{"id":165,"date":"2018-10-05T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/?p=165"},"modified":"2018-12-03T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:39:18","slug":"research-visit-to-the-department-of-physiological-sciences-at-university-of-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/2018\/10\/05\/research-visit-to-the-department-of-physiological-sciences-at-university-of-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Research visit to the Department of Physiological Sciences at University of Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp.ac.uk\/about\/staff\/biological\/koutsikou_stella.html\">Dr Stella Koutsikou <\/a>spent some of the summer break on a collaborative project with<a href=\"https:\/\/physiology.med.ufl.edu\/faculty\/raizada\/raizada-lab\/jasenka-zubcevic-ph-d\/\">\u00a0Dr Jasenka Zubcevic<\/a>,\u00a0in the Department of Physiological Sciences\u00a0at\u00a0\u00a0University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-171 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/University-of-Florida-300x75.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/University-of-Florida-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/University-of-Florida.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The aim of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp.ac.uk\/about\/staff\/biological\/koutsikou_stella.html\">Dr Koutsikou&#8217;s<\/a> visit was to complete experimental work, analyse data,\u00a0discuss findings and draft her first collaborative original research paper, on the way by which bone marrow inflammation contributes to the development of hypertension. Unexpectedly, this research visit provided D<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp.ac.uk\/about\/staff\/biological\/koutsikou_stella.html\">r Koutsikou<\/a> with the right opportunity to discuss some other interesting observations and carry out pilot experiments. &#8216;Those implicated the CNS into the pathway fro<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA2-e1538748711914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA2-e1538748711914-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA2-e1538748711914-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA2-e1538748711914.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>m bone marrow inflammation to hypertension&#8217;.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-170 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In addition to working with Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/physiology.med.ufl.edu\/faculty\/raizada\/raizada-lab\/jasenka-zubcevic-ph-d\/\">Jasenka\u00a0Zubcevic<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp.ac.uk\/about\/staff\/biological\/koutsikou_stella.html\">Dr Koutsikou<\/a> spent time with other research group leaders where they discussed and brainstormed other scientific developments in the department.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-169 size-medium\" title=\"Entrance to the UF Health building\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/files\/2018\/10\/stella_FLORIDA3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entrance to the UF Health building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp.ac.uk\/about\/staff\/biological\/koutsikou_stella.html\">Dr Koutsikou&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0collaboration with Dr Jasenka\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vetmed.ufl.edu\/about-the-college\/faculty-directory\/jasenka-zubcevic\/\">Zubcevic<\/a>, has\u00a0been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Physiological Society and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msp.ac.uk\">Medway School of Pharmacy s<\/a>taff research &amp; the development funding scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Stella Koutsikou spent some of the summer break on a collaborative project with\u00a0Dr Jasenka Zubcevic,\u00a0in the Department of Physiological Sciences\u00a0at\u00a0\u00a0University of Florida. The aim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/2018\/10\/05\/research-visit-to-the-department-of-physiological-sciences-at-university-of-florida\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}