By Professor Bridget Lumb, President, The Physiological Society and Professor Karen Stanton, York St John Vice-Chancellor, Vice-Chair, GuildHE If you’re a Tottenham or Liverpool fan still rejoicing from last week’s Champion League triumphs, we don’t need to explain the power and excitement of sport. Those miraculous, edge-of-the-seat turnarounds may have only come to fruition in the final minutes of the matches, but are the result of countless hours of preparation and training by the players on the pitch. This work rests on an army of sports scientists, focused on improving performance and pre ..read more

By David P Burns and Ken D O’Halloran, Department of Physiology, University College Cork, Ireland The respiratory system plays a very important role in maintaining oxygen levels within our blood. The supply of oxygen to our body is necessary to allow the cells in our body to make and use energy (a process called metabolism). Respiratory muscle from mdx mice displays signs of muscle damage. When dystrophin is absent from muscle, muscle fibres become damaged during normal cycles of muscle contraction and relaxation. Over time, damaged muscle becomes replaced by fat cells and there is an accumula ..read more

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