Enjoyable Gut Neuroscience

Links to Science Resources

Autonomic, Enteric and Neuroscience Societies and Groups

• AGA: The American Gastroenterological Association
• SFN: American Society for Neuroscience. And FENS: The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.
• Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation. A section of the APS: The American Physiological Society.
• European Society for Neurogastroenterology and Motility
• American Motility Society
• IBRO: The International Brain Research Organization.
• American Autonomic Society
• ISAN: The International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience.
• Australian Neuroscience Society
  
  
• Enteric Neuroscience. Joel Bornstein's group in Melbourne, Australia.
• Autonomic Neuroscience. John Furness' group in Melbourne, Australia.
• Interstitial Cells of Cajal. Kent Sanders' group at the University of Reno, Nevada.
• Motilin. Theo Peeters' group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
• Enteric Nervous System Lab. Marcello Costa and Simon Brookes' group at Flinders Medical Centre, Australia.
• Autonomic Neurobiology Laboratory. Max Bennett's group at the University of Sydney.
• Neurogastroenterology. Mike Schemann's group in the Department of Human Biology at Technical University, Munich. Check out the imaging of neuronal electrical activity.
• Neuroscience Research Group. Keith Sharkey's group at the University of Calgary, Canada.
• For many other links to individual labs, check out Keith Sharkey's list of Autonomic and Enteric researchers.

Journals, Publishers and Indices

IF = Impact Factor for 2000

• AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver - (IF 3.2) From the American Journals of Physiology.
• Autonomic Neuroscience - Buddy link. Journal Homepage: Autonomic Neuroscience - (IF = 1.4). The Official Journal of ISAN. Formerly called JANS - the Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System.
• British Journal of Pharmacology - (IF = 3.7).
• Cell & Tissue Research - (IF 2.2).
• CEPP Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology - (IF 1.7).
• European Journal of Pharmacology - (IF 2.2).
• European Journal of Neuroscience - (IF 3.9).
• Gastroenterology - (IF 10.3) is the Official Journal of the American Gastroenterology Association.
• GUT - Buddy link. Journal Homepage: GUT - (IF 5.4).
• The Journal of Computational Neuroscience - (IF = 2.3). Current volume free, the rest are not.
• Journal of Neurophysiology - (IF 3.9).
• Journal of Neuroscience - (IF 8.4). Journal of the American Society for Neuroscience (SFN).
• The Journal of Physiology - (IF 4.7).
• Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology - (IF 2.9).
• Neurogastroenterology and Motility - (IF 2.1) Journal Homepage The Official Journal of the European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility.
• Neuroscience - Buddy link. Journal Homepage: Neuroscience - (IF 3.6).
• The Neuroscientist - (IF = ?.3). Journal Homepage.
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - (IF 10.8).

Publishers and Lists

• HighWire Press at Stanford University. They publish many of the society journals online; look here first. The international site is http://intl.highwire.org.
• Elsevier Science

• NIH ejournals
• Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web
• Electronic Journals Access
• Electronic Journals and Newsletters

Document delivery services

To obtain older issues, try a service such as Loansome Doc, InfoExpress, or CARL Uncover.

Search for Science

• PubMed (MedLine) listing. Part of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Very highly recommended.
  Also check out CRISP - a biomedical database system containing information on research projects and programs supported by the NIH.
  
• Current Contents - OVID.
• Neuroscience at Google!
• Neuroscience at Yahoo
• Neurosciences on the Internet
• NIDDK Health Information - Information on Digestive Diseases.

Companies and Science Resources

• BioSupplyNet Index Page - Search engine for lab supplies.
• ISC Laboratory Internet Directory - Search engine for lab supplies.
  
  
• A.M.P.I. Home of the Master-8 programmable pulse-generator.
• Axon Instruments, Inc. Electrophysiology equipment and programs.
• Alomone Alomone Labs - Molecular Tools for the Neuroscience Community.
• Biomol. Drugs for signal transduction research.
• Biopac. Simply aquisition system.
• CalBioChem. Supplies biochemical and biological reagents, antibodies, assays and research kits.
• Campden. Tissue slicers and dicers.
• Fine Science Tools. Precision surgical and microsurgical instruments.
• Goodfellow. Wire, wire, wire.
• Harvard. All lab supplies, including clamps and isotonic transducers.
• Masterflex. Pumps and tubing from Cole-Parmer. Australian distributor is Extech.
• Narishige. Micro manipulators, injectors etc.
• NPI Electronics. Electrophysiology and electrochemistry amplifiers etc.
• Microcal Software. Origin scientific graphing program.
• Molecular Probes. Makers of fluorescent reagents and dyes. Good catalog.
• Scion Image from Scion Corporation. A PC version of NIH Image.
• Sigma's Online Catalog or their main website.
• Sutter Instruments. Makers of micropipette pullers, micromanipulators and bevelers.
• Mini Analysis - Program for detecting multiple peaks in electrophysiological data.
• Tocris - Tocris Cookson Inc. Chemicals for Pharmacology and Neurochemistry.
• WPI - World Precision Instruments.

Net tools and General Resources

• Times Around the World. Very useful page for determining what the local time is anywhere in the world, including daylight savings.
• Universal Currency Converter. An online form lets you convert from any currency to any other currency using up to date exchange rates.
• Babelfish. Very cool online translation utility. Backtranslate some things for fun.
• Google. Google's online translation utility.
• Acronym. Online acronym translation utility. Weighted towards chemical names.
• Send Facimile via Internet (all of UK, parts of US and Australia)