Wong, Tak Ming

Wong, Tak Ming

黃德明

Professor

e-mail: wongtakm@hkucc.hku.hk

Tel.: 2819-9194

Outstanding Researcher Award, HKU (2000-2001).
Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award, HKU (2001-2002).
Editor, Journal of Neurochemistry.
Panel Member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council-Biology and Medicine (2001-2005).

Cardiovascular Physiology and Cellular Physiology

Research interests:

Hormonal and neural control of the heart.
Signal transduction and cross-talk between receptors.
Cardioprotection of ischaemic preconditioning, kappa opioid receptor stimulation and sex hormones.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Liu, J., Tsang, S. and Wong, T.M. (2006) Testosterone is required for delayed cardioprotection and enhanced HSP70 expression induced by preconditioning. Endocrinol. 147 (10): 4569 - 4577.

Kam, K.W.L., Qi, J.-S., Chen, M. and Wong, T.M. (2004) Estrogen reduces cardiac injury and expression of beta1-adrenoceptor upon ischemic insult in the rat heart. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 309, 8-15.

Wu, S., Li, H.Y. and Wong, T.M. (1999) Cardioprotection of preconditioning by metabolic inhibition in the rat ventricular myocyte. Involvement of kappa-opioid receptor. Circ. Res. 84, 1388-1395.

Yu, X.-C., Wang, H.-X. and Wong, T.M. (1999) Cross-talk between cardiac k-opioid and b-adrenergic receptors in developing hypertensive rats. J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol. 31, 597-605.

Wong, T.M., Lee, A.Y.S. and Tai, K.K. (1990) Effects of drugs interacting with opioid receptors during normal perfusion or ischaemia and reperfusion-an attemt to identify cardiac opioid receptor subtype(s) involved in arrhythmogenesis. J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol. 22, 1167-1175.