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L#F:#Llil'c'r'fex Artof Scientificendeavour Featrrt Manchestermeeting Ca2*phase es emerge Aminoacidtransporters l#f:#llil'c'r'fex Artof scientificendeavour )-.----- '^r1-'/4 ij-- * © Jenny Hersson-Ringskog ‘My time is up and very glad I am, because I have been leading myself right up to a domain on which I should not dare to trespass, not even in an Inaugural Lecture. This domain contains the awkward problems of mind and matter about which so much has been talked and so little can be said, and having told you of my pedestrian disposition, I hope you will give me leave to stop at this point and not to hazard any further guesses.’ (closing words of Bernard Katz’s Inaugural Lecture, 1952) PHYSIOLOGYNEWS Contents The Society Dog Published quarterly by the Physiological Society Contributions and Queries Executive Editor Linda Rimmer The Physiological Society Editorial 3 Publications Office Printing House Manchester meeting Shaftesbury Road Physiology and Pharmacology in Manchester Arthur Weston 4 Cambridge CB2 2BS Tel: 01223 325 524 Features 2+ Fax: 01223 312 849 Ca phase waves emerge Dirk van Helden, Mohammed S. Imtiaz 7 Email: [email protected] Role of cationic amino acid transporters in the regulation of nitric oxide The society web server: http://www.physoc.org synthesis in vascular cells Anwar R. Baydoun, Giovanni E. Mann 12 Not for giant axons only Andrew Packard 16 Magazine Editorial Board Editor Colour and form in the cortex Daniel Kiper 19 Bill Winlow (Prime Medica, Knutsford) Deputy Editor Images of physiology Thelma Lovick 21 Austin Elliott (University of Manchester) Members Affiliate News Munir Hussain (University of Liverpool) The art of scientific endeavour Keri Page 23 John Lee (Rotherham General Hospital) Thelma Lovick (University of Birmingham) Letters to the Editor 25 Keri Page (University of Cambridge) Society News © 2003 The Physiological Society ISSN 1476-7996 Review of Society grants Maggie Leggett 26 Biosciences Federation Maggie Leggett 27 The Society permits the single copying of Hot Topics Brenda Costall 27 individual articles for private study or research. 30 For copying or reproduction for any other SET for Britain Lauren MacKenzie purpose, written permission must be sought Careers’ conferences Sai Pathmanathan 30 from the Society. Sixth Form Workshops: Bristol and Chester Sai Pathmanathan 32 Free CDs Maggie Leggett 32 Opinions expressed in articles and letters submitted by or commissioned from Members, Unbelievable! Mark Cain 33 Affiliates or outside bodies are not necessarily those of the Society. Obituaries Bernard Katz David Colquhoun 34 The Physiological Society is registered in E Geoffrey Walsh John Russell, Martin Lakie, Andrew Packard 39 England as a company limited by guarantee, No 323575. Registered office: PO Box 11319, Emiline Lesly Jervis R.J Levin 43 London WC1V 6YB. Registered Charity No A K McIntyre Uwe Proske 44 211585. 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