Early origins of obesity: Programming the appetite regulatory system
An article in The Journal of Physiology presents important research showing that events before birth can permanently change patterns of appetite and fat deposition in child and adult life.

Adaptation to oxygen deprivation elucidates tumor physiology
Two new studies in the March Cell Metabolism reveal a survival mechanism by which cells adapt to oxygen starvation by ratcheting down their demand.

Analysis of the Hard Palate as a Donor Site for Bone Grafting
Abstract : The palate bone could be a favorable zone as a graft donor site whenever there is certainty in determining its thickness.

Your brain and hormones may conspire to make you fat
Why do some people get fat even when they eat relatively little?

Area of brain controlling the body’s response to exercise identified
The part of the brain which prepares our bodies for exercise, and controls our circulation and breathing while we exercise, has been identified by Oxford researchers.

Digestive Enzymes
Everything you need to know about how the food you eat gets digested!

It's Not Fair! We Are Programmed To Resist Weight Loss
News: Research confirming the human body is designed to strongly resist attempts to lose weight...

Physiology of a Microgravity Environment
This review of the peer-reviewed literature focuses on the effects of spaceflight on bone.

Exercise Effects of Muscle Insulin Signaling and Action Invited Review: Exercise training-induced changes in insulin signaling in skeletal muscle
This review will provide insight on the current understanding of the intracellular signaling mechanisms by which exercise training increases glucose metabolism and gene expression in skeletal muscle.

Generation of resting membrane potential
This brief review is intended to serve as a refresher on the ideas associated with teaching students the physiological basis of the resting membrane potential.

Effect of hyperglycemia-hyperinsulinemia on whole body and regional fatty acid metabolism
Results show that in healthy men, combined hyperglycemia-hyperinsulinemia inhibits fatty acid oxidation to a similar extent at the whole body level, across the leg, and across the splanchnic region, even when fatty acid availability is constant.

Why Do We Not All Have Proteinuria? An Update of Our Current Understanding of the Glomerular Barrier
Presents an update on the glomerular barrier after the recent breakthroughs in podocyte biology; particularly discussing the role of the endothelium, which seems to be a neglected part of the glomerular membrane...

Invited Review: Aging and human temperature regulation
This mini-review focuses on the effects of aging on human temperature regulation.

New Study Seeks To Establish Mechanism Between Areas Of The Brain And Continence
When we want to go, why can we "wait"? In other words, when we sense that a bowel movement will be necessary, the body has the ability to defer that action until an appropriate time.

New Light On Muscle Efficiency: It Is Not The Power-plant
A recent study shows that the well-known differences between individuals in the efficiency of converting energy stored in food to work done by muscles are related to muscle fibre type composition and to the content of specific molecules in muscle.

Muscles Are Smarter Than You Think: Acidity Helps Prevent Muscle Fatigue
Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which acidity helps prevent muscle fatigue.

Fat-generated Hormone Drives Energetic Capacity Of Muscle
The fat-generated hormone adiponectin plays an important role in the energetic capacity of skeletal muscle, according to a new study...

Link Between Taste And Temperature Focus Of "Thermal Taste," A New Discovery By Yale Scientists
Manipulating the tongue's temperature can result in the same salty, sweet or sour taste caused by sugars, acids or other chemicals, a Yale study finds...