Abstract
The following have been awarded the 2007 Young Investigator Awards for presentations at the Experimental Biology Meeting to be held April 28–May 2, 2007 in Washington, DC.
Carmelo Blanquicett, Emory University
“Differences between acute and chronic leptin-stimulated signaling and nitric oxide production in vascular endothelial cells”
Yu Chen, The University of Western Ontario
“Blockage of heat shock protein receptor CD91 ameliorates coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis”
Marcelo Lima de Giusmao Correia, University of Iowa
“The selectivity of leptin resistance depends on the severity of diet-induced obesity in normotensive and borderline hypertensive mice”
Shekhar H. Deo, University of North Texas Health Science Center
“Evidence for positive feedback between vagal transmission and delta-1-opioid receptor phenotypes in the sinoatrial node”
Frederick S. Gaskin, University of Missouri
“Ethanol preconditioning is dependent on the activation of 5′-AMP-activated protein kinase”
Anna Gybina, University of Minnesota, Duluth
“Cerebella of young copper deficient rats have increased AMPK phosphorylation but decreased fructose 2,6 bisphosphate levels”
Belinda L. Houghton, University College Cork
“Role for peripheral V1 receptor activation in the pressor and renal sympathoexcitatory response to ICV angiotensin II (ANGII)”
Mirajul H. Kazi, Johns Hopkins University
“Epac1 mediates protein kinase A (PKA) independent mechanism of forskolin (FSK) stimulated Cl secretion in T84 cells”
Shailaja Kesaraju, Florida Atlantic University
“Hsp72 is neuroprotective in the anoxia tolerant turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans”
Melissa W. Li, Michigan State University
“Neuronal oxidative stress is increased during one-day ETB receptor activation in conscious rats”
Wendell J. Lu, University of Cincinnati
“Nutrient-stimulated secretory response and mechanisms of the incretins GLP-1 and GIP using lymph as a novel assay model”
Adam Mitchell, Georgetown University
“Stress-mediated increases in endothelial NO are abolished in diabetic female rats”
Jessica Taylor, University of Missouri-Columbia
“Neuropeptide Y (NPY) Y2 receptor (Y2R) mediates dilation in peripheral collateral vessels”
Mingyuan Wu, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
“Spinal cord stimulation produced vasodilation in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats”
B. Yu, Massachusetts General Hospital
“Nitric oxide breathing prevents vasoconstriction after tetrameric hemoglobin infusion”