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Centre for Smooth and Cardiac Muscle Research

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.