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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

Publications

Schwenke, D. O., Pearson, J. T., Umetani, K., Kangawa, K., & Shirai, M. (2007). Imaging of the pulmonary circulation in the closed-chest rat using synchrotron radiation microangiography. Journal of Applied Physiology, 102, 787-793. Journal - Research Article

Schwenke, D. O., Gray, E. A., Pearson, J. T., Sonobe, T., Ishibashi-Ueda, H., Campillo, I., … Shirai, M. (2011). Exogenous ghrelin improves blood flow distribution in pulmonary hypertension: Assessed using synchrotron radiation microangiography. Pflügers Archiv: European Journal of Physiology, 462(3), 397-406. doi: 10.1007/s00424-011-0992-8 Journal - Research Article

Schwenke, D. O., Pearson, J. T., Sonobe, T., Ishibashi-Ueda, H., Shimouchi, A., Kangawa, K., … Shirai, M. (2011). Role of Rho-kinase signaling and endothelial dysfunction in modulating blood flow distribution in pulmonary hypertension. Journal of Applied Physiology, 110(4), 901-908. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01318.2010 Journal - Research Article

Schwenke, D. O., Pearson, J. T., Shimochi, A., Kangawa, K., Tsuchimochi, H., Umetani, K., … Cragg, P. A. (2009). Changes in pulmonary blood flow distribution in monocrotaline compared with hypoxia-induced models of pulmonary hypertension: Assessed using synchrotron radiation. Journal of Hypertension, 27(7), 1410-1419. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0b013e32832af6a1 Journal - Research Article

Sonobe, T., Schwenke, D. O., Pearson, J. T., Yoshimoto, M., Fujii, Y., Umetani, K., & Shirai, M. (2011). Imaging of the closed-chest mouse pulmonary circulation using synchrotron radiation microangiography. Journal of Applied Physiology, 111(1), 75-80. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00205.2011 Journal - Research Article

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