UK-Japan Partnering Award Symposium
"Neuropeptide Release Mechanisms and Functions"

March 20-22, 2008
University of Occupational and Environmental Health (UOEH), Kitakyushu, 807-8555 Japan


Symposium Program
 

8:45-8:50 Opening remarks Y. Ueta (UOEH, Kitakyushu, Japan)

Session I Stress, pregnancy and oxytocin
Chair: T. Higuchi (University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan)
8:50- 9:15 T. Onaka (Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan)
Role of PrRP-oxytocin system in the control of food intake and stress response
9:15- 9:40 J. Russell (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Appetite peptides actions in pregnancy
9:40- 9:55 A. Douglas (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Recruitment of oxytocin neurons at parturition
9:55-10:10 S. Meddle (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
New insights into neurohypophysial hormones and aggressive behaviour: studies of vasopressin in the rat
10:10-10:25 P. Brunton (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Adaptations in stress processing in pregnancy
10:25-10:40 Y. Takayanagi (Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan)
Drug- or gene manipulation-induced abnormalities in social behaviours

10:40-10:55 Tea Break

Special Lectures Chair: H. Yamashita (UOEH, Kitakyushu, Japan)
10:55-11:20
T. Higuchi (University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan)
Role of oxytocin and fetus-expulsion reflex at parturition
11:20-11:45
M. Kawata (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan)
Steroid hormone action on the neuron

11:45 Photo together

11:55-13:00 Lunch

Session II Vasopressin, imaging and gene expression
Chair: K. Inenaga (Kyushu Dental College, Kitakyushu, Japan)
13:00-13:25 M. Ludwig (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Vasopressin and vasopressin receptors in the rat olfactory bulb
13:25-13:50 Y. Ueta (UOEH, Kitakyushu, Japan)
The specific expression of the transgene in vasopressin- and oxytocin-secreting neurons of the hypothalamus in rats
13:50-14:15 D. Murphy (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
Functional genomic analysis of the physiologically activated hypothalamo- neurohypophyseal system
14:15-14:30 S. Gouraud (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK & Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan)
Dehydration-induced proteome changes in the rat hypothalamo- neurohypophyseal system
14:30-14:45 O. Monteiro (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Life imaging of magnocellular neurons
14:45-15:00 S. Yao (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
Optical monitoring of vasopressin release in real time: responses to different physiological challenges

15:00-15:15 Tea Break

Session III Dendritic release and peptide function
Chair: H. Ozawa (Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan)
15:15-15:40 G. Leng (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Dendritic oxytocin, appetite and sex
15:40-15:55 N. Sabatier (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Oxytocin actions in the ventromedial hypothalamus
15:55-16:10 C. Caquineau (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Reciprocal regulation of appetite for FOOD and appetite for SEX, a role for hypothalamic a-MSH?
16:10-16:25 V. Tobin (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)
Involvement of SNARES and VOCCs in dendritic secretion from magnocellular neurons
16:25-16:40 T. Yokoyama (UOEH, Kitakyushu, Japan)
Osmo- and peptide-sensitivity in the excitatory synaptic inputs to the magnocellular neurons in the supraoptic nucleus of rat

16:40-16:45 Summary and Closing remarks M. Ludwig (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK)







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