Together with other Bristolians, most of whom are now out of uniform, I have been asked to record a few of my personal experiences while in the Army. Where should one begin ? The events of the last few years seem already far away. Like so many, I joined the forces and saw something of the world. Never have so many travelled so much and often, apparently, so much at random. Events crowd each oth...

trauma, degenerative changes, infection, and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. The perception and resultant reporting of this pain vary significantly according to cultural and social circumstances. Honeyman and Jacobs noted that Australian Aborigines significantly underreport pain and are rarely disabled by pain. Social circumstances also play an impo...

O’Connor, Timothy P., and Jared Diamond. Ontogeny of intestinal safety factors: lactase capacities and lactose loads. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R753–R765, 1999.—We measured intestinal safety factors (ratio of a physiological capacity to the load on it) for lactose digestion in developing rat pups. Specifically, we assessed the quantitative relationships bet...

Len, Wen-Bin, and Julie Y. H. Chan. Glutamatergic projection to RVLM mediates suppression of reflex bradycardia by parabrachial nucleus. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1482–H1492, 1999.—We investigated the role of glutamatergic projection from the parabrachial nucleus (PBN) complex to the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) in the PBN-induced suppression of reflex bradycardia ...

Monteith, Gregory R., and Mordecai P. Blaustein. Heterogeneity of mitochondrial matrix free Ca21: resolution of Ca21 dynamics in individual mitochondria in situ. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Cell Physiol. 45): C1193–C1204, 1999.—The role of mitochondria in Ca21 homeostasis is controversial. We employed the Ca21-sensitive dye rhod 2 with novel, high temporal and spatial resolution imaging to evaluate ch...

Adams, G. R., S. A. McCue, M. Zeng, and K. M. Baldwin. Time course of myosin heavy chain transitions in neonatal rats: importance of innervation and thyroid state. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R954–R961, 1999.—During the postnatal period, rat limb muscles adapt to weight bearing via the replacement of embryonic (Emb) and neonatal (Neo) myosin heavy chains (MHC...

J. D. PAL,1 V. M. BERTHOUD,2 E. C. BEYER,2 D. MACKAY,3 A. SHIELS,3 AND L. EBIHARA1 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago 60064; 2Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637; and 3Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Ophthalmology, Washington University School of Medicine, St....

Niizeki, Kyuichi, and Yoshimi Miyamoto. Phasedependent heartbeat modulation by muscle contractions during dynamic handgrip in humans. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 45): H1331–H1338, 1999.—The influence of cardiac phase on the response of the cardiac pacemaker to dynamic hand contraction in eight healthy young men was studied to determine whether heart rate response to muscle contrac...

M. J. P. LENCZOWSKI,1 R.-M. BLUTHÉ,2 J. ROTH,3 G. S. REES,4 D. A. RUSHFORTH,5 A.-M. VAN DAM,1 F. J. H. TILDERS,1 R. DANTZER,2 N. J. ROTHWELL,5 AND G. N. LUHESHI5 1Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Research Institute Neurosciences Vrije Universiteit, Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2Institut François Magendie, Institut National de la Re...

Franchini, Lucia F., and Laura Vivas. Distribution of Fos immunoreactivity in rat brain after sodium consumption induced by peritoneal dialysis. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1180–R1187, 1999.— Fos immunoreactivity was used to map the neuronal population groups activated after sodium ingestion induced by peritoneal dialysis (PD) in rats. Oxytocin immunoreactiv...