Alan Hodgkin is my lab fish.

Meet Alan:

He used to be a wuss, and would back away when threatened. Now I’ve trained him to be a real fighting fish!

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Caught another popped collar the other day. They’re so hard to find now, thankfully.

Chizzeck it izzout:

A bunch of the cardiac physiology journals just posted new issues, so I’ll be selecting a few articles over the next few days to review. The first one will be K⁺ Dependent Regulation of Matrix Volume Improves Mitochondrial Function Under Conditions Mimicking Ischemia-Reperfusion by Korge, Honda, Weiss, and Geffen of UCLA. It’s currently in PresS [sic] with AJP Heart Circ Physiol, if you’d like to take a look. I’ll have an abstract, plus a link for you academically journal-enabled folks, tomorrow or shortly thereafter when I review it.

I got the table of contents notice for the latest Circulation, and it’s all race, race, ethnic groups, race. Circulation is, after all, more of a clinical journal, so I expect them to focus some on risk factors, etc, but this entire issue of perhaps the ‘best’ journal in the field is entirely absent of interesting information for me, the basic scientist.

AJP Heart had an interesting article. More on that when I get a chance to read it.

(PS – LiveJournalers – this is synced from my partly work-focused blog… would you guys rather I didn’t sync the science stuff?)

I can’t believe I nearly forgot it was Pi-day. I even read the sign about Pi-day events today and didn’t realize today’s 3/14.

Happy Pi Day, while there’s still an hour left here in good old CST6CDT.