- brainin.lennon@dkit.ie
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Dundalk Institute of Technology
Smooth Muscle
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Provides expertise on smooth muscle components of the BREATH Project.
Current projects include:
- Role of Kv7 channels in Airway Smooth Muscle contraction
- Role of bitter taste receptors in Airway Smooth Muscle contraction.
- Role of TRPC channels in Airway Smooth Muscle contraction in health and COPD.
- Relationship between DEPs, PAR-2 receptors and TRPV4 channels in airway smooth muscle contraction in health and COPD.
- Tuning the selectivity of novel BK channel openers to target airway epithelium
- Assessing changes in BK channel and regulatory subunit expression in epithelium in COPD
BREATH DKIT Ph.D. Students:
