first published in 1943, and the longest-running
serial published by Academic Press, provides up-to-date information
on crystal structures and basic structural studies on neurotrophins
and their receptors, neurotrophin functions and the biological
actions of neurotrophins related to clinical conditions and
disease. Topics covered in this new volume include Erythropoietin
Receptor Structural Domains, Analysis of the Asymmetry of Activated
EPO Receptor Enables Designing Small Molecule Agonists, Endogenous
Erythropoietin, Erythropoietin Receptor Signaling and Lipid Rafts,
and Erythropoietin and Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis. Each thoroughly
reviewed volume focuses on a single molecule or disease that is
related to vitamins or hormones, with the topic broadly interpreted
to include related substances, such as transmitters, cytokines,
growth factors and others. This volume documents the activities of
this vital molecule, also describing the structure and function of
erythropoietin and its receptor.
This book presents a revised history of early biogeography and
investigates the split in taxonomic practice, between the
classification of taxa and the classification of vegetation. It
moves beyond the traditional belief that biogeography is born from
a synthesis of Darwin and Wallace and focuses on the important
pioneering work of earlier practitioners such as Zimmermann,
Stromeyer, de Candolle and Humboldt. Tracing the academic history
of biogeography over the decades and centuries, this book recounts
the early schisms in phyto and zoogeography, the shedding of its
bonds to taxonomy, its adoption of an ecological framework and its
beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century. This book assesses the
contributions of key figures such as Zimmermann, Humboldt and
Wallace and reminds us of the forgotten influence of plant and
animal geographers including Stromeyer, Prichard and de Candolle,
whose early attempts at classifying animal and plant geography
would inform later progress.<
The Origins of Biogeography is a science historiography aimed at
biogeographers, who have little access to a detailed history of the
practices of early plant and animal geographers. This book will
also reveal how biological classification has shaped 18th and 19th
century plant and animal geography and why it is relevant to the
21st bio geographer.
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