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Professor Alan North - Audio

Professor Alan North - Audio

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Professor Alan North grew up in West Yorkshire and studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen before taking a PhD in pharmacology (1973). He moved to the US in 1975 as Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, before becoming Professor of Neuropharmacology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Senior Scientist and Professor at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland. In 1993, he was appointed Principal Scientist at the Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology, Geneva, and returned to England in 1998 as Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of Sheffield, and Director of its Institute of Molecular Physiology. Professor North’s work has focused on a quantitative understanding of drug and transmitter action at the level of single cells and single molecules, primarily by biophysical and molecular biological approaches. His extensive publications deal with drug and neurotransmitter receptors, structure and function of ion channels, the physiology of the autonomic (particularly enteric) nervous system, pain mechanisms, psychoactive drugs and mental illness. He has served as editor of the Journal of Physiology, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Molecular Pharmacology. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Pharmacology (2000-2004), President of the Physiological Society (2003-2006), and a member of the Medical Research Council (2001-2006). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1995). Professor North is Vice-President of the University of Manchester. He serves as Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences (from July 2004) and Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences (from July 2006).

Podcasts

1. Whether to study physics or medicine

Published: June 24, 2009, 9:51 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds

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15. Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology, Geneva: two P2X receptors discovered

Published: April 24, 2009, 2:40 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds

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14. Therapeutic potential of blocking and unblocking potassium channels

Published: April 24, 2009, 2:39 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 56 seconds

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10. Vollum Institute, Portland, Oregon - molecular physiology: classifying nerve cells

Published: April 24, 2009, 2:38 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 41 seconds

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7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: disbelief at our studies of the spinal cord

Published: April 24, 2009, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 47 seconds

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4. Loyola School of Medicine, Illinois, and electrophysiology how opiates act on single

Published: April 24, 2009, 2:29 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds

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23. PX2 receptors and reverse physiology

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds

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22. The role of ATP receptor

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds

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21. Astrocytes and microglia are P2X receptors

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds

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20. Exploring P2X4 receptors in the central nervous system

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds

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19. P2X2_antagonists, rheumatoid and osteo arthritis

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds

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18. P2X7 and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds

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17. P2X receptors as a pain target

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds

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16. Establishing receptor types on nerve cells

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:12 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 43 seconds

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13. Lessons in molecular biology

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:11 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds

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12. Visualising nicotinic receptors and potassium channels

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:11 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds

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11. Convergence and divergence in transmitter action

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:11 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

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9. Potential treatment for drug-seeking behaviour

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:10 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds

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8. Dopamine cells and drug-seeking behaviour

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:10 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 51 seconds

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6. Understanding the action of opiates

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:08 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds

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5. Opiate tolerance and dependence

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:08 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds

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3. Searching for the opiate receptor ligand, mid-1970s

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:07 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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2. Aberdeen University: a PhD with Hans Kosterlitz

Published: April 24, 2009, 12:07 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 1 second

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