The Australian Physiological Society Exchange Lecturer

The AuPS EL for 2011 is the president of the Australian Physiological Society, prof. David Allen. He will visit the annual meeting in Bergen, August 12-14^th and give the plenary lecture "Interactions between stretch activated channels and reactive oxygen species; role in Duchenne muscular dystrophy". He will also have the opportunity to visit departments of interest i Scandinavia during his visit. For more information regarding the AuPS EL program read the AuPS newsletter for March 2011.

Travel grant recipients for the SPS meeting in Bergen, Aug 12-14, 2011

We want to congratulate those receiving the Acta/SPS travel grant and hope you will have a nice and productive time at the meeting!

Anna Sommansson, Xiang Gao, Jana Kivastik, Arthur Cheng, Gustaf Lissel Isaksson, Jaak Talts, Maria Pogorelova, Valentina Pogorelova, Eike D. Schomburg, Niklas Ivarsson, Gunnar Flemström, Natalia Gerasimenko, Rein Raamat, Kersti Jagomägi, Awahan Reheman, Mei Li, Kari Mäkelä, Satu Mänttäri, Seppo Saarela, Anna Borzykh, Sanni Kinnunen, Svetlana Sofronova, Dina Gaynullina, Jussi Kupari, Ville Jäntti, Ursula Seidler, Shivaprakash Jagalur Mutt, Janne Lebeck, Martin Skött, Samuel Geiseler, Mads Damkjær, David Johansen and Kristine Östergaard.

Please remember to mention SPS in your presentation.

Mighty Mitochondria

http://www.uib.no/biomedisin/en/resources/conferences-and-seminars/scandinavian-physiological-society#edgc

This is a satellite symposium to the annual SPS meeting, taking place in Bergen August 11^th, 2011, covering basic mitochondrial regulation, mitochondrial function, and mitochondria in reperfusion injury. The program is now available at the website. Early registration closes July 15^th.

Joint SPS Annual Meeting in Bergen, Norway 12 - 14 August 2011

http://tinyurl.com/sps2011

The major elements in the program for the upcoming SPS-meeting in Bergen are now finalized, and we recommend that you check our program. There will be plenary lectures and seminars covering a broad area of topics. Abstract submission and early registration is now closed but you can still register for the meeting at the website.

IUPS 37^th World Congress featuring the SPS Annual Meeting 2013

http://www.iups2013.org/

The 21-26^nd of July2013 it is again time for the IUPS World Congress. This time, it takes place in Birmingham, UK. From September 1^st to December 1^st 2011 you will be able to suggest symposia for the meeting. SPS will hold the Annual meeting for 2013 in connection with the congress. Travel grants will be available for this meeting.

Some other meetings and symposia:

2011: June 29-July2. The International 21^th Puijo Symposium "Physical Exercise, Ageing and Disability - Current evidence". Kuopio, Finland. http://www.puijosymposium.org/

2011: 11-14 July. Physiology 2011. Main Meeting of The Physiological Society. University of Oxford, UK. www.physiology2011.org

2011: 1-3 September. Epithelia & Membrane Transport Themed Meeting. University College London, UK. www.physoc.org/em2011

2011: Oct 10-11: Voltage-gated Sodium Channels Symposium: "From molecular pharmacology to human therapeutics" Copenhagen, Denmark. Registration deadline on September 1^st. http://www.ionchannel.ku.dk/phdcourses/2011_sodium_channels/

2011: 6-8 December. Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology Themed Meeting. Edinburgh, UK. The registration opens on September 20^th. www.physoc.org/vs2011

2012: March 19-21. Joint Meeting of The Physiological Society and The British Pharmacological Society together with the Journal of Physiology, Experimental Physiology, British Journal of Pharmacology and the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports: The Biomedical Basis of Elite Performance. London, UK. http://www.bbep2012.org/

2012: April 21-25. The American Physiological Society Meeting 125th Anniversary: Experimental Biology. San Diego, California. http://experimentalbiology.org/

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Online ISSN: 1748-1716    Print ISSN: 1748-1708
Acta Physiologica
Volume 202, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-600, July 2011
Early View (Articles Available Online in Advance of Print)

EDITORIAL
Homage to August Krogh celebrating the 90th anniversary of his Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine (pages 211-212)
E. H. Larsen, Y. Hellsten and J. Wojtaszewski
Article first published online: 10 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02325.x

MICROCIRCULATION
Intussusceptive angiogenesis: pillars against the blood flow (pages 213-223)
B. Styp-Rekowska, R. Hlushchuk, A. R. Pries and V. Djonov
Article first published online: 10 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02321.x

Physiological factors influencing capillary growth (pages 225-239)
S. Egginton
Article first published online: 10 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02194.x

Extracellular nucleotides affect pericyte-mediated regulation of rat in situ vasa recta diameter (pages 241-251)
C. Crawford, T. M. Kennedy-Lydon, H. Callaghan, C. Sprott, R. L. Simmons, L. Sawbridge, H. M. Syme, R. J. Unwin, S. S. P. Wildman and C. M. Peppiatt-Wildman
Article first published online: 28 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02310.x

Vasomotion – what is currently thought? (pages 253-269)
C. Aalkjær, D. Boedtkjer and V. Matchkov
Article first published online: 27 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02320.x

Regulation of blood flow in the microcirculation: role of conducted vasodilation (pages 271-284)
P. Bagher and S. S. Segal
Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02244.x

Erythrocytes as controllers of perfusion distribution in the microvasculature of skeletal muscle (pages 285-292)
R. S. Sprague, E. A. Bowles, D. Achilleus and M. L. Ellsworth
Article first published online: 11 OCT 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02182.x

Dynamics of muscle microcirculatory and blood–myocyte O2 flux during contractions (pages 293-310)
D. C. Poole, S. W. Copp, D. M. Hirai and T. I. Musch
Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02246.x

Oxygen gradients in the microcirculation (pages 311-322)
R. N. Pittman
Article first published online: 1 FEB 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02232.x

INSULIN
Current understanding of increased insulin sensitivity after exercise – emerging candidates (pages 323-335)
S. J. Maarbjerg, L. Sylow and E. A. Richter
Article first published online: 19 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02267.x

Counter-regulatory hormone responses to spontaneous hypoglycaemia during treatment with insulin Aspart or human soluble insulin: a double-blinded randomized cross-over study (pages 337-347)
I. Brock Jacobsen, B. F. Vind, L. Korsholm, A. Flyvbjerg, J. Frystyk, J. J. Holst, H. Beck-Nielsen and J. E. Henriksen
Article first published online: 10 JUN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02307.x

MEMBRANE TRANSPORT AND OSMOREGULATION
Freshwater Fish Gill Ion Transport: August Krogh to morpholinos and microprobes (pages 349-359)
D. H. Evans
Article first published online: 9 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02186.x

Urine concentrating mechanism in the inner medulla of the mammalian kidney: role of three-dimensional architecture (pages 361-378)
W. H. Dantzler, T. L. Pannabecker, A. T. Layton and H. E. Layton
Article first published online: 7 DEC 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02214.x

On the function of the mammalian renal papilla and the peristalsis of the surrounding pelvis (pages 379-385)
Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen and Bent Schmidt-Nielsen
Article first published online: 22 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02261.x

Transcellular and paracellular pathways of transepithelial fluid secretion in Malpighian (renal) tubules of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti (pages 387-407)
K. W. Beyenbach and P. M. Piermarini
Article first published online: 16 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02195.x

Survival in extreme environments - on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades (pages 409-420)
N. Møbjerg, K. A. Halberg, A. Jørgensen, D. Persson, M. Bjørn, H. Ramløv and R. M. Kristensen
Article first published online: 22 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02252.x

Intestinal anion exchange in marine teleosts is involved in osmoregulation and contributes to the oceanic inorganic carbon cycle (pages 421-434)
M. Grosell
Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02241.x

Reconciling the Krogh and Ussing interpretations of epithelial chloride transport - presenting a novel hypothesis for the physiological significance of the passive cellular chloride uptake (pages 435-464)
Erik Hviid Larsen
Article first published online: 2 FEB 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02239.x

Cell volume homeostatic mechanisms: effectors and signalling pathways (pages 465-485)
E. K. Hoffmann and S. F. Pedersen
Article first published online: 9 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02190.x

Mechanosensitive signalling in fish gill and other ion transporting epithelia (pages 487-499)
W. S. Marshall
Article first published online: 12 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02189.x

Purinergic signalling in epithelial ion transport: regulation of secretion and absorption (pages 501-522)
I. Novak
Article first published online: 19 JAN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02225.x

Anion secretion by a model epithelium: more lessons from Calu-3 (pages 523-531)
J. Shan, J. Huang, J. Liao, R. Robert and J. W. Hanrahan
Article first published online: 22 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02253.x

Chemosensory function of amphibian skin: integrating epithelial transport, capillary blood flow and behaviour (pages 533-548)
S. D. Hillyard and N. J. Willumsen
Article first published online: 9 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02200.x

HAEMOGLOBINS AND OXYGEN EXCHANGE
Temperature dependence of haemoglobin-oxygen affinity in heterothermic vertebrates: mechanisms and biological significance (pages 549-562)
R. E. Weber and K. L. Campbell
Article first published online: 12 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02204.x

Old proteins - new locations: myoglobin, haemoglobin, neuroglobin and cytoglobin in solid tumours and cancer cells (pages 563-581)
T. A. Gorr, D. Wichmann, C. Pilarsky, J.-P. Theurillat, A. Fabrizius, T. Laufs, T. Bauer, M. Koslowski, S. Horn, T. Burmester, T. Hankeln and G. Kristiansen
Article first published online: 12 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02205.x

Magnitude of the Root effect in red blood cells and haemoglobin solutions of fishes: a tribute to August Krogh (pages 583-592)
M. Berenbrink, P. Koldkjær, E. Hannah Wright, O. Kepp and A. José da Silva
Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02243.x

Gas exchange in frogs and turtles: how ectothermic vertebrates contributed to solving the controversy of pulmonary oxygen secretion (pages 593-600)
T. Wang
Article first published online: 27 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02315.x