1980–1989
678 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1980
#13206
From DNA to Protein: The transfer of genetic information.
1980
#13228
Speech and speech disorders in Western thought before 1600.
1980
#13803
The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.
1980
#13918
Gene transfer in intact animals.
Cline and colleagues were the first to successfully transfer a functioning gene into a living mouse, creating the first transgenic organism.
1980
#13985
Transforming gene product of Rous sarcoma virus phosphorylates tyrosine.
Tony Hunter discovered that tyrosine phosphorylation is a fundamental mechanism for transmembrane-signal transduction in response to growth factor stimulation, and that disregulation of such tyrosine phosphorylation, …
1980
#13993
Are snRNPs involved in splicing?
Steitz and Lerner used immunoprecipitation with human antibodies from patients with autoimmunity to isolate and identify the novel entities snRNPs (pronounced "snurps") and detect their role in splicing. A snRNP is a …
1980
#14108
The striking resemblance of high-resolution G-banded chromosomes of man and chimpanzee.
Chimpanzees are the closest primates genetically to humans. In this paper the authors demonstrated the genetic changes that differentiated humans from chimpanzees. By comparing human and chimpanzee chromosomes the aut…
1980
#14186
Speech disorder in nineteenth century Britain. The history of stuttering.
1980
#14207
Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
Following up on No. 14206, the authors stated that the same excess iridium areas were found in two different areas of W. Europe and in New Zealand, and posited that “the anomalous iridium concentrations at the C [reta…
1980
#14246
The obligatory role of endothelial cells in the relaxation of arterial smooth muscle by acetylcholine.
In 1978 Furchgott discovered a substance in endothelial cells that relaxes blood vessels, calling it endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). By 1986, he had worked out EDRF's nature and mechanism of action, and de…
1980
#14255
Transport of vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein in a cell-free extract.
See also: Fries & Rothman, "Transient activity of Golgi-like membranes as donors of vescular stomatitis viral glycoprotein in vitro," J. Cell. Biol., 90, 1981, 697-704. "Rothman's research[15] details how vesicles—tin…
1980
#14256
The identification of 23 complementation groups required for post-translational events in the yeast secretory pathway.
See also: Novick, P., Ferro, S. and Schekman, R. "Order of events in the yeast secretory pathway," Cell, 25, 1981, 461-469. In 1979 Schekman devised a genetic selection for temperature-conditional secretion-defective …
1980
#14366
The complete works of Vladimir Kovalevsky. Edited by Stephen Jay Gould.
The complete paleontological works written by Kovalevsky, as distinct from his famous translations of western books into Russian, including Darwin's The variation of animals and plants under domestication, Darwin's Th…
1981
#2188.3
The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.
1981
#2682.55
Medicine and its technology: an introduction to the history of medical instrumentation.
1981
#3705.3
History of dentistry. Translated by H. M. Koehler.
The author does not consider this a simple translation of his Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde (1973), as in the sections devoted to the 19th and early 20th centuries it has been so substantially revised as to be “almost …
1981
#3342.1
Naissance et développement de l’oto-rhino-laryngologie dans l’histoire de la médecine. 3 vols.
1981
#4158.2
The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.
A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.
1981
#5019.18
The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology.
Deals with the structure, function, and diseases of the nervous system to the end of the 19th century.
1981
#5019.19
La maladie de l’âme. Étude sur la relation de l’âme et du corps dans la tradition médico-philosophique antique.
1981
#5768.4
History of free skin grafting.
Comprehensive work, with hundreds of bibliographical references. No index.
1981
#6007.2
Ophthalmologisch-optische Untersuchungsgeräte.
English translation by F.C. Blodi as The history of optical instruments for the examination of the eye, Bonn: J. P. Wayenborgh, 1986.
1981
#6610.15
The art of healing. Medicine and science in American art.
1981
#6485.61
The Hippocratic treatises “On generation” “On the nature of the child” “Diseases IV”. A commentary.
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1981
#6524.4
Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils. Two generations of Italian medical learning.
1981
#6742.9
Medical obituaries. American physicians’ biographical notices in selected medical journals before 1907.
With E.N. Feind and G.N. Holloway.
1981
#6533.2
Histoire de la médecine belge.
1981
#197.1
A history of the study of human growth.
1981
#6551.2
The healers: a history of medicine in Scotland.
1981
#6786.23
Medical bibliography in an age of discontinuity.
A history of medical bibliography since World War II, focusing on the information requirements of biomedical research; supplements No. 6785.1
1981
#6786.24
Catalogue of the Pybus collection of medical books, letters and engravings, 15th-20th centuries.
Describes the collection of 2305 classics in the history of medicine formed by Frederick C. Pybus (1883-1975), giving pagination and plate counts. Also included are annotated descriptions of 158 autograph letters by p…
1981
#6596.5
American medicine in transition, 1840-1910.
1981 –1987
#6579.3
Historia general de la medicina española. Vol. 1-4.
Vol. 1: Ancient and medieval; Vol. 2: Renaissance; Vol. 3: 17th century; Vol.. 4: 18th century.
1981
#6958
The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.
The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…
1981
#6981
Medieval woman's guide to health. The first English gynecological handbook. Middle English text, with introduction and modern English translation by Beryl Rowland.
This 15th century manuscript (British Library Sloan 2463) predates by about a century The byrth of mankynde, previously considered the first work on the subject.
1981
#6982
Medieval medicus. A social history of Anglo-Norman medicine.
Includes a directory of Anglo-Norman physicians.
1981
#6995
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.
The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…
1981
#7144
Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the movement and progression of animals, translated, with Introduction and notes by Anthony Preuss.
The Commentaria in de motu et de incessu animalium by the Byzantine writer Michael of Ephesus are the only surviving commentaries in Greek on Aristotle's De motu animalium and De incessu animalium. This edition provid…
1981
#7760
Radiation and human health.
The first comprehensive book summarizing the evidence relating low-level ionizing radiation to cancer and other diseases.
1981
#7899
DYNAMIS: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam. 1-
1981
#8028
Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
1981
#8033
Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.
1981
#8091
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…
1981
#8282
Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine.
1981 –1986
#8324
The complete works, translated into English by Charles Allison Behr. 2 vols.
"The six books of Sacred Tales “ are in a class apart. A record of revelations made to Aristides in dreams by the healing god Asclepius…they are of major importance, both as evidence for the practices associated with …
1981
#8335
Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.
1981
#8437
Lectures on Galen's De sectis. (Arethusa Monographs, VIII). Department of Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo.
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English translation of this commentary on Galen's De sectis (On sects) given by the iatrosophist and commentator on medical texts, Agnellus, circa 600 CE.
1981
#8659
The American Red Cross: The first century.
Extensively illustrated with photographs.
1981
#8668
Science at the beside: Clinical research in American medicine 1905-1945.
Definitive account of the development of academic medicine and clinical research in America during the period covered.
1981
#8693