Hwee Teoh
Title
: Research Associate
Degree(s) : PhD
Phone #s : 416-864-6060 ext 6762 (office) ext 3581 (lab) Fax # : 416-864-5497
My primary research interests currently revolve around how adipokines, specifically adiponectin, are involved in inflammation and their implications in atherosclerosis and cardiometabolic diseases.
Select Publications :
Teoh, H,
Quan, A and Verma, S (2007) Does C-reactive protein predict saphenous vein graft
patency? J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg
134 281-3.
Szmitko, PE,
Teoh, H, Stewart, DJ and Verma, S (2007) Adiponectin and
cardiovascular disease.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol.
292 H1655-1663.
Teoh, H,
Lovren, F and Verma, S (2007) Vascular Dysfunction: A Janus face of Visfatin in
Diabetes? Metabolism
56 459-461.
He, JZ, Quan, A, Xu, Y,
Teoh, H, Wang, G, Fish, JE, Steer, BM, Itohara, S, Marsden, PA,
Davidge, ST and Ward, ME (2007) Induction of matrix metalloproteinase-2 enhances
systemic arterial contraction after hypoxia.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
292 H684-H693.
Teoh, H,
Strauss, MH, Szmitko, PE and Verma, S (2006) Adiponectin and myocardial
infarction: a paradox or a paradigm? Eur
Heart J. 27 2266-2268.
Ward, ME, Toporsian, M,
Scott, JA, Teoh, H, Govindaraju, V,
Quan, A, Wener, AD, Wang, G, Bevan, SC, Newton, DC and Marsden, PA (2005)
Hypoxia induces a functionally significant and translationally efficient
neuronal nitric oxide synthase mRNA variant.
J Clin Invest.
115 3128-3139.
Govindaraju, V,
Teoh, H, Hamid, Q, Cernacek, P and Ward, ME (2005) Interaction
between endothelial heme oxygenase-2 and endothelin-1 in altered aortic
reactivity after hypoxia in rats.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol.
288 H962-H970.
Teoh, H,
Zacour, M, Wener, AD, Gunaratnam, L, Ward, ME (2003) Increased myofibrillar
protein phosphatase-1 activity impairs rat aortic smooth muscle activation after
hypoxia. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol.
284 H1182-H1189.
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