Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, HKU

General Office

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Research Lectures, Seminars and Journal Clubs
Lectures in Vascular Biology
Date	Speaker	Title


2012-02-14	Professor Jo De Mey	Pharmacological and Physiological Modulation of Arterial Endothelin ETA-receptors
2012-02-14
2011-02-17	Professor Matthias Barton	Endothelin in Biomedicine - Vasoconstriction and Beyond
2011-02-17
2010-11-16	Professor Jo De Mey	Molecular Pharmacology of Endothelin (ETa) Receptors. Consequences for Present and Future Pharmacotherapy
2010-11-16
2010-08-13	Professor Harald Schmidt	Oxidative stress: sources, targets, and medical applications
2010-08-13
2010-03-17	Dr Eva HC Tang	The role of prostaglandin E2 in inflammatory diseases
2010-03-17
2009-11-05	Dr. Shaun L. Sandow	Differential effects of obesity on vascular microdomain signaling - Is a human like a rat?
2009-11-05
2009-10-29	Dr. James S.K. Sham, Ph.D.	Multiple TRPs in hypoxic pulmonary hypertension
2009-10-29
2009-09-14	Professor Valérie B. Schini-Kerth	Grape-derived polyphenols and tea polyphenols are potent stimulators of the endothelial formation of NO and EDHF: Characterization of the mechanism involved and functional significance
2009-09-14
2009-06-23	Professor David D Ku	Role of Nitric Oxide in Pulmonary Hypertension
2009-06-23
2009-06-05	Professor Richard A. Cohen	Cellular Oxidant Mechanisms in Atherosclerosis
2009-06-05
2009-05-29	Professor Jo De Mey	The sensory neurotransmitter CGRP terminates vasoconstriction initiated by endothelin-1 through dissociation of agonist-receptor complexes
2009-05-29
2009-05-08	Professor Pierre Corvol	Can we live without a functional renin angiotensin system?
2009-05-08
2009-03-30	Dr Yuansheng Gao	NO-cGMP-PKG pathway and vasodilatation
2009-03-30
2009-03-04	Professor Hiroaki Shimokawa	Rho-kinase as a novel therapeutic target for pulmonary arterial hypertension
2009-03-04
2008-12-09	Professor David D Ku	Garlic, Nitric Oxide and Hydrogen Sulfide: What is Going on with these Gaseous Vascular Mediators
2008-12-09
2008-11-24	Professor Bernard M.Y. Cheung	Hypertension and diabetes: Two manifestations of the same disease?
2008-11-24
2008-11-04	Professor Greg Dusting	To boldly grow what none has grown before - Cardiac tissue engineering underpinned by angiogenesis
2008-11-04
2008-06-17	Professor Andrew C Newby	NO, PG12 and heart attacks
2008-06-17
2008-05-22	Professor Hua Linda Cai	Oxidant signaling in cardiovascular pathophysiology
2008-05-22
2008-02-28	Professor Jo G.R. De Mey	Pharmacological Evidence for Endothelin-1 in Myoendothelial Feedback Control of Resistance Artery Contractile Reactivity
2008-02-28
2008-02-26	Professor Jo G.R. De Mey	Low VEGF Impairs Vascular Neuro-Effector Mechanisms In Vitro and In Vivo
2008-02-26
2008-02-26	Professor Ian J.C. McGrath	Why are adrenoceptors present on all vascular cell types?
2008-02-26

Joint seminars
Date	Speaker	Title


2012-05-09	Professor Eric R. Prossnitz	Membrane Estrogen Receptor GPER in Health and Disease
2012-05-09
2011-12-02	Professor Robin Ferner	The Error Message
2011-12-02
2011-09-15	Professor Ofer Binah, PhD	TVP1002 - A novel cardioprotective drug
2011-09-15
2010-12-17	Professor Michael Rosen	Regulation of the T wave
2010-12-17
2010-11-15	Professor Johannes-Peter Stasch	Stimulators and activators of soluble guanylate cyclase: from bench to bedside
2010-11-15
2010-05-12	Professor Yuansheng Gao	An old problem revisited: Nitrate Tolerance and the management of Angina Pectoris
2010-05-12
2009-11-02	Professor Bertil B. Fredholm	Adenosine receptors - physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology
2009-11-02
2009-10-27	Professor Sue Piper Duckles, Ph.D.	Estrogen and Mitochondria: A New Paradigm for Vascular Protection?
2009-10-27
2009-09-17	Professor Alexander S. Clanachan	Late INa, Ca2+ overload and post-ischemic LV dysfuntion
2009-09-17
2008-11-03	Professor Yves Agid	Neuronal bases of emotions and surgical treatment of emotional disorders
2008-11-03
2008-09-09	Dr Tai-Ping Fan	Unlocking the biochemical secrets of TCM - The art and science of chinese medicine
2008-09-09
2008-06-10	Professor Ingrid Fleming	All you ever wanted to know about vascular cytochrome P450...but were too afraid to ask!
2008-06-10
2008-06-10	Professor Ingrid Fleming	Consequences of calpain activation for platelet function in diabetes
2008-06-10
2008-05-14	Dr. Qingping Feng	Cardiac protection by erythropoietin: basic understanding and clinical implications
2008-05-14
2008-04-30	Professor Jean-Pierre Montani	Mechanisms of obesity-induced hypertension
2008-04-30
2008-03-31	Professor Moustapha Kassem	Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: From basic biology to clinical applications
2008-03-31
2007-11-16	Professor Urs T Ruegg	Pharmacological Approaches towards the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
2007-11-16
2007-06-29	Professor Hiroaki Shimokawa	Development of Rho-kinase Inhibitors forCardiovascular Medicine
2007-06-29

Seminar
Date	Speaker	Title


2012-08-20	Professor Martin Michel	Beta3-Adrenoceptors as drug targets
2012-08-20
2012-04-27	Professor Neal M Davies	Nanomedicine for delivery of chemotherapy
2012-04-27
2012-04-11	Dr. Wang Yuewei	New insight into an intrahepatic role of Apolipoprotein C-III in promoting triglyceride-rich lipoprotein production
2012-04-11
2012-02-27	Professor John Charles McDermott	Regulation of cardiac and skeletal muscle gene expression by beta-adrenergic antagonists
2012-02-27
2012-01-06	Professor Hak-Kim Chan, Ph.D, DSC	1. Delivery of Mannitol Powder to intubated Patients for Improving Sputum Clearance—An Update 2. Unraveling Powder Dispersion mechanisms in Pharmaceutical Inhalers
2012-01-06
2011-12-12	Dr Shiuh-Bin Fang, M.D., Ph.D.	Non-typhoidal salmonellosis: from bedside to bench
2011-12-12
2011-11-22	Professor Cherry L Wainwright	The Role of the Orphan GPR55 Receptor, a Putative Cannabinoid Receptor, in Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology
2011-11-22
2011-09-27	Dr Zang Mengwei, M.D., Ph.D.	AMPK, lipid metabolism, and therapeutic targets of diabetes
2011-09-27
2011-05-31	Dr WS Fred Wong, BPharm, PhD	New Asthma Therapeutics Development of Chinese Medicinal Anti-Malarial Drug Artesunate for Airway Inflammation
2011-05-31
2011-02-08	Professor Ofer Binah, PhD	Functional cardiomyocytes derived from human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells
2011-02-08
2011-01-20	Professor John R. Yates, III	Studying Disease using Mass Spectrometry
2011-01-20
2011-01-20	Professor Ian CK Wong	Improving Medication Safety in Paediatrics: Electronic Prescribing in Children (EPIC) Research Project
2011-01-20
2011-01-11	Dr Wai Hong Connie Woo	The cross talk between Toll-like-receptor signaling and unfolded protein response
2011-01-11
2010-11-29	Professor Soren-Peter Olesen	Role of Ca-activated K channels in the heart
2010-11-29
2010-04-30	Dr Dongmei Wu	Na+/H+ Exchanger: a therapeutic target in disease-related metabolic acidosis
2010-04-30
2010-02-26	Professor Karsten Kristiansen	Cyclooxygenases regulate transformation of white to brown adipocytes and energy balance
2010-02-26
2010-01-14	Dr Alan James WORSLEY	Pharmacy practice research in Hong Kong
2010-01-14
2010-01-13	Dr Teddy Tai Ning LAM	Mechanistic insight from in silico pharmacokinetic experiments
2010-01-13
2010-01-12	Dr May Pui San LAM	An evaluation of the importance & effectiveness of a pharmacist in the palliative care clinic
2010-01-12
2010-01-07	Dr Jeremy Tsz Yin SO	Use of ototoxic medications in neonates - the need for follow-up hearing test
2010-01-07
2010-01-05	Professor Hak-Kim CHAN	Pulmonary drug delivery by inhalation aerosols
2010-01-05
2009-12-03	Professor Kim Brosen	Cytochrome P450: Clinical relevance for SSRI’s, Oxycodone and Paclitaxel?
2009-12-03
2009-08-05	Professor Colin Dollery	The challenge of discovering new medicines?
2009-08-05
2009-08-03	Professor Ole Skott, M.D	Proteinuria and sodium retention: a novel mechanism?
2009-08-03
2009-04-03	Professor Si Lok	The Application of Next Generation DNA Sequencing Technologies in Research and Discovery
2009-04-03
2009-03-24	Dr Guangyu Zhu	A Phenotypic Screen for Dynein Inhibitors and Identification of Proteins that Bind to Cisplatin-Modified DNA
2009-03-24
2009-03-03	Dr Lenny L.S. Chan, Pharm.D.	Primary Care Clinical Pharmacy
2009-03-03
2009-02-25	Dr Vivian W.Y. Lee, B.Sc., Pharm.D.	Clinical Pharmacy Research in Hong Kong
2009-02-25
2009-02-23	Dr Jenny K.W. Lam	Gene therapy: challenges of nucleic acids delivery
2009-02-23
2009-02-19	Professor Kenneth Raymond	There's more to pharmacy research than ADMEI!
2009-02-19
2009-02-18	Dr Emmanuel A Ho	The role of pro-inflammatory cytokines and drug delivery strategies in the regulation of multidrug resistance in cancer
2009-02-18
2009-02-16	Dr Duanqing Pei	Stem cells and potential applications to drug discovery
2009-02-16
2008-12-01	Dr Pierre J. Jordaan	Acute Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Evolvement and ECG correlates
2008-12-01
2008-11-26	Dr Edmond Dik-Lung Ma	Computer-aided drug design and lead optimization: small molecule inhibitors of beta-lactamase and peptidoglyean glycosyltransferases
2008-11-26
2008-11-21	Dr Ming-Wei Wang	Boc5 and beyond: our quest in discovering small molecule modulators of GLP-1 signaling
2008-11-21
2008-11-18	Dr. Catherine C.L. Wong	Development of proteomic technology - answering biology questions by mass spectrometry
2008-11-18
2008-06-13	Dr. Heyu Ni	Thrombosis, Hemostasis, and agiogenesis: Lessons from intravital microcopy and genetic deficient mice & human patients
2008-06-13
2008-06-11	Dr. Alok K. Mitra	Structure-functional correlations of macromolecular assemblies revealed by electron microscopy
2008-06-11
2008-04-23	Dr. Joanne Wang	Structure, function and pharmacological implications of a novel brain monamine transporter
2008-04-23
2008-03-12	Professor Joan A. Keiser	Challenges of drug discovery; translating pharmacology to clinical outcomes
2008-03-12
2008-02-01	Dr Yu WANG	Adipokine-based biomarker discovery and drug development for combating obesity-related diseases
2008-02-01
2008-01-14	Dr. Daniel H.S. Lee	Regeneration Medicine, Reverse Translation Medicine and Revisiting Classical Pharmacology : Novel therapies for Alzheimer's disease targeting Axonopathy and B-amyloid Clearance
2008-01-14
2008-01-11	Professor Hanns Moehler	A pharmacology of emotion and cognition: focus on GABA-A receptors
2008-01-11
2007-12-11	Dr Lise Madsen	cAMP-dependent signaling regulates the adipogenic effect of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids
2007-12-11
2007-12-11	Dr Karsten Kristiansen	cAMP-mediated induction of adipocyte differentiation requires the synergistic action of Epac-and PKA-dependent processes
2007-12-11
2007-12-11	Professor David Ku	Mechanisms of Garlic Protection Against Pulmonary Hypertension
2007-12-11
2007-10-15	Dr Man-Kin Wong	New Synthetic Methods for Organic Synthesis and Selective Modification of Natural Products and Biomolecules
2007-10-15
2007-08-02	Professor Johannes L. Bos	The Epac-Rap1 signaling pathway in cell-cell junction formation and cell adhesion
2007-08-02
2007-07-13	Dr. Pawan K. Singal	Oxidative Stress and Heart Failure
2007-07-13
2007-06-14	Dr. Paul L. Huang	Role of eNOS phosphorylation in mediating vascular dysfunction
2007-06-14
2007-05-16	Dr. Cuihua Zhang	The Role of Inflammatory Cytokines in Vascular Dysfunction
2007-05-16
2007-03-30	Dr. Owen L Woodman	Protection against ischaemia and reperfusion injury using flavonols
2007-03-30
2007-03-28	Professor David Ku	In vivo and in vitro model systems to evaluate vascular and endothelial function
2007-03-28

Journal Club
Date	Speaker	Title


2012-05-11	Miss Lorraine Cai	MMP-7 and ADAM-12 Define a Signaling Axis in Agonist-Induced Hypertension and Cardiac Hypertrophy
	Mr. Oliver Baretella	Role of endothelin-1 in the hyper-responsiveness to nitrovasodilators following acute NOS inhibition

2012-04-17	Ms Sophia Liang	Comparative in vivo study of poly(ethylene imine)/siRNA complexes for pulmonary delivery in mice
	Mr. Erfei Song	20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid causes endothelial dysfunction via eNOS uncoupling

2012-03-02	Miss Sophie Lin	Potentiation of the effect of gemcitabine by emodin in pancreatic cancer is associated with survivin inhibition
	Mr. Manio Michael Magtoto	Effect of dexmedetomidine versus lorazepam on outcome in patients with sepsis: an a priori-designed analysis of the MENDS randomized controlled trial

2012-02-07	Miss Cathy Liang	Differences Among Depots in Angiogenic, Metabolic, and Inflammatory Gene Expression and Cellular Senescence
	Mr. David Cai	Telomere-independent Rap1 is an IKK adaptor and regulates NF-κB-dependent gene expression

2012-01-06	Miss Sophie Kwan	The cAMP responsive Rap1 guanine nucleotide exchange factor, Epac, induces smooth muscle relaxation by down regulation of RhoA activity
	Miss April Zhao	20-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic Acid Causes Endothelial Dysfunction via eNOS Uncoupling
	Mr. Bo Bai	Mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gene SIR2 Can Have Differential Effects on In Vivo Silencing Phenotypes and In Vitro Histone Deacetylation Activity
2011-11-04	Miss Qian Zou	Dysfunction of cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway mediates organ damage in hypertension
	Miss Yolanda Lan	Mycobacterial lipoprotein activates autophagy via TLR2/1/CD14 and a functional vitamin D receptor signalling
	Mr. Pengcheng Fan	Disruption of the Lcn2 gene in mice suppresses primary mammary tumor formation but does not decrease lung metastasis
2011-10-07	Miss Winnie Li	Molecular mechanisms of angiotensin II-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction: linking mitochondrial oxidative damage and vascular endothelial dysfunction
	Miss Maggie Chen	Mesenchymal stem cells within tumour stroma promote breast cancer metastasis
	Mr. Aaron Xu	SIRT1 deacetylates and inhibits SREBP-1C activity in regulation of hepatic lipid metabolism
2011-07-11	Miss Yun Lan	Anti-Tuberculosis Activity of •-Helical Antimicrobial Peptides: De Novo Designed L- and D-Enantiomers Versus L- and D-LL37
	Miss Sophie Kwan	8-pCPT-conjugated cyclic AMP analogs exert thromboxane receptor antagonistic properties

2011-05-13	Mr. David Cai	Endothelial Dysfunction in Mice with Streptozotocin-induced Type 1 Diabetes Is Opposed by Compensatory Overexpression of Cyclooxygenase-2 in the Vasculature
	Mr. Michael M Manio	Effects of dexmedetomidine on mortality rate and inflammatory responses to endotoxin-induced shock in rats
	Miss Sophie Lin	Emodin suppresses lipopolysaccharide-induced pro-inflammatory responses and NF-kB activation by disrupting lipid rafts in CD14-negative Endothelial cells
2011-04-15	Miss Sophia Liang	RNA interference in vitro and in vivo using an arginine peptide/siRNA complex system
	Mr. Erfei Song	Sulfaphenazole treatment restores endothelium-dependent vasodilation in diabetic mice
	Miss Yuki Yeung	Antiretrovirals Induce Endothelial Dysfunction via an Oxidant-Dependent Pathway and Promote Neointimal Hyperplasia
2011-03-18	Mr. Albert Sit	Ergothioneine inhibits monocyte binding to endothelial cells
	Mr. Bo Bai	Cyclin-dependent Kinase 5 Regulates Endothelial Cell Migration and Angiogenesis
	Miss April Zhao	Regulation of beta-adrenergic receptor signaling by S-nitrosylation of G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 2
2011-02-18	Mr. Pengcheng Fan	Inhibition of Lipocalin 2 Impairs Breast Tumorigenesis and Metastasis
	Miss Winnie Li	Activation of NAD(P)H Oxidases by Thromboxane A2 Receptor Uncouples Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase
	Miss Yu Zhang	Complete estrogen receptor blocker ICI182,780 promotes the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells
2011-01-21	Miss Emily Wong	Upregulation of Vascular Arginase in Hypertension Decreases Nitric Oxide-mediated Dilation of Coronary Arteries
	Miss Qian Zou	Estrogen prevents β-amyloid inhibition of sympathetic 7-nAChR-mediated nitrergic neurogenic dilation in porcine basilar arteries
	Miss Cathy Liang	Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase, SIRT1, and Catalase by Statins Inhibits Endothelial Senescence Through the Akt Pathway
2010-11-12	Miss Vena Qu	The AMPK activator AICAR-mediated relaxation in SHR and WKY thoracic aorta
	Mr Aaron Xu	Shear stress, SIRT1, and vascular homeostasis

2010-10-29	Miss Sophie Liang	Adropin is a novel regulator of endothelial function
	Ms Emily Liu	Autoghagy regulates lipid metabolism
	Mr. Billy Kong	Estrogen replacement enhances EDHF-mediated vasodilation of mesenteric and uterine resistance arteries: role of endothelial cell Ca2+
2010-09-27	Miss Kim Chow	Polycomb recruitment to DNA in vivo by the YY1 REPO domain
	Mr Calvin Chan	Role of soluble guanylate cyclase in the relaxation to hydrogen peroxide

2010-06-04	Mr. Albert Sit	The unusal amino acid L-ergothioneine is a physiologic cytoprotectant
	Mr. Bo Bai	Hepatocyte-Specific Deletion of SIRT1 Alters Fatty Acid Metabolism and Results in Hepatic Steatosis and Inflammation.
	Miss Yuki Yeung	HIV-1 antiretrovirals induce oxidant injury and increase intima-media thickness in an atherogenic mouse model
2010-05-14	Miss Yu Zhang	Endothelium Dependent Relaxation in Rabbit Genital Resistance Arteries is Predominantly Mediated by Endothelial-Derived Hyperpolarizing Factor in Females and Nitric Oxide in Males
	Mr. Pengcheng Fan	Lipocalin 2 Promotes Breast Cancer Progression

2010-04-16	Miss Qian Zou	A novel angiogenic pathway mediated by non-neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.
	Miss Cathy Liang	to be announced
	Miss Winnie Li	Pathways of Carbon Monoxide-Mediated vasoregulation: Modulation by Redox Mechanisms
2010-03-19	Miss Rachel Li	Role and mechanisms of anti-human immunodeficiency virus drugs in endothelial dysfunction of procine pulmonary arteries and human pulmonary artery endothelial cells
	Miss Amanda Lin	G Protein-Coupled Receptor 30 Localizes to the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Is Not Activated by Estradiol
	Mr. Aaron Xu	Specific SIRT1 activation mimics low energy levels and protects against diet-induced metabolic disorders by enhancing fat oxidation
2010-02-24	Ms Emily Liu	LRP1 Controls Intracellular Cholesterol Storage and Fatty Acid Synthesis through Modulation of Wnt Signaling
	Miss Ava Zhou	Targeted expression of uncoupling protein 2 to mouse liver increases the susceptibility to lipopolysaccharide/galactosamine-induced acute liver injury.
	Miss Vena Qu	Beneficial Effects of Proliferator-Activated Receptor β Agonist via the Phosphatidyl-Inositol-3 Kinase-Akt Pathway
2010-01-22	Miss Emily Wong	Arginase Reciprocally Regulates NOS Activity and Contributes to Endothelial Dysfunction in Aging Blood Vessels
	Mr. Billy Kong	Obesity Increases Vascular Senescence and Susceptibility to Ischemic Injury THrough Chronic Activation of Akt and mTOR
	Miss Bo Yang	Increased systemic and myocardial expression of lipocalin-2 in clinical and experimental heart failure
2009-11-20	Miss Kim Chow	Novel insights into the design of histone deacetylase inhibitors
	Miss Aileen Li	Fatty acid binding protein 4 is a target of VEGF and a regulator of cell proliferation in endothelial cells.
	Mr. Jacky Liu	Local Inflammation and Hypoxia Abolish the Protective Anticontractile Properties of Perivascular Fat in Obese Patients
2009-10-23	Mr. Calvin Chan	NO regulates Gi protein expression in vascular smooth muscle cells
	Mr. Cui Yang	Prostaglandin E2 Induces Vascular Relaxation by E-Prostanoid 4 Receptor-Mediated Activation of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase
	Mr. Michael Wong	Calcitriol blunts the deleterious impact of advanced glycation end products on endothelial cells
2009-09-18	Miss Ivy Law	12/15-Lipoxygenase Products Induce Inflammation and Impair Insulin Signaling in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes
	Miss Sophie Liang	Toll-like receptors 4 contribute to endothelial injury and inflammation in hemorrhagic shock in mice
	Mr. Matthew Lau	The flavonoid dioclein is a selective inhibitor of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase type 1 (PDE1) and a cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) vasorelaxant in human vascular tissue.
2009-04-30	Miss Amanda Lin	Characterization of a Membrane-Associated Estrogen Receptor in a Rat Hypothalamic Cell Line (D12)
	Mr Matthew Lau	Mechanisms of relaxing response induced by rat/mouse hemokinin-1 in porcin coronary arteries: roles of potassium ion and nitric oxide

2009-04-30	Mr. Jacky Liu	Cyclooxygenase-2-Derived Prostaglandin F2{alpha} Mediates Endothelium-Dependent Contractions in the Aortae of Hamsters With Increased Impact During Aging
	Miss Emily Liu	Adiponectin-Activated AMPK Stimulates Dephosphorylation of Akt throught Protein Phosphatase 2A Activation.

2009-04-03	Miss Ava Zhou	Dissociation of hepatic steatosis and insulin resistance in mice overexpressing DGAT in the liver
	Miss Vena Qu	Beneficial cardiovascular effect of combined PPAR alpha? and PPAR gamma agonists
	Mr Aaron Xu	Endothelium-specific overexpression of class III deacetylase SIRT1 decreases atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice
2009-03-06	Miss Rachel Li	Vasorelaxing Effect of BAY 41-2272 in Rat Basilar Artery
	Miss Winnie Li	Grape juice causes endothelium-dependent relaxation via a redox-sensitive Src- and Akt-dependent activation of eNOS

2009-02-06	Miss Alice Tsang	Mitotic clonal expansion: A synchronous process required for adipogenesis
	Mr Billy Kong	Elucidation of the temporal relationship between endothelial-derived NO and EDHF in mesenteric vessels (Harrington L)
	Mr Eric Zu	SIRT1 promotes endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation by activating endothelial nitric oxide synthase
2008-11-07	Miss Kim Chow	PI3K/PTEN signaling in tumorigenesis and angiogenesis
	Miss Aileen Li	Endothelial nitric oxide attenuates Na+/Ca2+ exchanger-mediated vasoconstriction in rat aorta
	Miss Sophie Liang	Gender and relaxation to CNP in porcine coronary artery
2008-10-03	Mr. Cui Yang	Interference with PPAR gamma function in smooth muscle causes vascular dysfunction and hypertension
	Miss Ivy Law	The role of lipocalin 2 in the regulation of inflammation in adipocytes and macrophages
	Mr. Michael Wong	Recovery of impaired K+ channels in mesenteric arteries from SHR rats by prolonged treatment with vitamin D
2008-09-05	Mr. Calvin Chan	Hypoxic contraction of canine coronary arteries: role of endothelium and cGMP
	Miss Emily Wong	Endotoxin-induced vascular hyporeactivity in rat mesentaric arteries
	Miss Idy Leung	Endothelium-dependent induction of vasorelaxtion by Melissa officinalis L.ssp.officinals in rat isolated thoracic aorta
2008-05-09	Miss Aileen Li	Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation Accelerates Atherosclerosis in ApoE-Deficient Mice
	Miss Alice Tsang	Gallic Acid Induces Apoptosis in 3T3-L1 Pre-adipocytes via a Fas- and Mitochondrial-Mediated Pathway

2008-04-03	Miss Rachel Li	Smooth muscle membrane potential modulates endohelium-dependent relaxation via myo-endothelial gap junctions
	Mr. Billy Kong	Low-dose aspirin prevents age-related endothelial dysfunction in a mouse model of physiological aging

2008-03-07	Miss Sophie Liang	Toll-Like receptor-4 mediates vascular inflammation and insulin resistance in diet-induced obesity
	Miss Vena Qu	Angiotensin II recerptor blocker can reduce the increased cyclooxygenase-2-induced EDCF in SHR rats.

2008-02-01	Mr. Calvin Chan	Endothelial Dysfunction
	Mr Michael Wong	Calcium-independent phospholipase A2-derived arachidonic acid is essential for endothelium-dependent relaxation by acetylcholine

2008-01-04	Miss Idy Leung	The Omega-3 Index: a new risk factor for death from coronary heart disease?
	Miss Emily Wong	Cocoa improves Endothelium Vasodilatation in Hypertensives

2007-11-01	Miss Amanda Lin	Beta-arrestin-biased Ligands at Seven-Transmembrane Receptors
	Mr Cui Yang	Cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 and COX-2 Participate in 5,6-Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acid-Induced Contraction of Rabbit Intralob

2007-10-05	Mr. Matthew Chan	Modulatory effect of flavone in rat aortae
	Miss Emily Tai	The role of MUC2 in inflammatory bowel disease

2007-09-19	Miss Eva Tang	Where does acetyleholine in the vasculature comes from?
	Miss Helen Wong	Stress mediators regulate IL-6 expression in ovarian cancer cells

2007-04-20	Ms Xu Yan Chun	Discovering Potassium Channel Blockers from Synthetic Compound Database by Using Structure-Based Virtual Screening in Conjunction with Electrophysiological Assay
	Mr Yang Cui	Dual Effect of Initial [K] on Vascular Tone in Rat Mesenteric Arteries

2007-03-09	Miss Rachel Li	Targeted disruption of cd73ecto-5'-nucleotidasealters thromboregulation and augments vascular inflammatory response
	Miss Qu Chen	Relationship between angiotensin II and cyclooxygenase in pathologicalconditions

2007-02-09	Mr Matthew Chan	11,12-epoxyeicosatrienoic and its analog relax rat mesenteric artery
	Mr Michael Wong	Red wine polyphenols prevent cardiovascular alterations in L-NAME-induced hypertension

2007-02-02	Miss Mary Lee	Effects of Activation of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase on Pulmonary Hypertension
	Miss Eva Tang	Replacement Arteries Made to Order

2007-01-04	Miss M Kopaniszen	The role of MCP-1 in experimental colitis
	Miss Amanda Lin	A variant of estrogen receptor-alpha, hER-alpha36: Transduction of estrogen andantiestrogen-dependent membrane-initiated mitogenic signaling

2006-11-02	Miss Emily Tai	Gene therapy for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
	Ms Le Yu	The role of cox-2-derived prostaglandin E2 on human cholangiocarcinoma cell growth and invasion

2006-10-05	Mr. William Wu	Gastric Cancer Originating from Bone Marrow-Derived Cells
	Miss Helen Wong	Effect of Chronic Stress on Ovarian Cancer Growth

2006-09-29	Miss Cynthia Chan	Benefits from Cocoa in Hypertension
	Miss Shi Yi	The role of superoxide dismutase in hypertension


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