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Dr Hiroe Yanagida- Biosketch

 



Dr Hiroe Yanagida

Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Email:Hiroe.Yanagida@anu.edu.au


Current Appointments

2004-present: Research Fellow (Academic Level B), Autonomic Neuroeffector Transmission Laboratory, Division of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research

Academic Qualifications

1996-1999 Ph.D. Degree (Medical Science, specializing in Surgical Medicine), Department of Pharmacology and Department of Surgery & Oncology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Thesis title: Temperature-sensitive gating of cation current in guinea-pig ileal smooth muscle activated by hyperpolarization.

1988-1994 Degree of Medical Doctor, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Current Appointments
Academic Qualifications
Research Interests
Previous Appointments
Presentations
Publications

Research Interests

  • Motility and electrophysiology in the gastrointestinal tract, especially related with interstitial cells of Cajal, in health and diseases; the origin of pacemaking in GI and the changes in disease which cause dysmotility.

Previous Appointments

2000-2004

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology,
University of Nevada, School of Medicine, Reno USA

1999-2000 Staff Surgeon, Kimura Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan
1995-1996 Residency in Surgery, Department of Surgery,
Hospital of Hamanomachi, Fukuoka, Japan
1994-1995

Residency in Surgery, Department of Surgery and Oncology,
Hospital of Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Presentations

    2004 Smooth Muscle in Health and Disease, Port Douglas, Australia

    2003 FASEB Summer Research Conferences, Smooth Muscle Conference, Snowmass, CO, USA

    2003 The Conference of American Gastroenterological Association in Digestive Disease Week 2003, Orlando, FL, USA

    1999 The International Symposium on Rhythmic Activity in Smooth Muscle, Smooth Muscle Satellite Symposium, Nagano, Japan

    1999 The 41st Annual Meeting of The Japanese Smooth Muscle Society, Chiba, Japan

    1999 The 72nd Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society, Hokkaido, Japan

    1998 The 40th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Smooth Muscle Society, Tokyo, Japan

    1998 The 71st Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society, Kyoto, Japan

    Publications

    Yanagida, H., Yanase, H., Sanders, K.M., Ward, S.M.: Intestinal Surgical Resection Disrupts Electrical Rhythmicity, Neural Responses and Interstitial Cell Networks. Gastroenterology. In Press

    Yanagida, H., Inoue, R., Tanaka, M., Ito, Y. (2000) Temperature-sensitive gating of cation current in guinea pig ileal muscle activated by hyperpolarization. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 278:C40-8

    Inoue, R., Morita, H., Yanagida, H., Ito, Y. (1998) Potentiating actions of lanthanum on ACh-induced cation current in guinea-pig ileal smooth muscle cells. J Smooth Muscle Res 34:69-81

    Yamada, K., Yanagida, H., Ito, Y., Inoue, R. (1998) Postsynaptic enhancement by motilin of muscarinic receptor cation currents in duodenal smooth muscle. Am J Physiol 274:G487-92