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Blood Pressure Research Group
Cardiovascular & Renal Research
Come & Join the Fun
For more information see the Honours Booklet or even
better, come & have a chat
Research Themes
Diet, Obesity &
Diabetes:
Consequences for the
Heart, Kidney and
Cardiovascular Health
Whole kidney & single nephron
function: What does control kidney
function? Roles of nerves & reactive
oxygen species.
Heart: Controlling
Mums & Offspring:
Programming of Adult
Cardiovascular &
Renal Disease
contractile function in
healthy and diseased
hearts
Hypertension:
What roles do nerves, salt or
gender have in the
development & maintenance
of hypertension
Altered Development: Fetal,
Placental & Kidney structure and genetics
Research Methods
Animal Models: Rabbits, Rats & Mice
(including knockout strains)
Conscious
Recordings: Blood
Pressure (including
radiotelemetry), Renal
Function, Nerve
activity,
Structural & Functional Analysis:
Electron Microscopy (transmission &
scanning), Light Microscopy, Ultrasound,
Tissue Pathology, Fibrosis.
Novel Technologies -Synchrotron
Anaesthetized Recordings: Single
nephron and whole kidney function, renal
oxygenation, nerve activity, Cardiac
Contractility, Cardiac Function, Cardiac
Metabolism
18 day rabbit fetus
Research People
Dr Niwanthi
Rajapakse (F259):
Assoc Prof Roger
Evans (F274): Renal
Nitric Oxide, renal Larginine uptake,
Hypertension
Oxygenation, Obesity,
Sympathetic Nerves &
Hypertension
Dr Kate Denton
Dr James Pearson
(F206): Cardiac
contraction, Heart
Failure, Diabetes,
Synchrotron
(F266): Maternal
Programming,
pregnancy, sex
differences, Renin
Angiotensin system,
Hypertension
Dr Michelle Kett
Dr Russell Brown
(F206): Nephron
Endowment, High Salt
& protein diets,
Obesity, Hypertension
& Kidney Disease
(F259): Single Nephron
Function, Obesity,
Renin Angiotensin
system, Hypertension,
reactive oxygen species
Cardiovascular Projects
at the
Baker IDI
Heart and Diabetes Institute
Prahran
(next to Alfred Hospital)
Population Health
Integrative Physiology
Population Health
Mandy Thrift
Epidemiology of Cardiovascular
Disease in Rural India
[email protected]
ph 85321636
Integrative Cardiovascular
Physiology
Can antioxidants be used to treat
high blood pressure?
Howe does stress cause high blood
pressure?
[email protected]
ph 85321332