This Week

Seminar

"The Role of Angiotensin II and (1-7) on Neuropeptide Y and Norepinephrine Release in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat " Mirnela Byku, B.A., Dissertation Seminar, Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science, Saint Louis University

Journal Club

"Estrogen Inhibits Cardiac Hypertrophy: Role of Estrogen Receptor Beta to Inhibit Calcineurin"
Trent Moreland

Recent Publications

Samson WK, Yosten GLC, Chang J-K, Ferguson AV and White MM (2008) Obestatin ihhibits vasopressin secretion: evidence for a physiological action in the control of fluid homeostasis. Journal of Endocrinology 196:559-564.

Chakraborty D, Ding XQ, Fliesler SJ, Naash MI (2008) Outer segment oligomerization of rds: evidence from mouse models and subcellular fractionation. Biochemistry 47:1144-1156.

Macarthur H, Westfall TC, Wilken GH (2008) Oxidative stress attenuates NO-induced modulation of sympathetic neurotransmission in the mesenteric arterial bed of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 294:H183-189.

Price CJ, Hoyda TD, Samson WK, Ferguson AV (2008) Nesfatin-1 Influences the Excitability of Paraventricular Nucleus Neurones. J Neuroendocrinol 20:245-250.

Zahm DS, Trimble M (2008) The dopaminergic projection system, Basal forebrain macrosystems, and conditioned stimuli. CNS Spectr 13:32-40

Awards and Recognitions

Andrew Lechner, Ph.D. was awarded The School of Medicine Distinguished Teacher Award in Humanism (Basic Science)

Daniel Scott Zahm, PhD

Mary Ellsworth, PhD

Graduate Student, Johnnie Moore was awarded a Minority Biophysicists Travel Grant to the joint 52nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society and IRPAB International Biophysics Congress that will be held February 2-6, 2008, in Long Beach, California.

Graduate Student, Madelyn Hanson is the recipient of the Microcirculatory Society's 2008 Zweifach Student Travel Award.

Graduate Student, Sarah Burris was the recipient of a travel award for the American Physiological Society (APS) Professional Skills Training Workshop, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) Summer research conference (Australia).

Graduate Student, Madelyn Hanson, is winner of the Student Poster Competition at the 15th Annual Cardiovascular Day, University of Missouri-Columbia.