A Garment Worker’s Legacy (Bernard Katz)

Remembering Sir Bernard Katz (1911--2003).

True science recognizes no boundaries and it is best exemplified by the life of Sir Bernard Katz, an ideal role model for a generation of physiologists and pharmacologists and who was instrumental in the " Quantum " jump in the knowledge of synaptic physiology. Germany on 26th March 1911. As a child till 6 years, Bernard Katz was a citizen of Russia but became stateless because of the Russian R...

Health problems among garment factory workers: A narrative literature review

Background: Garment factories in India contribute to the economic growth and it is the second largest sector for employment. Many unskilled laborers from rural location work in this sector. The common jobs handled by them are sewing, ironing, packing and lifting heavy loads which are monotonous, continuous and prolonged. Working for a long period of time without rest, absence of personal protec...

Bernard Katz, quantal transmitter release and the foundations of presynaptic physiology.

The papers by Fatt & Katz (1952) and del Castillo & Katz (1954) were watershed events in the history of synaptic physiology because they established that neurotransmitters are released from presynaptic terminals in discrete ‘quanta’. Bernard Katz and colleagues employed the frog neuromuscular junction, an accessible peripheral synapse that had already been used to establish some basic principle...

Cardiovascular Risk Factors among Bangladeshi Ready-Made Garment Workers

To estimate the prevalence and identify correlates of anthropometry and clinical risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) among ready-made garment (RMG) of workers, majority are females, come from low-socioeconomics conditions. Population-based cross-sectional study with 614 individuals aged ≥18 years were recruited from six different RMG factories. In total, of 313 male (46%) and 301 of...

Garment factory workers in the city of Fez.