8:30-11:30  | Symposium 14

Genome technologies and use of rat networks to understand
human diseases

• Catherine Morrissey (London, UK), Santosh Atanur, Ian Grieve, Enrico Petretto, Michal Pravenec, Tim Aitman
  INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS APPROACHES TO IDENTIFICATION OF GENES UNDERLYING COMPLEX METABOLIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PHENOTYPES
• Huiming Jin (Shanghai, China), Xinhong Wang
  IMPAIRED ANGIOGENESIS OF MYOCARDIUM MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS AND IT'S THE ROLE MICRORNA IN DIABETES RATS
• Hiroaki Aso (Okayama, Japan), Masae Toudou, Kazuya Kitamori, Hiroko Negishi, Yasuo Nara
  PROTEOMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOMARKERS FOR SALT SENSITIVE STROKE–PRONENESS OF STROKE–PRONE SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS (SHRSP/IZM)
• Zhi-Xin Shan ( Guangzhou, China), Qiu-Xiong Lin, Chun-Yu Deng , Jie-Ning Zhu, Li-Ping Mai, Ju-Li Liu, Yong-Heng Fu, Xiao-Ying Liu, Qingping Feng, Shu-Guang Lin, Xi-Yong Yu
  miR-1/miR-206 REGULATE Hsp60 EXPRESSION CONTRIBUTING TO GLUCOSE-MEDIATED APOPTOSIS IN CARDIOMYOCYTES
• Guy Martel (Montréal, Canada), Suzanne Cossette, Pavel Hamet, Johanne Tremblay
  GREBP, A NOVEL cGMP-RESPONSE-ELEMENT (cGMP-RE) BINDING PROTEIN REPRESSING THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE RECEPTOR 1 (NPR1/GCA)
• Jiang Ping Wu (Montréal, Canada), Luo Hongyu, Zenghui Wu, Johanne Tremblay, EricThorin, Junzheng Peng, Julie Lavoie, Shijie Qi, Tao Wu, Mark Cameron)
  EPHB6 KINASE AND ITS LIGAND EFNBS CONTROL VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION AND REGULATE BLOOD PRESSURE THROUGH REVERSE SIGNALLING VIA EFNBS
• Giuseppe Bianchi (Milan, Italy)
  TRANSLATION OF RAT GENETIC DATA TO HUMAN: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
• John Mullins (Edinburgh, UK)
  PROTECTION OF THE RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM BY THE ACTION THE 11BETA HYDROXYSTERIOID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 2
• Alan Deng (Montreal, Canada)
  GENETIC BASIS OF POLYGENIC HYPERTENSION

8:30-11:30  | Symposium 15

Regenerative Medicine of cardiovascular diseases

• Victor Dzau (Durham, USA)
  CARDIOVASCULAR STEM CELL THERAPY 2010 AND FUTURE
• Bernard Levy (Paris, France)
  A LINK BETWEEN THE MICROCIRCULATION AND THE ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE
• Yoshiko Fujita (Suita, Japan), Kazunori Otsui, Akemi Kakino, Saburo Yamaguchi, Yuko Sato, Ryo Yoshimoto, Tatsuya Sawamura
  C-REACTIVE PROTEIN BINDS TO LOX-1 AND CAUSES VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION VIA COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION
• Noboru Fukuda ( Itabashi, Japan), Ikeda Kazuya, Han Ying , Takahiro Ueno, Akiko Tsunemi, Koichi Matsumoto
  COMPLEMENT 3 IS A PRIMARY FACTOR FOR THE CARDIOVASCULAR AND RENAL REMODELINGS IN SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS
• Tatsuhiko Azegami (Tokyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Sasamura, Kaori Hayashi, Hiroshi Itoh
  EFFICACY OF RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM (RAS) VACCINE FOR PREVENTION OF PROTEINURIA AND RENAL INJURY IN SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS (SHR)
• Xiu-Hua Liu (Beijing, China), Zhen-Ying Zhang, Li-Rong Cai, Sheng Sun
  HYPOXIC PRECONDITIONING ATTENUATES ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS- INDUCED INJURY IN MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN RAT HEART
• Olga Pechanova ( Bratislava, Slovakia), Stanislava Vrankova, Jana Parohova, Silvia Liskova, Andrej Barta, Zdena Dobesova, Maria Kovacsova, Josef Zicha, Jaroslav Kuneš
  NF-KAPPA B INHIBITION INCREASES OXIDATIVE DAMAGE IN HEREDITARY HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIC RATS
• Kaori Hayashi (Tokyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Sasamura, Kimiko Ishiguro, Yusuke Sakamaki, Tatsuhiko Azegami, Hiroshi Itoh
  ROLE OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM) REMODELING IN HIGH-DOSE ANGIOTENSIN BLOCKER-INDUCED REGRESSION OF HYPERTENSION AND GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS
• Josef Zicha (Prague, Czech Republic), Maria Pinterova, Silvia Liskova, Zdena Dobesova, Jaroslav Kunes
  SYMPATHETIC HYPERACTIVITY AND RELATIVE NITRIC OXIDE DEFICIENCY IN HYPERTENSION: ABNORMAL CONTROL OF CALCIUM INFLUX
• Vladimir Jakovljevic ( Kragujevac, Serbia), Jelena Krkeljic, Dragan Djuric, Vladimir Zivkovic , Milena Vuletic, Nevena Barudzic
  THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT PHOSPHODIESTERASE-5 (PDE5) INHIBITORS ON OXIDATIVE STRESS IN ISOLATED RAT HEART

11:30-13:30 | Lunch Symposium sponsored by Pfizer Japan

Aldosterone and Hypertension
• Co-Chairs: Hiroshi Itoh and Shokei Kim-Mitsuyama

• Shokei Kim-Mitsuyama (Kumamoto, Japan)
  MECHANISM AND CLINICAL IMPLICATION OF ALDOSTERONE-INDUCED CARDIOVASCULAR OXIDATIVE STRESS AND INFLAMMATION
• Hiroshi Itoh (Tokyo, Japan)
  MIRALCORTICOID RECEPTOR (MR)-ASSOCIATED HYPERTENSION IN METABOLIC DOMINO; MOLECULAR MECHANISM, CLINICAL IMPLICATION AND MEDICAL TREATMENT
  

13:30-14:00 | Closing Ceremony