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Winter 2001 - Issue Number 45

Winter 2001 - Issue Number 45

Below are the feature articles from Physiology News Issue 45, Winter 2001.

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Ethics of Working with Human Tissues

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Use it – don’t waste it: Facilitative urea transporters

Craig Smith explains why transport of urea across cell membranes plays many important roles in cell physiology –as well as some unexpected ones.

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Use it – don’t waste it: Facilitative urea transporters

Craig Smith explains why transport of urea across cell membranes plays many important roles in cell physiology –as well as some unexpected ones.

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Octopamine is not just for arthropods

Up till recently octopamine appeared to be a purely arthropod neurotransmitter. Here Chris Elliott and Ágnes Vehovszky demonstrate that it also occurs in the Phylum Mollusca, and may occur elsewhere.

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Octopamine is not just for arthropods

Up till recently octopamine appeared to be a purely arthropod neurotransmitter. Here Chris Elliott and Ágnes Vehovszky demonstrate that it also occurs in the Phylum Mollusca, and may occur elsewhere.

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The Clinical Academic – The Clinical Scientist

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The Clinical Academic – The Clinical Scientist

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Wanted – a time machine

Visual impairment increases with age. John Mellerio speculates as to why this is and requests a time machine to collect some easy answers.

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Wanted – a time machine

Visual impairment increases with age. John Mellerio speculates as to why this is and requests a time machine to collect some easy answers.

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34th International Congress of Physiological Sciences: from molecule to malady

At the end of August over 2000 physiologists attended the 34th IUPS Congress in Christchurch, New Zealand. Here John Lee and Austin Elliott report from the other side of the world.