Publications Report 2004
C1 - Journal Articles - Refereed
Beitzel F, Gregorevic P, Ryall JG, Plant DR, Sillence MN & Lynch GS. 2004. beta(2)-Adrenoceptor agonist fenoterol enhances functional repair of regenerating rat skeletal muscle after injury. Journal of Applied Physiology. 96:1385-1392.
Bellair CJ, Curl CL, Allman BE, Harris PJ, Roberts A, Delbridge LM & Nugent KA. 2004. Quantitative phase amplitude microscopy IV: imaging thick specimens. Journal of Microscopy - Oxford. 214(1):62-69.
Bertrand PP. 2004. Bursts of recurrent excitation in the activation of intrinsic sensory neurons of the intestine. Neuroscience. 128(1):51-63.
Bertrand PP. 2004. Real-time detection of serotonin release from enterochromaffin cells of the guinea-pig ileum. Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 16(5):511-514.
Bian XC, Heffer LF, Gwynne RM, Bornstein JC & Bertrand PP. 2004. Synaptic transmission in simple motility reflex pathways excited by distension in guinea pig distal colon. American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 287:G1017-G1027.
Bornstein JC, Costa M & Grider JR. 2004. Enteric motor and interneuronal circuits controlling motility. Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 16:34-38.
Briscoe TA, Rehn AE, Dieni S, Duncan JR, Wlodek ME & Owens J. 2004. Cardiovascular and renal disease in the adolescent guinea pig after chronic placental insufficiency. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 191:847-855.
Curl CL, Bellair CJ, Harris PJ, Allman BE, Roberts A, Nugent KA & Delbridge LM. 2004. Quantitative phase microscopy: A new tool for investigating the structure and function of unstained live cells. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 31:896-901.
Curl CL, Harris T, Harris PJ, Allman BE, Bellair CJ, Stewart A & Delbridge LM. 2004. Quantitative phase microscopy: a new tool for measurement of cell culture growth and confluency in situ. Pflugers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology. 448:462-468.
De Gooyer TE, Skinner SL, Wlodek ME, Kelly DJ & Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Angiotensin II influences ovarian follicle development in the transgenic (mRen-2)27 and Sprague-Dawley rat. Journal of Endocrinology. 180:311-324.
Di Nicolantonio R. 2004. Why does the spontaneously hypertensive rat have an exaggerated preference for sweet and salty solutions? An hypothesis. Journal of Hypertension. 22(9):1649-1654.
Di Nicolantonio R, Kren V, Zidek V & Pravenec M. 2004. Salt preference of congenic strains derived from the spontaneously hypertensive rat. Physiology and Behavior. 80:617-622.
Dibbens L, Feng HJ, Richards M, Harkin LA, Hodgson B, Scott D, Jenkins M, Petrou S, Sutherland R, Scheffer IE, Berkovic SF, MacDonald RL & Mulley C. 2004. GABRD encoding a protein for extra- or peri-synaptic GABA (A) receptors is a susceptibility locus for generalized epilepsies. Human Molecular Genetics. 13(13):1315-1319.
Dwyer JP, Kostka V, Harrap SB & Di Nicolantonio R. 2004. Sequence analysis of the fibroblast growth factor 2 gene from the spontaneously hypertensive and hypertrophic heart rats. Clinical and Experimental Hypertension. 26(3):209-218.
Ellis JA, Infantino T & Harrap SB. 2004. Sex-dependent association of blood pressure with oestrogen receptor genes ERα and ERβ. Journal of Hypertension. 22(6):1127-1131.
Epa W, Markovska K & Barrett GL. 2004. The p75 neurotrophin receptor enhances TrkA signalling by binding to Shc and augmenting its phosphorylation. Journal of Neurochemistry. 89:344-353.
Gauci SA, Mifsud S, Burrell L, Kubota E, Jaworski K, Cooper ME & Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Cardiorenal protective effects of vasopeptidase inhibition with omapatrilat in hypertensive transgenic (mREN-2)27 rats. Clinical and Experimental Hypertension. 26(1):69-80.
Gregorevic P, Plant DR & Lynch GS. 2004. Administration of insulin-like growth factor-I improves fatigue resistance of skeletal muscles from dystrophic mdx mice. Muscle & Nerve. 30(3):295-304.
Gregorevic P, Plant DR, Stupka N & Lynch GS. 2004. Changes in contractile activation characteristics of rat fast and slow skeletal muscle fibres during regeneration. Journal of Physiology - London. 558(2):549-560.
Gwynne RM, Thomas EA, Goh SM, Sjovall H & Bornstein JC. 2004. Segmentation induced by intraluminal fatty acid in isolated guinea-pig duodenum and jejunum. Journal of Physiology - London. 556:557-569.
Harrap SB, Cui J, Wong ZYH & Hopper JL. 2004. Familial and genomic analyses of postural changes in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Hypertension. 43:586-591.
Hiranyachattada S & Harris PJ. 2004. Regulation of renal proximal fluid uptake by luminal and peritubular angiotensin II. Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. 5(2):89-92.
Hu YS, Zhou H, Myers DE, Quinn JWM, Atkins GJ, Ly C, Gange C, Kartsogiannis V, Elliott J, Kostakis P, Zannettino AC, Cromer B, McKinstry WJ, Findlay DM, Gillespie MT & Ng KW. 2004. Isolation of a human homolog of osteoclast inhibitory lectin that inhibits the formation and function of osteoclasts. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 19:89-99.
Johnson PJ & Bornstein JC. 2004. Neurokinin-1 and -3 receptor blockade inhibits slow excitatory synaptic transmission in myenteric neurons and reveals slow inhibitory input. Neuroscience. 126:137-147.
Jovanovska V, Eitle E & Harris PJ. 2004. Effects of rilmenide on proximal tubular fluid absorption in rats. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 31:348-353.
Kelly DJ, Stein-Oakley A, Zhang Y, Wassef L, Maguire J, Koji T, Thomson NM, Wilkinson-Berka JL, Wilkinson-Berka JLA & Gilbert RE. 2004. Fas-induced apoptosis is a feature of progressive diabetic nephropathy in transgenic (mRen-2)27 rats: attentuation with renin-angiotensin blockade. Nephrology. 9:7-13.
Lappas M, Permezel JMH, Ho PW, Moseley JM, Wlodek ME & Rice GE. 2004. Effect of Nuclear Factor-kappa B Inhibitors and Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor-gamma Ligands on PTHrP Release from Human Fetal Membranes. Placenta. 25(8-9):699-704.
Lax CJ, Domenighetti AAM, Pavia JM, Di Nicolantonio R, Curl CL, Morris MJ & Delbridge LM. 2004. Transitory reduction in angiotensin AT2 receptor expression levels in postinfarct remodelling in rat myocardium. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 31:512-517.
Lee J, Albiston AL, Allen AM, Mendelsohn FAO, Ping SE, Barrett GL, Murphy MA, Morris MJ, McDowall S & Chai SY. 2004. Effect of I.C.V. injection of AT4 receptor ligands, NLE1-angiotensin IV and LVV-hemorphin 7, on spatial learning in rats. Neuroscience. 124(2):341-349.
Mathai ML, Soueid M, Chen N, Jayasooriya AP, Sinclair J, Wlodek ME, Weisinger HS & Weisinger RS. 2004. Does perinatal ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid deficiency increase appetite signalling? Obesity Research. 12:1886-1894.
McTaggart SJ, Eitle E, Harris PJ & Jones CL. 2004. Role of isoprenoids in cytoskeleton integrity and albumin endocytosis by opossum kidney cells. Nephron Experimental Nephrology. 97(3):77-85.
Monif M, Smart ML, Reid CA & Williams DA. 2004. Development of low-affinity, membrane-targeted Ca2+ sensors suitable for measuring presynaptic Ca2+. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 31:885-889.
Monro R, Bertrand PP & Bornstein JC. 2004. ATP participates in three excitatory postsynaptic potentials in the submucous plexus of the guinea pig ileum. Journal of Physiology - London. 556:571-584.
Morgan TO, Anderson A, Bertram D & MacInnis R. 2004. Effect of cardesartan and lisinopril alone and in combination on blood pressure and microalbuminuria. Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. 5(2):64-71.
Morgan TO, Lauri L, Bertram D & Anderson A. 2004. Effect of different antihypertensive drug classes on central aortic pressure. American Journal of Hypertension. 17(2):118-123.
Morris MJ, Tortelli CF, Hart DP & Delbridge LM. 2004. Vascular and brain neuropeptide Y in banded and spontaneously hypertensive rats. Peptides. 25:1313-1319.
Porrello ER, Huggins CE, Curl CL, Domenighetti AAM, Pedrazzini T, Delbridge LM & Morgan TO. 2004. Elevated dietary sodium intake exacerbates myocardial hypertrophy associated with cardiac-specific overproduction of angiotensin II. Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. 5(4):169-175.
Reid CA, Dixon DB, Takahashi M & Fine A. 2004. Optical quantal analysis indicates that long-term potentiation at single hippocampal mossy fiber synapses is expressed through increased release probability, recruitment of new release sites, and activation of silent synapses. Journal of Neuroscience. 24(14):3618-3626.
Ryall JG, Plant DR, Gregorevic P, Sillence MN & Lynch GS. 2004. beta(2)-Agonist administration reverses muscle wasting and improves muscle function in aged rats. Journal of Physiology - London. 555(1):175-188.
Stephens TJ, Canny B, Snow R & McConell GK. 2004. 5'-aminoimidazole-4-carboxyamide-ribonucleoside-activated glucose transport is not prevented by nitric oxide synthase inhibition in rat isolated skeletal muscle. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 31:419-423.
Stupka N, Gregorevic P, Plant DR & Lynch GS. 2004. The calcineurin signal transduction pathway is essential for successful muscle regeneration in mdx dystrophic mice. Acta Neuropathologica. 107(4):299-310.
Thomas EA, Sjovall H & Bornstein JC. 2004. Computational model of the migrating motor complex of the small intestine. American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. 286:G564-G572.
Tobin JM, Delbridge LM, Di Nicolantonio R & Bhathal PS. 2004. Development of colorectal sensitization is associated with increased eosinophils and mast cells in dextran sulfate sodium-treated rats. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 49:1302-1310.
Weisinger RS, Blair-West JR, Burns P, Denton DA, Purcell B, Vale W, Rivier J, Weisinger HS & May CN. 2004. Cardiovascular Effects of Long-Term Central and Peripheral Administration of Urocortin, Corticotropin-Releasing Factor, and Adrenocorticotropin in Sheep. Endocrinology. 145(12):5598-5604.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA, Babic S, De Gooyer TE, Stitt AW, Jaworski K, Ong LGT, Kelly DJ & Gilbert RE. 2004. Inhibition of platelet-derived growth factor promotes pericyte loss and angiogenesis in ischemic retinopathy. American Journal of Pathology. 164:1263-1273.
Wlodek ME, Di Nicolantonio R, Westcott KT, Farrugia W, Ho PW & Moseley JM. 2004. PTH/PTHrP Receptor and Mid-molecule PTHrP Regulation of Intrauterine PTHrP: PTH/PTHrP Receptor Antagonism increases SHR fetal weight. Placenta. 25:53-61.
C3 - Unrefereed Letters or Notes
Ryall JG, Plant DR & Lynch GS. 2004. Making old muscles young again - a therapeutic role for β2-agonists? Physiology News. 56:33-35.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Diabetes and retinal vascular disorders: role of the reninangiotensin system. Expert Reviews in Molecular Medicine. 6(15):1-18.
C5 - Other Refereed Contributions to Refereed Journals
Anderson RB, Enomoto H, Bornstein JC & Young HM. 2004. The enteric nervous system is not essential for the propulsion of gut contents in fetal mice. Gut. 53:1546-1547.
Bertrand PP & Thomas EA. 2004. Multiple levels of sensory integration in the intrinsic sensory neurons of the enteric nervous system. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 31:745-755.
Delbridge LM & Curl CL. 2004. Putting the heart through its paces - cellular insights from frequency phenomena. Heart Lung and Circulation. 13(4):361-362.
Lynch GS. 2004. Emerging drugs for sarcopenia: age-related muscle wasting. Expert Opinion On Emerging Drugs . 9:345-361.
Lynch GS. 2004. Role of contraction-induced injury in the mechanisms of muscle damage in Muscular Dystrophy. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 31(8):557-561.
Lynch GS. 2004. Tackling Australia's future health problems: developing strategies to combat sarcopenia - age-related muscle wasting and weakness. Internal Medicine Journal. 34:294-296.
Lynch GS. 2004. Update on therapies for sarcopenia: novel approaches for age-related muscle wasting and weakness. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents. 14(9):1329-1344.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Vasoactive factors and diabetic retinopathy: vascular endothelial growth factor, cycoloxygenase-2 and nitric oxide. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 10(27):3331-3348.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA & Fletcher EL. 2004. Angiotensin and bradykinin: Targets for the treatment of vascular and neuro-glial pathology in diabetic retinopathy. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 10(27):3313-3330.
D4 - Major Reference Works
Weisinger RS, Blair-West JR, Burns P, Chen N & Weisinger HS. 2004. Handbook of Behavioral Neurobilogy. Neurobiology of sodium appetite. In Neurobilogy of Food and Fluid Intake, 2nd Edition. New York, United States of America: Kluwer Academic - Plenum Publishers.
Q8 - Research in Progress (RIP)
Barrett GL & Trieu J. 2004. Site of binding interactions between p75, TrkA, Shc and NRAGE.
Barrett GL, Trieu J, Epa W, Greferath U & Smith KA. 2004. Development of antisense treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
Barrett GL, Trieu J, Epa W, Greferath U & Smith KA. 2004. Uptake of peptides and oligonucleotides across the blood-brain-barrier.
Bornstein JC, Chambers JD, Thomas EA & Sjovall H. 2004. Modelling the properties of enteric neural circuits under physiological conditions.
Bornstein JC & Cowen T. 2004. Analysis of the consequences of loss of intestinal neurons in aging.
Bornstein JC, Gwynne RM, Monro R, McMillan DJ & Neal KB. 2004. Mechanisms of synaptic transmission within the enteric nervous system.
Bornstein JC, Gwynne RM, Neal KB & Goh SM. 2004. Analysis of nutrient induced motor patterns in the guinea-pig small intestine.
Bornstein JC, Gwynne RM, Neal KB, Tan LL, Wilcox SW & Goh SM. 2004. Analysis of the effects of enterotoxins on the coupling between intestinal movements and mucosal secretion.
Bornstein JC, Southwell B, Bines J & Neal KB. 2004. Analysis of adaptive motility changes in a pig model of paediatric short bowel syndrome.
Bornstein JC, Young HM, Neal KB, Goh SM, Sapnara M & Murphy J. 2004. The development of spontaneous motor activity in the smooth muscle of mice - role of enteric neurons.
Delbridge LM, Di Nicolantonio R, Smyth G & Scott H. 2004. Gene expression profiling in the hypertrophic heart.
Delbridge LM, Harrap SB, Di Nicolantonio R, Davis G & Hiranyachattada S. 2004. Angiotensin and genetic cardiac hypertrophy.
Delbridge LM & Pedrazzini T. 2004. Growth factor regulation of cardiomyocyte growth signalling: transcriptome profiling, transdifferentiation and MAPK cascades.
Delbridge LM, Pepe S & McLennan P. 2004. Do membrane lipids modulate ischemic vulnerability in genetic cardiac hypertrophy?
Delbridge LM & Ritchie R. 2004. Role of reactive oxygen species in mediating structural and functional damage in cardiac hypertrophy.
Dobson JL, Angus PW & Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Hepatic fibrosis and the renin-angiotensin system.
Gilbert RE, Itescu S & Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Haemopoietic stem cells and retinopathy.
Harrap SB, Wong ZYH & Ellis JA. 2004. Linkage and sequence analysis of a locus on the X chromosome that contributes to population variation in blood pressure.
Lynch GS. 2004. Novel role of sildenafil for improving muscle repair following injury with application for the development of treatments for muscular dystrophy.
Lynch GS & Rafael JA. 2004. Functional roles of utrophin and dystrophin in animal models of muscular dystrophy.
Lynch GS, Woods MG & Wiesenfeld D. 2004. Human masseter muscle structure and function in subjects with different underlying vertical facial patterns.
Mathai ML, Wilkinson-Berka JLA & Weisinger RS. 2004. Adiposity and the renin-angiotensin system.
McConell GK. 2004. Firefighter health, safety and well being. Research Contract with Country Fire Authority as part of CRC Bushire.
McConell GK, Canny B, Hargreaves M, Kingwell BA, Kemp BE & Chen Z. 2004. Glucose uptake during exercise: important role of AMP-activated protein kinase and nitric oxide?
McConell GK, MacAulay L, Cameron-Smith D & Wadley GD. 2004. Is nitric oxide production during exercise required for increased post-exercise mitochondrial biogenesis?
Werther G, Wraight CJ, Kobayshi K, Wilkinson-Berka JLA & Russo V. 2004. IGF-IR and retinopathy of prematurity.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA, Cooper ME & Twigg S. 2004. CTGF and retinal angiogenesis.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA, Fletcher EL & Phipps JA. 2004. Vascular and neuro-glial dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA, Gilbert RE & Kelly DJ. 2004. ZD6474 and diabetic retinopathy in the transgenic (mRen-2)27 rat.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA, Gilbert RE & Ong LGT. 2004. PDGF receptor inhibition and diabetic retinopathy.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA, Werther G & Wraight CJ. 2004. Antisense therapies for retinopathy of prematurity.
Wlodek ME, Moseley JM & Nicholas KR. 2004. Placental and mammary function in models of perinatal growth restrictions.
Wlodek ME, Owens J & Moritz KM. 2004. Placental and mammary programming of adult diseases.
Wong ZYH & Harrap SB. 2004. Linkage and association analyses of a locus on chromosome 4 that contributes to population variation in HDL cholesterol.
Woods MG & Lynch GS. 2004. Structural and functional properties of facial muscles: implications for the treatment of facial disorders.
Q9 - Substantial Grants Received
Bertrand PP. 2004. The neural control of serotonin release from intestinal enterochromaffin cells. National Health and Medical Research Council, Project Grant.
Bornstein JC. 2004. Mechanisms regulating nutrient induced motor patterns in the isolated small intestine. National Health and Medical Research Council, Project Grant.
Ellis JA. 2004. A paradigm of genomic discovery - an investigation of the allelic architecture of height. Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grant.
McConell GK. 2004. Is nitric oxide production during exercise required for increased post-exercise skeletal muscle insulin action and mitochondrial biogenesis? Diabetes Australia Research Trust, Trust research grant.
McConell GK. 2004. Research Contract with Country Fire Authority as part of CRC Bushfire. Firefighter health, safety and wellbeing. Country Fire Authority, Research Agreement.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. A novel preventative therapy for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. Radical Biotechnology, Victorian business grant.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Analysis of a Novartis compound on the development of retinal neovascularization in diabetic Ren-2 transgenic rats. Novartis, Commercial.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Can Cox-2 inhibition attenuate vascular dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy? Diabetes Australia, Research Trust.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. The development of vascular and neuro-glial dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, International competitive grant.
Wilkinson-Berka JLA. 2004. Vascular and neuro-glial dysfunction in diabetic retinopathy. National Health and Medical Research Council, Project Grant.
Williams DA & Reid CA. 2004. Calcium signalling in neurons of the central nervous system. Australian Research Council, Discovery Project.
Wlodek ME. 2004. Placental and mammary programming of Syndrome X. National Heart Foundation, Grants in Aid.
R12 - Thesis in Progress for Higher Degrees
Adams BE. 2004. Thalamocortical neural network activity in animal models of genetic and acquired epilepsy.
Beitzel F. 2004. Improving muscle repair and function in the frail elderly following injury.
Berg RS. 2004. Role of Amp Kinase and Nitric Oxide synthase in glucose uptake during exercise in skeletal muscle.
Dantas AM. 2004. Cellular mechanism of actions of peptide hormones in the kidney.
Hales CG. 2004. A mathematical model of the intestinal primary afferent neuron.
Harcourt LJ. 2004. Assessing the effectiveness of various pharmacological therapies for treating muscular dystrophy.
Huggins CE. 2004. does dietary omega-3 fat supplementation protect genetically enlarged hearts against ischemic injury?
Linden KC. 2004. Examination of factors regulating skeletal muscle glucose uptake during exercise.
Mibus AL. 2004. Placental and mammary programming of cardiovascular disease.
Monif M. 2004. Development of calcium biosensors to investigate neuronal communications.
Monro R. 2004. Calcium channel subtypes involved in Neurotransmitter release in the Enteric Nervous System.
Neal KB. 2004. Connections between submucous and myenteric plexuses in guinea pig jejunum.
O'Dowd RA. 2004. The effect of uteroplacental restriction on mammary development and lactation.
Ong LGT. 2004. Structural and functional studies in a transgenic rat model of diabetic retinopathy.
Ping SE. 2004. Oestrogen: a trophic factor in cholinergic basal forebrain neurons.
Ryall JG. 2004. Age-related changes in cardiac and skeletal muscle following b2-agonist administration.
Sarlos S. 2004. Involvement of the renin-angiostensin system and related growth factors in angiogenesis: studies in developing retina and ischaemic ocular pathologies.
Schertzer JD. 2004. Skeletal and cardiac muscle pathology: From molecule to function.
Stupka N. 2004. The contribution of the calcineurin signal transduction pathway to muscle regeneration in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Zentner D. 2004. Longitudinal studies of cardiac and haemodynamic physiology in relation to female sex hormones.