Part I Cell Metabolism, Tissue Oxygenation and Treatment.- 1. Oxygen Sensing by the Carotid Body: Past and Present.- 2. Predicted Decrease in Membrane Oxygen Permeability with Addition of Cholesterol.- 3. Chronic Diseases as Barriers to Oxygen Delivery-A Unifying Hypothesis of Tissue Reoxygenation Therapy.- 4. Dorsiflexor Muscle Oxygenation during Low, Moderate and Submaximal Sustained Isometric Contraction.- 5. Factors Determining the Oxygen Permeability of Biological Membranes: Oxygen Transport across Eye Lens Fiber-cell Plasma Membranes.- 6. Multi-site Measurements of Muscle O2 Dynamics during Cycling Exercise in Early Post-Myocardial Infarction.- 7. Effects of 8 Weeks' Training on Systemic and Muscle Oxygen Dynamics in University Rugby Players.- 8. Imaging Redox State in Mouse Muscles of Different Ages.- 9. Amino Acid Hydration Decreases Radiation-Induced Nausea in Mice: A Pica Model.- 10. Evaluation of Haemoglobin and Cytochrome Responses during Forearm Ischaemia using Multi-Wavelength Time Domain NIRS.- 11. Influence of Free Radicals on the Intrinsic MRI Relaxation Properties.- 12. Inter-individual Differences in Exercise-induced Spatial Working Memory Improvement: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.- Part II Cancer Oxygenation and Metabolism.- 13. Tumor Oxygenation Status: Facts and Fallacies.- 14. Multiparametric Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment: Hypoxia Markers and Beyond.- 15. Computational Simulation of Tumor Hypoxia based on in vivo Microvasculature Assessed in a Dorsal Skin Window Chamber.- 16. Hypoxia-related Tumor Acidosis Affects MicroRNA Expression Pattern in Prostate and Breast Tumor Cells.- Part III Brain Oxygenation and Function.- 17. Cortical and Autonomic Stress Responses in Adults with High versus Low Levels of Trait Anxiety: A Pilot Study.- 18. Relation Between EEG Activity and Brain Oxygenation in Preterm Neonates.- 19. Functional NIRS Measurement of Cytochrome-c-oxidase Demonstrates a more Brain-specific Marker of Frontal Lobe Activation Compared to the Haemoglobins.- 20. Brain Tissue PO2 Measurement during Normoxia and Hypoxia using Two-Photon Phosphorescence Lifetime Microscopy of PO2.- 21. Age-related Changes in Physiological Reactivity to a Stress Task: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.- 22. Development and Validation of a Sensor Prototype for Near-Infrared Imaging of the Newborn Brain.- 23. Directional Migration of MDA-MB-231 Cells under O2/pH Gradient.- 24. Environmental Enrichment Induces Increased Cerebral Capillary Density and Improved Cognitive Function in Mice.- 25.Improving Retinal Image Quality using Registration with an SIFT Algorithm in Quasi-confocal Line Scanning Ophthalmoscope.- 26. A New Method Based on Graphics Processing Units for Fast Near-Infrared Optical Tomography.- 27. PFC Blood Oxygenation Changes in Four Different Cognitive Tasks.- 28. Diet-induced Ketosis Protects against Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Mouse.- 29. Evaluation of Pleasure-Unpleasure Induced by Use of Lipsticks with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS): Usefulness of 2-Channel NIRS in Neuromarketing.- 30. Relationships Between Gum Chewing and Stroop Test: A Pilot Study.- 31. Effects of Motor Imagery on Cognitive Function and Prefrontal Cortex Activity in Normal Adults Evaluated by NIRS.- 32. Site Specificity of Changes in Cortical Oxyhaemoglobin Concentration Induced by Water Immersion.- 33.Changes in Oxyhemoglobin Concentration in the Prefrontal Cortex and Primary Motor Cortex during Low- and Moderate-intensity Exercise on a Cycle Ergometer.- 34. Tissue Blood Volume Parameters Measured by Continuous-wave and Spatially Resolved NIRS Show Different Changes during Prolonged Cycling Exercise.- 35. Delayed Onset of Reoxygenation in Inactive Muscles after High-intensity Exercise.- 36. Cortical Oxyhemoglobin Elevation Persists After Moderate-Intensity Cycling Exercise: A Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.- 37. Relation Between Cognitive Function and Baseline Concentration