Abstracts selected for oral presentation

Asher-Hess competition - Abstract submission
Deadline for abstract submission: August 1, 2008
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14:15 - 14:30
 Simone M. R. Camargo(1), Dustin Singer(1), Victoria Makrides(1), Katja Huggel(1), Klaas M. Pos(1), Carsten A. Wagner(1), Keiji Kuba(2), Ursula Danilczyk(2), Flemming Skovby(4), Robert Kleta(3), Josef M. Penninger(2), and François Verrey(1).
(1) Institute of Physiology and Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), UZH, Zurich, Switzerland, (2) IMBA, Viena, Austria, (3) Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, UK, (4) University College London, London.
ACE2 and Collectrin are tissue-specific partners of amino acid transporters and interact differentially with Hartnup mutations

14:30 - 14:45
Véronique Dauvé (1), Pierre Philip-Couderc (1), Angela Roatti (1), Walid Habre (2), Jorge Sierra (3), Afksendyios Kalangos (3), Maurice Beghetti (4), Alex J. Baertschi (1).
(1) Departments of Neuroscience, (2) Anaesthesia, (3) Surgery, and (4) of the Child and Adolescent, University of Geneva.
SURVIVAL OF CARDIOMYOCYTES IN CHILDERN WITH HEART DISEASE: ROLE OF FOXO SIGNALING OF VENOUS HYPOXEMIA IN EXPRESSION OF THE KATP CHANNEL PORE

14:45 - 15:00
 F. Longordo, C. Kopp and A. Lüthi.
DBCM, University of Lausanne.
Sleep deprivation alters hippocampal synaptic NMDA receptor composition and function

15:00 - 15:15
 M. Fanchaouy (1), C. Jung (1), J. Ogrodnik (1), E. Polakova (2), N. Shirokova (2), E. Niggli (1).
(1) Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Buehlplatz 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland and (2) Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School, 185. S. Orange Ave., Newark 07103, NJ, USA.
Pathways of abnormal stress-induced calcium influx into dystrophic mdx cardiomyocytes

15:15 - 15:30
 Pierre Philip-Couder (1), Véronique Dauvé (1), Maddalena Tessari (2), Angela Roatti (1), Giuseppe Faggian (2), Alex J. Baertschi (1).
Departments of (1) Neuroscience, CMU, Geneva; and (2) Cardiac Surgery, U. Verona, Italy.
ROLE OF FOXO AND HIF1alpha TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS IN PRESSURE INDUCED EXPRESSION OF INDIVIDUAL KATP CHANNEL SUBUNITS WITHIN THE ADULT HUMAN HEART

15:30 - 15:45
 Kay Thurley, Walter Senn, Hans-Rudolf Lüscher.
Department of Physiology, University of Bern.
DOPAMINERGIC MODULATION OF THE INPUT-OUTPUT RESPONSE FUNCTION OF RAT PREFRONTAL PYRAMIDAL NEURONS IN-VITRO

15:45 - 16:00
 N.D. Ullrich (1), M. Fanchaouy (1), K. Gusev (1), E. Polakova (2), N. Shirokova (2) and E. Niggli (1).
(1) Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland, (2) Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, UMDNJ, Newark, USA.
CHANGES OF EC-COUPLING AND RYR CALCIUM SENSITIVITY IN DYSTROPHIC MDX MOUSE CARDIOMYOCYTES


16:00 - 16:15
Ana Vukolic (1), Vladan Antic (1), Bruce N. Van Vliet (2), Urs Albrecht (3) and Jean-Pierre Montani (1).
Dept. of Medicine/Physiology (1) and Biochemistry (3), University of Fribourg, Switzerland and Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada (2).
Role of Clock Genes in Cardiovascular Circadian Rhythms


16:20 - 16:35 Jury session

16:35 Award of the Asher-Hess Prize 2006