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Contact Details

Email
daryl.schwenke@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor
Department
Department of Physiology
Qualifications
BSc(Hons) MSc PhD
Research summary
Cardiorespiratory Physiology

Research

  • Sympathetic excitation following actute myocardial infarction
    • Therapeutic effects of ghrelin in acute heart failure
    • Role of the peripheral chemoreflex in sympathetic excitation
  • Regulation of the pulmonary vasculature
    • Endothelial control of the pulmonary vasculature
    • Sympathetic modulation
    • Pathological changes in the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension
    • Pulmonary vascular dysfunction in obesity
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