Filling the Interstices

Filling the Interstices Ghrelin Neurons Plug Several Holes in Regulation of Energy Balance

Of several circulating hormones that act on hypothalamus to affect body energy balance, only ghrelin is also expressed in hypothalamic neurons. From the studies of Horvath and colleagues appearing in this issue of Neuron, it appears that neuronal ghrelin acts presynaptically to stimulate release of the orexigenic peptide, neuropeptide Y, and other neurotransmitters, thus defining a new and subt...

Genome Evolution: Groping in the Soil Interstices

Centipedes are a very old lineage of terrestrial animals. The first completely sequenced myriapod genome reveals that the blind centipede Strigamia maritima has no gene for light-sensory proteins, lacks the canonical circadian clock and possesses unusual features related to chemosensory perception.

Public Sociology: Working at the Interstices

The article examines recent debates surrounding public sociology in the context of a UK based Department of Applied Social Sciences. Three areas of work within the department form the focus of the article: violence against women and children; community-based oral history projects and health ethics teaching. The article draws on Micheal Burawoy’s typology comprising public, policy, professional ...

Interstices: new work on legal spaces

What does it mean to talk about ‘legal spaces’; about law spatially and space legally? What is the research agenda that this volume announces, whose relevance it demonstrates, and whose methodology it showcases? The study of space in law insists first and foremost on the material world as essentially constitutive of law. In both the analytic and the continental traditions of jurisprudence, law ...

On cofinal submodels and first interstices