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Karl-Erik Andersson, M.D., Ph.D.


Karl-Erik Andersson, M.D., Ph.D.Professor

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Phone: 336-713-1195

Email: keanders@wfubmc.edu



EDUCATION:

 

1968  M.D.  University of Lund
1973  Thesis, pharmacology: "Studies on the excitation-contraction coupling in frog skeletal muscle" Department of Pharmacology, University of Lund. Supervisor prof Paul Edman.



RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

Drug Treatment of OAB
Basis for Drug Treatment of OAB
Pharmacology of Regenerating Bladder Tissues
Future Drugs for the Treatment of BPH/LUTS
Treating OAB Patients with Antimuscarinics: Cardiac Considerations
Bladder Dysfunction: Future Treatment Perspectives
Effects of Antimuscarinics on Bladder Afferent Signaling
Effects of Antimuscarinic Treatment on Heart and Bladder


RECENT PUBLICATIONS :

 

Hedlund P, Streng T, Lee T, Andersson KE. Effects of Tolterodine on Afferent Neurotransmission in Normal and Resiniferatoxin Treated Conscious Rats.
J Urol. 2007 Jul;178(1):326-31.
Lu B, Poirier C, Gaspar T, Gratzke C, Harrison W, Busija D, Matzuk M, Andersson KE, Overbeek PA, Bishop CE. A Mutation in the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Peptidase 2-Like Gene (Immp2l) Affects Mitochondrial Function and Impairs Fertility in Mice.Biol Reprod. 2007 Dec 19; [Epub ahead of print]
Streng T, Axelsson HE, Hedlund P, Andersson DA, Jordt SE, Bevan S, Andersson KE, Högestätt ED, Zygmunt PM. Distribution and Function of the Hydrogen Sulfide-Sensitive TRPA1 Ion Channel in Rat Urinary Bladder. Eur Urol. 2008 Feb;53(2):391-400. Epub 2007 Oct 22.
Hipp J, Andersson KE, Kwon TG, Kwak EK, Yoo J, Atala A. Microarray analysis of exstrophic human bladder smooth muscle. BJU Int. 2008 Jan;101(1):100-5. Epub 2007 Sep 13.
Lee T, Andersson KE, Streng T, Hedlund P. Simultaneous registration of intraabdominal and intravesical pressures during cystometry in conscious rats-Effects of bladder outlet obstruction and intravesical PGE(2). Neurourol Urodyn. 2008;27(1):88-95.
Ney P, Pandita RK, Newgreen DT, Breidenbach A, Stöhr T, Andersson KE. Pharmacological characterization of a novel investigational antimuscarinic drug, fesoterodine, in vitro and in vivo. BJU Int. 2008 Feb 15; [Epub ahead of print]
Gomez-Pinilla PJ, Gomez MF, Swärd K, Hedlund P, Hellstrand P, Camello PJ, Andersson KE, Pozo MJ. Melatonin restores impaired contractility in aged guinea pig urinary bladder. J Pineal Res. 2008 Jan 9; [Epub ahead of print]
Lu B, Poirier C, Gaspar T, Gratzke C, Harrison W, Busija D, Matzuk M, Andersson KE, Overbeek PA, Bishop CE. A Mutation in the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane Peptidase 2-Like Gene (Immp2l) Affects Mitochondrial Function and Impairs Fertility in Mice. Biol Reprod. 2007 Dec 19; [Epub ahead of print]
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> Amin, Ashok
> Andersson, Karl-Erik
> Atala, Anthony
> Bassaganya-Riera, Josep
> Birkedal, John
> Bohn, Jan
> Brown, Gary
> Buehrer, Michael
> Burdette, Jonathan
> Campbell, Tom
> Carr, J. Jeffrey
> Carroll, David
> Chatterjee, Arjun
> Christ, George
> Crawford, Carl
> Dahlgren, Linda
> Davis, William
> Davy, Kevin
> Diller, Thomas
> Eng, Ludeman
> Ferguson, Cristine
> Fetrow, Jacquelyn
> Gage, Donald
> Goulbourne, Nakhiah
> Grange, Robert
> Hampton, Carnell
> Harrison, Benjamin
> Heath, Lenwood
> Herrington, David
> Holzwarth, George
> Huckle, William
> Hundley, William
> Inzana, Thomas
> Jones, Jeryl
> Jortner, Bernard
> Kim-Shapiro, Daniel
> Kremkau , Frederic
> Lanz, Otto
> Laubenbackher, Reinhard
> Laurienti, Paul
> Lazar, Iuliana
> Lee, Sang Jin
> Li, Liwu
> Link, Kerry
> Maldjian, Joseph
> Marsh, Anthony
> Meehan, Kathleen
> Moore, David
> Morykwas, Michael
> Ohanehi, Donatus
> Paul, Mark
> Plaut, Raymond
> Quek, Francis
> Ross, Shane
> Rubin, Bruce
> Rzigalinski, Beverly
> Schurig, Gerhardt
> Smith, Thomas
> Soker, Shay
> Sturges, Robert
> Suzuki, Yasuhiro
> Tafti, Danesh
> Tanaka, Martin
> Van Dyke , Mark
> Watson, Layne
> Wiesler, Ethan
> Yoo, James
> Zhang, Chenming

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