Oscillometry: old physiology with a bright future

Cleaning with Heat: Old Technology with a Bright New Future

BY KENNETH MAINORD M any are familiar with "cleaning with heat" whether they realize it or not. Abandoning their rubber gloves, scrub brushes, and chemical cleaners, millions of households across America have been quick to accept a better and easier way to clean their kitchen ovens. This ready acceptance has made the self-cleaning oven one of the most successful new products introduced to the c...

The American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology: a long history, a bright future.

IN 1887 AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, the American Physiological Society (APS) was founded by five clinician scientists (12). Silas Weir Mitchell was, by training, a neurologist, and Henry Pickering Bowditch was a cardiovascular physiologist who had trained in Germany with Carl Ludwig. They joined Henry Newell Martin, an Irish-born cardiovascular physiologist from Johns Hopkins; Russell Henry Chittenden...

Erythropoietin; bright future and new hopes for an old drug.

Recent publications have suggested renoprotective actions for erythropoietin in certain models of acute kidney injury. In a study by Rafieian-Kopaei et al., the effects of erythropoietin on amelioration of gentamicin-induced renal toxicity was investigated and renoprotective effect for Eprex, an analogue of erythropoietin was shown when the drug was given in combination with gentamicin. There h...

A Bright, Shiny Future

A Bright Future for Antibiotics?

Multidrug resistance is a global threat as the clinically available potent antibiotic drugs are becoming exceedingly scarce. For example, increasing drug resistance among gram-positive bacteria is responsible for approximately one-third of nosocomial infections. As ribosomes are a major target for these drugs, they may serve as suitable objects for novel development of next-generation antibioti...