Sang Don Koh, Ph.D.

Professor, Physiology and w88 sports betting app Biology
Sang don Koh

Summary

I achieved my Ph.D. under Prof. Kee Soon Kim at Hanyang University, Korea. I started patch clamp experiments on w88 sports betting app smooth muscle cells at Kyushu University, Japan, under the supervision of Prof. Kuriyama. I have always had a lot of interest in the spontaneous electrical rhythmicity of the gastrointestinal tract. I met Dr. Kenton M. w88 sports betting app in 1991. I then moved to Dr. w88 sports betting app lab at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1992.

The research in our laboratory is aimed at investigating the electrical activity of colonic myocytes and ICC. In the laboratory the patch clamp and Ca2+ imaging techniques are utilized to study cultured or freshly dispersed ICC? or w88 sports betting app myocytes.

The main aims of the study are to understand: 1) the mechanisms of spontaneous rhythmicity in ICC, 2) the intracellular signaling pathways by enteric neurotransmitters, and 3) the physiological meaning of intracellular Ca2+ puff and it regulation.

I have worked mainly on the research of the properties on the delayed rectifier K+ channels, KATP, Ca2+-activted small conductance K+ channels, A-type channels and inwardly rectifying K+ channels and their regulations in colonic myocytes with the collaboration of Dr. James L. Kenyon. Dr. Burton Horowitz has also cloned and expressed many potassium channels in oocytes and mammalian w88 sports betting app line in order to compare expressed and native channel characteristics. Recently I have been studying the role of Ca2+/calmodulin kinase and K+ channel regulation with Dr. Brian A. Perrino.

In 1996 Dr. Sean M. Ward developed an ICC culturing technique and I recorded spontaneous electrical activity from cultured ICC. This will give us a better insight into the pacemaker role of ICC. ICC can also be controlled by enteric neuronal stimulation and therefore it will be a very important tool in solving the w88 sports betting app response to this stimulation.

I always believe that God must create the unique channels in w88 sports betting app tract that are not even found in brain. I am always trying to find God's creations.

Selected publications

2006

  • Beckett EA, McCloskey C, O'Kane N, w88 sports betting app, Koh SD.2006.Effects of female steroid hormones on A-type K+ currents in murine colon. w88 sports betting app 573:453-468.
  • w88 sports betting app, Koh SD, Ward SM.2006.Interstitial cells of cajal as pacemakers in the w88 sports betting app tract. Annual Review w88 sports betting app 68:307-343.
  • w88 sports betting app, Koh SD.2006.Two-pore-domain potassium channels in smooth muscles: new components of myogenic regulation. w88 sports betting app 570:37-43.

2005

  • Cho SY, Beckett EA, Baker SA, Han I, Park KJ, Monaghan K, Ward SM, w88 sports betting app, Koh SD.2005.A pH-sensitive potassium conductance (TASK) and its function in the murine w88 sports betting app tract. w88 sports betting app 565:243-59.
  • Takeda Y, Ward SM, w88 sports betting app, Koh SD.2005.Effects of the gap junction blocker glycyrrhetinic acid on w88 sports betting app smooth muscle cells. American w88 sports betting app - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 288(4):G832-841.
  • Sergeant GP, Ohya S, Reihill JA, Perrino BA, Amberg GC, Imaizumi Y, Horowitz B, w88 sports betting app, Koh SD.2005.Regulation of Kv4.3 currents by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. American w88 sports betting app - Cell Physiology 288:C304-313.
  • Park KJ, Baker SA, Cho SY, w88 sports betting app, Koh SD.2005.Sulfur-containing amino acids block stretch-dependent K+ channels and nitrergic responses in the murine colon. British w88 sports betting app Pharmacology 144:1126-1137.

2004

  • Callaghan B, w88 sports betting app, Keef KD.2004.Muscarinic M2 receptor stimulation of Cav1.2b requires phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, protein kinase C, and c-Src. Circulation Research 94:626-633.

2003

  • Koh SD, Ward SM, Ordog T, w88 sports betting app, Horowitz B.2003.Conductances responsible for slow wave generation and propagation in interstitial cells of Cajal. Current Opinion in Pharmacology 3:579-582.
  • Baker SA, Mutafova-Yambolieva V, Monaghan K, Horowitz B, w88 sports betting app, Koh SD.2003.Mechanism of active repolarization of inhibitory junction potential in murine colon. American w88 sports betting app - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 285:G813-821.

2002

  • Koh SD, Jun JY, Kim TW, w88 sports betting app.2002.A Ca(2+)-inhibited non-selective cation conductance contributes to pacemaker currents in mouse interstitial w88 sports betting app of Cajal. w88 sports betting app 540:803-814.

2001

  • Koh SD, Monaghan K, Sergeant GP, Ro S, Walker RL, w88 sports betting app, Horowitz B.November 23, 2001.TREK-1 regulation by nitric oxide and cGMP-dependent protein kinase. An essential role in smooth muscle inhibitory neurotransmission. w88 sports betting app Biological Chemistry 2001 Nov 23;276(47):44338-46.

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