Publications in Conferences

Only the 28 significant titles that appear in Appendix III are listed below.

(1) Plenary or Invited Lectures at International Conferences

1. Chan, J.Y.H. (2007) Oxidative stress in neurogenic hypertension. The Inaugural Singapore-Taiwan-Hong Kong Meeting of Pharmacologists, Singapore.

2. Chan, J.Y.H. (2007) Mitogen-activated protein kinases as novel signaling pathways in angiotensin II-induced hypertension. The Joint Meeting of Vascular Biology Organizations in Asian Pacific Regions, Tainan, Taiwan.

3. Chan, J.Y.H. (2007) Mitogen-activated protein kinases as novel signals in brain stem that determine short-term and long-term pressor responses to angiotensin II.

The Inaugural Cross-Strait Conference on Neuroscience, Shanghai, China.

4. Chan, J.Y.H. (2007) Mitochondrial dysfunction in neural mechanism of

hypertension. International Symposium on Cell Signaling and Gene Regulation, Tainan, Taiwan.

5. Chan, J.Y.H. (2007) Oxidative stress in rsotral ventrolateral medulla and neurogenic hypertension. Symposium on Blood Pressure Regulation, 10th

Southeast Asian/Western Pacific Regional Meeting of Pharmacologists, Adelaide, Australia.

6. Chan, S.H.H. (2007) Multiple roles of the mitochondrion in an experimental endotoxemia model of brain stem death. Plenary Lecture, 10th Southeast

Asian/Western Pacific Regional Meeting of Pharmacologists, Adelaide, Australia.

7. Chan, S.H.H. (2008) Understanding brain stem death: from bedside to bench.

Plenary Lecture, 22nd Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology Scientific Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

8. Chan, S.H.H. (2007) Understadning brain stem death: A biochemical proteomic approach. The inaugural Singapore-Taiwan-Hong Kong Meeting of

Pharmacologists, Singapore.

9. Chan, S.H.H. (2007) Understadning brain stem death: A biochemical proteomic approach. Symposium on New Insights into Central Control Mechanisms of Circulation, Wakayama City, Japan.

10. Chan, S.H.H. (2007) Multiple roles of the mitochondrion in an experimental endotoxemia model of brain stem death. The Inaugural Cross-Strait Conference on Neuroscience, Shanghai, China.

11. Chang, A.Y.W. (2007) Cholinergic receptor-independent dysfunction of

mitochondrial respiratory chian enzymes reduced mitochondrial transmembrane potential and ATP depletion underlie necrotic cell death induced by the

organophosphate poison mevinphos in PC12 cells. The inaugural Singapore-Taiwan-Hong Kong Meeting of Pharmacologists, Singapore.

12. Chang, A.Y.W. (2007) Activation of hypoxia-inducible factor1/heme oxygenase-1 cascade by tissue hypoxia upregulates nitric oxide synthase I/protein kinase G signaling pathway at rostral ventrolateral medulla in a mevinphos intoxication model of brain stem death. Satellite Symposium of International Brain Research Organization 7th World Congress: Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Autonomic Nervous System, Haualien, Taiwan.

13. Chang, A.Y.W. (2007) Brain stem neuomodulatory signaling mechanisms in an organophosphate poisoning model of brain stem death. The Inaugural Cross-Strait Conference on Neuroscience, Shanghai, China.

14. Gean, P.W. (2007) Expression, extinction and reinstatement of fear memory.

Symposium on Synaptic and cellular mechanisms of fear learning, Interantional Brain Research Organization World congress on Neuroscience, Melbourne, Australia.

15. Gean, P.W. (2007) Differential expression of excitatory and inhibitory transmitter receptors in the amygdale after acquisition, extinction and reinstatement of fear memory. Gordon Conference-Amygdala in health and disease, Lewiston, Maine, USA.

16. Gean, P.W. (2007) Expression and extinction of fear memory. The inaugural Singapore-Taiwan-Hong Kong Meeting of Pharmacologists, Singapore.

17. Gean, P.W. (2007) Neural activity in the prefrontal cortex is essential for the extinction of fear memory. The Inaugural Cross-Strait Conference on Neuroscience, Shanghai, China.

18. Hsu, K.S. (2007) Repeated cocaine administration facilicates the induction of long-term potentiation in rat medial prefrontal cortex. 1st International

MiniSymposium on Neurophysiology and Membrane Biophysics. Taipei, Taiwan.

19. Hsu, K.S. (2007) Phosphatidylinoditol 3 kinase activation is required for stress-induced modification of hippocampal synaptic plasticity. The Inaugural Cross-Strait Conference on Neuroscience, Shanghai, China.

20. Tai, M.H. (2007) Enhanced expression of and cardiovascular response to melanocortin system in spontaneously hypertensive rats. The Inaugural Cross-Strait Conference on Neuroscience, Shanghai, China.

(2) Invited Lectures at National Conferences

1. Chan, J.Y.H. (2008) The continuing saga of nitric oxide synthases and reactive oxygen species in neural mechanism of hypertension. Pharmacological Society in Taiwan Special Lecture, 23rd Joint Annual conference of Biomedical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.

2. Chan, S.H.H. (2007) New insights on brain stem death: From clinical observations to cellular and molecular mechanisms. 2007 Symposium on Frontier Biomedical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.

3. Gean, P.W. (2007) Extinction of fear memory: a new learning or an erasure of old memory. The Second Cooperative Joint Conference on Neuroscience, Taipei, Taiwan.

4. Gean, P.W. (2007) Extinction of fear memory. 3rd NHRI Conference on Neuroscience, Miaoli, Taiwan.

5. Gean, P.W. (2007) Expression and extinction of fear memory. Symposium on Frontier Biomedical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.

6. Gean, P.W. (2008) Cellular mechanism of fear conditioning. Sixteenth Symposium on Recent Advances in Cellular and molecular Biology, Kenting, Taiwan.

7. Hsu, K.S. (2007) Behavioral stress on hippocampal synaptic plasticity: a new look at an old problem. Merit Award Session lecturer, NHRI Extramural Research Grant Progress Report, Zhunan, Taiwan.

8. Huang, C.C., Yang, P.C., Lin, H.J. and Hsu, K.S. (2007) Repeated cocaine administration alters the induction of long-term synaptic plasticity in rat medial prefrontal cortex. Symposium on Frontier Biomedical Sciences. Taipei, Taiwan.

2. Patent List

None. The nature of our research program is academic, not applied.

3. Invention List

None. The nature of our research program is academic, not applied.

4. List of Workshops/Conferences Hosted by the Program

None. NSC does not provide funding for Workshops/Conferences hosted by the Program.

5. List of Personal Achievements of PIs A. Honors or Awards

Julie Y.H. Chan: Outstanding Researcher Award, NSC

Samuel H.H. Chan: Emeritus National Chair Professor of Neuroscience, Ministry of Education; Sun Yat-sen Research Chair Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University

Alice Y.W. Chang: Outstanding Research Award, Pharmacoogical Society in Taiwan

Po-Wu Gean: Outstanding Commissioned Researcher, NSC; Wang Min-Ning Award; Academic Award, Ministry of Education

Kuei-Sen Hsu: Outstanding Research Award, NSC; Outstanding Innovative Research Grant Award, NHRI