Degrees

B.S. (Zoology, 1976) at National Taiwan Normal Univeristy, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
M.S. (Physiology, 1978) at National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Ph.D., Duke University

Teaching Specialty

• Physiology (Cell physiology, cardiovascular physiology and neurophysiology);
• Electrophysiology

Research Interests

My research interest is signal transduction pathways for cytokine-induced modulation of membrane currents in mammalian cardiac and vascular smooth muscle myocytes. I am also interested in mechanisms underlying aging-associated alterations in cell function.

Campus Service Activities

Dissertation Advisory Committee

Professional Honors

• Invited Seminar: Modulation of cardiac L-type Ca channel current by cytokines. 1998.
• American Health Assistant Foundation: National Heart Association. San Diego, CA.

Recent Publications

1. Liu, S.J., and J.R. Stimers. Modulation of Cl- current by external Ca2+ in cultured chick cardiac myocytes: a Ca2+ inhibitable Cl- current. Experimental Physiology 83(3):323-336, 1998.
2. Liu, S.J. and R.H. Kennedy. a 1-Adrenergic activation of L-type Ca current in rat ventricular myocytes: perforated patch-clamp recordings. Am. J. Physiol. 274:H2203-H2207, 1998.
3. Liu, S. J. and J. McHowat. Stimulation of different phospholipases A2 by tumor necrosis factor-a and interleukin-1b in adult rat ventricular myocytes. Am. J. Physiol. (Heart and Circulatory Physyology), 44: H1462-H1472, 1998.
    
4. McHowat, J., S. Liu and M.H. Creer. Selective hydrolysis of plasmalogen phospholipids by Ca-independent PLA2 in hypoxic ventricular myocytes. Am. J. Physiol. 274:C1727-C1737, 1998.
    
5. Liu, S.J., Zhou, W. and Kennedy, R.H. Suppression of b-adrenergic responsiveness of L-type Ca++ channel current by interleukin-1b in adult rat ventricular myocytes. Am. J. Physiol., 276:H141-H148, 1999.
    

E-mail Address: LiuShi@exchange.uams.edu