Cambridge, England, September 11-14, 2011



Posters I


Wednesday, 14. September 2011

12:00 - 14:00

- Neurophysiology, Neurobiology, Stroke and Pain
- Endocrinology and Reproductive System
- Cell Biology and Tissue-specific Roles of Endothelin and its Receptors




Endothelin B Agonist, IRL-1620, Reduces Neurological Damage Following Cerebral Ischemia in Rats
Mary Leonard, Seema Briyal1, Anil Gulati

Scratching behaviour elicited by endothelin-1 in the mouse cheek model.
Lenyta Oliveira, Daniela Balz, Giles Rae

Relief of craniofacial and hind paw mechanical hyperalgesia by endothelin receptor antagonists during the development of cisplatin-induced neuropathic pain in mice.
Giselle Guginski, Laurien Leonardi, Giles Rae

Endothelin B Receptor Activation in Postganglionic Sympathetic Neurons Causes Hyper-Responsiveness to Acetylcholine that is Dependent on Reactive Oxygen Species
Amit Shah, James Galligan, David Kreulen

Endothelin-1 induced microRNA 15a, inversely correlated to PKC α, is a potential marker to differentiate between benign versus malignant renal tumors in biopsies and in urine samples
Melanie von Brandenstein1, Jency J Pandarakalam, J Herden, Gabriele Braun, Katharina Wendland, H.-P. Dienes, Udo Engelmann, Jochen W. U. Fries

The timing and source of endothelin expression in ischemia/reperfusion-induced fetal growth restriction in the rat
Larry G Thaete1, Saira Khan1, Mark G Neerhof

Endothelin receptor antagonist has limited access to the fetal compartment during chronic maternal administration late in pregnancy
Larry G Thaete, Saira Khan, Sylvia Synowiec, Mark G Neerhof

The role of endothelin and matrix metalloproteinases in the first trimester placenta
Martina Dieber-Rotheneder, Viktoria Riegelbauer, Ursula Hiden, Nassim Ghaffari-Tabrizi, Mila Cervar-Zivkovic, Gernot Desoye

ET-1 from endothelial cells is required for complete Angiotensin-II induced development of cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy in mice
Nicolas Vignon-Zellweger, Suko Adiarto, Susi Heiden, Kazuhiko Nakayama, Keiko Yagi, Masashi Yanagisawa, Noriaki Emoto

Endothelin-1 induced activiation of ERK - MAP kinase pathway mediates stimulation of collagen synthesis in human lung fibroblasts
Ahmedat, S. Ahmedat, Warnken Warnken-Uhlich, Uwe R. Juergens, Kurt Racké

β2-Adrenoceptor mRNA expression in human lung fibroblasts is highly up-regulated by endothelin-1 (ET-1) and β2-adrenoceptors
Lisa J Juergens, Mareille Warnken-Uhlich, Ina Schütz, Margarita Fuhrmann, Racké Racké

Endothelin-1 dependent complex formation resulting in p16INK4a gene regulation
Monika Schlosser, Melanie von Brandenstein, Claudia Richter, Jochen W. U. Fries

Signalling pathways mediated by endothelin receptors located at the nuclear membrane.
Clemence Merlen, Louis Villeneuve, David Chatenet, Alain Fournier, Bruce G. Allen

Cardiomyocyte hypertrophy induced by endothelin-1 is regulated by transcription factor II-F interacting C-terminal domain phosphatase (FCP1) of RNA polymerase II.
Satoshi Sakai, Kazutaka Aonuma, Takashi Miyauchi

Endothelin receptor A antagonism improves large artery vasorelaxation after ischemic stroke
Maha Coucha, Weiguo Li, and Adviye Ergul.

ETrA antagonism: A novel treatment for traumatic brain injury
Christian Kreipke, Jose Rafols, Justin Graves, Anthony Kropinski, Steven Schafer, Christopher Bedford, Donald Kuhn, William Armstead,

Dual receptor blockade prevents endothelin-1-mediated myocardial remodeling in diabetes
Vera Portik-Dobos, Safia Ogbi and Adviye Ergul.

Chronic and acute bosentan treatment affects microvascular function differentially in type 2 diabetes
Li, W, Sachidanandam, K., and Ergul, A.

Leptin stimulates both endothelin-1 and nitric oxide activity in healthy subjects but not in patients with obesity-related metabolic syndrome
Carmine Cardillo

Implication of c-Src tyrosine kinase in endothelin-1-induced ERK1/2, JNK and p38MAPK activation, as well as EGR-1 expression in vascular smooth muscle cells

George Vardatsikos, Ashok K. Srivastava

Enhanced levels of endogenous endothelin-1 contribute to the overexpression of Giα protein in vascular smooth muscle cells from spontaneously hypertensive rats: role of growth factor receptor activation
Yessica-Haydee Gomez Sandova, Madhu B. Anand-Srivastava.

ET-1 and ET receptors in the cerebrovascular arterial wall of the capybara
Andrzej Loesch, Antonio A Coppi, Michael R Dashwood.

Over-expression of endothelin-1 in astrocytes, but not endothelial cells, ameliorates inflammatory pain response after formalin injection
Victor KL Hung, Ann YC Chen, Samantha MY Chan, Lydia W Tai, Sookja K Chung, CW Cheung,

Selective astrocytic ET-1 over-expression exacerbates cognitive deficit and cerebrovascular amyloid accumulation in animal model of stroke and Alzheimer’s disease
Victor KL Hung, Angela KW Lai, Maggie CY Ho, Amy CY Lo, Bruce T Lamb, Kevin C Chan, Ed X Wu, CW Cheung, Stephen SM Chung, Sookja K Chung.