Advances in Physiological Research

Plenary Lectures.- Opening Plenary Lecture: Pioneering in Physiology in British Columbia.- Closing Plenary Lecture: Michel Sarrazin, 1659-1734.- Historical Lectures.- Walter Bradford Cannon: Physiologist and Citizen of the World.- Synapses of the Central Nervous System from Sherrington to the Present.- The Gaskell Effect and a Hundred Years On.- Review Lectures.- Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Physiology.- The Architecture of Neural Centres and Understanding Neural Organization.- The Adrian Zotterman Lecture: Cutaneous Sensation.- Novel Neurotransmitters and the Chemical Coding of Neurones.- Central Pattern Generation: A Concept under Scrutiny.- Sympathetic Nerve Recordings in Man.- The Computational Study of Vision.- Some Concepts deriving from the Neural Circuit for Hormone-driven Mammalian Reproductive Behaviour.- The Neural Determination of Skeletal Muscle Fibre Characteristics.- Muscle Mechanics.- Smooth Muscle Energy Metabolism: Cytosolic Compartmentation of Metabolism and Function.- Thyroid Hormones, Membranes and the Evolution of Endothermy.- Modern Concepts of Regulation of Cerebral Macro- and Microcirculation.- Role of Chemical Substances in the Control of Food Intake.- Pulmonary Oedema.- The August Krogh Lecture: The World as a Laboratory. Physiological Insights from Nature's Experiments.- The Duck as a Diver.- The Role of Mitochondria in the Control of Cellular Calcium Homeostasis.- On Evolution of Renal Function and Water-Salt Homeostasis.- Mechanisms of Water Transport across Tubular Epithelia: Routes for Movement.- In Search of the Physical Basis of Life.