Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Dr Ann Silver Dr Ann Silver
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Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field:
Dr Ann Silver studied physiology at Edinburgh University where she completed a PhD (1960) as an external student whilst carrying out research at the Agricultural Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology at Babraham, Cambridgeshire. Her research involved electrophysiological studies of nerve fibres exposed to organophosphorous compounds and also the transport of choline acetyltransferase down nerves.Dr Silver's book, Biology of Cholinesterases (1974), was an important source of information, ideas and inspiration for a generation of cholinesterase researchers. She later laid the foundations for the ' cholinergic hypothesis' of Alzheimer's disease, which led to the development of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors to treat it. She has been ethical editor on the Journal of Physiology and was involved in drafting the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which regulates the ways in which animal experimentation is conducted in the UK.
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Acetylcholine transmission in the central nervous system
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Dr Ann Silver
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Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 animal experiments
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Dr Ann Silver
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Anticholinesterases DFP and safety precautions
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Dr Ann Silver
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Anticholinesterases organophosphorous toxicity and an incident in Morocco, 1959
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Dr Ann Silver
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Babraham Hall, laboratories, and the care of animals
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Dr Ann Silver
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Butyrylcholinesterase a connection with Alzheimers disease?
Today's Neuroscience, Tomorrow's History - Dr Ann Silver