Gestützt auf sein Forschungsprojekt "Selfish Brain" (vgl. "Das egoistische Gehirn") und basierend auf der Auswertung internationaler Studien vermittelt Peters zusammen mit dem Wissenschaftsjournalisten Sebastian Junge verständlich, plausibel und geradezu spannend zu lesen die Zu…
The second edition of Bacterial Stress Responses incorporates and reviews the vast number of new findings that have greatly advanced the understanding of bacterial stress responses in the decade since the publication of the first edition. Readers will discover how this improved …
Bacterial stress responses
Global warming and climate change are growing environmental concerns which are much in the scientific, governmental and public eye at present. The potential impact of freshwater and marine fishes is immense, because most fish have no physiological ability to regulate their body …
1. Introduction; 2. Stress; 3. Anxiety and fear; 4. Emotional numbness and deprivation; 5. Aggression, overcrowding and discomfort; 6. Exercise; 7. Cold; 8. Heat and burns; 9. Thirst and hunger; 10. Pain; 11. Trauma; 12. Sickness and disease; 13. Digestive system; 14. Poisoning;…
Suffering is a state of mind that is difficult to measure and analyse in human beings and considerably more so in animals. It is related to the environment in which we live and our physical and mental states. Understanding the physiology of suffering in animals is crucial in ass…
""Mechanotransduction" is the term for the ability, first described by 19th-century anatomist Julius Wolff, of living tissues to sense mechanical stress and respond by tissue remodeling. More recently, the scope of mechanotransduction has been expanded to include the sensation o…
""Mechanotransduction" is the term for the ability, first described by 19th-century anatomist Julius Wolff, of living tissues to sense mechanical stress and respond by tissue remodeling. More recently, the scope of mechanotransduction has been expanded to include the sensation o…
Plant stress physiology
