Video Clips of Professor Alan North on YouTube
Whether to study physics or medicine?
Aberdeen University – a PhD with Hans Kosterlitz
Searching for the opiate receptor ligand, mid-1970s
Loyola School of Medicine, Illinois, and electrophysiology – how opiates act on single nerve cells
Opiate tolerance and dependence
Understanding the action of opiates
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – disbelief at our studies of the spinal cord in vitro
Dopamine cells and drug-seeking behaviour
Potential treatment for drug-seeking behaviour
Vollum Institute, Portland, Oregon: molecular physiology – classifying nerve cells on the basis of channel and receptor expression
Convergence and divergence in transmitter action
Visualising nicotinic receptors and potassium channels
Lessons in molecular biology
Therapeutic potential of blocking and unblocking potassium channels
Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology, Geneva – two P2X receptors discovered
Establishing receptor types on nerve cells
P2X receptors as a pain target
P2X7 and the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines
P2X2 antagonists, rheumatoid and osteo arthritis
Exploring P2X4 receptors in the central nervous system
Astrocytes and microglia are P2X receptors
The role of ATP receptors
PX2 receptors and ‘reverse physiology’
