Everyday Bordering and the Struggle for Reproductive Justice in Ireland

The bodies of women and pregnant persons are unceasingly at the centre of nation-building projects and increasingly subject to bordering processes. State borders are becoming ever more delocalised and mobile, as state migration regimes move into and circumscribe the everyday and intimate lives and rights of persons deemed not to belong. In a growing number of EU member states, rights to healthcare and housing inter alia are tied to a person’s legal-political status. However, little attention has yet been paid to the effects of bordering on organising for and realising reproductive justice. Following the repeal of the 8th Amendment (the abortion ban) in 2018 in Ireland, conversations and contestations are taking place that serve as a compelling starting point to explore the implications of bordering on organising for and realising reproductive justice. In this chapter, I explore the calls made by the migrant and ethnic minority bloc during the March for Choice 2019 in Dublin, which link state borders to reproductive injustice in Ireland. I draw on preliminary fieldwork conducted in Dublin, interviews and informal conversations online, and secondary material, to understand how colonial, raced, sexed and gendered borders are reproduced and, more importantly, contested in the struggle for reproductive rights and justice in Ireland

Pop-up Seminar: Catastrophe in Turkey and Syria

Dr. Sarah Gibson examines the geological factors that made the February 6, 2023 earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria so devastating. Dr. Patricia Bodelson, an expert on disaster mitigation and relief, discusses what is (and is not) happening in the days after the earthquake and the political factors surrounding it. A former visiting fellow in the Department of Economics and professor at Karatay University, Mustafa Kaya, provided a video message. Moderated by Dean King Banaian.https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/sopa_seminars/1005/thumbnail.jp

5-Hydroxytryptamine receptors mediating vasoconstriction and vasodilation in perinatal and adult rabbit small pulmonary arteries

1. Vasoconstrictor responses to 5-HT, 5-carboxamidotryptamine (5-CT, 5-HT(1) receptor agonist), α-methyl-5-HT (5-HT(2) receptor agonist) and sumatriptan (5-HT(1D/1B) receptor agonist) were studied in fetal, 0–24 h, 4 day, 7 day and adult rabbit pulmonary resistance arteries (PRAs), alone and in the presence of the NO synthase inhibitor N(ω)-nitro-L-arginine methylester (L-NAME). The effect of the selective 5-HT receptor antagonists ketanserin (5-HT(2A) receptor) and GR55562 (5-HT(1B/1D) receptor) on vasoconstrictor responses to 5-HT were studied in the presence of L-NAME. Vasodilator responses to 5-CT were also studied in pre-contracted PRAs. 2. 5-HT and α-methyl-5-HT were equipotent in causing contraction in the PRAs at each age (e.g. pEC(50)s for 5-HT and α-methyl-5-HT were 6.74±0.13 and 6.63±0.22 respectively in adult vessels). In the perinatal PRAs, sumatriptan and 5-CT produced negligible contractions, but in adult PRAs, 5-CT and sumatriptan were potent agonists with pEC(50)s of 6.05±0.3 and 5.70±0.20 respectively. 3. L-NAME markedly increased the maximum response to 5-HT in the 0–24 h, 4 day and 7 day vessels and increased 5-HT potency in the 4-, 7-day-old and adult rabbit vessels. 4. In perinatal vessels, responses to 5-HT, with L-NAME present, were antagonized by ketanserin (30 nM and 0.1 μM) but not GR55562 (1 μM). A small ketanserin-resistant, GR55562-sensitive component was observed at 0–24 h. In adult vessels, both ketanserin and GR55562 inhibited 5-HT-induced responses. 5. Vasodilator responses to 5-CT were observed in pre-contracted PRAs from 4- and 7-day-old rabbits but not in the fetus, 0–24 h old or adult rabbit vessels. At 4 days the vasodilator response was inhibited both by L-NAME and GR55562. At 7 days the response was only partly blocked by L-NAME and resistant to GR55562. The L-NAME resistant component was antagonized by the 5-HT(7) receptor antagonist spiperone (1 μM). 6. The results suggest that 5-HT(2A)-receptors mediate vasoconstriction in perinatal vessels whilst the 5-HT(1D) or 5-HT(1B) receptor contributes in adult rabbit vessels. The 5-HT(1D) or 5-HT(1B) receptor mediates NO-dependent vasodilation in vessels from rabbits at 4 days of age whilst 5-HT(7) receptors mediate NO-independent vasodilation by 7 days

Estimation of Eficacy of Dopamine Agonists Acting at Rat D2short Dopamine-Receptors Expressed in CHO-K1 Cells

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