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- SCOPE
Experimental
Physiology publishes the following types of papers:
- Research
Papers which report the results of original research;
- Hot
Topic Reviews [PDF]
which provide an accessible synthesis of current information
in topical areas of physiology. These are normally limited
to 3000 words and usually solicited by the Editorial Board;
- Review
Articles [PDF]
which discuss, critically and concisely, current developments
of interest to physiologists. These are normally limited
to about 20 printed pages and are solicited by the Editorial
Board;
- Symposium
Reports [PDF]
which report concisely presentations given as part
of symposia at scientific meetings.
- Exchange
of Views [PDF]
which present two opposing opinions on a topical subject
published with commentary and responses from each participating
author.
- Viewpoints
[PDF]
which discuss a selected article within the issue.
- Lectures
[PDF]
in which the author reports their invited lecture.
- Themed
Issue papers which can take the form of any of the above
paper types focusing on the specified 'Theme'.
POLICY
Subject
areas
Experimental
Physiology publishes articles in most areas
of physiology (see table below). Papers should embrace
the journal's new orientation of translation and
integration. Specifically, we are keen to receive
manuscripts that deal with both physiological and
pathophysiological questions that investigate gene/protein
function using molecular, cellular and whole animal approaches.
In addition pertinent methodological papers are encouraged
as are manuscripts that use computational models to further
our understanding of physiological processes.
The journal also publishes invited reviews dealing with rapidly
developing areas of physiology or which update understanding
of classical fields of physiology.
Editorial
procedures
Members of
the Editorial Board are responsible for editing a
paper or assigning it to an appropriate Expert Referee. It
is the policy of Experimental Physiology that each paper is
independently reviewed by two Expert Referees, overseen by
the relevant Editor. It is the aim of the Editorial Board that
authors should receive an Editorial Report within 6 weeks of
receipt of the complete manuscript in the Publications Office.
When
submitting a manuscript authors should specify one of the
subject areas listed below:
| Subject
area |
Relevant
Editor(s) |
| 1
Autonomic neuroscience |
J. Deuchars/J. F. R. Paton/J. Stern |
| 2
Cardiovascular control |
M.
Brown/G. Billman/S. Malpas/K. Patel |
| 3
Computational physiology |
I. Efimov/N.
Smith |
| 4
Genomic physiology |
M.
Raizada |
| 5
GI and epithelial physiology |
P. Fong/N.
Simmons |
| 6
Heart/cardiac muscle |
P.
Madeddu/D. J. Paterson/M. Shattock/G. L. Smith/W.Giles |
| 7
Human/environmental and exercise physiology |
P.
Raven/M. White |
| 8
Muscle physiology |
K.Baldwin/S. Harridge/M.
Hogan |
| 9
Neuroendocrinology/endocrinology |
C. Coen/D.Murphy |
| 10
Placental–perinatal |
S. Langley-Evans |
| 11
Renal physiology |
N.Simmons |
| 12
Respiratory physiology |
P.
McLoughlin/N. Prabhakar |
13
Vascular physiology |
K.
Channon/S. Egginton |
Authors
are also encouraged to supply the names of up to three
referees.
Overlapping
material
Only in exceptional
circumstances may results submitted for publication
in Experimental
Physiology repeat findings already published
or intended to be published by the authors elsewhere;
inclusion on a web site of material other than an
abstract is considered as prior publication. Authors
should instead refer to their previous findings in
the same way as they would if the work had come from
a different group. This policy applies to results
in the widest sense and not simply to figures or
parts of figures. The Editorial Board emphasizes
that a manuscript which is merely an expanded version
of work published elsewhere is not acceptable. An
exception to this policy applies in the case of an
abstract that does not exceed about 400 words.
A submission
must be accompanied by copies of any material, published by
the authors in the last year, that overlaps the content of
the manuscript. This should include preliminary notes, communications,
abstracts, chapters or reviews. Please also include any ‘in
press’ or submitted articles. These should be submitted as ‘Supplemental
files’ in PDF format, and reference made to them in the authors’ covering
letter.
Conflict
of interest
Using the
covering letter on the electronic manuscript submission form,
authors are
required to disclose any potential conflict of interest
such as consultancies, financial involvement, patent ownership,
etc. Where such information is not already disclosed in the
manuscript, it will be held in confidence during the review
process. Should the article be accepted for publication the
relevant information will be given in the Acknowledgements.
Ethical
standards
Authors should
note that the processing of papers may be delayed
if there is any doubt about their conformity with the ethical
standards required by Experimental Physiology.
1.
Research misconduct
The
Editorial Board is alert to any form of research or publication
misconduct including submission of fraudulent data, plagiarism,
dual publication and false or incomplete attribution
of authorship. It endorses the general principles set
out in Guidelines on Good Publication
Practice produced
by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The Guidelines are
available from the web on: www.publicationethics.org.uk
Authors
should be aware that Experimental Physiology will
take action along the lines indicated in the COPE
Guidelines where misconduct is suspected.
2.
Animal experiments
The
Editorial Board will not allow the publication
of papers describing experimental procedures on living
animals which may reasonably be presumed to have inflicted
unnecessary pain or discomfort upon them.
To
be acceptable for publication, experiments on living
vertebrates or Octopus vulgaris should
conform with the principles of UK legislation. Whenever
appropriate, a statement should be included indicating
that experiments were performed in accordance with national/local
ethical guidelines. Authors must give a full description
of their anaesthetic and surgical procedures, and of
peri-operative care, at every stage (including preparatory
stages). Where work involves decerebrate animals the
level of section must be specified; destruction of tissue
rostral to the section must be included as an essential
part of the technique. For anaesthesia the following
details are required:
(1)
generic name for the anaesthetic;
(2)
dose and route used;
(3)
dose, route and frequency of supplemental doses, plus
criteria for giving additional doses when neuromuscular
blocking agents are used.
Note
that chilling is not an acceptable method for rendering
cold-blooded vertebrates insentient; an anaesthetic agent
must be used. Authors must provide evidence that they
took adequate steps to ensure that animals did not suffer
unnecessarily at any stage of an experiment, whether
acute or chronic. Where relevant, the fact that animals
were killed at the end of an experiment should be stated.
Authors
working on isolated tissues, including primary cell cultures,
must state whether the donor animal was anaesthetized
or killed, and give details of the relevant procedures.
Where tissues are obtained from an abattoir or similar
establishment the method of killing need not be specified
unless scientifically important.
Use
of neuromuscular blocking agents and of nitrous oxide
In
experiments involving the use of neuromuscular
blocking agents authors must describe the precautions
taken to ensure the adequacy of anaesthesia.
They must provide sufficient detail to enable
the reader to determine that no unnecessary
suffering occurred. The Physiological Society
has issued the following advice: ‘When
neuromuscular blocking agents are used
with anaesthetic agents during physiological
experiments, safeguards are required to ensure
that the animal does not experience unnecessary
pain or distress. It is the responsibility
of the person conducting the experiment to
ensure that anaesthesia is adequate. Neuromuscular
blocking agents should never be used without
anaesthesia.
(1)
For any experiment using neuromuscular blocking agents
it should first be established that the proposed anaesthetic
regime is adequate, in the absence of these agents, to
provide analgesia for any surgical procedure or noxious
stimulus which is proposed. When light levels
of anaesthesia are considered appropriate for
experimental purposes, it should have been
established that deeper levels of anaesthesia
would interfere with the purpose of the experiment.
All preparatory major surgery should be performed
under full surgical anaesthesia. Subsequent
procedures under light anaesthesia in the presence
of neuromuscular blocking agents should be
conducted in such a way that any residual pain
from the initial surgery is blocked by local
anaesthetics or analgesia and no further noxious
stimuli are delivered. It should be noted that some methods
of head holding using ear bars and zygomatic bars are
a potential source of pain: other, atraumatic, methods
of head restraint should be used in lightly
anaesthetized animals.
(2)
During the course of each experiment in the period when
neuromuscular blocking agents are used there must be
a protocol for continuous or regular assessment of adequacy
of anaesthesia. The appropriate methods of
assessment will depend on the particular anaesthetic
and the particular experiment. For example:
(a)
the monitoring of changes in heart rate and blood pressure
provides one of the most valuable indices of the level
of anaesthesia. Neuromuscular blocking agents, in doses
which do not reduce blood pressure, do not
abolish autonomic cardiovascular reflexes.
A preparation in which precipitate cardiovascular
responses occur to minor noxious stimuli must
be considered too lightly anaesthetized;
(b)
the electroencephalogram can be monitored
and changes in pattern with minor noxious stimuli
may be a valuable guide. Thus, many experiments
can be conducted while the EEG is in the unaroused
state characteristic of moderate anaesthesia.
However, some anaesthetics (e.g. chloralose)
induce an EEG that cannot readily be interpreted,
and the relation between EEG waveform and the
suffering of pain is, in any case, not known.
It should also be noted that changes in
arterial PCO2 and the administration of atropine
and certain other drugs may alter the relation
between the EEG and behavioural state;
(c)
the state of the pupil can provide a further
indication of the level of anaesthesia. Generally,
under anaesthesia pupils are constricted, and
dilated pupils, or pupils which react rapidly
to stimuli, are indicative of inadequate anaesthesia.
This is not a suitable test for experiments
on the visual system when drugs have been
administered which paralyse accommodation and
dilate the pupils.
(3)
Nitrous oxide (N2O) has effective
mood changing (tranquillizing) and analgesic
properties and is useful because of the
ease and consistency of delivery but,
even at the maximum concentration feasible
at normal pressures, it is not an adequate
anaesthetic for surgery in cats. Caution
should be used in relying upon it for
maintenance, even when precautions have
been taken to avoid noxious stimuli.
It becomes especially important to assess
the animal’s
state periodically and to use supplementary
agents as required.’
3. Human
experiments
The
Editorial Board is concerned that all work published
in Experimental
Physiology should have been conducted
according to the highest standards of safety
and ethics. Legislation and accepted practice
concerning human experimentation vary from
country to country and consequently it is difficult
to define absolute requirements. However, work
with human subjects should conform to the standards
set by the Declaration
of Helsinki (last modified
in 2004), http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm,
the Medical Research Council’s
online guidelines MRC interim guidance
on ethics of research involving human material
derived from the nervous system (2003)'
(http://www.mrc.ac.uk/pdf-nervous_tissue_guidance.pdf)
and the guidelines set out below. The objectives
must be to ensure that all risks are minimized
and that subjects are not injured and do not
feel they have been abused as a result of participating
in the study. Any definition of abuse will
include excessive or unexpected pain or discomfort
experienced during the experiment. Note, in
the case of experiments involving minors, any
risks must have been considered absent or minimal,
and evidence must be presented that the experiments
were performed with the understanding and consent
of the legal guardian.
All
manuscripts must contain statements indicating that informed
consent has been obtained, preferably in writing, studies
have been performed according to the Declaration
of Helsinki, and the procedures have been
approved by the local ethics committee.
(1)
The acceptability of procedures used will depend on the
age and health of the subjects. Manuscripts should state
the age, sex, health status and, where necessary, fitness
of participants.
(2) ‘Informed’ consent
means that subjects have been told not only
of the procedures and risks from the experiment
but also that they are free to withdraw at
any time without jeopardy. Experiments with
children must have, in addition to the acquiescence
of the child, the informed consent of the parent
or guardian.
(3)
Experiments must be conducted by suitably qualified personnel
with medical support where appropriate. The possible
adverse physical and psychological effects of invasive
procedures, painful stimuli, the stress of
physical performance, sleeplessness, confinement
or sensory deprivation must be borne in mind.
(4)
Monetary or other rewards are commonly provided in physiological
studies that involve discomfort. Such rewards should
not be so large as to induce subjects to participate
against their better judgement. Particular care should
be taken to ensure that students and junior laboratory
personnel are not inadvertently coerced to
participate by senior staff.
(5)
When drugs are to be given to a subject, their usual
actions and potential side-effects must be explained
verbally, and, when appropriate, in writing.
(6)
It is the duty of the experimenter to minimize the physical
risks to the subject. Such precautions will depend on
the type of experiment: examples include having stops
on mechanical devices, limiting the electric current
provided by nerve stimulators and providing resuscitation
facilities where necessary. Where procedures involve
the sampling of body fluids suitable aseptic conditions
must be used.
(7)
Procedures involving exposure to radiation should be
detailed separately in the manuscript and include a statement
of the dose given.
(8)
The identity of subjects must remain confidential; only
with the written consent of the subject may his or her
name be revealed.
(9)
Before human biopsy or post-mortem tissue is taken for
study, consent must be obtained from the subject, or
relatives where appropriate. This should be stated in
the manuscript.
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and reproduction
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Physiology does not impose submission or page charges.
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ADMINISTRATIVE
PROCEDURES
Submissions
All manuscripts
must be submitted electronically using our online
submission form (http://submit.expphysiol.org).
Full instructions are given with the form. To avoid excessively
large files, which are time consuming for both uploading by
the authors and downloading for the reviewing process, no file
should be larger than 5 MB.
Enquiries
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Physiology
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Tel:
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Manuscripts
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will be converted automatically into PDF files and it will
be the responsibility of authors to check these PDF files
to ensure that the conversion was successful. LaTeX files
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in manuscript form upon acceptance, it is important that
figures are of a suitable quality at this stage. Full details
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A signed
Exclusive Licence Form
will be required upon submission
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contains any colour figures a Colour Work Agreement Form.
Both forms are available in the Author Area of the online
submission system.
Correspondence
Following
submission of a manuscript, all correspondence will be dealt
with by the relevant Editor via the Publications Office.
The Editors
cannot accept responsibility for damage to or loss
of papers submitted to them. Contributors are advised to
keep copies of the typescript and illustrations.
Date
of receipt
The date
of receipt of each paper will be printed and is normally the
date on which the manuscript is first received in the Publications
Office. Papers submitted without all the information
specified in these instructions will not be given editorial
consideration until it has been provided; this applies especially
to aspects of animal welfare/ethics. The date of receipt published
will then refer to the date when a complete submission is received.
If an author fails to deal with requested revisions
within a reasonable time (usually 1 month) the date of original
receipt will be replaced by the date on which the new version
was received in the Publications Office.
Proofs
Proofs should
be corrected and returned promptly since publication
is in order of receipt of corrected proofs. Excessive alterations
by the authors of the accepted copy may be subject to further
editorial consideration and may be charged to the authors.
Offprints
The corresponding
author is provided with a copy of the journal and
a PDF file of their paper free of charge. Offprints can be
supplied if ordered at the same time as the proofs are returned.
An order form will be sent to authors with the proofs.
PREPARATION
OF MANUSCRIPTS
General
information
English spelling
(as in The Chambers Dictionary) and terminology
should be used (e.g. colour, fibre, noradrenaline).
Clarity of expression and conciseness will be taken
into consideration.
Arrangement
of papers
The usual
format is:
1.
Title page
2. Abstract
3. Introduction
4. Methods
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. References
8. Acknowledgements
9. Figures and legends
10. Tables
Papers
deviating from the usual format can be considered for publication
if there are obvious and compelling reasons for the variation.
Small print may be used sparingly. Footnotes are not acceptable.
1. Title
page
The
title of the paper should be as informative
as possible, but should also be concise. The animal
species should normally appear in the title. The
Editors will not accept a series of papers with
the same main title, e.g. ‘Studies in . . . Part
I’, ‘Studies in . . . Part II’.
For abbreviations that are acceptable in
the title go to
http://ep.physoc.org/misc/abbreviationslist.pdf
A running
title not exceeding 70 characters and spaces must be
given for page headings
Three
key words for use in the reviewing process should be
provided.
The
total number of words in the paper, excluding references
and figure legends, should be added to the title page.
Authors
should assign their paper to one of the Subject Areas
from the scroll down in the online submission form at
http://submit.expphysiol.org/ After publication the paper
will appear in an online collection of papers in the
same Subject Area category. Authors can request that
their paper is assigned to other online collections in
the letter accompanying their submission.
Authorship
The
author submitting a manuscript must ensure that all authors
listed are eligible for authorship. The Editorial Board
endorses the general principles set out in Guidelines
on Good Publication Practice produced by the Committee
on Publication Ethics (COPE; http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines).
Addresses
Authors
should provide the minimum address information consistent
with clarity and should ensure that authors’ affiliations
are clearly indicated.
2. Abstract
Each
research paper must start with an Abstract not exceeding
5% of the length of the paper. It should consist of a
single paragraph, not numbered subsections; text for
the Abstract will appear in bold. References may not
be cited. Since the Abstract may be used by abstracting
journals, a limit of 250 words is recommended.
It must not exceed 5% of the text (excluding references
and figure legends), with an absolute maximum of one
printed page.
3. Introduction
The
Introduction should make the background and
the object of the research clear, and be understandable
to the non-specialist. Reference to the authors’ previous
work is desirable only if it has a direct bearing
on the subject of the paper; an extensive historical
review is not appropriate.
4. Methods
Methods
are described once only and do not appear in the legends
to figures and tables. Details should be sufficient to
allow the work to be repeated by others. Authors should
note that to be acceptable for publication, experiments
on living vertebrates or Octopus
vulgaris should conform with the principles of
UK legislation.
Ethical
information
Start
the Methods section with a paragraph headed Ethical approval.
This paragraph must contain the following information:
1.
The name of the national or local ethics committee that
approved the project and the relevant regulations governing
all the studies described in the paper.
2.
If experiments were conducted on humans, confirmation
that informed consent was obtained, preferably in writing,
that the studies conformed to the standards set by the
latest revision of the Declaration
of Helsinki, and that
the procedures were approved by a properly constituted
ethics committee, which should be named.
When
describing experimental protocols the following information
must be provided:
1.
The numbers of animals studied.
2.
In accord with the earlier section ‘Ethical standards’,
all details concerning anaesthesia, including:
a.
Generic name of the agents, with dose and route of administration.
b. Route and frequency of any supplemental doses.
c. When neuromuscular blocking agents are used, the criteria
used for giving supplemental doses. The Results section should
give a summary of these doses.
3.
Where relevant, the method of humane killing at the end
of the experiment.
4.
In studies of isolated tissues, including cell cultures,
details of the methods by which these tissues were obtained,
including the method of anaesthesia or killing.
Ethical
information must be included for each manuscript. It
is not sufficient to refer to previous publications
for details, unless the paper is one of a series published
in the same issue.
Where
appropriate, lists of solutions, chemicals and equipment,
and an explanation of data handling procedures may be
given as separate headed paragraphs. The maker’s name
should be given for all non-standard chemicals, apparatus
and equipment. Materials known by a trade name, e.g.
Perspex, have the initial letter as a capital. The Latin
names as well as the common name of non-mammalian species
should be given.
5. Results
Quantitative
observations are often better presented graphically
than in tables. Authors should ensure that
their data are treated correctly, taking statistical
advice if necessary. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), not t tests,
should be used for multiple comparisons; parametric and
non-parametric statistics should be used appropriately,
and particular care should be taken over the expression
of means and errors where data have been transformed
onto a logarithmic scale. Standard deviations and
standard errors of the means (as appropriate) should
be given with not more than two significant figures;
the form used, and the n value, should be stated.
Tests of significance should be specified in full,
e.g. Student’s
paired t test. It is not usually
necessary to present the individual results
of a large number of repeated tests if the
number of measurements is stated. Theory
and inference must be clearly distinguished
from what was observed, and should not be elaborated
upon in this section.
6. Discussion
The
Discussion which follows the statement of Results should
be separate from it. The assumptions involved in making
inferences from the experimental results should be stated.
The Discussion should not merely recapitulate the Results.
Authors should provide a succinct conclusion to their
work.
In
appropriate circumstances an Appendix or a Theory section
may be accepted where, for example, it is necessary to
derive mathematical results required in the paper.
7.
References
The
paper should conclude with a list of the papers and books
cited in the text. Authors should avoid an excessive
number of references. Normally about 50 should be adequate.
The order of references is strictly alphabetical, regardless
of chronology. The format for references to papers and
books, and to chapters in books, is as follows:
Patel
A & Smith
FG (2000). Renal haemodynamic effects
of B2 receptor agonist bradykinin and
B2 antagonist HOE 140 in conscious lambs. Exp
Physiol 85, 811–818.
Adrian
ED (1932). The Mechanism of Nervous
Action.
Humphrey Milford, London.
Buchan
AMJ, Bryant MG, Polak JM, Gregor M, Ghatei
MA & Bloom SR (1981). Development of regulatory
peptides in the human fetal intestine. In Gut
Hormones, 2nd edn, ed.
Bloom SR & Polak JM, pp. 119–124.
Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.
Attention
to punctuation is required. Use only established
abbreviated journal titles. See PubMed journals
database: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals
'To
download the current references style for use with
EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite, BibTeX and RefWorks
go to http://ep.physoc.org/misc/ExperimentalPhysiology.os
DOIs
for articles in press
Many journals now publish articles
online ahead of print. This initial posting to the
web qualifies as publication and the citation of
such articles should include the DOI (digital object
identifier) if the article’s full publication details
have not yet been assigned:
Lipp
P, Egger M & Niggli E (2002). Spatial
characteristics of sarcoplasmic reticulum
Ca2+ release events triggered
by L-type Ca2+ current and
Na+ current in guinea-pig
cardiac myocytes. J Physiol;
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.013382.
In
the text, references should be made by giving
the author and the year of publication in parentheses,
e.g. (Lamb, 1986), except when the author’s
name is part of the sentence, e.g. ‘Lamb
(1986) showed that . . . ’. Where several
references are given together they are in
chronological order, separated by semicolons.
When
a paper written by two authors is cited, both
names are given; for three or more authors only
the first name is given, followed by ‘et
al.’. Unpublished material may
be referred to sparingly in the text by giving
the authors’ initials
and names followed by ‘unpublished
observations’ or ‘personal
communication’; such citations should
not appear in the list of references. Authors
should confirm on their declaration that
the wording of any reference to unpublished
work is approved by the person concerned.
References cited as being ‘in
press’ must have been accepted for
publication, and the name of the journal
or publisher included in the reference list.
8. Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
should be the minimum consistent with courtesy.
The wording of acknowledgements of scientific assistance
or advice must have been seen and approved by the persons
concerned.
Authors must indicate the source of their funding.
9. Figures
and legends
Each figure
should be numbered and accompanied by a corresponding legend
that makes it comprehensible without reference to the text,although
undue repetition should be avoided. For detailed instructions
on preparing figures/tables please see: http://ep.physoc.org/misc/iforafigs.shtml.
For instructions on electronic file requirements
please see: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor/illustration.asp.
Authors may
submit coloured illustrations whenever they enhance the scientific
value of the paper. Before a manuscript can be accepted, authors
must complete a Colour Work Agreement Form which gives information
on the cost of colour reproduction.
Permissions:
where figures from previous publications are used (even
if these have been redrawn), it is the author's responsibility
to obtain permission from the original journal and to
include these with the submission. It is also the author’s
responsibility to make sure that reproduced material
has been acknowledged as requested by the copyright owner
(even if written copyright is not required).
Authors
are encouraged to submit a figure for possible use on
the cover, although there is no guarantee that it will
be selected. It need not necessarily appear in the paper
but should be related to it. The figure must not have
appeared or been submitted elsewhere.
10. Tables
Tables
should be used sparingly. They should be referred to
in the text by arabic numerals, e.g. Table 3. Each table
should have its own self-explanatory title. The same
information should not be presented in both tabular and
graphical forms. For preparation of tables see guidelines
for preparing figures and tables available on the web
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| length |
Å (SI
unit nm) |
| pressure |
mmHg,
Torr (SI unit kPa) |
| radioactivity |
Ci
= Curie (SI unit Bq) |
| O2 uptake
and CO2 elimination |
l
min1 (SI
unit mol s1) |
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