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Below are the feature articles from Physiology News Issue 55, Summer 2004.

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Qualia and private languages

Denis Noble explains the ‘private language argument’, where philosophy and neurobiology meet head-on
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Vasopressin may limit its own secretion with the help of pituicytes

Vasopressin released from the pituitary is a critical controller of body water balance. Like many hormones, it seems to be able to inhibit its own release. Jean-Marc Mienville and colleagues discuss the possible underlying mechanisms
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Getting insight into the work of tendons

Oksana Kostyuk and Robert Brown describe how a novel fibre-optic spectroscopic technique based on light-scattering can provide structural information on tendon changes
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Brain waves plainly speaking

Recent studies of brain waves (oscillations) generated by the hippocampus reveal how a large collection of nerve cells turns into a living brain tissue. These oscillations are brain-specific integrative network activity, adopted through the collective properties of the network, and not supported by the activity of individual cells
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The large conductance calcium-activated potassium channel (BKCa) and the β2 adrenergic receptor (AR): a direct link to uterine relaxation

The similar pattern of expression between the β2 adrenoceptor and BKCa channel during pregnancy suggests that the link between these two proteins may constitute a new piece in the jigsaw
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Bidirectional synaptic plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellum

The learning of motor skills – fine movement control – depends upon the conversion of synaptic activity in the cerebellum into longer term changes in synaptic efficacy. Here Françis Crépel and Armelle Rancillac describe how stellate cells play a part

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Understanding skeletal muscle hypertrophy: integration of cell signalling

All physiologists know that muscle activity is necessary to maintain muscle mass. But what are the underlying molecular mechanisms at work in the muscle? Here Douglas Bolster and colleagues offer some insights
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Can a single bout of exercise prevent decompression sickness?

A single session of high-intensity exercise may form the basis for a novel approach to greatly reducing the risk of decompression sickness
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From magnetic moments to medical imaging

Austin Elliott talks with Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 2003 for his work on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
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Halt on Cambridge primate centre

Nancy Rothwell considers what it means for the future of UK research
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That was the week that was…

No week is typical for Alan North, so he chose this one, when magazine Editor Austin Elliott finally persuaded him to move the piece up his mind's agenda and onto paper…
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The Athens Olympics: some lessons in thermal physiology

Ron Maughan continues our series of articles on exercise physiology in the run up to the summer Games
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