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PubMed1993

The history of proton-driven ATP formation.

This article sets down the beginnings of some thoughts in bio-energetics. It illustrates how difficult it is in science as elsewhere to know how a new idea is generated. The literature needs very careful examination and separation from personalities.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗
PubMed1993

George Gray.

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Animals↗
PubMed1995

Toichiro Kuwabara on Dave Cogan. An interview. Interview by Sally Smith Hughes.

In this interview, Dr. Kuwabara recounts his first meeting with Dr. Cogan and describes his work at the Howe Laboratory, their pioneering research on diabetic retinopathy, histochemical and electronmicroscopical studies. This warm recollection exemplifies the mutual respect and deep friendship between Drs. Kuwabara and Cogan.

History, 20th Century↗
PubMed1987

High point.

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Autobiographies as Topic↗
PubMed1991

Personal reflections.

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Community Mental Health Services↗
PubMed1979

[Theater nurse and midwife in Cameroon. Impressions and experiences in the grasslands (Northwest Cameroon) during a six-and-a-half month stay in a hospital situated at a height of 1800 m].

The author describes the circumstances of the hospital and out-of-hospital situation in the region she worked in, in focussing on the relevant practical features of the daily life of patients and staff. She deals among other things with the maternity ward (including the separate "camp" devoted to prenatal stays) and the operating theatre. As regards health activities outside the hospital, she mentions those of the existing health centres and of auxiliary personnel called first-aiders (whose job description is close to the one of the village health workers advocated by WHO and others). A health team, usually led by a physician, makes periodic visits to bush villages. The importance of the contacts thus created, for health work itself (including collaboration with traditional health practitioners) as well as for community development, is underlined.

Cameroon↗
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Looking back on the discovery of alpha-bungarotoxin.

This review is a personal narration by a retiring pharmacologist from Taiwan who looks back at his discovery of alpha-bungarotoxin from the historical perspective of Taiwan during the last 50 years, with accounts of his experiences and his efforts to overcome hardship. How the alpha-toxin was isolated and characterized as an irreversible specific nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptor antagonist, and how it subsequently became a useful experimental probe are presented here. The dilemma of differentiating the actions of tubocurarine and alpha-bungarotoxin is analyzed. The author also outlines findings based on work done in his laboratory using alpha-bungarotoxin as a tool on particular aspects of synaptic transmission. These include presynaptic receptor for positive feedback of transmitter release, explosive release of ACh, up- and downregulation of ACh receptors after chronic drug treatment, autodesensitization of junctional ACh receptors, differences in action between natural transmitter and exogenous agonists and that between junctional and extrajunctional ACh receptors. Some experimental pitfalls, in which biomedical scientists are frequently trapped, are raised. Finally, some anecdotes are appended from which the reader may further understand scientific life in the 20th century, including its joys and regrets.

Bungarotoxins↗