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A/PROF THOMAS COCKS



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Organization: Pharmacology
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW (NH&MRC)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of New South Wales
Doctor of Philosophy University of London

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Characterisation of PAR2 knockout and transgenic mice: towards gene therapy for epithelia based inflammatory diseases Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2001
Characterisation of PAR2 knockout and transgenic mice: towards gene therapy for epithelia based inflammatory diseases Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2001
PARs in anxiety and epilepsy Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP 2007 - COCKS Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2007
Investigating a new therapy for immune system diseases Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A regulatory role for protease-activated receptor-2 in motivational learning in rats
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • B2 kinin receptor activation is the predominant mechanism by which trypsin mediates endothelium-dependent relaxation in bovine coronary arteries
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology
    Volume: 378
    Page numbers: 33-41
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  • Protease-activated receptor-2 regulates trypsin expression in the brain and protects against seizures and epileptogenesis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neurobiology of Disease
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 84-93
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Hepta and octapeptide agonists of protease-activated receptor 2
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Peptide Science
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 856-861
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  • Initial support for the hypothesis that PAR2 is involved in the immune response to Nippostronglylus brasiliensis in mice
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Parasitology Research
    Volume: 101
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 105-109
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  • Smooth muscle mediates circumferential conduction of hyperpolarization and relaxation of focal endothelial cell activation in large coronary arteries
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology
    Volume: 375
    Page numbers: 85-94
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Lipopolysaccharide induces epithelium- and prostaglandin E2 - dependent relaxation of mouse isolated trachea through activation of cyclooxygenase (COX)-1 and COX-2
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
    Volume: 317
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 806-12
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  • Protease-activated receptor-2 peptides activate neurokinin-1 receptors in the mouse isolated trachea
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
    Volume: 317
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 598-605
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Pharmacologically distinct intracellular calcium pools regulate tonic and oscillatory responses in porcine thoracic duct
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 83-92
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Role of the epithelium and acetylcholine in mediating the contraction to 5-hydroxytryptamine in the mouse isolated trachea
    Year: 2004
    Journal: British Journal of Pharmacology
    Volume: 141
    Page numbers: 1159-1166
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization as a remote anti-atherogenic mechanism
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 213-220
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  • Enzymatic activation of endothelial protease-activated receptors, is dependent on on artery diameter in human and porcine isolated coronary arteries
    Year: 2002
    Journal: British Journal of Pharmacology
    Volume: 136
    Page numbers: 492-501
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  • Protease-activated receptor-2 activating peptide SLIGRL inhhibits bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced recruitment of polymorphonuclear leukocytes into the airways of mice
    Year: 2002
    Journal: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 680-684
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Increased expression of protease-activated receptor-2 (PAR2) and PAR4 in human coronary artery by inflammatory stimuli unveils endothelium-dependnet relaxations to PAR2 and PAR4 agonists
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Circulation Research
    Volume: 89
    Page numbers: 92-98
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Protease-activated receptor (PAR) 1 but not PAR2 or PAR4 mediates endothelium-dependent relaxation to thrombin and trypsin in human pulmonary arteries
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 108-119
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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