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This volume offers a comprehensive history of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), one of the major marine laboratories in the United States and a leader in using marine organisms to study fundamental physiological concepts. Beginning with its founding as the Harpswell Laboratory of Tufts University in 1898, David H. Evans follows its evolution from a teaching facility to a research center for distinguished renal and epithelial physiologists. He also describes how it became the site of major advances in cytokinesis, regeneration, cardiac and vascular physiology, hepatic physiology, endocrinology and toxicology, as well as studies of the comparative physiology of marine organisms. Fundamental physiological concepts in the context of the discoveries made at the MDIBL are explained, and the social and administrative history of this renowned facility is described.

Biomedicine. --- Human Physiology. --- Animal Physiology. --- History of Science. --- Medicine. --- Science --- Human physiology. --- Médecine --- Sciences --- Physiologie humaine --- History. --- Histoire --- Marine animals -- Physiology -- Maine -- Mount Desert Island. --- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. --- Physiology --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Marine animals --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Me. --- MDI Biological Laboratory --- MDIBL --- Animal physiology. --- Aquatic animals --- Marine organisms --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Animal physiology --- Animals --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Human body --- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory