Friday, 30 September 2005 (Poster Area B) 08:30-16:00

Poster Session

     The posters will be on display all day (08:30 to 16:00). The chaired discussion will be from 12:45 to 14:15 (during the lunch break).     
Hypoxia, Ischemia and Vascular Damage

Moderators: R. Braun-Dullaeus (Dresden, DE), M. Hecker (Heidelberg, DE)

(P256) Different intracellular pathways triggered by the selective FLT-1-agonist PLGF in vascular smooth muscle cells exposed to hypoxia.

A. Parenti, L. Bellik, M.C. Vinci, S. Filippi, F. Ledda (Florence, IT)
(P257) Transient hypoxia-induced proliferation is mediated via p38 MAPK in endothelial cells.

M. Arshad, M. Holl, M. Aslam, F. Härtel, T. Noll (Gießen, DE)
(P258) Rho GTPases Rac1and RhoA act as regulators of endothelial phenotype and function in hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension of the newborn.

B. Wojciak-Stothard, L. Yen Fen Tsang, S. Hall, S. Haworth (London, GB)
(P260) Atorvastatin prevents hypoxia-induced inhibition of endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression but does not affect heme oxygenase-1 in human microvascular endothelial cells.

J. Dulak, A. Loboda, A. Jazwa, J. Balla, G. Molema, A. Jozkowicz (Kraków, PL; Debrecen, HU; Groningen, NL)
(P261) Transient hypoxia prevents endothelial cells from apoptosis.

M. Holl, M. Arshad, F. Härtel, T. Noll (Gießen, DE)
(P262) Hypoxia-induced angiogenesis prevents the development of hypertension in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR).

J. Vilar, L. Waeckel, Ph. Bonin, M. Duriez, J-S. Silvestre, B.I. Lévy (Paris, FR)
(P263) Antibodies against heat-shock proteins in ischemic heart disease.

V. Hoymans, M. Ieven, P. Van Herck, Chr. Vrints, J. Bosmans (Edegem, BE)
(P264) Acidosis-induced Ca2+ overload and caspase-12 activation participate in ischemic death of coronary endothelial cells.

S. Kumar, S. Kasseckert, Y. Abdallah, C. Schafer, A. Kaminski, G. Steinhoff, Y. Ladilov (Rostock and Gießen, DE)
(P265) Effects of serotonin on ischaemic and ischaemic and reperfused middle cerebral arteries of the rat, in vitro.

A. Kovács, L.G. Hársing, G. Szénási (Budapest, HU)
(P266) Morphofunctional alterations of cardiac microcirculation in noncoronarogenic myocardial injury.

A. Semerjyan (Yerevan, AM)
(P267) Injury-induced Ca2+ signals in in situ endothelial cells of rat aorta: a role for gap junction-mediated Ca2+ influx.

R. Berra-Romani, A. Raqeeb, A. Oldani, F. Speroni, V. Taglietti, F. Tanzi (Pavia, IT)
(P268) Differential activation of MAPK pathways in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells in response to exogenous tissue factor.

C. Wood, I. Chetter, P. McCollum, C. Ettelaie (Hull, GB)
(P269) Long term inhibition of Rho Kinase opposes its endothelial barrier protective effect.

G.P. van Nieuw Amerongen, S. Zeeman, R.J.P. Musters, M.E. Engelse, C. Jungerius, I.J.M. Korstjens, M.H. van Wijhe, P. Sipkema, V.W.M. van Hinsbergh (Amsterdam, NL)
(P270) Myocardium perfusion and metabolism in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy estimated by single photon emission computerized tomography and positron emission tomography.

I. Sergienko, L. Radkevitch, V. Naumov (Moscow, RU)