Quickening the pace of our discussions (Editorial)

Quickening the Pace Looking into the Heart of HCN Channels

Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels contribute to a wide range of physiological functions and regulate cardiac and neuronal pacemaker activity. Here, we review recent advances in three areas: the polarity of the S4 movement with hyperpolarization, the location of the activation gate, and the structure of the C-terminal C linker and CNBD.

EDITORIAL Meet Our Editorial Board Member

Wataru Araki is presently a section chief at the National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Tokyo, Japan. His research mainly focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative dementia disorders including Alzheimer’s disease. He seeks the core problems in the pathogenesis of the diseases with an aim to translate the discov...

EDITORIAL Meet Our Editorial Board Member

I was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union in 1951, and have received my B.Sc. in Biology/Biophysics (1971) and M.Sc. in Biochemistry (1973) from the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the Leningrad State University. After receiving my Ph.D. Degree in Molecular Biology and Cancer Biology (1979) from the Petrov Cancer Research Institute, I was continuing my research as a research scientist there. In 1...

Editorial Protecting Our Science

On 6 June 2013, a court in New York City handed down a decision that calls into question the validity of research that was sponsored by Georgia Pacific (GP) Corporation (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) and published in eight peer-reviewed articles, including two papers published in the Annals of Occupational Hygiene (Sheehan et al., 2011; Berman et al., 2012). While the court did not d...

Introducing our new Editorial Board.