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  • Spring 2014 - Issue Number 94
  • Spring 2014 - Issue Number 94
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Keeping the UK a world leader in the field of bioscience
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Great textbooks of physiology, part 1

Ruch and Patton’s Physiology and Biophysics, 19th edition, 1965
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Policy Corner
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Editorial
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Outreach report: Arnold Hill Academy pupils visit the University of Nottingham

Phillip Rhodes, teacher at Arnold Hill Academy, describes the day his pupils had the opportunity to see where and how physiologists work in a modern academic institution.
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Outreach report: Promoting physiology and related careers in schools

In 2012, The Physiological Society piloted its Public Engagement Grant Scheme, offering up to £5000 to run a public engagement activity discussing physiology. Shelia Amici-Dargan, the first recipient of a grant, reports on how the money has been used.
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Letter to David Hubel

To mark the death of the Nobel Prize winner and Society Honorary Member, we here present a tribute to David Hubel by his scientific partner, Torsten Wiesel. This was presented at a memorial event at Harvard University, USA, 16 November 2013.
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Obituary: Colin Ingram

1960 – 2013
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Book review

Sleep: A Very Short Introduction By Steven Lockley and Russell Foster
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Our hyper-polarizing story: understanding ATP-mediated vasodilatation in humans

Negative results, cynicism, the piecing together of puzzles and integrating physiology with experimental approaches. It’s all part of the inspiring and meandering journey on the path to understand ATP-mediated vasodilatation.
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The Wanderer returns: myths and realities of the cardiac vagus

For years, most textbooks have overlooked the cardiac nerve fibres in the vagus, leaving their actions almost unnoticed. But unravelling their anatomy and physiology is a key component in understanding heart dysfunction, particularly related to brain damage or disease.
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A portal to pain: the transient receptor potential (TRP) vanilloid 1 channel

With a role in several pathophysiological conditions and its location in sensory neurons that respond to harmful stimuli, the non-selective ion channel TRPV1 has become a target for the control of pain. It is important to determine what regulates the function of TRPV1 for the development of new pain therapies.
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Have the carotid chemoreceptors anything to do with the control of breathing during exercise in man?

In man, breathing matches (or exceeds) metabolic rate (the rate of oxygen consumption) from rest to maximum exercise. How the brain achieves this remains one of the biggest unanswered questions in physiology.
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Teaching and research in physiology in Sub-Saharan Africa: achievements and challenges
  • Events

Young Investigators Symposium, European Muscle Conference
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The AHA Scientific Sessions 2013
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Epithelia and Smooth Muscle, Interactions in Health and Disease – Physiological Society Joint Themed Meeting
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Calcium signaling in Health and Disease
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Remembering the 150th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Beck (1863-1942)

Polish-born physiologist, co-developer of electroencephalography who suffered persecution in two world wars and committed suicide facing arrest by the Nazis
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