Centre for Smooth and Cardiac Muscle Research

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Group Members

Academic & Research Staff

RAR Bywater
HA Coleman
B Exintaris (School of Pharmacy)
RJ Lang
HC Parkington
M Tare
IR Wendt

Research Support Staff

W Meeker
M Tonta
B Zoltkowski

Honours & Postgraduate Students

4 students

The researchers and equipment involved in smooth and cardiac muscle research make a major contribution to the Cellular Neurophysiology Platform - Monash Node, of Neurosciences Victoria and the National neurosciences Facility.

Research Grants

NHMRC Project Grant 2000-2 $180,941 Effect of pregnancy and pre-eclampsia on smooth muscle and endothelial cell function in arteries isolated from women. Parkington, Tare, Higgins, Brennecke.	NHMRC Project Grant 2002-4 $325,500 An in vitro study of the mechanisms underlying ineffective labour in women. Parkington, Moses, Brennecke.
NHMRC Project Grant 2001-3 $410,000 Molecular mechanisms of nitric oxide modulation of Ca2+-activated K+ channels in smooth muscle. Lang, Neylon.	NHF Project Grant 2002-3 $85,470 Constricting influences of depolarizing currents in the endothelium of arterioles. Coleman, Wigg, Parkington, Tare.
Ramaciotti Foundation 2002 $15,000 Vitamin D in pregnancy: does it influence health in later life? Parkington, Morley.	Monash Small Grants 2002 $18,500 Is EDHF involved in determining vascular tone in vivo? Parkington, Evans.