Muhammed Shakil Ahmed
Position: Postdoc
Phone: (230) 71407
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Scientific projects

Project:

Functions of myocardial CTGF in the postnatal heart – signalling pathways, delineation of CTGF-induced gene expression programs and role in cell proliferation, differentiation and cell death

Supervisor:

Håvard Attramadal

Collaborators:

Guro Valen, Vladimir Martinov, Gabor Czibik (Department of Physiology, University of Oslo)

Eirik Qvigstad, Tor Skomedal, Jan Bjørn Osnes (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oslo)

Otto Smiseth (Department of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet University Hospital)

Walter J Koch (Center for Translational Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Roel Goldschmeding (Utrecht University Medical Center, The Netherlands)

Aim:

The primary objective is to elucidate the cellular functions of CTGF in the postnatal heart, and CTGF functions in the physiology of the heart

Methods:

Gene technology, Molecular and cellular biology of cardiac myocytes, transgenic mice, cardiac gene transfer, cardiac gene expression