Long Essay suggested Titles for 2010-2011
Department of Physiology & Biochemistry
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Genotype-phenotype correlation in APC gene mutation in FAP
The PTEN gene in growth and differentiation
The intestinal microbiome
Tissue transglutaminase
Mitochondrial Inheritance and the Central Nervous System
Maternal Inheritance of Congenital Heart Diseases
Neurofibromatosis
Chromosomal Deletion Syndromes
Trisomies and Monosomies in Genetics
Genetics and Neural Tube Defects
Genomic Imprinting
Diabetes Mellitus
Bipolar Disorder and Heredity
Epigenetics in Cancer
Heredity of Addison's disease
Amyloidosis
Celiac Disease and Multifactorial Inheritance
Genetic Markers in Molecular Medicine
Genetics of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Reactive Oxygen Species and Autoimmune Diseases
Parkinson’s Disease
Multiple Sclerosis
Biological and medical importance herbal supplements.
Vitamin deficiency and food supplements.
The use of umbilical stem cells.
Adult Stem Cells Transplantation
Dying to Sleep: Prions & Fatal Familial Insomnia
Before Sperm meets Egg: The physiology of attraction, courtship and love- making
The ends have arrived: Telomeres, Telomerase and their impact on medicine
Life of the Extremes: Deep Sea Diving, High Altitude and Space Physiology
Building the Spliceosome: what can go wrong?
Building the Ribosome: what can go wrong?
Nuclear Bodies
Functions of small and large non-coding RNA
Neurodegenerative Disorders
Electrical Activity of the Heart
Cellular Structure and Function of the heart
Cardiac Function
Vascular Function
Neurohumoral Control of the Heart and Circulation
Organ Blood Flow
Exchange Function of the Microcirculation
Cardiovascular Integration and Adaptation
Pathophysiology of Dopamine systems
Pathophysiology of Serotonin systems
Nitric Oxide in Parkinson’s disease
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Nitric Oxide in Drug addiction
Role of diet in neurodegenerative disorders
Role of diet in psychiatric disorders
Basal ganglia
Absence Epilepsy
Nicotine addiction
Sleep
The Physiological Basis of Anti-Coagulation
The Stem Cells of Blood
Normal and Abnormal Haemoglobins.
Inflammatory Cytokines
The Two Faces of Oxygen
Nutrition and Haematology
New Aspects of Iron Pathophysiology.
The Developmental Physiology of Haemoglobin
The Endothelium.
New Aspects of Immunology.
Molecular virology
Ubiquitin and/or the Proteasome
Molecular Chaperones
Metal Homeostasis
Autoimmune Disease
Collagens and Disease
G Proteins
Cyclases and/or Phosphodiesterases
Heat Shock response
Genetically engineered human therapeutic proteins
Opsins and vision
Carcinogens
Effect of oxidative stress on vasculature
Diabetic retinopathy
Multiple sclerosis and vitamin D
The biochemistry of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
The insulin receptor and insulin resistance
Essential fatty acids
The molecular biology of metastasis
Role of carbonic anhydrase in tumour cells
Gene therapy of the musculoskeletal system
Movement Disorders
Drugs of Abuse
Psychiatric Disorders
Genetic Basis of CNS Disorders
Plasticity
Pain
Learning and Memory
Emotions
Reward
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The pathophysiology of retinal pigmentosa
Management of raised intracranial pressure
Pathophysiology of diabetic neuropathy
Brain edema
Regulation of cerebral blood flow
Brain signalling of nitric oxide
Cerebellar circuitry
Cerebellar malformations
Brain imaging modalities
Positron emission tomography
Neuroendocrine control of body weight
Hormonal regulation of glucose homeostasis
The interface between the autoimmune system and the endocrine system
The physiology of hormone-receptor interactions and hormone resistance
syndromes
Cell cycle regulation, oncogenes and tumorigenesis in the endocrine
system
Mitochondrial ion channels – novel therapeutic target
Calcium uptake mechanisms of mitochondria
CNS regulation of glucose homeostasis
Molecular mechanisms of ischemic cerebral oedema
Parkinson’s disease and tea
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis – recent advances
Islet inflammation in type 2 diabetes
Potassium ion movement in the inner ear
The mammalian urine concentrating mechanism – recent advances
Hypertonic stress in the kidney
Pathogenesis of Preeclempsia
Endocrine and metabolic disorders of the adrenal glands.
Inherited kidney disorders.
Cancers and epigenetics