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DR ANTHONY VERBERNE



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine - Austin Health and Northern Health
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
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Work: 9496 5978
Fax: 9459 3510
Level: 05
Building: Lance Townsend Building
Campus: Austin Hospital

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Central autonomic control Central cardiovascular control mechanisms, sympathetic vasomotor control, neurophysiology Australia
Central autonomic control Central control of glucose homeostasis Australia
Central autonomic control Vagal control of pancreatic exocrine and endocrine secretion Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2005
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1978
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1982

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member American Physiological Society Regular Member 01-Jan-2000
Member Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists Regular Member 01-Jan-1980
Member Australian Neuroscience Society Regular Member 01-Jan-1981
Member Australian Society of Medical Research Regular Member 01-Jan-1998
Member International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience Member 01-Jan-1996
Member Society for Neuroscience (USA) Regular Member 01-Jan-1991
Member American Physiological Society Membership Committee 01-Jan-2007
Member American Journal of Physiology (Regulatory, Integrative & Comparative) Editorial Board Member 01-Jan-2004 31-Dec-2008
Member Brain Research Bulletin Editorial Board Member 01-Jan-2004
Member British Journal of Pharmacology Editorial Board Member 01-Jan-2002

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
IDENTIFICATION OF BRAIN NEURONS INVOLVED IN THE CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE TO FEAR AND FLIGHT Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2001
NHMRC Research Fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2005
NEUROCIRCUITRY OF A NOVEL GASTROINTESTINAL-CIRCULATORY REFLEX Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2005
Research Fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2006
Does diabetes alter how the brain controls blood sugar? Chief Investigator SIR EDWARD DUNLOP MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION Medical Research Grants 27/06/2008

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

  • Inhibition of the bradycardic component of the von Bezold-Jarisch reflex and carotid chemoreceptor reflex by periaqueductal gray stimulation:  involvement of medullary receptors
    Year: 2009
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 2017-2028
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Activation of cholecystokinin (CCK1) and serotonin (5-HT3) receptors increases the discharge of pancreatic vagal afferents


     


    Year: 2008
    Journal: European Journal of Pharmacology
    Volume: 601
    Page numbers: 1198-206
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  • Activation of the dorsal vagal nucleus increases pancreatic exocrine secretion in the rat


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroscience Letters
    Volume: 433
    Page numbers: 71-76
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  • Abdominal vagal signalling: a novel role for cholecystokinin in circulatory control?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 59
    Page numbers: 140-154
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • The role of NMDA and non-NMDA receptors in the NTS in mediating three distinct sympathoinhibitory reflexes

    Year: 2007
    Journal: Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology
    Volume: 376
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 241-252
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • An enteric signal regulates putative gastrointestinal presympathetic vasomotor neurons in rats


    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology
    Volume: 290
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: R625-R633
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  • Chemical stimulation of visceral afferents activates medullary neurones projecting to the central amygdala and periaqueductal grey
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Brain Research Bulletin
    Volume: 361
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 1-9
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  • Pancreatic vasoconstrictor responses are regulated by neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1102
    Issue: 2006
    Page numbers: 127-134
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  • The sympathoinhibitory effects of systemic cholecystokinin are dependent on neurons in the caudal ventrolateral medulla in the rat
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology
    Volume: 291
    Page numbers: R1390-R1398
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Publications in 2005

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • CCK-induced inhibition of presympathetic vasomotor neurons: dependence on subdiaphragmatic vagal afferents and central NMDA receptors in the rat
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology
    Volume: 287
    Page numbers: R809-R816
    Publisher: American Physiological Society(Maryland)
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  • Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript in catecholamine and noncatecholamine presympathetic vasomotor neurons of rat rostral ventrolateral medulla
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 476
    Page numbers: 19-31
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Differential cardiac parasympathetic innervation - what is the functional significance?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology
    Volume: 287
    Page numbers: R485-R486
    Publisher: American Physiological Society(Maryland)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Chemical stimulation of vagal afferent neurons and sympathetic vasomotor tone
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Brain Research Reviews
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 288-305
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Phenotypic Identification of Rat Rostroventrolateral Medullary Presympathetic Vasomotor Neurons inhibited by Exogenous Cholecystokinin
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 465
    Page numbers: 467-479
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Roles for CCK1 and 5-HT3 receptors in the effects of CCK on presympathetic vasomotor neuronal discharge in the rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: British Journal of Pharmacology
    Volume: 139
    Page numbers: 415-423
    Publisher: Nature Publishing Group(Basingstroke)
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Major Reference Works

  • Medulla Oblongata:Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences
    Year: 2003
    Reference Work Title: Medulla Oblongata
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Cholecystokinin selectively affects presympathetic vasomotor neurons and sympathetic vasomotor outflow
    Year: 2002
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology
    Volume: 282
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: R1174-R1184
    Publisher: American Physiological Society(Maryland)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Regional haemodynamic responses to activation of the medial prefrontal cortex depressor region
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 919
    Page numbers: 221-231
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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