Women more susceptible to orthostatic hypotension
...irculatory Physiology, one of the 14 peer-reviewed journals published by the AmericanPhysiological Society (APS), spotlights recent research findings designed to improve and understand human well and health. The November edition includes a study focusing on the association of gender, erect posture, and subn...Influence of gender on upper airway structure and function during obstructive sleep apnea
...of Applied Physiology, one of the 14 peer-reviewed journals published by the American Physiology Society (APS), spotlights recent research findings designed to improve and understand human well-being and health. The summary below, from the current edition, focuses on Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a medical c...USF presents new research on hyperlipidemic children
...S publishes 3,800 articles in its 14 peer-reviewed journals every year. The Journal of Physiological Genomics is among the Society's flagship publications....Proliferation of Argentine ants in California linked to decline in coastal horned lizards
... In separate papers published this month in the journals Conservation Biology and Ecological Applications, a team of San Diego biologists show that the severe decline in coastal horned lizards in southern California in recent years is intimately tied to the proliferation of Argentine ants, which have displ...Enzyme once thought harmful to Alzheimers patients now appears key to future treatment
...d publishes 3,800 articles in its 14 peer-reviewed journals every year....Pitt researchers find men and women have different genes behind depression
... of Medical Genetics, but were posted today on the journals Web site. We suspected there were at least a few different genes involved in making women and men susceptible to major depression, said lead author George S. Zubenko, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medi...Researchers identify gene that controls formation of heart chambers
... the Nature Genetics Web site and published in the journals May 1 issue, reports that deleting Bop in mouse embryos consistently disrupted maturation of heart-muscle cells and stymied formation of the right ventricle. The findings should be applicable to humans, Srivastava said, because genetic parallels can ...The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
... have been or are about to be published in leading journals such as Cell, Science, Nature, The Lancet and The ...Journal of Medicine. But while publication in such journals validates the efforts of a budding scientist or research physician, recognition within Hopkins -- no...Physiology and pathophysiology of obesity
...d publishes 3,800 articles in its 14 peer-reviewed journals each year. Physiologists specialize in understanding the processes and functions underlying human health and disease. The press is invited to attend a series of open-door briefings being led by some of the nations foremost experts on the following su...Scientist explores the future of research collaboration
...ve average productivity later and elite scientific journals published disproportionately more collaborative pa...still do. Today over 90 percent of papers in some journals are collaborative. The organization of scientific research has changed over the years, from associa...National Institutes of Health awards $15.5 million grant to independent biology lab
...tigators have published scientific publications in journals such as Cell, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "I'm delighted by this award, which recognizes MSI's contribution to this now rapidly developing field of biology which fuses the experimental with the computational appro...Washington University's Sarah C. R. Elgin is one of 20 'million dollar professors'
...gulation, served on the editorial board of several journals and served on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but Elgin considers her role as a teacher equally important. Recently she agreed to serve as co-editor in chief of a new electronic journ...Scientists decode mosquito/malaria parasite genomes
The journals Science and Nature report this week that international groups of scientists have cracked the genetic codes of two organisms implicated in malaria, one of the world's most serious infectious diseases. Researchers have completed the genomes of the one...Prize to Weizmann Institute professor for landmark work in stem cell transplantation
...workshops and have published in leading scientific journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Blood and Immunology Today. Nearly 150 patients throughout Europe have been treated using this approach, yielding significant success rates. The transplant procedure is well tolerated even in pati...Could an anti-marijuana compound hold the key to body weight and appetite control?
...parative Physiology. The publication is one of 14 journals produced monthly by the American Physiological Society (APS). Methodology Rodents were fed a high fat diet to develop moderate obesity with an increase in energy intake and in insulin resistance. The objectives were to examine the effect of a chro...Study employs backyard scientists to document global warming impact
...sts, but from the backyard recordings and personal journals of people across the world. The impact of global warming often appears as an early arrival of spring and is seen at bird feeders, heard in the earlier croaking of frogs and sniffed in the first waft of lilacs. "Local weather is extremely variable ...For spinal cord injury patients, new insights for rehabilitation therapy
...ournal of Applied Physiology, one of 14 scientific journals published each month by the American Physiological Society (APS). Methodology To accomplish their goal, the researchers measured resting blood flow in the legs and arms and blood pressure in patients with SCI and compared these values with data ...A new animal study clarifies how different parts of the brain regulate sleep
...ition of the Journal of Neurophysiology, one of 14 journals published each month by the American Physiological Society (APS). Methodology To investigate their possible functional significance, the cortical EEG of the rat was recorded from frontal and parietal derivations in both hemispheres. Records were ...The jaws stiffness found to dictate speech production
...rophysiology. The journal is one of 14 scientific journals published monthly by the American Physiological Society (APS). Methodology Six subjects (four males and two females) participated in the measurement of jaw stiffness. Like measures of kinematic variability were obtained for the same subjects; none ...Female hormones found to protect against harmful effects of fructose
...y Physiology. The Journal is one of 14 scientific journals published every month by the American Physiological Society (APS). Methodology Several experiments were conducted within this study. Blood Pressure Study #1 Two experimental groups of Wistar rats were used in this study: eight female controls a...