photo opportunity 9.30am, Friday 21 September, Old Technical Institute, Small's Wynd, University of Dundee.
Eighty senior school students from throughout Scotland will visit the University of Dundee tomorrow to discover if too much exercise can make them ill.
The students will participate in a variety of practical experiments - measuring their heart rate, oxygen consumption and blood pressure. Students will run up and down the stairs while their partner waits to take these measurements and assess their cardiac output.
Lecturers will investigate whether steroid drugs that caused a major controversy at this year's Edmonton games actually have a physiological effect on athletes or whether taking these drugs just makes athletes believe that they are having an effect.
Workshops will demonstrate the diversity of physiology and provide information on degree courses at universities. This is the fourth successive year that the University of Dundee has hosted the event, which is sponsored by the Physiological Society. Delegates are coming from local schools and most of the regions of Scotland from Islay to Inverness.
Physiology is one of the basic medical sciences and deals with the normal functions of living things and how these functions are controlled. The scope ranges from the analysis of the function of individual cells to the characteristics of whole organ systems - how the heart beats, control of blood pressure and how they work together to produce the integrated behaviour of the living body - response to exercise and adaptation to environmental extremes such as low temperature.
Dr John Leiper from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Aberdeen will instruct practical sessions and presentations will be delivered Professor Michael Rennie of the Division of Molecular Physiology, University of Dundee and Professor Mike Gleeson of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham.ENDS
Contact Hari Hundal 01382 344696