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Summer 2002- Issue Number 47

Summer 2002- Issue Number 47

Below are the feature articles from Physiology News Issue 47, Summer 2002.

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Nachrichten aus Tübingen:

Joint scientific meeting of the German, British and Scandinavian Physiological Societies, Tübingen, Germany, March 15th-19th 2002

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Nachrichten aus Tübingen:

Joint scientific meeting of the German, British and Scandinavian Physiological Societies, Tübingen, Germany, March 15th-19th 2002

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Putting a human face on animal testing

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Putting a human face on animal testing

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Melatonin: an antioxidant in phagocytic cells

In this article Carmen Barriga and Ana Beatriz Rodrigues discuss how melatonin favours phagocytic activity at the same time as neutralising free radical levels.

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Melatonin: an antioxidant in phagocytic cells

In this article Carmen Barriga and Ana Beatriz Rodrigues discuss how melatonin favours phagocytic activity at the same time as neutralising free radical levels.

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Frequency filtering at cortical synapses

Combinations of presynaptic molecular mechanisms result in frequency-dependent patterns of transmitter release from pyramidal axon terminals that can be unique to a given class of target cell. Inputs to other pyramidal cells and to one class of inhibitory interneurones display a complex time course of recovery from paired pulse depression that results in a selective depression of transmission at gamma frequencies.

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Frequency filtering at cortical synapses

Combinations of presynaptic molecular mechanisms result in frequency-dependent patterns of transmitter release from pyramidal axon terminals that can be unique to a given class of target cell. Inputs to other pyramidal cells and to one class of inhibitory interneurones display a complex time course of recovery from paired pulse depression that results in a selective depression of transmission at gamma frequencies.

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Bioresearchers: the end of innocence or insouciance?

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Bioresearchers: the end of innocence or insouciance?

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Implications of demyelination for the structure and function of the neuromuscular junction

Recent studies of neuromuscular junctions in animal models of demyelinating disease suggest that glial-axonal signalling plays a crucial role in stablising synaptic form and function.