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Professor M.W. Greaves and Dr W.P. Kingston from the Institute of Dermatology lecture on the role of prostaglandins in the inflammatory response of the skin. Includes two experiments; one where Dr Kingston is injected with prostaglandin E1 and another in which suction blisters are raised on a female test subject and their contents examined.

1 videocassette (Umatic) (21 min.) : 1 DVD (21 min.) : 2 videocassettes (Digibeta) (21 min. each) : sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white. sound, black and white, PAL.

The role of prostaglandins in the inflammatory response of the skin.

Professor E W Horton lectures on prostaglandins. The lecture is in two parts. Part one covers the biochemistry of prostaglandins, while part two looks at their pharmacology and physiology.

1 videocassette (1-inch) (58 min.) : sound, black and white.

Prostaglandins. Parts 1 & 2.

The first part of a two-part lecture. The structure of the muscle fibre is reviewed, followed by an outline of the history of various theories of muscle contraction. Professor Huxley describes his own experimental work, shows film of muscle contraction under interference microscopy, and outlines the thinking that led to the development of the sliding filament theory of muscle contraction. The programme finishes with a summary of the mechanisim of force generation.

1 videocassette (UMATIC) (39.20 min.) : 1 videocassette (1-inch) (39.20 min.) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (39.20 min.) : sound, black and white. sound, black and white. sound, black and white, PAL.

Muscle contraction. Part 1, The contractile process.

Blood group determination, technique for making hanging drop preparation of the patient, plus groups 2 and sera: microscopical appearances; cross matching of recipient and donor cells and sera.

1 DVD (12 min.) : 1 videocassette (Digibeta) (12 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL. silent, black and white, PAL.

Blood transfusion : laboratory technique.

Dr Pamela Garlick lectures on the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance.

1 videocassette (Umatic Lo-band) (13 min.) : 2 videocassettes (digibeta) (13 min. each with and without restored audio) : 1 videocassette (VHS) (13 min.) : 1 DVD (13 min.) : sound, color. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color.

An introduction to NMR theory.

A film aimed at parents to address concerns about the MMR vaccine scare generated by the media in 2001. Parents interview four health professionals and experts about the MMR vaccine and whether it has any link to autism. The experts all explain why the vaccine is safe, that it does not have a link to autism, and that the vaccine's benefits outweigh any side effects. Interviewed are the Public Health Laboratory's Head of Immunisation Dr Elizabeth Miller, the Royal Free Hospital's Head of Child Health Professor Brent Taylor, health visitor Kim Finnegan and the Department of Health's Head of Immunisation Dr David Salisbury.

1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : 1 DVD (29 min.) : sound, color, PAL. sound, color

MMR. What parents want to know.

Four reels of film depicting numerous aspects of the routine scientific work of the Henry Lester Institute, founded with a bequest from the trustees of Mr. Henry Lester, broker and medical philanthropist of Shanghai, together with scenes from everyday life in Shanghai before the Japanese conquest of 1935. Reel one consists of amateur unedited footage, each sequence of very short duration, depicting various sequences of life around or relating to the Institute. It features Chinese laboratory staff in white coats grouping outside the Henry Lester Institute and Western men and women organising themselves into a group, possibly for a photograph followed by exterior views.

1 videocassette (VHS) (9.56 min.) : 1 videocassette (DVD) (9.56 min.) : 1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (9.56 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL. silent, black and white,PAL. silent, black and white, PAL.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel one.

Dr T J Peters lectures on the cell in health and disease, in particular the part of a cell's structure called the lysosome.

1 videocassette (Umatic) (26.22 min.) : 1 videocassette (1-inch) (26.22 min.) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (26.22 min.) : 1 DVD (26.22 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white.

Subcellular fractionation : liver lysosomes and iron overload.

Describes the life-cycles of various economically important cattle ticks, and their control by dipping and spraying methods. Filmed in Africa, Australia, South America and the United Kingdom.

1 videocassette (VHS) (16 min.) : 1 videocassette (HDCAM SR) (16 min.) : 1 videocassette (Digibeta) (16 min.) : 1 DVD (16 min.) : sound, color PAL. sound, color PAL. sound, color PAL. sound, color PAL.

The uninvited guest : principles and practice of cattle tick control.

PC Harris, Head of the Department of Cardiac Medicine Cardio-Thoracic Institute, talks about the biology of the heart muscle. A summary accompanying the cassette reads: "Contraction of the cardiac muscle is performed by the sliding movement of the filaments of the myofibrils. The energy for this purpose is provided by the hydrolysis of ATP. The mitochondria replenish the supply of ATP by oxidative phorylation. The presence of the sodium: potassium exchange pump in the cell wall membrane, together with the varying permeability of the membrane to different ions, leads to a resting transmembrane potential. During excitation the permeability of the membrane changes in a sequential fashion. The action of a number of cardio-active drugs may be explained in this region. The link between excitation and contraction is mediated by calcium ions which are alternately sequested and released by the sarco-plasmic reticulum."

1 videocassette (VHS) (30.13 min.) : 1 videocassette (Umatic) (30.13min.) : 1 videocassette (1-inch) (30.13 min.) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (30.13min.) : 1 DVD (30.13 min.) : sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL.

The biology of the heart muscle.

A cinematographic record of an experimental- physiological demonstration of the hydrodynamics of blood flow in the basilar artery of the rabbit under varying conditions.

1 videocassette (VHS) (7 min.) : 1 videocassette (HDCAM SR) (7 min.) : 1 videocassette (Digibeta) (7 min.) : 1 DVD (7 min.) : silent, color silent, color silent, color silent, color

Blood streams in the basilar artery.

Four reels of film depicting numerous aspects of the routine scientific work of the Henry Lester Institute, founded with a bequest from the trustees of Mr. Henry Lester, broker and medical philanthropist of Shanghai, together with scenes from everyday life in Shanghai before the Japanese conquest of 1935. Reel two consists of a tour of the institute - the footage is amateur in nature, each sequence of very short duration. A man helpfully chalks on the blackboard the following message: We will now visit the various laboratories in my DIVISION. Many shots in and around the laboratories.

1 videocassette (VHS) (17.22 min.) : 1 videocassette (DVD) (17.22 min.) : 1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (17.22 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL. silent, black and white,PAL. silent, black and white, PAL.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel two.

Sir Christopher Booth presents a brief history of the Royal College of Physicians and then gives a detailed explanation of the events leading up to the publishing of their seminal report on the hazards of smoking in 1962.  Among those he discusses are past Presidents of the College, Sir Russell Brain and Robert Platt.  He refers to the first meeting of the Committee to Report on Smoking and Atmospheric Pollution on 15 July 1959 and calls the Smoking and Health report of 1962 "the most important contribution to health by the Royal College this century".

1 videocassette (VHS) (15 min.) :bsd., color, PAL 1 videocassette (Digibeta) (15 min.) :bsd., color, PAL 1 DVD (15 min.) : sound, color, PAL

Ashes to ashes. The Royal College of Physicians and the smoking report.

In October 1997, the Princess Royal opened the Wellcome Trust's Human Genome Project Research Centre at Hinxton near Cambridge. The campus is also the seat of the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Sanger Centre of the Wellcome Trust, and the MRC's Human Genome Project Mapping Resource Centre. The aim is to decode more than one-sixth of the human genes by the year 2002. This short film explains some of the work that goes on at Hinxton.

1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min.) : 6 videocassettes (BETA SP) (18 min.) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (18 min.) : 1 DVD (18 min.) : sound, color sound, color sound, color, PAL. sound, color

Quest for the code of life.

In 1901, an outbreak of sleeping sickness in Uganda rapidly assumed epidemic proportions. In the spring of 1902, the Royal Society sent a small scientific commission to Entebbe to investigate the cause of the disease. This film highlights the many scientific and professional problems which beset the commission's work, dramatically reconstructing the circumstances leading up to Dr. (later Sir) Aldo Castellani's (1877-1971) discovery of trypanosomes in the cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness victims and his difficult 'encounter' with Colonel David Bruce at Entebbe in February 1903. With Ian Harvey as Aldo Castellani and Leon Sinden as David Bruce.

1 videocassette (VHS) (37 min.) : 1 videocassette (Hi-Band Umatic) (37 min.) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (37 min.) : 1 DVD (37 min.) : sound, color PAL. sound, color PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color

Entebbe encounter.

Proper feeding is vital to successful livestock control. This film explains the role of nutrition science in ensuring balanced diet, increased animal food production and efficient livestock management in the rearing of cattle, poultry and pigs.

1 videocassette (VHS) (19 min.) : 1 videocassette (Digibeta) (19 min.) : 1 videocassette (HDCAM SR) (19 min.) : 1 DVD (19 min.) : 1 videocassette (HDCAM) (19 min.) : sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color sound, color, PAL.

A question of balance.

A lavish historical dramatisation of some of the key figures and events involved in the discovery of the cause of African sleeping sickness around the turn of the century, as seen through the eyes of Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922), founder of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Dr. Louis Sambon (1865-1931). The film includes material from both 'The Gambian Case' and 'Entebbe Encounter' and was awarded a silver medal at the New York International Film and TV Festival in 1990. With Mark Brackenbury as Sir Patrick Manson and Robert Ashby as Louis Sambon.

1 videocassette (VHS), (60 min.) : 2 videocassettes (Hi-Band Umatic), (60 min. each) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (60 min.) : 1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color PAL. sound, color PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color

The sleep of death.

Four reels of film depicting numerous aspects of the routine scientific work of the Henry Lester Institute, founded with a bequest from the trustees of Mr. Henry Lester, broker and medical philanthropist of Shanghai, together with scenes from everyday life in Shanghai before the Japanese conquest of 1935. Reel three consists of amateur unedited footage, each sequence of very short duration. General views of a city, presumably Shanghai. Views over the harbour including a steam ferry. Mixed group of Western and Chinese people smartly dressed and appearing to be travelling somewhere on a day trip. Various point-of-view shots from the boat depicting the onwards and returning journeys. There is a garden party.

1 videocassette (VHS) (08.01 min.) : 1 videocassette (DVD) (08.01 min.) : 1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (08.01 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL. silent, black and white,PAL. silent, black and white, PAL.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel three.

Dr Austin Crathorn, Dr Stanley Revell, Dr John Roberts and Dr Gordon Steel lecture on the biology of cancer, considering the cell as a single entity. This is from a series of programmes from the Institute of Cancer Research.

1 videocassette (Umatic) (42 min.) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (42 min.) : 1 DVD (42 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white PAL. sound, black and white, PAL.

Biology of cancer : cell proliferation.

A visual record of an operative technique.

1 videocassette (digibeta) (15 min.) : 1 DVD (15 min.) : silent, black and white, PAL. silent, black and white, PAL.

Indirect inguinal hernia : operative technique.

An updated version of the 1928 film of the same title made by Sir Thomas Lewis and Sir Henry Dale, a film made for the Royal College of Physicians' commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the publication of William Harvey's book on the circulation of the blood. Introduced and narrated by Sir Henry Dale, it portrays the life and works of William Harvey (1578- 1657), with Dr. Len Goodwin, FRS, reading "in Harvey's voice" from the 1847 English translation of "De Motu Cordis"(1628). Harvey's experimental reasoning is explained with the aid of dissections of the heart and animated diagrams of the circulation of the blood.

2 videocassettes (Digibeta) (34 min. each) : 3 DVDs (34 min. each) : sound, color sound, color

William Harvey and the circulation of the blood.

Short documentary film describing the causes and symptoms of hay fever and showing how pollen is collected and made into desensitising sets for sufferers.  Grasses are grown for their pollen at a Pollenarium. Dr John Freeman describes how he and Leonard Noon devised a potential treatment for sufferers of hay fever. A detailed sequence shows how the grasses are cut and the pollen collected and dried before being weighed and put into bottles, then taken to the laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London.  Dilutions of the extracts of the pollens are sealed in small bottles that make up the desensitising sets, used by hospitals, clinics and GPs.  We are shown how a Hay Fever sufferer has different extracts tested on their forearm to see which pollens they get an allergic reaction to.  The relevant desensitising set is then prescribed so that the patient can treat herself.  The final shot shows a girl who is now able to walk in the countryside, free from her usual Hay Fever symptoms.

1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min) : 1 videocassette (Digibeta) (18 min) : 1 videocassette (Beta SP) (18 min) : sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL.

Hay fever.

This clinical-surgical film describes three types of aneurysm and explains the causes of abdominal aneurysm. Cases are shown and briefly described. The diagnosis of an abdominal anuerysm is discussed and the film concludes with the presentation of a post-mortem.

1 videocassette (VHS BITC) (14 min.) : 1 videocassette (HD CAM SR) (14 min.) : 1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (14 min.) : 2 videocassette (DVDs) (14 min. each) : sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL.

Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.

Norman Kember shows, using computerised animation sequences, cell division in cartilage plates during the process of bone growth. The growth of bone is dependent on such cell division and this short lecture illustrates and describes different stages of the process of events which take place as bone grows.

1 videocassette (Umatic) (7 min.) : 1 videocassette (digibeta) (7 min.) : 1 videocassette (VHS) (7 min.) : 1 DVD) (7 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL. sound, black and white, PAL.

Cell division in the cartilage plate during bone growth.

This film is about the immunisation of sheep against clostridial diseases caused by germs of the clostridia family. The way in which antisera and vaccines work is described, and in particular, the drug Covexin is discussed.

1 videocassette (VHS) (16 min.) : 1 videocassette (HDCAM SR) (16 min.) : 1 videocassette (Digibeta) (16 min.) : 1 DVD (16 min.) : sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL. sound, color, PAL.

The role of prostaglandins in the inflammatory response of the skin.

Prostaglandins. Parts 1 & 2.

Muscle contraction. Part 1, The contractile process.

Blood transfusion : laboratory technique.

An introduction to NMR theory.

MMR. What parents want to know.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel one.

Subcellular fractionation : liver lysosomes and iron overload.

The uninvited guest : principles and practice of cattle tick control.

The biology of the heart muscle.

Blood streams in the basilar artery.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel two.

Ashes to ashes. The Royal College of Physicians and the smoking report.

Quest for the code of life.

Entebbe encounter.

A question of balance.

The sleep of death.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel three.

Biology of cancer : cell proliferation.

Indirect inguinal hernia : operative technique.

William Harvey and the circulation of the blood.

Hay fever.

Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.

Cell division in the cartilage plate during bone growth.

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The role of prostaglandins in the inflammatory response of the skin.

Prostaglandins. Parts 1 & 2.

Muscle contraction. Part 1, The contractile process.

Blood transfusion : laboratory technique.

An introduction to NMR theory.

MMR. What parents want to know.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel one.

Subcellular fractionation : liver lysosomes and iron overload.

The uninvited guest : principles and practice of cattle tick control.

The biology of the heart muscle.

Blood streams in the basilar artery.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel two.

Ashes to ashes. The Royal College of Physicians and the smoking report.

Quest for the code of life.

Entebbe encounter.

A question of balance.

The sleep of death.

Henry Lester Institute of medical research, Shanghai reel three.

Biology of cancer : cell proliferation.

Indirect inguinal hernia : operative technique.

William Harvey and the circulation of the blood.

Hay fever.

Aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.

Cell division in the cartilage plate during bone growth.

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Stay in the know

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