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LAI, N. CHIN

Research Associate

Degrees:

  • B.S., Our Lady of the Lake University
  • M.S., University of California, San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

  • Fish cardiovascular physiology
  • Chronic heart failure in mammals
  • Fish locomotion and energetics


Home Department:
MBRD

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0204

Email: nclai@ucsd.edu


Publications:

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1997. Hemodynamics and blood respiratory properties in the short fin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus. Copeia 1997:424-428.

1998. Echocardiographic and hemodynamic determination of ventricular filling pattern in some teleost fishes. Physiological Zoology 71(2):157-168.

2000. Intracoronary delivery of adenovirus encoding adenylyl cyclase VI increases left vertricular function and cAMP generating capacity. Circulation 102:2396-2401.

2000. Intracoronary gene transfer of fibroblast growth factor-4 increases regional contractile function and responsiveness to adrenergic stimulation in heart failure. Cardiac and Vascular Regeneration 1:11-21

2001. Regulation of cardiac function in the horn shark by changes in pericardial fluid volume mediated through the pericardioperitoneal canal. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 24:141-148.