A study carried out by the research group led by Prof Zaccolo provides novel insight into how the heart reacts to the fight-or-flight response to stress
Neil Herring and Robert WIlkins' textbook entitled \u201cBasic Sciences for Core Medical Training\u201d published by OUP, won a \u201cHighly commended\u201d prize in the Basic and Clinical Sciences category of the BMA Medical Book Awards 2016 at their Annual awards ceremony on 7th September. The awards take place annually to recognise outstanding contributions to medical literature.
Care for critically-ill patients with shock could be improved, it is hoped, after the first successful testing by University of Oxford scientists of a new machine to record oxygen consumption in real time.
A drink developed for soldiers to generate energy from ketones rather than carbs or fat allowed highly trained cyclists to add up to 400 meters of distance to their workouts, an Oxford-led study has reported in journal Cell Metabolism. The supplement, which will be commercially available within the year, works by temporarily switching the primary source of cellular energy from glucose or fat to ketones - molecules derived from fat that are known to be elevated in people consuming a low-carb, Atkins-like, diet.
Robert Wilkins, Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology and Neil Herring, Associate Prefessor of Cardiovascular Physiology have joined forces to publish a textbook via OUP on \"Basic Sciences for Core Medical Training\".
We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. Now, a team of researchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Stony Brook University has found a way to precisely control these waves \u2013 using light. Their results are published in the journal Nature Photonics.
Dr Deborah Goberdhan and her team have identified a protein used by tumours to help them detect food supplies. Initial studies show that targeting the protein could restrict cancerous cells\u2019 ability to grow.
Most people can\u2019t tell their toes apart without looking. Some healthy people can 'lose' a toe if their eyes are closed. While most of us would assume we\u2019ve got a pretty good idea of where the various parts of our body are, research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart \u2013 with implications for the way our brains see our bodies.
According to Fernando Garc\u00eda-Moreno and Zolt\u00e1n Moln\u00e1r understanding development and evolution of the neocortex has important implications. Differential timing of developmental events sculpts the brains of different species into distinct organs. The latest investigations on the development of the dorsal forebrain in chick and mouse embryos showed a major difference between vertebrate brains. A delay in the neurogenic properties of a subset of progenitors is specific to mammals and could be responsible for the evolutionary origin of the corpus callosum...
Researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics establish a link between talking to neighbours and an increase in gene expression in a paper published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports.
Researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics publish in the prestigious Molecular Cell an article entitled \"Distinct Spatial Ca2+ Signatures Selectively Activate Different NFAT Transcription Factor Isoforms\"
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