The Brain Without Oxygen
Subtitle: Causes of Failure - Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms for Survival
Edition: 3rd ed. edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781402011658
Subjects: Neurosciences; Neurology - General; Cerebral anoxia; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Neuroscience; Veterinary Medicine - General; Medical / Neurology; Medical / Neuroscience; Medical-Neuroscience; Medical-Veterinary Medicine - General; Adaptation (Physiology)
First sentence: The human brain is the most complex organ in the body being made up of around 10 intercommunicating nerve cells that can be subdivided into many hundreds of different cell types.