| Programme

| Wednesday 10th | Thursday 11th | Friday 12th | Saturday 13th | | Poster Sessions |
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updated:
2007-10-01
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| Wednesday, 10th Oct. |
| 08:00 - 10:00 |
Registration |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Opening Ceremony: M. Hilz (EFAS), I. Biaggioni (AAS),
W. Grisold (OEGN),
H. Lahrmann (Congress President) |
| Main Topic I: |
Stroke and ANS Disorders -
Advances in Pathophysiology of ANS Disorders |
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Chairs: S Schwab (Germany) & I Biaggioni (USA) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Stroke and ANS disorders
G Micieli
Pavia, Italy |
| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Molecular mechanisms of reciprocal dysautonomia
V Snitsarev, Z Tan, Y Lu, R Sabharwal, MW Chapleau, FM Abboud
Iowa City, IA, USA |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Autonomic/baroreflex phenotypes in a novel mouse model of spontaneous congestive heart failure
R Sabharwal, RM Weiss, HM Stauss, CD Sigmund, FM Abboud,
MW Chapleau
Iowa City, IA, USA |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Pressor effect of water: role of the vanilloid receptor TRPv1
NR Keller, J McHugh, M Appalsamy, J Jordan, SR Raj, D Robertson
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Sympathetic - vascular transduction in POTS
I Bonyhay, J Chang, R Freeman
Boston, MA, USA |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Cerebral white matter lesions in pure autonomic failure – age related or effect of treatment?
W Struhal, H Lahrmann, CJ Mathias
Linz, Austria |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch and
Poster Session I |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
C. Bernard Lecture:
ANS in long distance endurance competitions
O. Appenzeller
Albuquerque, NM, USA |
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| Main Topic II: |
ANS and Exercise - Advances in Therapy |
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Chairs: J Jordan (Germany) & O Appenzeller (USA) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
New thoughts about cardiovascular regulation during exercise
B Levine
Dallas, TX, USA |
| 14:30 - 14:45 |
Short-term exercise training normalizes vasomotor sympathetic responses to upright tilt in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Q Fu, TB VanGundy, S Shibata, JL Hastings, MD Palmer, BD Levine
Dallas, TX, USA |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
FMS Penaz-Wesseling Travel Fellowship Award
Heart rate response to exercise in adolescents with autonomic dysfunction
BEU Burkhardt, PT Pianosi, C Brands, CJ Porter, AL Weaver, PR Fischer
Rochester, MN, USA |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Interval hypoxic training improves autonomic cardiovascular and respiratory control in COPD patients
T Haider, G Casucci, T Linser, M Faulhaber, H Gatterer, I Ehrenbourg, M Burtscher, L Bernardi
Innsbruck, Austria |
| 15:15 - 15:30 |
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy: IgG effects on ganglionic synaptic transmission
Z Wang, PA Low, S Vernino
Dallas, TX, USA |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Norepinephrine transporter blockade and alpha-2 antagonism have a synergistic effect on blood pressure in autonomic failure
C Shibao, A Gamboa, SR Raj, LE Okamoto, BK Black, D Robertson,
I Biaggioni
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Combination immunomodulatory therapy for autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy
CH Gibbons, SA Vernino, R Freeman
Boston, MA, USA |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
FMS Lecture
Cardiac autonomic nervous modulation and baroreflex-sensitivity during specific sleep stages after acute myocardial infarction
H Bonnemeier
Lübeck, Germany |
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| Main Topic III: |
Sleep & Integrated Physiology |
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Chairs: R Hainsworth (UK) & F Axelrod (USA) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Sleep and ANS
M Hilz
Erlangen, Germany |
| 17:30 - 17:45 |
Sleep-dependent changes in the control of heart rhythm in human subjects
A Silvani, D Grimaldi, G Pierangeli, G Barletta, S Vandi, F Provini, R Vetrugno, P Montagna, G Zoccoli, P Cortelli
Bologna, Italy |
| 17:45 - 18:00 |
Sympathetic activation with voluntary apnea in elite divers
K Heusser, G Dzamonja, J Tank, I Palada, Z Valic, D Bakovic, A Obad, V Ivancev, A Diedrich, MJ Joyner, J Jordan, Z. Dujic
Berlin, Germany |
| 18:00 - 18:15 |
Disturbed sleep and quality of life in patients with postural tachycardia syndrome
SR Raj, I Biaggioni, BA Malow, BK Black, JF Ling III, SY Paranjape, MG Farley, D Robertson
Nashville, TN, USA |
| 18:15 - 18:30 |
Relationship of sympathetic nerve activity and cardiac output in older humans
N Charkoudian, LA Sokolnicki, CP Johnson, JH Eisenach, TB Curry, MJ Joyner, BG Wallin
Rochester, MN, USA |
| 18:30 - 19:00 |
Break |
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| 19:00 |
Welcome reception and Concert at Palais Ferstel |
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| Wednesday 10th | Thursday 11th | Friday 12th | Saturday 13th | | Poster Sessions |
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