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Dean Burkin
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Role of integrins and integrin signaling in neuromuscular development and disease, and integrin signaling in vascular smooth muscle cell plasticity. Director of the Transgenic Core, Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE).
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Heather Burkin
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Signaling pathways that regulate stretch induced activation of the human uterine myometrium. Development of therapeutic targets for the treatment of preterm labor. |
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Iain Buxton
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Receptor-signal transduction in cardiac and smooth muscle cells. Role of receptor-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism; agonist-specific regulation of cyclic nucleotide action; role of adenyl purines in myometrial function and hormonal regulation of endothelial cell contractile factors.
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Gale Craviso
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Interaction of electromagnetic fields with excitable cells; exploring the potential for nanosecond duration electric pulses of high intensity as a new, bioelectric approach for stimulating neural cells. |
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Ruben Dagda
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Regulation of mitochondrial biology and bioenergetics by serine/threonine kinases and phosphatases in neurons and in cardiac cells; new signaling pathways that promote synaptic connectivity; development of alternative therapies to reverse mitochondrial dysfunction in age-related brain diseases.
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Dayue Duan
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Cardiovascular phenomics, functional genomics, proteomics, and phenomics of ion channels, cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology, hypertension, cardioprotection against ischemia and reperfusion, myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure.
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Robert Harvey
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Cardiac electrophysiology, cell signaling, and ion channel regulation. |
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Normand Leblanc
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Role of ion channels in the regulation of excitation-contraction coupling of cardiac and vascular smooth muscle cells in health and disease. |
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Cherie Singer
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Transcriptional, post-transcriptional and gene-silencing mechanisms regulating smooth muscle plasticity.
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Richard Bjur
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Presynaptic regulation of neurotransmitter release; neuroeffector mechanisms in isolated cells and vascular tissues; intellectual property law; health law and scientific evidence. |
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Joseph Hume
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David Westfall
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Drug action at neuroeffector junctions; dual transmitters in smooth muscle; extracellular actions of ATP and other adenyl purines; receptors for neurotransmitters. |
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