Current perspectives in human physiology : selected readings / edited by Linda Vona-Davis and Lauralee Sherwood.

This collection of 49 articles come from a variety of publications, both scholarly and popular. Each article begins with a brief summary of the ideas presented in the selection and ends with a set of questions to help students identify the key points of discussion (answers are in the back of the book).

Conversations in a cell, Gary Taubes; epithelial sodium channels - their role in disease, Bernard Rossier; flexing muscle with just one amino acid, Robert F. Service; haemochromatosis - the generic disorder of the 21st century, James C. Barton and Luigi F. Bertoli; new hope for people with sickle-cell anaemia, Eleanor Mayfield; ringing necks with dynamin, Regis B. Kelly; revisiting the fluid mosaic model of membranes, Ken Jacobson, Erin D. Sheets, and Rudolf Simson; bicarbonate briefly CO2-free, Roger C. Thomas; paralysis lost, Clare Thompson; tissue sealants - current status, future potential, Mark R. Jackson; making the connections in nerve regeneration, Julia Nash and Adrian Pini; designer tissues take hold, Robert F. Service; researchers broaden the attack on Parkinson's Disease, Marcia Barinaga; foetal attraction, Jeff Goldberg; racked with pain, Elizabeth Pennisi and Rachel Nowak; revealing the brain's secrets, Kathleen Cahill Allison; action potentials in dendrites: do they convey a message?, by Heinz Valtin; brain, heal thyself, Josie Glausiusz; what is Leptin for, and does it act on the brain?, Richard J. Wurtman; dendrites shed their dull image, Marcia Barinaga; new clues to brain dopamine control, cocaine addiction, Michael Balter; lasers win out in glaucoma trial, Norman Bauman; stimulating hair cell regeneration - on a wing and a prayer, Edwin W. Rubel and Jennifer S. Stone; I spy with my moulded eye, Andy Coghlan; mechanoreceptive membrane channels, Owen P. Hamill and Don W. McBride, Jr; the smell files, Sarah Richardson; the sense of taste, Susan McLaughlin and Robert F. Margolskee; a taste of things to come, Charles S. Zuker; haemoglobin reveals new roles as blood pressure regulator, James Glan; cardiac performance - growth hormone enters the race, Luigi Sacca and Serafino Fazio; high blood pressure, Harvard Women's Health Watch; thyroid diseases, Celeste Robb-Nicholson; assisted reproduction, Celeste Robb-Nicholson; not by testosterone alone, Sarah Richardson; exercise-induced renal and electrolyte changes - minimizing the risks, Steven Fishbane; can you catch a heart attack?, Phyllida Brown; skin-deep stress, Mike May; hormone hell, Catherine Dold; science tracks down the training dangers, Christopher Surridge; could women take a lead over men in the long run?, by Ayala Ochert; beyond steroids, Scott Veggeberg; do sports drinks work?, Trevor Smith; diet and breast cancer, Celeste Robb-Nicholson; implications of fat replacement for food choice and energy balance, by David J. Mela.

Includes bibliographical references.