Grant Gillett argues that it is consciousness which makes a human or other being the 'locus of ethical value'. Since cortical functioning is, in Gillett's view, necessary for conscious activity, an individual whose neocortex is permanently non-functional is no longer a locus of ethical value and cannot be benefited or ...

Research in our laboratory shows that low-level microwave irradiation affects the functions of the central nervous system in the rat. The effects include changes in activity of the central cholinergic systems, alterations in neurotransmitter receptor properties, impairment of spatial memory function, and actions of various psychoactive drugs. Endogenous opioids seem ...

4th Symposium of the Protein Society. San Diego, Ca, 11 - 15 Aug. 1990. Abstract, 158

Proceedings Eur. meet. of meat research workers. Bristol, 9 - 14 Sept. 1984, 369 - 370

The first international symposium on lysosomes [1] was held in 1963 at the Ciba Foundation, under the chairmanship of Danielli and with the participation of a prestigious membership. It is interesting to compare our present understanding of the properties and functions of lysosomes with what was known 20 years ago.

Proceedings of a symposium held in July, 1977 in Bufalo, N. Y

Symposium organized by the María Moors Cabot Foundation of Harvard University and held in April 1974 at the Harvard Forest in Petersham Massachusetts

The Government has confirmed that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is to be abolished with a number of its functions transferred to other bodies as part of the 'bonfire of the quangos'. This article explores these proposals and questions whether such wide-scale reform is an appropriate approach to the ...

In the oxygenated excised squid (Loligo pealii) stellate ganglion preparation one can produce excitation of the stellar giant axons by stimulating the second largest (accessory fiber, Young, 1939) or other smaller preganglionic giant axons. Impulse transmission is believed to occur at the proximal synapses of the stellar giant axons rather ...