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Highlighted Topics Special Call for Papers
Journal of Applied Physiology
 

The Role of ‘Clock Genes’ in Cardiometabolic Disease

Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology in Obesity

Submit Suggestions:  Point-Counterpoint or “Viewpoint”


The Role of ‘Clock Genes’ in Cardiometabolic Disease

Submission deadline: August 1, 2009

The Journal of Applied Physiology is seeking the submission of original research papers on The Role of ‘Clock Genes’ in Cardiometabolic Disease.”  The Highlighted Topics series for the October – December 2009 issues will feature invited mini-reviews, a series editorial, and original manuscripts focusing on this topic.

To be eligible for inclusion in this Highlighted Topics series, manuscripts must not require extensive revisions and must be submitted before August 1, 2009.  Manuscripts requiring extensive revisions and late submissions will be considered, but may not be reviewed in time to be eligible for publication in the three-month series. 

Note to Authors: All manuscripts should be submitted online via eJournalPress, http://jappl.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex. During the online submission, under the “Keywords, Categories, & Special Section” tab, please choose the correct Highlighted Topics under ‘categories’.  In addition, include a note in your cover letter indicating the call for papers to which you are responding.

If you have any questions about this call for papers, you may contact the Editor-in-Chief, the Guest or Coordinating Editor for the series, or the editorial assistant.

Coordinating Editor:  Dr. Karyn Esser (kaesse2@uky.edu)
Guest Editor:  Dr. Martin Young (meyoung@bcm.edu)
Editor-in-Chief:  Dr. Jerome Dempsey (jdempsey@wisc.edu)
Editorial Assistant, Christa Tober (608-263-9799 or cltober@wisc.edu)


Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology in Obesity

Submission deadline: November 1, 2009

The Journal of Applied Physiology is seeking the submission of original research papers on “Pulmonary Physiology and Pathophysiology in Obesity.”  The Highlighted Topics series for the January - March 2010 issues will feature invited mini-reviews, a series editorial, and original manuscripts focusing on this topic.

To be eligible for inclusion in this Highlighted Topics series, manuscripts must not require extensive revisions and must be submitted before November 1, 2009.  Manuscripts requiring extensive revisions and late submissions will be considered, but may not be reviewed in time to be eligible for publication in the three-month series. 

Note to Authors: All manuscripts should be submitted online via eJournalPress, http://jappl.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex. During the online submission, under the “Keywords, Categories, & Special Section” tab, please choose the correct Highlighted Topics under ‘categories’.  In addition, include a note in your cover letter indicating the call for papers to which you are responding.

If you have any questions about this call for papers, you may contact the Editor-in-Chief, the Guest or Coordinating Editor for the series, or the editorial assistant.

Coordinating Editor:  Dr. Chris O’Donnell (odonnellcp@upmc.edu)
Guest Editor:  Dr. Anne Dixon (anne.dixon@uvm.edu)
Guest Editor:  Fernando Holguin (holguinf@upmc.edu)
Editor-in-Chief:  Dr. Jerome Dempsey (jdempsey@wisc.edu)
Editorial Assistant, Christa Tober (608-263-9799 or cltober@wisc.edu)


Submit Suggestions:  Point-Counterpoint or Viewpoint

The Journal of Applied Physiology has recently initiated two new series of articles: Point-Counterpoint debates and Viewpoints. See the Editor’s Picks for the most recently published topics. Contribute to the discussion by clicking on the "submit a response" link located in the right hand margin. If other responses have been posted, you can also click "view responses" to see what your colleagues have had to say.

Point-Counterpoint: We invite you to submit suggestions for future Point-Counterpoint debates. Please send the statement you wish to have debated and potential authors for each side of the debate. We advise you to communicate with potential participants in order to carefully define the problem to be debated and to devise wording of the statement. We also encourage you to consider yourself (and colleagues and/or students) as authors. Please see instructions for authors. We look forward to receiving your ideas for this exciting new series of publications.

Viewpoint:  Viewpoint articles are a type of Perspective that are intended to present an insightful, thoroughly documented slant on a topic for which opinions are either controversial or undecided in the literature. The hope is that the readership will benefit from a new unconventional viewpoint on a topic. Please see instructions for authors

If you have suggestions for future debates or questions about this call for comments, please contact the Editor-in-Chief or the editorial office.

Dr. Jerome Dempsey, Editor-in-Chief: jdempsey@wisc.edu
Christa Tober, Editorial Assistant: cltober@wisc.edu