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 Oral Presentation Categories
- New Discoveries and Best Practices for Studying the Physiological Functions of Extracellular Vesicles In Vivo (Lark)
- Beyond Weight Loss: The Multifaceted Role of GLP-1 Agonists in Tissue Function and Metabolic Health (Katsanos)
- Exploring the Physiology of Brain-Organ Interactions through the Vagus Nerve: Implications for Health and Therapy (Xing / Nassrallah)
- Weight Matters: Investigating Autonomic Nerve Control of the Heart and Lung in the Context of Obesity (Nie / Wang)
- Serotonin...What Doesn't it Do? (Patel / Haynes)
- Defining Cell States at the Single-Cell Resolution (Nelson / Lopez)
- Long-term Pathophysiological Consequences of Viral Infection (Belin De Chantemele / Masenga)
- From Structure to Function: Emerging Roles for Adhesion Receptors in Physiology (Shepard / Zaidman)
- Unraveling the Spectrum of Cell Death: Pathways, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potentials (Matsui / Mishra)
- Biological Impact of Intermittent Hypoxia (Revill / Tommason)
- Immune Function Under Stress: Comparative Immunology and Adaptive Responses (Heinrich / Hindle)
- Neuropeptides Regulate Blood Pressure Within and Outside the Central Nervous System (Jose / Lee)
- Mighty-Mitochondria to the Rescue The Power of Mitochondrial Transplantation (LeBlanc / Beyer)
- The Role of the Gut in Obesity New Insights into the Physiology of Therapeutic Approaches (Keely / Barrett)
Cardiovascular Physiology
- Oral presentation: Emerging Roles for Vascular Cells in Organ Dysfunction (Bender / Loeb)
- Oral presentation: The Other Cardiac Chambers: The Right Ventricle and Atria in Health Disease (Zhu / Woulfe)
- Cerebral circulation
- Microcirculation & lymphatics
- Vascular ion channels
- Endothelial cell biology in health and disease
- Blood pressure regulation
- Hypertension
- Cardiac function and dynamics
- Heart failure
- Diabetes, insulin resistance and obesity
- Myocardial ischemia
- Cardioprotection
- Sex and gender in cardiovascular physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology: other
Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Oral Presentation: Cellular Mechanisms of Stress, Inflammation and Metabolism (Krook / Clark)
- Oral Presentation: Cellular Signaling: Proteins, Pathways and Mechanisms (Jhun / Ismaeel)
- Oral Presentation: Channels, Transporters, and Pumps in Health and Disease (Blazer-Yost / Aryal)
- 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
- 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
Central Nervous System, Neuroscience and Neurophysiology
- Oral presentation: Joseph Erlanger Distinguished Lectureship of the Central Nervous System Section (Bidwell / Primeaux)
- Oral presentation: Sex and Stress: Challenges of Physiological Homeostasis (Urban / Myers)
- Central Regulation of Body Fluid Homeostasis
- Nutrition/Central Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight
- Exercise and the Brain
- Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
- Central Regulation of Cognition and Social Behavior
- Drugs of Abuse: Addiction, Sensitization and Tolerance
- Neurobiology of Stress, Fear, and Arousal
- Neuroendocrinology and Neuroimmunology
- Blood-Brain Barrier, Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain Metabolism
- Neuroinflammation, Neuroimmunology & Neurovascular
- Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury and Reparative Plasticity
- Neuroexcitability, Synaptic Transmission, Neuroplasticity
- Neurodevelopmental, Neurodegenerative, and Neuropsychiatry Disorders
- Cortical Processing and Consciousness
- Central nervous system, neuroscience and neurophysiology: other
Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology
- Oral presentation: August Krogh Distinguished Lectureship and Trainee Highlights, Sponsored by Novo Nordisk Foundation (Crossley)
- Oral presentation: Unlocking Adaptations: Leveraging Imaging Modalities in Experimental Physiology (Smith)
- 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
- Oral presentation: Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Lectureship of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Section (Tessem / Levitt)
- Oral presentation: Hot Topics in Endocrinology and Metabolism and the New Investigator Award (Rezq / Greenberg)
- Obesity and Adipose Tissue Biology
- Muscle, Mitochondria, and Fuel Utilization
- Diabetes, pancreatic and gastrointestinal hormones
- Reproductive Endocrinology
- Endocrinology and Metabolism: Miscellaneous topics
Environmental and Exercise Physiology
- Oral presentation: Thriving in the Elements: Emerging Concepts in Environmental Physiology (Schlader / Tourula)
- Adaptations to exercise training in health and disease
- Acute responses to exercise in health and disease
- Environmental stress (oxygen, gravity, barometric pressure, blood volume, sleep, pollution, etc.)
- Thermal stress, thermoregulation and hydration
- Skeletal muscle, adipose, bone and connective tissue
- Physiological responses to exercise and environmental stressors in diverse populations (sex/gender, race/ethnicity)
- Integrative physiology
- Environmental and exercise physiology: other
Epithelial Transport
- Oral Presentation: The Steve Hebert Lecture of the Epithelial Transport Group (Mansley)
- Epithelial transport in kidney
- Epithelial transport in intestine
- Epithelial transport in lung
- Epithelial transport: other epithelial tissues and model systems
Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
- Oral presentation: Horace W. Davenport Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology Section (Edelblum)
- Oral presentation: Getting to the Bottom of Aging: Talks from the GI Tract (Sanchez / Roach)
- 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
- Oral presentation: Lahiri-Cherniak Symposium (Cummings)
- 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
- Oral presentation: Pathophysiology of Heat Stress Across Multiple Physiological Systems (Smuder)
- 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
Neural Control of Autonomic Physiology
- Oral presentation: Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lecture and Linda F. Hayward Achievement (Marvar)
- 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 therapetuics
- Parasympathetic physiology and pathophysiology
- Sympathetic physiology and pathophysiology
- Neural control of autonomic physiology: other
Nutrition Physiology
- Nutrient regulaton of health and chronic disease
- Dietary regulation of metabolism
- Nutrition physiology: other
Physiological-Omics
- Oral presentation: Rare Diseases- Advancing OMIC Tools for Complex Medical Physiology (Priestley)
- Genetics, genomics, gene expression and epigenetics in health and disease
- Functional omics: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics
- Translational omics: from model organisms to humans
- Systems biology, computational modeling and bioinformatics
Renal Physiology
- Oral presentation: Advances in Renal Physiology (Evans / Kasztan)
- Oral presentation: Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Renal Section (Vallon / Fenton)
- Oral presentation: Renal Mid-career Investigator Award Lecture (de Baaij / Terker)
- CKD, diabetic nephropathy and AKI: mechanisms, treatments and models
- Renal pathophysiology: genetics, hypertension, preeclampsia and (auto)immunity
- Renal hemodynamics, glomerular, vascular and tubular physiology"
- Cardiorenal, hepatorenal and kidney crosstalk with other organs
- Sex differences in renal physiology and pathophysiology
- Renal ion, water and urea transport and regulation
Respiratory Physiology
- Oral presentation: Bridging Boundaries: Innovative Approaches to Respiratory Health from Molecules to Populations (Lusk)
- 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
- Vascular biology and pulmonary hypertension
- Respiratory physiology: other
- Sex and gender in respiratory physiology
Sex and Gender Research Interest Group
- Oral presentation: Sex Differences on a Continuum (Harris / Lederer)
Teaching of Physiology
- Oral presentation: Environmental and Ethical Concerns Surrounding Physiology Teaching Laboratories: Creating a Sustainable Pedagogical Approach (Hill / Sharma)
- 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
- Salt, sugar, fats and other diets and disease
- Disease models and therapeutics
Microcirculatory Society
- Microcirculatory function
- Microvascular exchange/permeability
- Microvascular inflammation and leukocyte-endothelium interactions
- Microvascular development and remodeling
- Lymphatic function
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