Electronic Databases

• BrainInfo : Provides information about structures in the brain.
• Centre for Caribbean Health Database of African-Caribbean Health Issues. - To increase the awareness of healthcare professionals and the community by facilitiating access to expertise. This computerised database allows
  their field of expertise. It encloses details of individuals, voluntary sector groups, local community projects and other organisations who have experience working specifically with the African-Caribbean population in the UK or who work with black ethnic minority groups or those who conduct health research in this area.
• FishBase : Contains information on nearly all known fish species, including information on biology, habitat life cycle and ecology. (open access from BioMed Central)
• HP-2DPAG: A database of heart ventricle proteins identified by large gels and mass spectrometry. (open access from BioMed Central)
• Kidbase (The Kidney Development Database) : Contains data from a large number of developmental studies on kidney development. (open access from BioMed Central)
• MRG (Mammalian Reproductive Genetics) : Contains information on genes and literature pertaining to mammalian reproductive development. (open access from BioMed Central)
• Neurondb (Neuron Database) : Contains information on three types of neuronal properties: voltage gated conductances, neurotransmitter receptors, and neurotransmitter substances. (open access from BioMed Central)
• Salbase: A database of expression patterns of genes involved in salivary gland development. (open access from BioMed Central)
• TOOTHEXP (Gene Expression in Tooth) : Contains expression patterns of different genes in the developing tooth.
  (open access from BioMed Central)

Electronic Journals

• Advances in Physiology Education
• Journal of Medical Information Research (JMIR)
• Toxicological Sciences(Fulltext v47+ (1999+) 1 year moving wall)
  

Internet resources

• Acid-base tutorial from Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology
• Respiratory Physiology from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine contains tutorials, labs, quizzes, an encyclopedia of topics in respiratory physiology, and a dictionary of respiratory physiology terms.
• Textbook in Medical Physiology And Pathophysiology Essentials and clinical problems Copenhagen Medical Publishers 1999 - 2000
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Physiology

Academic Departments/Associations/Institutions etc

• American Physiological Society
• International Union of Physiological Sciences
  

Liaison Librarian: Myrna Douglas
Email:myrna.douglas@uwimona.edu.jm