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Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. med. Florian Lang
Physiologisches Institut I, Universität Tübingen Gmelinstrasse 5, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany
Tel. +49 (0)7071 29 72194; Fax: +49 (0)7071 29 5618
Website: http://www.physiologie.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/DepI/#public
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Interests: Mechanisms and clinical significance of cell volume regulation; Erythrocyte death signaling; Serum-and Glucocorticoid inducible kinase isoforms; Physiology and pharmacology of human ion channels and carriers expressed in oocytes; Host cell physiology in hostpathogen interaction; Mechanisms of apoptotic cell death
Assistant Editor
Ms. Kathy Lai
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 59011068; Fax: +86 10 59011089
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Assistant Editor
Mr. Dietrich Rordorf
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 35; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
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Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Arturo Anadón
Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 1 394 38 34; Fax: +34 1 394 38 40
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/sc/scan/cv/cv_anadon_en.pdf
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Interests: neurotoxicity; toxicokinetics
Prof. Dr. Michael Aschner
Department of Pediatrics, 2215-B Garland Avenue, 11415 MRB IV, Vanderbilt University, Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232-0414, USA
Tel. +1 615 322 8024; Fax: +1 615 936 4080
Website: http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/site/people/show.aspx?id=8993
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Interests: transport mechanisms from the periphery into the brain; developmental neurotoxicology; role of metals in neurodegeneration; gulf war syndrome
Dr. Charles W. Bacon
Toxicology and Mycotoxin Research, Russell Research Center, Athens, GA 30604, USA
Tel. +1 706 546 3158; Fax: +1 706 546 3116
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=232
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Interests: regulation and biosynthesis of mycotoxins; fungal endophyte-grass relationships; bacterial endophytes, and the coevolution of secondary products; primarily mycotoxins, with grasses and other plants, as an adaptive strategy for mutualistic associations
Prof. Dr. John P. Berry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 354 Marine Science Building, Florida International University, 3000 NE 151st Street, North Miami, FL 33181, USA
Tel. +1 305 919 4569; Fax: +1 305 919 4030
Website: http://www.fiu.edu/~berryj/
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Interests: cyanobacteria; toxins; bioactive compounds; zebrafish embryo model; natural products
Contribution:
Special Issue: Algal Toxins
Special Issue: Algal Toxins
Prof. Dr. Wayne Briner
Psychobiology Program, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, NE 68849, USA
Tel. +1 308 865 8196; Fax: +1 308 865 8980
Website: http://www.unk.edu/acad/psychology/index.php?id=29378
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Interests: heavy metals; depleted uranium; developmental neurotoxicology; behavioral toxicology
Contribution:
Special Issue: Heavy Metals and Health
Dr. Jeffrey W. Cary
Molecular Biologist USDA, ARS, SRRC, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124-4305, USA
Tel. +1 504 286 4264; Fax: +1 504 286 4533
Website: http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=907
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Interests: molecular biology of mycotoxin biosynthesis and regulation; fungal-host plant interactions; secondary metabolism; gene clusters; genomics; antifungal peptides; transgenic approaches to mycotoxin elimination in plants
Contribution:
Special Issue: Advances in Mycotoxin Research
Prof. Dr. Sang Ho Choi
NRL of Molecular Microbiology and Toxicology, Department of Food Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Korea
Tel. +82 2 880 4857; Fax: +82 2 873 5095
Website: http://food.snu.ac.kr/English/Professor_index.html
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Interests: molecular biology of food-borne pathogenic bacteria; expression and regulation of genes encoding microbial virulence factors; quorum sensing of microorganisms; functional genomics of survival and toxigenesis of food-borne pathogenic bacteria
Prof. Dr. Jean E. Crabtree
Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wellcome Trust Brenner Building, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
Tel. +44 113 343 8615; Fax: +44 113 343 8703
Website: http://www.limm.leeds.ac.uk/research_sections/molecular_gastroenterology/groups/crabtree.htm
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Interests: bacterial-epithelial interactions; gastrointestinal microbial; pathogenesis; mucosal immune responses; inflammation and gastrointestinal cancer
Prof. Dr. Daniel R. Dietrich
Human and Environmental Toxicology, Jacob-Burckhardtstrasse 25, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany
Tel. +49 7531 883518 (Direct); +49 7531 883171 (Secretary); Fax: +49 7531 883170
Website: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Bio/forsch/etox/dietrich.html
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Interests: natural toxins; mycotoxins; cyanobacterial toxins; mechanisms of toxicity; renal toxicity and carcinogenesis; environemntal and human risk assessment
Prof. Dr. Jia-You Fang
Graduate Institute of Natural Products, Chang Gung University, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kweishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
Tel. +886 3 2118800ext5521; Fax: +886 3 2118236
Website: http://www.cgu.edu.tw/GIPS/02teachers/Fang.html
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Interests: pharmaceutics; natural products; dermatology; nanotechnology; drug delivery; pharmacokinetics
Contribution:
Special Issue: The Toxicity of Natural Products
Dr. Carmela Fimognari
Laboratory for Genetic and Molecular Toxicology, Department of Pharmacology, University of Bologna, Italy
Tel. +39 051 2095636; Fax: +39 051 2095624
Website: http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?UPN=carmela.fimognari@unibo.it
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Interests: 1) antitumour pharmacology: identification of natural agents as potential antitumor drugs and definition of their cellular (analysis of apoptosis/necrosis; cell proliferation; cell-cycle progression; cytodifferentiation) and molecular (level of proteins involved in apoptosis and cell-cycle regulation) mechanism; 2) cellular and genetic toxicology: study of the cellular response after treatment with xenobiotics (cytotoxicity; analysis of DNA and RNA damage; fluorescence in situ hybridization)
Contribution:
Special Issue: Natural Products for Multi-Targeted Cancer Treatment: Where Are We Now?
Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Fossi
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Via Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
Tel. +39 0 577232913; Fax: +39 0 577232930
Website: http://www.scientificjournals.com/sj/all/AutorenAnzeigeESS/autorenId/90108
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Interests: non invasive biomarkers; aquatic toxicology; aquatic environments; xenobiotics; marine mammals; genomics; environmental toxicology; endokrine Disruptoren; endocrine effects of chemicals; ecotoxicological effects; biomarkers
Dr. Yukako Fujinaga
Laboratory for Infection Cell Biology, International Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 3-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tel. +81 6 6879 4250; Fax: +81 6 6879 4252
Website: http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/act/act_fujinaga_e.php
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Interests: bacterial protein toxins; enterotoxins; mechanism of toxicity; interaction of toxins with epithelial cell barriers
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bacterial Protein Toxins
Prof. Dr. Helmut Greim
Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Hygiene, Technical University of Munich, Hohenbachernstrasse 15-17, D-85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Tel. +49 8161 715600; Fax: +49 8161 715618
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Interests: general toxicology; mechanisms of toxicity, especially in mutagenicity and carcinogenicity; mode of action; risk assessment
Dr. Yasuhiko Horiguchi
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamada-oka 3-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Tel. +81 6 6879 8284; Fax: + 81 6 6879 8283
Website: http://www.biken.osaka-u.ac.jp/act/act_horiguchi_e.php
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Interests: structure and domain organization of proteins; cell-to -cell or intracellular signaling; receptors for toxins; membrane-damaging toxins
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bacterial Protein Toxins
Prof. Dr. R. Manjunatha Kini
Protein Science Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Science Drive 4, 117543 Singapore
Tel. + 65 65165235; Fax: + 65 67792486
Website: http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/kini.htm
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Interests: protein chemistry; structure-function relationships; protein-protein interaction and protein design and engineering
Prof. Dr. Brigitte König
Otto-von-Guericke-University, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics, Leipzigerstr. 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
Tel. +49 391 6713353; Fax: +49 391 6713938
Website: http://www.med.uni-magdeburg.de/Institute/Medizinische+Mikrobiologie.html
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Interests: superantigens; microecology; microorganism-host-microorganism interactions; host-medical devices interactions; oxidative stress; staphylococci; enterococci; lactobacilli
Prof. Dr. Richard J. Lewis
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Tel. +61 7 3346 2984; Fax: +61 7 3346 2101
Website: http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/index.html?id=11701
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Interests: cone snail and spider venom peptides; sodium and calcium channels; nAChRs; monoamine transporters; adrenoceptors; ciguatera and ciguatoxins; pain; toxin SAR
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins as Therapeutics
Prof. Dr. Azzam A. Maghazachi
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, POB 1103, N-0317 Oslo, Norway
Tel. +47 22851203; Fax: +47 22851279
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Interests: drug toxicity; autoimmunity; innate immunity; iysophopsholipids; chemokines
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxicity and Therapeutic Interventions in the Immune System
Prof. Dr. Richard A. Manderville
Department of Chemistry and Toxicology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 Canada
Tel. +1 519 824 4120; Fax: +1 519 766 1499
Website: http://www.chemistry.uoguelph.ca/manderville/webpage.htm
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Interests: DNA damage by phenolic toxins including ochratoxin A; Modified DNA bases as fluorescent probes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ochratoxins
Dr. Frank S. Markland
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Cancer Research Laboratory #106, 1303 N. Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Tel. +1 323 224 7981; Fax: +1 323 224 7679
Website: http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/util/directories/faculty/profile.php?PersonIs_ID=735
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Interests: protein chemistry and structure/ function interrelationships; snake venom components with procoagulant and anticoagulant activities; snake venom platelet aggregation inhibitors (disintegrins); disintegrins as anti-angiogenic agents; disintegrins and wound healing; novel fibrinolytic agents (structure and modeling); thrombolytic therapy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Disintegrins: Structure-Function and Translational Potential
Dr. Mark P. Mattson
Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, Laboratory of Neurosciences, NIA Biomedical Research Center, Room 05C214, 251 Bayview Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
Tel. +1 410 558 8463; Fax: +1 410 558 8465
Website: http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/lns/index.html
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Interests: oxidative stress and calcium regulation; apoptosis (programmed cell death); neuroprotective signal transduction; synaptic signaling and plasticity; genetic aberrancies and neurodegeneration; diet and neuronal vulnerability; neuroendocrine and neuroimmune mechanisms
Contribution:
Special Issue: Can Botanical Toxins Enhance Human Health?
Prof. Dr. Shin-ichi Miyoshi
Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Okayama, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
Tel. +81 86 251 7966; Fax: +81 86 251 7926
Website: http://www.pharm.okayama-u.ac.jp/lab/user/miyoshi.html
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Interests: bacterial protein toxins; pore-forming toxins; cell membrane proteins/receptors; proteolytic enzymes
Contribution:
Special Issue: Protein Toxins as Proteases
Prof. Dr. Michio Murata
Department of Chemstry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Tel. +81 66850 5774; Fax: +81 66850 5774
Website: http://www.ch.wani.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/murata/welcome-english.htm
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Interests: marine biotoxins; seafood poisoning; membrane-active toxins; mechanism of toxicity and solid state NMR
Prof. Dr. Richard E. Peterson
School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, 777 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705-2222, USA
Tel. +1 608 263 5453; Fax: +1 608 265 3316
Website: http://www.pharmacy.wisc.edu/sopdir/PersonDetails.cfm?ID=44
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Interests: developmental toxicology of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons and perfluorinated acids
Prof. Dr. Annie Pfohl-Leszkowicz
National Agronomical High School of Toulouse (ENSAT), Unit of Toxicology & Food safety, 1 avenue de l’Agrobiopôle, BP 107, 31326, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
Tel. + 33 562 193 947; Fax: + 33 562 193 947
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Interests: mycotoxin; ochratoxin; fumonisin; zearalenone; biomarker; risk evaluation; environmental toxicology; polycyclic aromatic compounds; genotoxicity; DNA adduct; balkan endemic nephropathy; kidney cancer; biotransformation
Contribution:
Special Issue: Ochratoxins
Prof. Dr. Frances Pick
Department of Biology & Environmental Science, Gendron Hall 275, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tel. +1 613 562 5800; Fax: +1 613 562 5486
Website: http://www.careg.uottawa.ca/bio_frances_pick.htm
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Interests: ecosystem ecology and state of environment reporting; aquatic microbial ecology
Dr. Adam J. Ratner
Columbia University, 650 West 168th Street (BB 421), New York, NY 10032, USA
Tel. +1 212 305 9807; Fax: +1 212 342 5218
Website: http://www.ratnerlab.org
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Interests: bacterial toxins; toxin evolution; host cell responses to pore-forming toxins
Prof. Dr. Des R. Richardson
Professor of Cancer Cell Biology, NHMRC Senior Principal, Research Fellow; and Iron Metabolism and Chelation Program, Department of Pathology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel. +61 2 9036 6548; Fax: +61 2 9036 6549
Website: http://www.pathology.usyd.edu.au/Pathology2004/Research/Research_Units/Iron_Metabolism.htm
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Interests: metal ions; iron; copper; chelators; X-ray crystallography
Prof. Dr. Gian Paolo Rossini
Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Via Campi 287, 41100 Modena, Italy
Tel. +39 059 205 5388; Fax: +39 059 205 5410
Website: http://ilo.unimo.it/Show/People.aspx?Action=Data&IdLanguage=1&IdUniversity=1&IdDepartment=18&IdPeople=657
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Interests: signal transduction; receptors; marine biotoxins; molecular mechanisms of toxicity; toxicity pathways; proteomics; biomarkers; functional methods of toxin detection; cell adhesion; cell proliferation; cell death; cell cultures
Contribution:
Special Issue: Marine Biotoxins: Novel Issues about Old Compounds
Special Issue: Marine Biotoxins: Novel Issues about Old Compounds
Dr. Jean-Marc Sabatier
Laboratory ERT 62 'Ingenierie des Peptides a Visee Therapeutique', Universite de la Mediterranee, Faculte de Medecine Nord, Boulevard Pierre Dramard, 13916 Marseille, Cedex 20, France
Tel. +33 491 608 298; Fax: +33 491 603 079
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Interests: toxinology; animal toxins; ion channel blockers; toxin-derived drug; drug design; peptide and protein engineering; therapy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins - Organic and Analytical Chemistry
Special Issue: Animal Venoms
Special Issue: Toxins - Organic and Analytical Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Jun Sakurai
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Yamashiro-cho, Tokushima, Japan
Tel. +81 (0)88 602 8483; Fax: +81 (0)88 655 3051
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Interests: structure-function of bacterial toxins; molecular biology of bacterial toxins; membrane-damage induced by bacterial toxins; membrane translocation of bacterial toxins
Prof. Dr. Gudula Schmidt
Pharmakology and Toxikology, Albertstrasse 25, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
Tel. +49 761 203 5316; Fax: +49 761 203 5311
Website: http://www.pharmakologie.uni-freiburg.de/i/index.htm
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Interests: bacterial toxins; GTPases; signal transduction; toxins and carcinogenesis
Prof. Dr. David Sheehan
Proteomic Research Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork, Lee Maltings Prospect Row, Mardyke, Cork, Ireland
Tel. +353 21 490 4207; Fax: +353 21 427 4034
Website: http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/biochemistry/staff/dsheehan.html
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Interests: enzymology and evolution of glutathione transferases; application of proteomics to study of oxidative stress; implications of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species for kidney function; environmental toxicology; nanomaterials as emerging toxicological threats
Contribution:
Special Issue: Toxins from Aquatic Organisms
Prof. Dr. Andreimar M. Soares
Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, FCFRP-USP, Brazil, 14040-903 Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil
Tel. +55 16 3602 4714; Fax: +55 16 3602 4725
Website: http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.jsp?id=K4792564Y7
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Interests: bioactive compounds; natural venoms; structure-function relationships of toxins; snake venoms; toxins and enzymes; anti-venoms; pharmacological applications
Prof. Dr. J. Glenn Songer
Department of Veterinary Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 2962; Fax: +1 520 621 6366
Website: http://microvet.arizona.edu/Faculty/songer/index.html
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Interests: microbial pathogenesis; epidemiology of clostridial enteric infections
Prof. Dr. David C. Straus
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Texas Tech University, Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79430, USA
Tel. +1 806 743 2523; Fax: +1 806 743 2334
Website: http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/microbiology/
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Interests: mycotoxins; the microbiology of indoor air
Prof. Dr. Bruce E. Tabashnik
Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Tel. +1 520 621 1141; Fax: +1 520 621 1150
Website: http://ag.arizona.edu/ento/faculty/tabashnik.htm
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Interests: insect resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins
Prof. Dr. Vernon L. Tesh
Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843-1114, USA
Tel. +1 979 845 1313; Fax: +1 979 845 3479
Website: http://medicine.tamhsc.edu/basic-sciences/mmp/faculty/vernon-tesh.html
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Interests: Shiga toxins; verotoxins; ribosome-inactivating proteins; intracellular signaling pathways activated by microbial toxins; ER stress response; regulation of cytokine expression; innate immune response to microbial toxins; microbial pathogenesis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Novel Properties of Well-Characterized Toxins
Prof. Dr. Anthony T. Tu
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523, USA
Tel. +1 970 491 1591; Fax: +1 970 491 6313
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Interests: snake venoms; sea snake neurotoxins; Raman spectroscopy; structure-function relations of toxins; chemical weapons defense; NBCR anti-terrorism
Contribution:
Special Issue: Neurotoxins of Biological Origin
Prof. Dr. Jan Tytgat
Laboratory of Toxicology, University of Leuven (KULeuven), Campus Gasthuisberg, O&N2 PO Box 922, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel. +32 16 32 34 03; Fax: +32 16 32 34 05
Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0018354e.htm
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Interests: natural and bioactive compounds; animal venoms & toxins; structure-function relationships; ion channels & receptors, electrophysiology, pharmacology
Dr. C. Chris Yun
Emory University, School of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, Whitehead Bldg., Suite 201, 615 Michael St. Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Tel. +1 404 712 2865; Fax: +1 404 727 5767
Website: http://medicine.emory.edu/gi/profile_highlights.cfm?id=4021#top
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Interests: effects of lysophosphoipids in colon cancer and colitis; sodium and fluid absorption in the intestine and kidney; protein-protein interaction; chemokine sin colon cancer; cancer therapeutics; GPCR signaling
Contribution:
Special Issue: Enterotoxins
Prof. Dr. Gerald W. Zamponi
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr. N.W., Calgary, T2N 4N1, Canada
Tel. +1 403 220 6597; Fax: +1 403 919 2212
Website: http://www.cell.ucalgary.ca/G.Zamponi.html
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Interests: calcium channels; sodium channels; T-type channels; N-type channels; pain; G protein; second messengers; epilepsy
Prof. Dr. Arthur P. Grollman
Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
Tel. +1 631 444 3080; Fax: +1 631 444 7641
Website: http://www.lcb.stonybrook.edu/
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Interests: nephrotoxins, enviromental mutagens
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