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Awards and Recognitions

Daniela Salvemini, PhD

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.

Dr. Thomas Westfall was recently elected to the Advisory Board for the Council of Academic Societies (CAS). CAS is one of the three Councils that make up the Association of American Medical Colleges. CAS consists of 96 professional societies and Chairs Organizations. The Advisory Board of CAS acts as the Executive Committee for the Organization.

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

Recent Publications

Ndengele MM, Cuzzocrea S, Esposito E, Mazzon E, Di Paola R, Matuschak GM, Salvemini D. Cyclooxygenases 1 and 2 contribute to peroxynitrite-mediated inflammatory pain hypersensitivity. FASEB J. 2008 May 22. [Epub ahead of print]

Masini E, Giannini L, Nistri S, Cinci L, Mastroianni R, Xu W, Comhair SA, Li D, Cuzzocrea S, Matuschak GM, Salvemini D.Ceramide: a key signaling molecule in a Guinea pig model of allergic asthmatic response and airway inflammation. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2008 2:548-57.

Li Z, Liang D, & Chen L (2008) Potential therapeutic targets for ATP-gated P2X receptor ion channels Assay and drug development technologies 6, 277-284.

The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus - a potential target for integrative treatment of autonomic dysfunction. AV Ferguson, KJ Latchford, and WK Samson Expert Opinion Therapeutic Targets, Jun 2008; 12(6): 717-27. PMID 18479218

Obestatin inhibits vasopressin secretion: evidence for a physiological action in the control of fluid homeostasis Willis K Samson, Gina L C Yosten, Jaw-Kang Chang, Alastair V Ferguson, and Meghan M White J. Endocrinol., Mar 2008; 196: 559 - 564. PMID 18310451

Nesfatin-1 influences the excitability of paraventricular nucleus neurones. CJ Price, TD Hoyda, WK Samson, and AV Ferguson J Neuroendocrinol, Feb 2008; 20(2): 245-50. PMID 18088358

Kondapaneni, M., McGregor, J.R., Salvemini, D., Laubach, V.E. and Samlowski, W.E. Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) is not required for IL-2-induced hypotension and vascular leak syndrome in mice. J. Immunother, 31:325-333, 2008.

Zavorsky GS, Christou NV, Kim DJ, Carli F, Mayo NE. Preoperative Gender Differences in Pulmonary Gas Exchange in Morbidly Obese Subjects. Obes Surg. 2008 May 9. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18465177 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Zavorsky GS, Kim DJ, Christou NV. Compensatory Exercise Hyperventilation is Restored in the Morbidly Obese After Bariatric Surgery. Obes Surg. 2008 Mar 18. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 18360754 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Zavorsky GS, Hoffman SL. Pulmonary gas exchange in the morbidly obese. Obes Rev. 2008 Mar 4. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 18331421 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Zavorsky GS, Kim do J, Sylvestre JL, Christou NV. Alveolar-membrane diffusing capacity improves in the morbidly obese after bariatric surgery. Obes Surg. 2008 Mar;18(3):256-63. Epub 2008 Jan 12. PMID: 18193476 [PubMed - in process]

Zavorsky GS, Cao J, Murias JM. Reference values of pulmonary diffusing capacity for nitric oxide in an adult population. Nitric Oxide. 2008 Feb;18(1):70-9. Epub 2007 Oct 22. PMID: 17986388 [PubMed - in process]

Zavorsky GS, Murias JM, Kim do J, Gow J, Christou NV. Poor compensatory hyperventilation in morbidly obese women at peak exercise. Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2007 Nov 15;159(2):187-95. Epub 2007 Jul 22. PMID: 17822966 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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.

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