Symposium:               Coordinating Interactions between Endothelium and Smooth Muscle

 

Track:                        Vascular Physiology

Tuesday, 8:00 AM—10:00 AM, 33

Chaired:                       Ruddi Busse

 

8:00 AM                      Smooth muscle endothelial cell communication: bringing the concepts together. Ruddi Busse. Klin. der J.W. Goethe-Univ.

 

8:20 AM                      Cell-to-cell signaling during blood flow control in microvascular networks. Steven S. Segal. John B. Pierce Fndn. Lab., Yale Univ.

 

8:50 AM                      Potassium channels: key players in endothelial and smooth muscle cell cross-talk. Michel Feletou. Inst. Res. Servier.

 

9:10 AM                      Observations that in arteries the endothelial cells are electrically and chemically influenced by the smooth muscle cells. Jean-Louis Beny. Univ. of Geneva.

 

9:30 AM                      Cytochrome P450 2C and the soluble epoxide hydrolase in vascular signaling. Ingrid Fleming. Univ. of Frankfurt.