Published June, 2008
By Mehdi Shakibaei, Constanze Csaki and Ali Mobasheri
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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This book examines the expression and function of ss1-integrins in articular chondrocytes. The authors discuss their research and that of others involved in studying chondrocyte ECM adhesion and signal transduction.

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Published March, 2007
By Stefan Britsch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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Neuregulin signals are also involved in the development diseases including breast cancer, heart disease and the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. This book reviews the biology of Neuregulins and their receptors and summarizes recent research, which has established crucial functions of this signaling system during development and disease.

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Published February, 2007
By Anton B. Tonchev, Tetsumori Yamashima, George N. Chaldakov, A.B. Tonchev, T. Yamashima and G.N. Chaldakov
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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The authors' results show that ischemia differentially activates endogenous neural precursors residing in diverse locations of the adult primate central nervous system. The presence of putative parenchymal progenitors and of sustained progenitors in germinative centers opens novel possibilities for precursor cell recruitment.

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Published December, 2006
By Angel Nunez, Eduardo Malmierca, A. Nuñez and E. Malmierca
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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Sensory signals reach the cerebral cortex after having made synapses in different relay stations along the sensory pathway. Several lines of research indicate that the massive corticifugal system improves ongoing subcortical sensory processing and reorganizes the receptive fields in visual, auditory and somatosensory systems.

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Published December, 2006
By Maria L. Lopez-Gracia, Maria A. Ros, M.L. López-Gracia and M.A. Ros
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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Externally the vertebrate body plan presents a bilateral symmetry in relation to the midline. The last 10 years have seen remarkable advances in our understanding of how the internal asymmetries typical of the vertebrate body are established and controlled.

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Published December, 2006
By Gundela Meyer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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The early steps in corticogenesis are decisive for the correct unfolding of neurogenesis, neuronal migration and differentiation under tight genetic control. Also examined are the gradual transformation of the preplate into the cortical plate, and the establishment of the transient compartments of the foetal cortical wall.

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