Animal Models calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers: Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology - Back to Basics

Guest Editor Dr. Virginia Miller and the Editors of AJP-Heart and Circulatory Physiology extend an invitation to submit original research articles related to sex and gender differences in cardiovascular physiology. Although sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality are recognized in clinical medicine, physiological mechanisms behind these differences have been ignored in basic research. We welcome work from genetic and molecular science to integrative animal and human physiology exploring sex differences in mitochondrial function, energetics, cellular ion regulation, secretory and mechanical processes of endothelial, smooth muscle, myocardium and autonomic and neuronal regulation. Many sex distinctions occur at specific times in the life cycle such as puberty or pregnancy, thus we encourage submissions which address interaction with development and aging. All manuscripts accepted from this Call for Papers will be included in a unique online article collection to further highlight this important topic. The article collection will also include specially commissioned Review articles.

All manuscripts should be submitted online here: http://ajpheart.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex

During the online submission process, under the "Keywords & Special Sections" tab, please use the "Category" drop-down menu and select “Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology- Back to Basics."

Manuscripts will undergo normal peer review as they are received. Accepted manuscripts will be published online as they are accepted. Articles published from this Call for Papers will be highlighted with a special “Call for Papers” banner on the article PDF, as well as included in the Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Physiology- Back to Basics online article collection at time of publication.

Manuscripts can be submitted anytime but must be submitted by September 30, 2013 to be eligible for inclusion in this Call for Papers. If you have any questions please contact Kara Hansell Keehan, Executive Editor, via email at khkeehan@verizon.net.

Call for Nominations: Pan American Health Organization/Pan American Health and Education Foundation 2013 Pedro N. Acha Award for Excellence in Veterinary Public Health

The call for nominations is now open for the 2013 PAHO/PAHEF Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health. The deadline to submit a nomination is June 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm ET (Washington, D.C., time).

Form of the Award

The award consists of a cash prize, certificate of honor, and a symbolic representation of the award.

If you have questions, contact awards@pahef.org.

This award honors Dr. Pedro N. Acha, long-time chief of the Pan American Health Organization's (PAHO) veterinary public health program, and recognizes his outstanding contributions to health in the Americas. It is intended to stimulate excellence in students who are pursuing careers in veterinary medicine or animal sciences in the region of the Americas, especially in Latin America and/or the Caribbean.

This award is one of the awards in the Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health Program, a joint partnership of PAHO and the Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF).

Qualifications

Deans or directors of schools of veterinary medicine and animal sciences in the Americas may nominate an undergraduate student who has prepared a research paper based on his or her undergraduate thesis within the veterinary public health field. The research paper should cover at least one of the following: zoonoses, food safety, animal health and production, development of biomedical models (animal research models or in vitro substitutes), food security and animal husbandry (zootechnics), and/or environmental health related to livestock production systems or other domesticated animals. The maximum number of nominations that will be accepted from any one school is three.

Both the research paper and the thesis must have been written within the previous three years of the nomination and a copy of the thesis must be included as part of the nomination package for the jury’s reference. It is encouraged, but not mandatory, for the research paper to be formatted per the guidelines of the Pan American Journal of Public Health.

The winning research paper will have the opportunity to be published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health.

The nomination package must be submitted online by the dean or director of the nominee’s veterinary medicine program. If the nominator is someone other than the student’s dean or director, the nomination cannot be considered compliant.

Staff members, consultants, and interns in active service of PAHO, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other United Nations agencies; current official representatives to PAHO's governing bodies (e.g., ministers of health); sitting members of the PAHEF board of directors; PAHEF staff, consultants, advisors, and interns; and members of the Pedro N. Acha Award for Excellence in Veterinary Public Health jury are ineligible to receive the award.
 

Call for Papers for a Special Section of the Journal of Biomedical Optics: Optical Elastography and Measurement of Tissue Biomechanics

Manuscripts due 1 July 2013.

Guest Editors:

Ruikang K. Wang
University of Washington
Department of Bioengineering
William H. Foege Building N410E, Box 355061
3720 15th Ave NE
Seattle, Washington 98195-5061
Tel: +1 206-616-5025
Fax: +1 206-685 3300
E-mail: wangrk@uw.edu

David D. Sampson
The University of Western Australia
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, M018
Optical & Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009
Western Australia, Australia
Tel: +61 8 6488 7112
Fax: +61 8 6488 1319
E-mail: david.sampson@uwa.edu.au

Stephen A. Boppart
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Tel: +1 217-333-8598
Fax: +1 217-333-5833
E-mail: boppart@illinois.edu

Brendan F. Kennedy
The University of Western Australia
School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, M018
Optical & Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009
Western Australia, Australia
Tel: +61 8 6488 4746
Fax: +61 8 6488 1319
E-mail: brendan.kennedy@uwa.edu.au

Call for papers: Optical elastography is the use of optics to measure the mechanical properties of tissues and cells. With the high-resolution imaging capabilities of optics, this rapidly emerging field builds on and complements the related fields of ultrasound and magnetic resonance elastography, as well as complements existing methods for biomechanics, such as scanning probe microscopy and rheology. Accurate determination of tissue biomechanical properties using optics holds promise for clinical diagnosis and interpretation of various diseases. This special section focuses on all aspects of the development and application of biomedical optics and biophotonics for imaging and measuring the biomechanical properties of cells, tissues, and their constituents, both in animal models and in humans. Papers are solicited on the following and related topics:

Optical elastography methods and applications in general

Optical coherence tomography/elastography

Speckle and particle tracking, and holography

Signal processing methods for optical elastography

Quantitative methods, including combining modeling and measurement

Novel loading schemes, such as focused ultrasound, photothermal, and magnetomotive

Methods for measuring viscoelastic properties in particular

Photoacoustics directed towards biomechanics

Brillouin scattering for biomechanics

Dynamic methods for characterizing tissue vibration, such as in the ear and vocal chords

Dynamic methods for characterizing in vivo tissue motion

In vivo elastography

Elastography applied to characterization of ex vivo and in vivo tissue pathology

Intraoperative elastography applications (such as in breast cancer, lung cancer, etc.)

Elastography in cardiology

Biomechanics of the eye and ophthalmic applications of optical elastography

Hard tissue biomechanics in bones and dental applications

Biomechanics in tissue engineering and biomaterials

Biomechanics in developmental biology

Rheology measurements using optical techniques

Single cell mechanics, motility, and adhesion.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Vehicle Safety: Human/Animal Body Modelling in Biomechanics Research

Guest Editor:

Haojie Mao, Wayne State University, USA

This special issue aims to present first-rate work on human body modelling, with a broad coverage of component or whole body model development, verification and validation, application and material characterisation. Research papers on animal body modelling and numerical robustness/accuracy analysis are also very welcome.

Impact injury biomechanics studies carried out with the aim of manufacturing safer cars for over half a century have with the growth of computational power endorsed computational modelling, especially in the last two decades. Computer human models have been largely improved in terms of biofidelity and robustness, and have been applied in areas beyond vehicle safety, such as in the space and medical device industries.

Despite the traditional focus of IJVS on vehicle safety, this special issue welcomes research work on human or animal body modelling, with the aim of promoting the understanding of how biological tissues respond to mechanical stimuli from well-controlled laboratory conditions to complex crash or surgical scenarios.

Subject Coverage

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

Biomechanical modelling

Biological material characterisation

Numerical analysis

Combined computational and experimental work related to vehicle safety, sports safety, forensic investigation, blast mechanics and clinical biomechanics

Laboratory-controlled trauma and simulation

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our information on preparing and submitting articles. http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_submit.php

Important Dates

Submission of manuscripts: 16 August, 2013

Notification to authors: 11 October, 2013

Final versions due: 6 December, 2013

Call for Papers on the Topic of Translational Research in Acute Lung Injury and Pulmonary Fibrosis for the American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

The American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology is seeking high-quality manuscripts in the area of translational research in acute lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis.  The last decade has seen major progress in our understanding of the molecular and cellular pathogenesis of lung inflammation, injury and fibrosis.  Translation of this understanding into novel insights and therapies for acute lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis in patients is a critical area of current research. This call for papers requests high-quality studies that extend observations made in experimental systems to human disease through study of patients, patient samples, and tissues.  Examples of appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) 1) studies of biomarkers measured in biological samples from patients that expand our understanding of the pathogenesis of clinical acute lung injury and pulmonary fibrosis; 2) physiological measurements in patients such as studies of the determinants of the rate of alveolar fluid clearance in patients with acute lung injury; 3) studies in animals or in vitro systems to determine the functional significance of polymorphisms in candidate genes, of novel gene signatures and/or epigenetic modifications identified in clinical studies of patients with acute lung injury or pulmonary fibrosis.

Articles must be submitted by July 1, 2013.

All papers will be reviewed promptly, thoroughly, and fairly by members of the Editorial Board and guest reviewers who are recognized experts in this field. Accepted manuscripts will be published under a distinct heading and will receive special attention and handling. Only those papers not requiring extensive revision will be published under this call. If you currently have a manuscript on this topic that has already been submitted and would like it to be included in this Special Call, please contact Dr. Sadis Matalon, Editor-in-Chief via e-mail at sadis@uab.edu.

Call for Manuscripts on the Pathophysiology of Acute Kidney Injury for the American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology

The American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology is seeking manuscripts to be submitted specifically related to the pathophysiology of acute kidney injury. Papers may focus on pathophysiology or therapeutic interventions. Studies may involve in vivo, in vitro, or a combination of approaches. Studies that involve new animal models of acute kidney injury, address the basis for the transition between acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease, and examine the pathophysiology of human acute kidney injury are also solicited. To be eligible for inclusion in this Call for Papers, manuscripts must be submitted by July 1, 2013.

Note to Authors: All manuscripts should be submitted online via eJournalPress, http://ajprenal.msubmit.net; during the online submission, under the "Keywords, Categories, & Special Section" tab, please choose "Pathophysiology of Acute Kidney Injury" under "categories."

The manuscript will undergo normal peer review. If published, the article will be highlighted together in print with other papers appearing in response to this Call and will carry a banner indicating that the paper was submitted in response to this Call for Papers. Submissions will be reviewed as they are received and will be published online immediately upon acceptance.

If you have any questions or currently have a manuscript in this area that has already been submitted to the American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology and would like it to be included in this Special Call, please contact Dr. Thomas Kleyman, Editor-in-Chief (e-mail at ajprenal@emory.edu).