[BIC-announce] Special Lecture - Dr. Ian Meng, Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m. - de Grandpre Communications Centre - Chronic morphine-induced sensitization of dura responsive neurons

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Subject: Special Lecture - Dr. Ian Meng, Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m. -
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Special Lecture: 

Speaker:  Ian Meng, Phd, Department of Physiology, College of
Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England

Title:  Chronic morphine-induced sensitization of dura responsive
neurons

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 14, 4:00 p.m. 

Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre, MNI    

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Dear colleagues,

Wednesday's  special lecture will be given by Ian D. Meng, PhD,
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology,  College of Osteopathic
Medicine, University of New England

Below is an overview of Dr. Meng's research and some of his papers.


Expertise: Neuroscience; pain; headache; addiction.

General Research: Migraine headache; medication overuse headache;
transformation of migraine headache to chronic daily headache.

Current Research: Mechanisms of migraine headache; effects of chronic
drug exposure on headache; transformation of migraine to chronic daily
headache.


Recent Publications:
Meng ID, Harasawa I. Chronic morphine exposure increases the proportion
of on-cells in the rostral ventromedial medulla in rats. Life Sci. 2007
Apr 24;80(20):1915-20. Epub 2007 Feb 24; Ogawa A, Meng ID.The
cannabinoid receptor agonist, WIN 55,212-2, inhibits cool-specific
lamina I medullary dorsal horn neurons.
Neuroscience. 2006 Nov 17;143(1):265-72. Epub 2006 Sep 1.
Jordt SE, Bautista DM, Chuang HH, McKemy DD, Zygmunt PM, Hogestatt ED,
Meng ID, Julius D. Mustard oils and cannabinoids excite sensory nerve
fibres through the TRP channel ANKTM1. Nature. 2004 Jan
15;427(6971):260-5. Epub 2004 Jan 7.
Meng ID, Manning BH, Martin WJ, Fields HL An analgesia circuit activated
by cannabinoids. Nature. 1998 Sep 24;395(6700):381-3.