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  • Winter 2014 - Issue Number 97
  • Winter 2014 - Issue Number 97
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An affiliate’s view on networking and mentoring
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Great textbooks of physiology
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We know where we are going, but how do we get there? The Society’s Meetings Committee
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2014 International Lecture and Pan-American Congress
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Obituary: Alex Livingston

1940 – 2014
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Do you know about the Benevolent Fund?
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ETRIS: facilitating research and training in in vivo physiology
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Physiology to pedagogy
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Young Life Scientists’ Symposium 2014
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Special symposium for Dr Robert Banks
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Obesity – a physiological perspective
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A tribute to Bernhard Frankenhaeuser 1915 – 1994
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Physiology on the go
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Cambridge physiology scores a century – 100 years of The Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge
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Policy Focus
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Student-led ‘Physiology Challenge’ for Biology Week at the University of Leeds
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The Physiological Society joins the Life Science Teaching Resource Community
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#Biobakes
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Editorial
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Secrets of life from beyond the grave

“The story of how humans and all living things came into existence is told in two widely believed versions: the Book of Genesis and Darwin’s Origin of Species. It was the philosopher Karl Popper who presented us with a third story, no less important.” (Niemann, 2014)
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The mighty protein: insulin-like growth factor type 1

IGF-1 plays a critical role in skeletal muscle growth during development, muscle regeneration and muscle hypertrophy in response to training.
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Sleep disturbance alters autonomic balance to the heart

Sleep disturbances such as sleep apnoea can cause a chronic imbalance in the autonomic nervous system, and if left untreated, can lead to cardiovascular diseases.
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Exercise: more than just a role in energy balance

Improving our understanding of the mechanisms by which physical exercise enhances health requires physiologists to isolate the relative effects of exercise per se.
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Human metabolism and obesity: the influence of exercise

This article discusses the effects of physical activity and exercise programmes on human metabolism and obesity. It demonstrates how exercise and physical activity are important regardless of body weight or composition, and reports on a number of successful interventions including community-based exercise programmes that have reduced body fat and improved health outcome markers in overweight/obese individuals.
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