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  • Autumn 2012 - Issue Number 88
  • Autumn 2012 - Issue Number 88
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Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology Themed Meeting

Meeting Notes
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60 Years of Hodgkin and Huxley

Meeting Notes
  • Events

Physiology@Newcastle

Meeting Notes
  • Events

Physiology 2012

Meeting Notes
  • News and Views

Physiology 2012: The undergraduate experience
  • News and Views

YPS2012: Integrative Physiology
  • News and Views

A home for physiology
  • News and Views

Twenty-five years of the Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre
  • News and Views

Policy Corner
  • News and Views

The Society announces the winners of the 2012 Rob Clarke Awards
  • News and Views

One thousand delegates at Physiology 2012
  • News and Views

History and Archives stand celebrates Edinburgh physiologists
  • News and Views

Editorial

The original Society was primarily a male, medical (albeit liberal) grouping – we have come a very long way towards the inclusive participation of everyone who calls themselves a physiologist.
  • Membership

Obituary: Hilda Tracy

1927–2010
  • Membership

Obituary: Anne Warner

1940-2012
  • Membership

Obituary: Andrew Fielding Huxley

1917-2012
  • Membership

Book review: Galvani’s Spark by Alan J McComas
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Lab profile: The Biomedical Research Centre, University of East Anglia
  • Membership

My top ten papers

Jonathan Ashmore reflects on the papers that have most influenced his career
  • Membership

Reps’ meeting, Physiology 2012

Outreach Manager, Louise Crane, reports on the meeting of The Society’s university Representatives
  • Features

Q&A: Remembering Sir Andrew Huxley

Sir Andrew Huxley, ‘the most eminent physiologist of a generation’, passed away in May this year. We asked some Members who knew him to share some of their memories of the man who unravelled the propagation of the action potential and unveiled the sliding filament mechanism in striated muscle.
  • Features

Do humans really prolong breath-hold duration by lowering heart rate to reduce metabolic rate?

Humans do not appear to be able to voluntarily lower heart or metabolic rate during breath-holding. So we cannot prolong breath-holds in this way. What might happen when combining breath-holding with immersion remains unclear.
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Putting the brain into brainstem

What goes on in the brainstem and why should processes normally associated with higher parts of the brain be found much lower?
  • Features

What price research?

We all know the need for refinement, reduction and replacement (the 3Rs) in animal experimentation, but it is little appreciated how the present over-strict bureaucratic regulation of biomedical research involving experiments on animals not only slows progress, but also blights careers.
  • Features

Current ethical issues in animal research

The use of animals in research is a matter of substantial public interest and can generate impassioned debate which includes the ethics of using animals for experimentation. Dominic Wells reviews specific ethical issues in the scientific use of animals and puts the debate into context.
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