Abstracts are grouped by subcategories within broader areas of research. Select from the main topics below to view additional subcategories. A limited number of high-scoring abstracts will be scheduled into oral sessions.
Cross Disciplinary Presentation Categories
- Oral presentation: sexual dimorphism of gut microbiota in hypertension
- Oral presentation: building better barriers: organoid models of lung and intestine
- Oral presentation: translational progress in hypoxia research
- Oral presentation: searching for signals: inter-organ metabolic communicators that control liver metabolism
- Oral presentation: metals in health and disease
- Oral presentation: using big data to understand physiology and pathophysiology: New fronts in omics and artificial intelligence technologies
- Oral presentation: menopause across disciplines: dialog and discussion on the current state
Cardiovascular Physiology
- Oral presentation: the heart as an endocrine organ: novel roles for cardiokines
- Blood pressure regulation
- Cardiac function and dynamics
- Cardioprotection
- Cerebral Circulation
- Diabetes, insulin resistance and obesity
- Endothelial cell biology in health and disease
- Heart failure
- Hypertension
- Lymphatic biology
- Microcirculation
- Myocardial ischemia
- Vascular ion channels
- Cardiovascular physiology: other
Cellular and Molecular Physiology including Omics
- Oral Presentation: cellular mechanisms of stress, inflammation and metabolism
- Oral Presentation: cellular signaling: proteins, pathways and mechanisms
- Oral Presentation: channels, transporters and pumps in health and disease
- Cell physiology: emerging topics, concepts and methods
- Cellular targets for translational medicine: disease related physiology
- Channels, transporters and pumps
- Acid-base transporters and pH homeostasis
- Molecular mechanisms of cellular signaling and transduction
- Exosomes, ectosomes and microvesicles
- Non-coding RNA: micro RNA, long ncRNA and small interfering RNA
- Inflammation, oxidative stress and metabolism
- Mitochondrial metabolism and redox changes
- Muscle: contractility, energy balance, wasting and aging
- Extracellular matrix, cell adhesion and cell migration
- Cancer: proliferation, metastasis and aberrant cell signaling
- Apoptosis, autophagy, cell death and cell stress
- Other cellular and molecular physiology
- Genetics, genomics, gene expression and epigenetics in health and disease
- Systems biology, computational modeling and bioinformatics
- Genetics, genomics, gene expression and epigenetics in health and disease
- Functional omics: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics
- Translational omics: from model organisms to humans
Central Nervous System, Neuroscience and Neurophysiology
- Oral presentation: role of taste in modulating ingestive behaviors
- Central Regulation of Body Fluid Homeostasis
- Nutrition/Central Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight
- Exercise and the Brain
- Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
- Fear and Arousal
- Drugs of Abuse: Addiction, Sensitization and Tolerance
- Neurobiology of Stress
- Neuroendocrinology and Neuroimmunology
- Blood-Brain Barrier, Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain Metabolism
- Neural-Glial-Vascular Interactions in Health and Disease
- Neuroinflammation/Neuroprotection/Ischemia
- Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury and Reparative Plasticity
- Neuroexcitability, Synaptic Transmission, Neuroplasticity and Learning and Memory
- Neurodevelopmental, Neurodegenerative, and Neuropsychiatry Disorders
- Cortical Processing and Consciousness
- Central nervous system, Neuroscience and Neurophysiology: other
Neural Control of Autonomic Physiology
- Oral presentation: the CNS regulation of glucose homeostasis: the highs and lows on the road to pathophysiology
- Autonomic balance: sympathetic and parasympathetic
- Autonomic circuitry in thermoregulation or metabolism
- Baroreflex and chemoreflex control of autonomic regulation
- Central control of autonomic physiology
- Enteric nervous system, digestion and metabolic function
- Inflammation, immune system and autonomic regulation
- New advances in autonomic physiology technology
- New advances in autonomic physiology therapeutics
- Parasympathetic physiology and pathophysiology
- Sympathetic physiology and pathophysiology
- Neural control of autonomic physiology: other
Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology
- Comparative cardiovascular and respiratory physiology
- Comparative digestive physiology
- Comparative metabolic physiology, biochemistry and endocrinology
- Comparative muscle physiology, locomotion and behavior
- Comparative neurobiology
- Comparative osmotic, ionic, and acid-base regulation
- Comparative immunology
- Comparative and evolutionary physiology: other
Endocrinology and Metabolic Physiology
- Adipocyte biology
- Cardiovascular endocrinology, including the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
- Diabetes, pancreatic and gastrointestinal hormones
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals
- Exercise endocrinology and metabolism
- Gestational, fetal and neonatal biology
- Growth, growth hormone and growth factors
- Mitochondrial biology in endocrinology and metabolism
- Neuroendocrinology, hypothalamus and pituitary
- Nutrition and nutrient metabolism
- Reproductive biology and sex-based medicine
- Signaling pathways in endocrinology and metabolism
- Thyroid, parathyroid, bone and mineral metabolism
- Endocrinology and metabolic physiology: other
Environmental and Exercise Physiology
- Adaptations to exercise training in health and disease
- Acute responses to exercise in health and disease
- Exercise metabolism, nutrition and ergogenic aids
- Environmental stress (oxygen, gravity, barometric pressure, blood volume, sleep, pollution, etc.)
- Thermal stress, thermoregulation and hydration
- Skeletal muscle, bone and connective tissue
- Physiological responses to exercise and environmental stressors in diverse populations (sex/gender, race/ethnicity)
- Environmental and exercise physiology: other
Epithelial Transport
- Oral Presentation: Hans Ussing Lecture of the Epithelial Transport Group
- In vitro and in vivo transport in the lung
- In vitro and in vivo epithelial transport in intestine
- In vitro and in vivo epithelial transport in kidney
- Epithelial transport: other epithelial tissues and model systems
Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
- Oral presentation: e+C147nvironmental sensing in the GI tract and peripheral organs
- Developmental physiology
- Effects of diet and metabolites
- Gastric physiology and pathophysiology
- Gastrointestinal motility
- Gastrointestinal physiology and pathophysiology
- Immunology and microbiome
- Intestinal inflammation and pathophysiology
- Liver physiology and pathophysiology
- Pancreatic physiology and pathophysiology
- Gastrointestinal and liver physiology: other
History of Physiology
- History of Physiology
Hypoxia
- Gene transcription and translation in hypoxia
- Intermittent hypoxia/oxidative stress
- Physiology and pathophysiology of hypoxia
- Responses to acute or chronic hypoxia
- Hypoxia: other
Muscle Biology and Physiology
- Cardiac muscle; physiology and metabolism in health and disease
- Muscle regeneration, sarcopenia, aging and nutritional regulation of muscle atrophy
- Skeletal muscle; physiology, pathology and metabolism in health and disease
- Smooth muscle; physiology, pathology and metabolism in health and disease
- Muscle biology and physiology: other
Nutrition Physiology
- Oral presentation: Pathophysiology of obesity
- Nutrient regulaton of health and chronic disease
- Dietary regulation of metabolism
- Nutrition physiology: other
Renal Physiology
- Kidney function in diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and aging
- Renal pathophysiology associated with hypertension/pre-eclampsia and inflammation
- Renal physiology of hemodynamics, GFR and vascular control
- Acute kidney injury: mechanisms, treatment and associated pathology
- Sex differences in renal physiology and pathophysiology
- Renal ion, water and urea transport and regulation
- General renal physiology and pathophysiology
Respiratory Physiology
- Airway biology
- Control of breathing: integrated responses
- Control of breathing: neurotransmission and modulation: neural, glial and inflammatory mechanisms
- Control of breathing: plasticity and clinical disorders
- Control of breathing: respiratory motoneurons and muscles
- Development, biomechanics, surfactant and gas exchange
- Sex differences in renal function and disease
- Vascular biology and pulmonary hypertension
- Respiratory physiology: other
Teaching of Physiology
- Oral presentation: a call to action: assessing and addressing the needs of underrepresented students in medicine and higher education with equity-minded and data-driven approaches
- Oral presentation: innovations promoting student success in physiology undergraduate, graduate and professional programs
- Teaching, Learning and Testing in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Teaching of physiology: other
Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis
- Water and electrolyte balance: cell, organ and whole organism physiology
- Microbiota, metabolites and physiology
- Contributions of immune function to disease
- Transporters and channel physiology
- Blood pressure and hypertension
- Cardiac, vascular and renal mechanisms
- Aging
- Salt, sugar, fats and other diets and disease
Microcirculatory Society
- Arteriolar function and microcirculatory rheology
- Microvascular exchange/permeability
- Microvascular inflammation and leukocyte-endothelium interactions
- Microvascular development and remodeling
- Microlymphatic function
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