3rd Annual Business and Scientific Meeting of the Global GI Club
TCP Division members are invited to attend the TCP-sponsored 3rd Annual Business and Scientific Meeting of the Global GI Club, being held on Sunday, March 29th from 5-8 PM at the Faneuil Room in the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. Co-chaired by Ludmila Filaretova and Len Lichtenberger.
Invited Speakers
- Len Lichtenberger (USA): Importance of lipid-mediated surface hydrophobicity to the gut’s barrier properties.
- Klara Gyires (Hungary): Our contribution to the concept of cyto/gastroprotection, 1990-2013.
- Ludmila Filaretova (Russia): The HPA axis activation is gastroprotective component of the brain-gut interaction.
- Ganna Tolstanova (Ukraine): Central and peripheral dopaminergic system in IBD pathogenesis.
- Jackie D. Wood (USA): Moving microelectrodes from the big brain in the head to the little brain-in-the-gut.
- Koji Takeuchi (Japan): Up-regulation of COX-2 by inhibition of COX-1: A key to NSAID-induced intestinal damage?
- John Wallace (Canada): Drug actions in the GI tract: Seldom as simple as they seem.
- Yasutada Akiba (USA): Why so duodenal?
- Akinori Yanaka (Japan): Dietary sulforaphane-rich broccoli sprouts reduce colonization and attenuate gastritis in Helicobacter pylori–infected mice and humans.
- Sandor Szabo (USA): The angiogenic imbalance and the role of H. pylori: New molecular mechanisms of ulcer healing.
- Predrag Sikiric (Croatia): Gastrointestinal ulceration healing versus extra-gastrointestinal tissues
healing in terms of angiogenic growth factors, BPC 157 over EGF, FGF, VEGF.
- Masahiko Nakamura (Japan): Gastric- and lacrimal gland and pet keeping.