Dr. Peipei Ping
Professor
Physiology, Medicine, and Cardiology
1609/1619 MRL
310-267-5624
310-267-5623  FAX
peipeiping@earthlink.net or peipeiping@hotmail.com
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Research Interests:

Functional proteomic analysis of the normal, ischemic and protected myocardium. Mapping cardiac sub-proteomes. Transgenic models of cardiac protection.

Representative Publications:

Zong C, Gomes AV, Drews O, Li X, Young GW, Berhane B, French SW, Bardag-Gorce F, Ping P. Regulation of Murine Cardiac 20S Proteasomes. Circ Res. 2006; 99(4):372-80.

Gomes AV, Zong C, Edmondson RD, Li X, Stefani E, Zhang J, Jones RC, Thyparambil S, Ping P. Mapping the murine cardiac 26S proteasome complexes. Circ Res. 2006; 99(4):362-71.

Ping P. et al. A functional annotation of subproteomes in plasma. Proteomics. 2005; 5:3506-3519.

Representative Publications:

Chen, B.M. and Grinnell, A.D. (1997) Kinetics, Ca++ dependence, and biophysical properties of integrin-mediated mechanical modulation of transmitter release from frog motor neerve terminals. J. Neurosci.  17:904-916

Yazejian, B.M., Sun, X.-P., and Grinnell, A.D. (2000) Tracking presynaptic Ca++ dynamics during neurotransmitter release with Ca++-activated K+ channels. Nature Neurosci. 3:566-571.

Sun, V.-P., Yazejian, B, and Grinnell, A.D. (2004) Electrophysiological properties of BK channels in Xenopus motor nerve terminals. J. Physiol. 557:207-228

Synapse in Xenopus 
Nerve-muscle cell culture

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