physiology books

	Laboratory Manual for Comparative Veterinary Anatomy & Physiology
	By: M.S., D.V.M., Phillip E. Cochran ISBN: 0766861856 Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning Release Date: 01 July, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 109506	I bought this for Vet A&P in the fall. Unfortunately I still have another hellish term with this lousy manual. During almost every lab, we take out the manual and the instructor goes through and has us cross off everything that's wrong in the book. This thing has been a road block to my education. The author doesn't seem to even know which digit a horse walks on! Waste your money if you want to, but you'd be better off walking into A&P lab with nothing rather than this 5 pound pile of toilet paper. This was needed for a college course. Book came in very quickly and was exactly as stated. We were very pleased. Last semester a friend and I start doing our master degree in animal science. He was giving the phisiology lab. and both of us were taking the advanced phisiology class. The Laboratory Manual for Comparative Veterinary Anatomy & Physiology had good and basic information with lots of pictures and real photos which help us to refresh the material we already knew and to prepare the lab. <br />
	Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology- softcover
	By: Sylvia S. Mader ISBN: 0072935170 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Release Date: 20 January, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 404199
	Study Guide/Workbook to Accompany Speech and Hearing Science Anatomy and Physiology
	By: Eileen Zemlin, Willard R. Zemlin ISBN: 0875637302 Publisher: Stipes Publishing, LLC Release Date: June, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 340952	I was very satisfied with this purchase. The book came in a little over a week and was in perfect condition. This book was in great condition and received when promised! This book has been a great reference item. I use it for anatomical landmarks and it is very helpful. It helped me ace a test in my aphasia class. I am a very visual person and this book is wonderful.
	Anatomy and Physiology Made Incredibly Easy! (Made Incredibly Easy)
	By: Springhouse ISBN: 1582550433 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Release Date: October, 2000 Bioscience book rank: 506182	Really breaks down the subject matter into easy to learn format. I can honestly say this helped to make me an A student. This book is a good review for anatomy and physiology. It focuses on the key points and is a necessity for any anatomy and physiology student. It helped me pass my A and P classes. However, I would also recommend the following:<br>Tortora's Anatomy and Physiology textbook<br>Anatomy and Physiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations by Patrick Leonardi <br>Volume 1 isbn 0971999619, vol 2, isbn 0971999627,<br>Both Leonardi's books are highly informative and had the same type of questions asked on my college anatomy and physiology exams. You can't go wrong with these four books! This book introduces way too many new terms in such a small space that one can easily lose sight of the entire function of the paragraph. The title make you think it will be a book for beginners, but its written more like a book for advanced Anatomy and Physiology. If you've never studied anatomy and physiology before I would NOT recommend this book, as I dont think a beginners brain could possibly absorb all the new terminology. The authors should have focused on key words, and left the other terms for an advanced editions. For example- this is a summary from a typical paragraph, I will put parenthesis around all the terms that are unfamiliar to a beginner-- Cardiovascular system-<br>The hear lies beneath the (sternum) in the (mediastinum) surrounded by a sac called the (pericardium) the hearts wall is made up of (myocardium)(endocardium) and (epicardium), 4 chambers( 2 atria) and (2 ventricle)--(2 atrioventicular) and 2 (semilunar) valves. --------- THAT'S 10 UNFAMILIAR TERMS IN 1 PARAGRAPH, LEAVE OUT THE DETAILS PLEASE- unless you are in medical school, we dont need to know EVERY SINGLE part of the heart. Especially your first time learning about the body and its functions- it's entirely too much to absorb at once. And i definitely wouldnt title the book "MADE INCREDIBLY EASY" are yhou kidding me???????????
	Anatomy & Physiology
	By: Elaine N Marieb ISBN: 0805338624 Publisher: Pearson Release Date: 2008 Bioscience book rank: 580402
	The Physiology Of Taste
	By: Brillat Savarin ISBN: 1419177338 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Release Date: 30 June, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 81641
	Essential Biology/Essential Biology with Physiology : Binding: CDROM
	By: Campbell, Reece, Simon ISBN: 080537504X Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Release Date: October, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 222121
	Introduction to Plant Physiology
	By: William G. Hopkins, Norman P. A. Hüner ISBN: 0471389153 Publisher: Wiley Release Date: 15 July, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 534916	I cannot recommend this textbook. Its basic premise is misguided. It seems to be aiming squarely between the level of presentation in a basic botany course and a true plant physiology course. This is not an advisable half-step -- it winds up being nothing more than a protracted review of basic botany, not the opening up of a new field of study. <br /> <br />Its flawed premise aside, the usefulness of this book on any level is compromised by its errors. Factual errors abound -- these aren't just matters of scientific dispute, they're flat-out errors in fact. For example, the overview of the C4 syndrome consistently shows that they phosphorylation of pyruvate to PEP produces ATP, when in fact it consumes ATP. (Furthermore, it insists that 2 ATP are involved, which is supported neither by the stoichiometry nor other sources I consulted.) The stromal hexose-P pool in the diagram for the PCR (Calvin) cycle is misplaced. The table showing the stoichiometry for the same cycle is an unhelpful oversimplification -- showing only the Rubisco and carbon dioxide and ignoring the inputs and outputs of water, phosphates, electron acceptors, and hydronium ion. The diagram for the citric acid cycle does not reflect the inputs of water, which is not only confusing, it is also misleading about the basic requirements for the physiological process of respiration. The diagram for a stoma and guard cells is inadequately labeled when viewed alongside the text, and detailed examples of the less well-known graminoid stomata are absent. <br /> <br />The function of enzymes is all-important in this subject, and this book only mentions them in the text proper, never including them in the diagrams and tables. For example, if took a dedicated search to find the fleeting mention in the text of the important role of malic enzyme in C4 and CAM photosynthesis. In order to get through this book, I had to cross-reference continuously with Taiz and Zeiger's better book on Plant Physiology, and the book on basic botany by Raven, Evert, and Eichhorn. <br /> <br />Taiz and Zeiger do a far better job all around. Enzymes are consistently presented -- right alongside the reactions -- in tables summarizing physiological processes. For most processes, the Lewis diagrams of the chemicals involved are usually presented -- this is a form of illustration that can help in understanding the processes, serve as a gentle prod in recalling one's organic chemistry. So even if the level of instruction doesn't require memorizing formulas or structures, these diagrams help in learning the material. If you are even a mildly inquisitive reader you're going to be continuously puzzled by the Hopkins book, unless you have other sources to consult. <br /> <br />The book is 100 pages shorter and 10 bucks more expensive than Taiz and Zeiger. T&Z are now in its third edition and using full-color, whereas Hopkins is only 2-color. Furthermore, T&Z have a nice web site, and this book has no ancillary material available. I read that their editor for the ancillar materials bagged out at the last minute, so the publishers were obviously cheapskates and didn't see to it that the job got done. <br /> <br />Taiz and Zeiger, however, are between editions -- the 4th edition is due out in June 2006. So you may want to hold off and get that. The 3rd edition of T&Z can be had for about $50, and the 2nd edition of 1998 (2 color) for $25. The 2nd edition is great, but the many advances made since 1998 are obviously not reflected. This is an introductory book, so I do not expect it to go in-depth in each area. There are many typos in this book though, like a lot of page numbers in the index are not correct. Also, the book goes in an odd order, and a lot of things explained later in the book wouldv'e made it easier to understand some of the earlier things easier. a lot of newer concepts are left out too, or vaguely mentioned, like electric currents in plants. My professor often has to use graphs and charts from other books because the ones from the book are too complicated or hard to understand, such as the Z-scheme, the Q cycle, and the PCR cycle to name a few. I would not recommend this book as an introductory textbook. 1.Why IBA biosynthetic doesn't appear inside this book?<br>2.Does IBA biosynthetic discovered yet? <br> I think it would be better if IBA biosinthetic can be described in this book.<br>I'm waiting your answer<br>thank you very much <p>Semarang Indonesia<br>rudi
	Mathematical Physiology
	By: James Keener, James Sneyd ISBN: 0387983813 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 11 May, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 344640	I used this book in a graduate school course. I found myself checking out other mathematical physiology books to understand what they were talking about. There's poor explanations, and they skip certain steps that would help the reader get a better understanding of what's going on. Save your money and skip this book. If you would like to delve into the true complexity of systems biology (physiology), get this book. It's even much better than computational cell biology book by JJ Tyson et al since it's described in depth. But I'd rephrase Tyson's comment: "The regulatory system is so complex that it defies understanding by verbal arguments alone." This book is an excellent overview of the major research into the mathematics of physiological processes. The first part of the book covers cellular physiology beginning with a discussion of biochemical reactions in the first chapter. Some of the applications of dynamical systems are nicely illustrated here, especially bifurcation theory.<p> Applications of the diffusion equation follow in the next chapter on cellular homeostasis. The Nernst-Planck electrodiffusion equation is discussed but not derived, and is solved in the constant field approximation. <p> This is complicated somewthat in the next chapter on membrane ion channels, where the potential across the membrane is not assumed to have a constant gradient. There is a discussion of channel blocking drugs in the last section, but unfortunately it is too short. This is an important area of application, with the experimental validation of the mathematical results of upmost importance. <p> The Hodgkin-Huxley and the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations dominate the next chapter on electrical signaling in cells. The phase space analysis of these models is discussed, along with an interesting treatment of the excitability of cardiac cells in the Appendix of the chapter. <p> A very well-written treatment, along with helpful diagrams, of calcium dynamics is given in Chapter 5. The authors show how ignoring the fast variables and transients lead one to a solution of they dynamical problem of the receptor model. <p> Phase space analysis is used extensively in the next chapter on electrical bursting, with emphasis on bursting in pancreatic beta-cells. An interesting discussion on the classification of bursting oscillations is given purely in terms of bifurcation theory. <p> That synaptic transimission is quantal in nature is one of the topics of the next chapter on intercellular communication. This is the first time in the book that probabilistic methods are introduced into the modeling. The authors quote some very old references on the experimental verification of the quantal model, leaving the reader wondering if more modern experiments have been done. In calculating the effective diffusion coefficients, the authors introduce the technique of homogenization, and give a explanation of the rationale behind the technique. The strategy of determining the behavior at a particular scale without solving completely the details at a finer scale is one that has proven to be quite productive, especially in physics.<p> The use of partial differential equations is increased in the next chapter on electrical flow in neurons, with the linear cable equation playing the dominant role. The authors use transform methods to obtain the solutions in the main text and exercises, giving references for the reader not familiar with these techniques. <p> The nonlinear cable equation is the subject of the next chapter, with traveling waves solutions of the bistable equation given the main emphasis. Shooting methods are employed in the solution of this equation, and the authors also treat the more difficult case of the discrete bistable equation. <p> Wave propagation in higher dimensions is the subject of the next chapter, with spiral waves discussed along with a brief discussion of scroll waves. <p> The fascinating subject of cardiac propagation is the subject of Chapter 11. The mathematical techniques are not much more complicated, but mathematicians coming to cardiac biology for the first time will need to pay attention to the details. One of the most interesting subjects of the book is treated in Chapter 13 on cell function regulation. Mathematical models of the G1 and G2 checkpoint processes are given. <p> Part two of the book emphasizes the mathematical modeling of the biological systems, rather than at the cellular level. This part begins with a consideration of how cellular activity can be coordinated to produce a regular heartbeat and how failure can occur. Interestingly, a Schrodinger-like equation appears when linearizing the FitzHugh-Nagumo equations for oscillating cells. And, interestingly, dynamical systems via circle maps appear in the model of the AV modal signal. This is followed by a lengthy and fascinating discussion of the mathematics of the circulatory system. Unfortunately, the discussion on the dangers of high blood pressure is not justified by any mathematical models in the book. It would have been very interesting to see a model developed that would predict the effects of hypertension on the heart, kidneys, etc and one that would be compared with historical and clinical data. <p> The next chapters discuss physiology of the blood, respiration, and muscles. A very interesting discussion of hormone physiology and mammal ovulation is given. The mathematical models of the kidneys and gastrointestinal systems are very detailed and very enlightening for individuals not in these fields. <p> The book ends with chapters on the physiology of sight and hearing. The discussion of the light reflex mechanism is very interesting as the authors use linear stability analysis. The oscillations of the basilar membrane in the inner ear are good reading for the physicist. <p> This book would be of great interest to mathematicians who are entering the field of computational physiology or computational biologists who need an understanding of the modeling required. Very captivating reading........
	Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Manual t/a Saladin
	By: Eric Wise ISBN: 0072438169 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Release Date: 13 January, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 452647