CAG BASIC SCIENCE POSTER SESSION - SUNDAY

MOTILITY AND NERVE-GUT INTERACTIONS

[039] EARLY MATERNAL SEPARATION PREDISPOSES ADULT MALE RATS TO COLONIC MUCOSAL BARRIER DYSFUNCTION IN RESPONSE TO AN ACUTE STRESSOR: ROLE OF CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE (CRH)
Mélanie Gareau, Johan D Soderholm, Derrick Yates, Glenda MacQueen¹, Mary H Perdue
Intestinal Disease Research Program and ¹Department of Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[040] A TRP-ASSOCIATED NON-SELECTIVE CATION CHANNEL IN INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL
C Golden, X-Y Wang, JD Huizinga
Intestinal Disease Research Program, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

[041] PATIENTS WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS (UC) DEMONSTRATE ABNORMALITIES OF AUTONOMIC FUNCTION WHICH ARE CORRELATED WITH MEASURES OF ANXIETY
SC Ganguli, MC Kamath, M Mohammed, Y Chen, EJ Irvine, SM Collins, G Tougas
McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, Ontario

[042] ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY IN EXPERIMENTAL COLITIS
V Templeman, K Jacobson
Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia

[043] CALCIUM-ACTIVATED CHLORIDE CHANNEL AND MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE INHIBITORS ABOLISH NANC SLOW IJP IN CIRCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE OF OPOSSUM ESOPHAGUS
Y Zhang, WG Paterson
Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

[044] ACUTE EFFECTS OF VOMITING ON ESOPHAGEAL MOTILITY IN CATS
MJ Beyak, S Xue, PI Collman, NE Diamant
Departments of Medicine and Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

[045] MUCOSAL SENSORY TRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS TRIGGER DESCENDING NEURAL VASODILATOR REFLEXES PROJECTING THROUGH THE MYENTERIC PLEXUS
DE Reed, S Vanner
GI Diseases Research Unit, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

[046] MUSCLE HYPER-CONTRACTILITY IN A MURINE MODEL OFPOST-INFECTIVE IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME - ROLE OF TGFb1 AND COX-2
H Akiho, Y Deng, P Blennerhassett, H Kanbayashi, WI Khan, SM Collins
Intestinal Disease Research Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario