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Presentations
Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery
INTERNATIONAL
Professor Wayne Morrison
Guest Speaker at the Combined Meeting of
the 14th Annual Meeting of the Thai Society for
Surgery of the Hand, 9th Annual Meeting of
the Thai Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery,
and 1st Regional Education Program of the Asian
Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the
Hand, Bangkok, Thailand.
Derby Hand Course Meeting, Derby UK.
Thumb reconstruction
Nerve injury and repair
Research in hand surgery
Flap prefabrication
Mr Tim Bennett
Tripartite Surgical Research Society Meeting,
Nottingham, UK.
Anterograde axonal transport of LIF.
Dr Jane Barker
British Pharmacological Society, UK.
Differing effects of nitric oxide compared with
peroxynitrite on mast cell degranulation in vitro.
Barker JE, Stewart AG.
International Congress of Pharmacology, Munich.
Inducible nitric oxide synthase knockout mice
are protected from ischaemia/reperfusion injury
to skeletal muscle. Barker JE, Knight KR,
Morrison WA, Stewart AG.
Dr Bruce Dowsing
Poster presented at American Chemical Senses
Conference, San Diego CA, USA.
Expression of olfactory receptors in mouse cell
lines. H Treloar, B Dowsing and B Key.
Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting
for the American Society for Neuroscience,
New Orleans, USA.
Studies of the expression of olfactory receptors
within olfactory receptor neuron
cell lines. H Clarris, H Treloar, B Dowsing,
P Bartlett and B Key.
AUSTRALIA
Professor Wayne Morrison
Australian Federation of Operating Room Nurses
Conference, Melbourne.
History and new developments in plastic &
reconstructive surgery.
Victorian Postgraduate Foundation Country
Education Program, Shepparton.
Breast reconstruction – changing trends.
Australian Hand Surgery Society Course,
Melbourne.
Australian Hand Surgery Society Annual Scientific
Meeting, Tasmania.
Needle injury to the nerve to flexor
policis longus.
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual
Scientific Congress, Sydney.
1. Division of Plastic Surgery
Tissue engineering in plastic surgery.
2. Division of Hand Surgery
Peripheral nerve injury and regeneration.
Victorian Medical Postgraduate Foundation,
Shepparton.
Degloving face and scalp.
National Cosmetic & Reconstructive Surgery
Conference (Nurses), Melbourne.
Facial replantation
1998 Annual Scientific Meeting of Surgical
Research Society, Leura, NSW.
Tissue matrix generation in a rat model –
angiogenesis.
IV International Congress on Neuromuscular
Diseases, Adelaide.
Surgery for compression neuropathies: its
expectations and complications.
Mr Tim Bennett
Western Hospital CNE for GP’s, Melbourne.
Wound healing and ulcers.
Dr Alastair Stewart
Australian Society for Medical Research, Adelaide.
ß 2 -agonists and steroids reduce cyclin D1 levels
and DNA synthesis in human airway smooth
muscle.
Australian Vascular Biology Society, Leura, NSW.
Selective inhibitors of inducible nitric oxide
synthase (iNOS) or iNOS gene knockout inhibits
functional angiogenesis.
Australian Society of Clinical and Experimental
Pharmacologists and Toxicologists.
ß 2 -adrenoceptor agonists and cAMP arrest
human cultured airway smooth muscle cells in
G1 phase of the cell cycle: role of mitogenactivated
protein kinase, cyclin D1, p27kip1 and
retinoblastoma protein phosphorylation.
Dr Jane Barker
Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Melbourne.
Mechanisms of nitric oxide-induced cellular
toxicity: the mitochondrial respiratory chain.
Barker JE, Heales SJR, Bolanos JP, Clark JB,
Stewart AG.
Australian Vascular Biology Society, Cairns.
Lack of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression
attenuates the pathogenesis of ischaemiareperfusion
injury. Barker JE,
Stewart AG, Knight KR, Morrison WA.
The University of Melbourne.
Mechanisms of iNOS mediated toxicity.
Dr Bruce Dowsing
St Vincent’s Hospital Research Week, Melbourne.
LIF is an autocrine survival factor for Schwann
cells. BJ Dowsing, WA Morrison, NA Nicola,
T Bucci and TJ Kilpatrick.
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Neuroimmunology
Research Group.
LIF is an autocrine survival factor for Schwann
cells. BJ Dowsing, WA Morrison, NA Nicola,
T Bucci and TJ Kilpatrick.
St Vincent’s Hospital Research Week, Melbourne.
Poster:
The cytokine leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF)
enhances the recovery of muscle function
following delayed repair of the transected nerve.
T Bennett, A Hayes, A Messina,
B Dowsing and WA Morrison.
Dr Ken Knight
5th Annual Scientific Meeting, Australian Vascular
Biology Society, Leura, NSW.
Nitric oxide and oxidative stress are stimuli for
apoptosis of leucocytes and endothelial cells in
ischaemia-reperfused skeletal muscle.
Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand,
Respiratory Cell Special Interest Group,
St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Relationship between alpha-1-antitrypsin
phenotype and the development of emphysema.
St Vincent’s Hospital Research Week, Melbourne.
The roles of complement activation and nitric
oxide in ischaemia-reperfusion injury in mouse
skeletal muscle.
Poster: Australian Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, Melbourne.
The roles of nitric oxide and complement
activation in ischaemia-reperfusion in mouse
skeletal muscle.
Poster: Australian Society for Medical Research
Meeting, Adelaide.
The roles of complement activation and nitric
oxide in ischaemia-reperfusion injury in mouse
skeletal muscle.
Poster: Annual Scientific Meeting, Thoracic Society
of Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide.
Secretory leucocyte proteinase inhibitor is an
important antiproteinase in the lungs of patients
with chronic airways limitation.
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