An American Physiological Society cross-journal Call for Papers on “Deconstructing Organs: Single-Cell Analyses, Decellularized Organs, Organoids, and Organ-on-a-Chip Models”

Development of a 3D Bioprinted Airway Smooth Muscle Model for Manipulating Structure and Measuring Contraction

“…Biological and technical issues limit the tissue-and organ-level relevance of cell culture, while ethical concerns mandate reductions in the use of laboratory animals, and reliable supplies of human tissue remain scarce. Tissue engineering has emerged as a compelling solution to these limitations, by promising to create a large supply of customised human tissues and advanced experimental models from cultured cells to better understand basal biology and to simulate human health and disease (1). In the context of the lung, many recent advancements have been made with 'organ-on-a-chip' and bioreactor models that replicate the alveolar compartment, gas exchange, and cell-cell interactions in the airway wall (2)(3)(4)(5)(6).…”

Announcing the Editorial Board Fellowship Program of the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

“…Rather, these manuscripts will serve as case studies where the Editorial Board Fellows accompany their assigned Associate Editor along the entire course of manuscript handling at our Journal, and each step of manuscript processing will be explained to the Fellow. This will start with an initial manuscript assessment and a decision about whether to triage, refer to our sibling journal Physiological Reports, or another APS journal; or to process the manuscript further at our Journal, and if so, whether the manuscript is suitable for consideration under an existing Journal (5-9) or APS cross-journal (10,11) "Call for Papers". Similarly, the suitability of the manuscript for submission as a Review, Perspective, Mini-Review, Research Article, Rapid Report, Editorial Focus, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, or a Reply will be assessed.…”

World Lung Day 2020 at the Journal of Applied Physiology and the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology

“…Both journals attract topics of special interest through Calls for Papers. The Calls for Papers that are currently open at both journals are listed in Table 1, which includes the first APS cross-journal Call for Papers, "Deconstructing Organs: Single-Cell Analyses, Decellularized Organs, Organoids, and Organon-a-Chip Models," involving 10 journals from the APS publications portfolio (1). That Call for Papers aims to attract the submission of manuscripts that deal with current state-of-the art approaches to studying the physiology of the respiratory system, including single-cell analysis, organotypic cultures of precision-cut lung and airways slices, decellularized lung scaffolds, organoids and other three-dimensional cell cultures, and organ-on-a-chip models.…”