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Dr. Chern, Yijuang

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Specialty:
  • Signal Transduction
  • Gene Regulation
  • Neurodegeneration Disease

Education and Positions:
  • Ph.D. Univ. of Massachusetts


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Lack of Type VI Adenylyl Cyclase (AC6) Leads to Abnormal Sympathetic Tone in Neonatal Mice.

Dr. Chern, Yijuang
Exp Neurol., May 28, 2013

Visceral functions are regulated by a basal sympathetic nerve discharge (SND), also known as 'sympathetic tone'. We demonstrate herein that AC6 existed in tyrosine hydroxylase-positive rostral ventrolateral medulla neurons in the brainstem. Adenylyl cyclase (AC) assays showed lower basal and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide-evoked AC activities in the brainstem of AC6-null mice, indicating that AC6 is a prominent AC isozyme in the brainstem. Furthermore, two independent lines of AC6-null mice exhibited a much higher SND,