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  • Spring 2004 - Issue Number 54

Below are the feature articles from Physiology News Issue 54, Spring 2004.

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A career for the retired physiologist: ‘social’ scientist

Vivian Abrahams extols the virtues of a part-time retirement career as a ‘social’ scientist
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Twenty years of Society magazines

The Physiological Society Committee Newsletter - forerunner of the Newsletter, the Magazine and, most recently, Physiology News - was conceived in 1983 by the then Committee Secretary Joe Lamb. Past Editors look back on their time in the hot seat
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Saving British science

Save British Science is approaching its 20th anniversary as a leading science lobby group. Joe Lamb, founding Chairman of SBS and recently retired from its Executive Committee, explains the Physiological Society’s crucial role in its establishment
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Control of upper airway muscles and the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnoea

OSA is more than just a loud case of snoring - it has been described as ‘the most important new disease discovered in the second half of the 20th century’. But why do airways close during sleep but not when we are awake? Robert Fogel offers an explanation
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Gene expression profiling shows its muscle

With advances in genomic information and computational algorithms, the application of microarrays is uncovering new insights into muscle plasticity

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Airway liquid secretion and cystic fibrosis lung disease

Stephen Ballard describes recent studies into anion and liquid secretion in airways and discusses how inhibition of this process provides important insights into the pathogenesis of CF
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Relax in a flash – shedding light on vascular smooth muscle photorelaxation

Recent research has shown that the ability of light to relax vascular smooth muscle is due to the photochemical release of NO from a rechargeable chemical ‘store’. Studies of the recharging mechanism suggest that light-sensitive sources of NO are also likely to be present in other cell types

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Flavoprotein autofluorescence

Spectroscopic measurements of cellular autofluorescence have a 50 year history, but still have much to give. Here Katsuei Shibuki and Ryuichi Hishida describe an underestimated technique for functional brain imaging
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Cortical control of human jaw muscles: bilateral but not symmetrical

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is revealing new details of the cortical control of human jaw muscles

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The exciting mitochondrion

Evidence is emerging that mitochondria play an important role in modulating the excitability of muscle and other cells. Not bad for an organelle that may have started out as a bacterium ‘adopted’ by primordial cells

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What’s new in anaesthesia?

Bill Winlow describes some of the safety aspects of anaesthesia, including a new compound that reverses neuromuscular blockage, closed loop feedback systems for monitoring anaesthesia and current ideas on brain protection in neurosurgery

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Physiological determinants of success in track athletics

In the first of a series of articles on exercise physiology, Andrew Jones considers what makes an Olympic champion as athletes prepare to compete in the Athens Games
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