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Dear member

Welcome to the SPS Newsletter for August 2011. We hope that you have had a nice and relaxing summer.

The SPS annual meeting in Bergen was a great success with over 200 participants and both interesting lectures and social activities. Even the weather showed it's best side during the whole meeting much to the surprise of the local inhabitants. The executive board wants to thank the Bergen organizing committee and all the participants for a successful meeting.

With the completion of this years meeting it is time to look ahead for the meeting next year in Helsinki, Finland. In addition to the meeting it is also time for the SPS general assembly. Read more about it in this issue.

We also want to break the the exciting news about who has been appointed the new editor-in-chief for Acta Physiologica.

If you have some interesting news you want to share, contact us and we will put it up on our webpage or Facebook Page . Do not forget that you also have the opportunity to advertise new positions here!

New editor-in-chief for Acta Physiologica

Jan Henriksson has decided to resign as editor-in-chief for Acta Physiologica in 2012. A search committee was formed to identify a suitable candidate for the post. The committee unanimously proposed Prof. Pontus Persson at the Johannes-Müller-Institute für Physiologie in Berlin as the new editor-in-chief for Acta Physiologica. During the he SPS board meeting in Bergen, the board appointed Pontus Persson, who will start to work in parallel with Jan Henriksson during the rest of 2011. He will then be proposed by the board to be elected for the period 2012-2016 at the general assembly in Helsinki next year.

Pontus Persson has strong ties to Scandinavia and is well established in his research field of cardiovascular physiology. He also has experience as chief editor (Am J Physiol, Regulatory Physiol.) and is currently review editor of Acta.

Acta digitization project

The digitization of old Acta Physiologica "Skandinavisches Archiv für Physiologie" is continuing as planned. All manuscripts from today and back to 1940 is now digitized and the process of digitizing the rest of the manuscripts, dating back to 1889, will soon start.

However, two volumes of Acta are missing, number 75 and 76 from 1936 or 1937, as well as supplement number 11, which was published together with volume 75. Therefore, we now need your help finding these. If you know where they could be, contact us and we will scan the documents and give them back in the same condition.

Poster award winners at the SPS meeting in Bergen, Aug 12-14, 2011

We want to congratulate the winners of the poster award in Bergen:

Sari Karppinen (Kuopio, Finland), Marte Bliksøen (Oslo, Norway), Kari Antero Mäkelä (Oulu, Finland), Janos Vincze (Debrecen, Hungary), Debabrata Panja (Bergen, Norway), Mirja Nurmio (Turku, Finland)

The winners should contact us in order to receive the prize sum of 5000 NOK.

Joint meeting FEPSand Turkish Society of Physiological Sciences, 3-7 Sept 2011

http://feps2011.org

This meeting will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, at Yeditepe University. SPS is sponsoring the symposium "The increasing physiological role of brown adipose tissue" organised by Michael Symonds (Nottingham University) and Jan Nedergaard (Stockholm University).

Main Meeting of the Physiological Society, 3-5 July 2012

www.physiology2012.org

The symposias are now selected for this meeting in Edinburgh. SPS will participate by sponsoring a symposium.

Joint FEPS and the Spanish Physiological Society Scientific congress, 8-12 August 2012

http://www.feps.org/

The meeting will take place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. SPS will participate by sponsoring a symposium.

The Scandinavian Physiological Society Annual Meeting together with the Finnish Endocrine Society, 5-7 October 2012

http://www.oulu.fi/sps2012/

The next SPS meeting will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The meeting will be held together with the Finnish Endocrine Society. The Endocrine Society meeting will start on the 4^th of October, parallel sessions will be held on the 5^th. The general assembly will take place during Saturday 6^th. Call for symposia will be held in November-December 2011. Registration and call for abstracts opens in February 2012 at the meeting website.

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

http://www.iups2013.org/

The 21-26^nd of July 2013 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: 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: 22-25 March: 91st Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft. Dresden, Germany. http://dpg2011.de/

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 203, Issue 1, Pages 1-286, September 2011
Early View (Articles Available Online in Advance of Print)

EDITORIAL
18th Acta Physiologica International Symposium 'Vascular Neuroeffector Mechanisms' (page 1) P. B. L. Hansen and P. M. Vanhoutte. Article first published online: 18 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02255.x

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS VASCULAR MECHANISMS
Paracrine control of mesenteric perivascular axo-axonal interaction (pages 3-11) H. Kawasaki, S. Takatori, Y. Zamami, T. Koyama, M. Goda, K. Hirai, P. Tangsucharit, X. Jin, N. Hobara and Y. Kitamura. Article first published online: 9 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02197.x

Estrogen prevents β-amyloid inhibition of sympathetic 7-nAChR-mediated nitrergic neurogenic dilation in porcine basilar arteries (pages 13-23) M.-L. Si, C. Long, M.-F. Chen and T. J.-F. Lee. Article first published online: 15 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02224.x

Axo-axonal interaction in autonomic regulation of the cerebral circulation (pages 25-35). T. J. F. Lee, H. H. Chang, H. C. Lee, P. Y. Chen, Y. C. Lee, J. S. Kuo and M. F. Chen. Article first published online: 15 AUG 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02231.x

Neuronal and non-neuronal modulation of sympathetic neurovascular transmission (pages 37-45) H. Macarthur, G. H. Wilken, T. C. Westfall and L. L. Kolo. Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02242.x

The neurovascular unit in brain function and disease (pages 47-59) C. Lecrux and E. Hamel. Article first published online: 22 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748 1716.2011.02256.x

Paracrine control of vascular innervation in health and disease (pages 61-86) E. Storkebaum and P. Carmeliet. Article first published online: 30 JUL 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02333.x

CELL MEMBRANE CHANNELS AND RECEPTORS
Transient receptor potential ankyrin 1: emerging pharmacology and indications for cardiovascular biology (pages 87-98) J. V. Bodkin and S. D. Brain. Article first published online: 9 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02203.x

TRPV channels and vascular function (pages 99-116) R. L. Baylie and J. E. Brayden
Article first published online: 9 DEC 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02217.x

Improvement of endothelium-dependent vasodilations by SKA-31 and SKA-20, activators of small- and intermediate-conductance Ca2+-activated K+-channels (pages 117-126) A.-L. Hasenau, G. Nielsen, C. Morisseau, B. D. Hammock, H. Wulff and R. Köhler Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02240.x

The vascular extracellular calcium-sensing receptor: an update (pages 127-137). A. H. Weston, A. Geraghty, I. Egner and G. Edwards. Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02249.x

Intrathecal injection of TRPV1 shRNA leads to increases in blood pressure in rats (pages 139-147) S.-Q. Yu and D. H. Wang. Article first published online: 22 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02285.x

HORMONAL MECHANISMS
Mechanisms of cerebrovascular protection: oestrogen, inflammation and mitochondria (pages 149-154). S. P. Duckles and D. N. Krause. Article first published online: 11 OCT 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02184.x

Sex, hormones and neuroeffector mechanisms (pages 155-165). E. C. Hart, N. Charkoudian and V. M. Miller. Article first published online: 9 NOV 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02192.x

Cross-talk between adipose tissue and vasculature: role of adiponectin (pages 167-180). F. Y. L. Li, K. K. Y. Cheng, K. S. L. Lam, P. M. Vanhoutte and A. Xu
Article first published online: 8 DEC 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02216.x

Local oestrogenic/androgenic balance in the cerebral vasculature (pages 181-186). D. N. Krause, S. P. Duckles and R. J. Gonzales. Article first published online: 27 MAY 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02323.x

HYPOXIA, ISCHAEMIA AND METABOLIC CHANGES
Acute CO2-independent vasodilatation of penetrating and pre-capillary arterioles in mouse cerebral parenchyma upon hypoxia revealed by a thinned-skull window method (pages 187-196). T. Nakamura, M. Kajimura, T. Morikawa, K. Hattori, M. Ishikawa, Y. Yukutake, S-i. Uchiyama and M. Suematsu. Article first published online: 7 DEC 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02212.x

Adenosine elicits an eNOS-independent reduction in arterial blood pressure in conscious mice that involves adenosine A2A receptors (pages 197-207). H. Andersen, M. G. Jaff, D. Høgh, P. Vanhoutte and P. B. Hansen. Article first published online: 8 DEC 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02218.x

Late cerebral ischaemia after subarachnoid haemorrhage: Is cerebrovascular receptor upregulation the mechanism behind? (pages 209-224). L. Edvinsson and G. K. Povlsen. Article first published online: 1 FEB 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02227.x

NAD+ depletion or PAR polymer formation: which plays the role of executioner in ischaemic cell death? (pages 225-234). C. Siegel and L. D. McCullough
Article first published online: 19 JAN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02229.x

Effect of hypoxia in mice mesenteric arteries surrounded by adipose tissue (pages 235-244). N. Maenhaut and J. Van de Voorde. Article first published online: 1 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02238.x

PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES
Pressure-independent cerebrovascular remodelling and changes in myogenic reactivity in diabetic Goto-Kakizaki rat in response to glycaemic control (pages 245-251). A. Kelly-Cobbs, M. M. Elgebaly, W. Li and A. Ergul
Article first published online: 27 JAN 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02230.x

Serotonin, depression, and cardiovascular disease: sex-specific issues (pages 253-258). M. Steiner. Article first published online: 1 FEB 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02236.x

Obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes: sex differences and role of oestrogen receptors (pages 259-269). M. R. Meyer, D. J. Clegg, E. R. Prossnitz and M. Barton. Article first published online: 1 FEB 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2010.02237.x

Vascular endothelial growth factor protects post-ganglionic sympathetic neurones from the detrimental effects of hydrogen peroxide by increasing catalase (pages 271-278). D. H. Damon. Article first published online: 14 MAR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02258.x

Obesity, blood vessels and metabolic syndrome (pages 279-286). M. Tesauro and C. Cardillo. Article first published online: 22 APR 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1748 1716.2011.02290.x

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In this issue

New editor-in-chief for Acta Physiologica
Acta digitization project
Poster award winners Bergen
Joint meeting FEPS and the Turkish Society of Physiological Sciences
Main Meeting of the Pysiological Society 2012
Joint FEPS and Spanish Physiological Society2012
Joint Meeting SPS and the Finnish Endocrine Society 2012
IUPS World Congress 2013
Some other meetings of interest
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Important dates

1^st of December - Deadline for symposia call IUPS 2013

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