Signalling in smooth muscles

Organisers: James Brock and Dirk van Helden

Speakers:

Ca2+ phase waves - a fundamental mechanism underlying propagation of gastric slow waves

Dirk van Helden University of Newcastle

 

Spontaneous electrical and Ca signals underlying the autorhythmicity that drives pyeloureteric peristalsis

Richard Lang Monash University

 

Molecular and biophysical properties of smooth muscle-type voltage-gated Na+ channels

Noriyoshi Teramoto Kyushu University, Japan

 

Do K+ channels play a role in noradrenergic signalling in vascular smooth muscle?

James Brock Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute