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The XXX Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 1986; and this Volume contains a selection of the Review Lectures which formed part of the Congress programme. They cover most of the areas of contemporary physiology and were presented by distinguished scientists from many parts of the world. An innovation at this Congress was the inclusion in the programme of a number of lectures devoted to historical subjects. These lectures attracted large audiences at the meetings, and three of them also appear in this book. Finally, the Plenary Lectures which formed part of the opening and closing ceremonies and which deal with some aspects of Canadian physiological history, find a place here as well. The Editors are grateful to all of the authors who provided the manuscripts which go to make up this book, and to John Donald for his invaluable assistance in the preparation of the final text; as well of course to all of the contributors whose participation made the Congress the success which it was. It is hoped that this Volume will provide a useful memento of the event.
List of contents
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.
