Seminar - Fructose and the Hungry Brain

Friday, February 14, 2020 11:00to12:00

Fructose is a simple sugar found in fruit and honey, but it is also used as sweeteners via added sugars, syrups, or high fructose corn syrup in processed foods or beverages.3655 promenade Sir...

Seminar - The role of the voltage gated sodium channel Nav1.7 in human pain and pleasure

Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00to12:00

There has been significant progress over the last decade in understanding the molecular basis by which sensory neurons transduce and subsequently transmit noxious (ie. tissue damaging) stimuli...

Seminar - Astroglial modulation of neuronal firing pattern in cortical and rhythmogenic brainstem sensorimotor circuits

Friday, January 17, 2020 11:00to12:00

Several functions, motor or sensory, rely on the ability of neurons to modify their discharge pattern to faithfully encode the characteristics of a sensory stimulus or to reflect a rhythmic motor...

Seminar - How we feel: molecular sensors and neuronal networks for the sensation of pain

Friday, January 10, 2020 11:00to12:00

3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA/physiologyCategory: Medicine and Health Sciences Dept. of Physiology Physiology Friday Seminar Series

Seminar - Intracellular and extracellular nitric oxide transport and its role in M1 and M2 macrophages as a novel mechanism involved in tumor cell killing or promotion

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:00to12:00

Despite that NO is a small, diatomic gas, believed to be freely-diffusible in cells, its contrasting anti- and pro-tumour effects in macrophages may be explained by our concept that it is not...

Seminar - Immune mechanisms underlying restoration of injured CNS barriers

Friday, November 15, 2019 11:00to12:00

The central nervous system is inhabited by a specialized ensemble of myeloid cells that are highly dynamic and survey their immediate surroundings, which include the parenchyma, perivascular spaces...

Seminar: Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of acute myeloid leukemia and immune checkpoint blockade

Friday, February 28, 2020 11:00to12:00

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer of the myeloid lineage of the blood system. Prior work has shown that a rare subset of leukemic stem cells (LSCs) is able to propagate the...

Seminar - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: Increasing information yield from human tissue to improve kidney transplant outcomes

Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00to12:00

Kidney transplantation is life saving and compared to dialysis improves patient quality of life and decreases healthcare costs over time, but graft longevity is compromised by immunologic rejection...

Seminar - Therapy of Cystic Fibrosis, when, what target, and how much is enough?

Friday, November 8, 2019 11:00to12:00

Cystic Fibrosis is a recessive inherited disease, that severely affects more than 80.000 patients worldwide.3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA/physiologyCategory: Medicine...

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