Organ functions

Articles

• cardiac function
  20 June 2007

  heart function

• circadian rythms
  18 November 2003

  circadian clock

• mechanosensation
  2 December 2003

  mechanotransduction

• smell
  20 November 2003

  References
  Young JM, Trask BJ. The sense of smell: genomics of vertebrate odorant receptors. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 May 15;11(10):1153-60. PMID: #12015274#

• memory
  25 November 2003

  References
  Budson AE, Price BH. Memory dysfunction. N Engl J Med. 2005 Feb 17;352(7):692-9. PMID: #15716563#
  Frankland PW, Bontempi B. The organization of recent and remote memories. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 Feb;6(2):119-30. PMID: #15685217#
  Pasternak T, Greenlee MW. Working memory in primate sensory systems. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 Feb;6(2):97-107. PMID: #15654324#
  Levenson JM, Sweatt JD. Epigenetic mechanisms in memory formation. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2005 Feb;6(2):108-18. PMID: (...)

• intestinal motility
  28 November 2009

  Pathology
  digestive motility diseases
  References
  The histopathology of gastrointestinal motility disorders in children. Feichter S, Meier-Ruge WA, Bruder E. Semin Pediatr Surg. 2009 Nov;18(4):206-11. PMID: #19782302#
  Small intestinal motility. Jones MP, Wessinger S. Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2006 Mar;22(2):111-6. PMID: #16462165#

• muscle contraction
  1 December 2003

  Video
  cardiomyocyte contraction
  References
  Weber A, Franzini-Armstrong C. Hugh E. Huxley: birth of the filament sliding model of muscle contraction. Trends Cell Biol. 2002 May;12(5):243-5. PMID: #12062173#

• cognition
  11 March 2006

  References
  Weeber EJ, Levenson JM, Sweatt JD. Molecular genetics of human cognition. Mol Interv. 2002 Oct;2(6):376-91, 339. PMID: #14993414#