23016831
w.e.louch
medisin.uio.no
Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal
Current research focus
Control of calcium and sodium homeostasis during cardiac excitation-contraction coupling.
Research projects
Project manager
Supervisor
- Mechanisms underlying the force-frequency response in normal and failing cardiomyocytes
- Spatial homogeneity of cardiomyocyte Ca2+ handling and sarcomeric function
Collaborator
- Electrical remodelling in heart failure
- Determining factors for triggered arrhythmias
- Heart failure protein interaction
- Serca2 function in the embryonic heart
- Crosstalk between transport proteins that control intracellular sodium in cardiomyoctyes
- Identification and modulation of signaling complexes involved in hypertrophy and heart failure
- Secretoneurin in cardiac ischemia and heart failure
- The homeostatic chemokine CXCL13 and its receptor CXCR5 are regulated in experimental and human heart failure, and are involved in cardiac remodelling.
- Targeting and regulation of SERCA in the heart
- Molecular processes triggered by altered Ca2+ cycling and SR dysfunction in heart failure
- Chromogranin A, granins and heart disease
- Exercise training as anti-arrhythmic therapy in heart failure
- L-type Ca2+ current inhibition for prevention of triggered arrhythmias
- Optimization of gene deletion protocols in mouse models utilizing Mer-Cre-Mer (MCM) technology
- Role of Neil3 in regulating stem cell recruitment following myocardial infarction
- Can exercise training prevent arrhythmogenic SR Ca2+ leak in mice?
- New aspects in myocardial remodeling and dysfunction due to left ventricular pressure overload