| 7th February 2009 (Sunday) | |
| Arrival | |
| 8th February 2010 (Monday) | |
| Opening remark | |
| 9:55-10:00 | Hikaru Suzuki (Japan) |
| Oral communications-1 Chair persons: San Don Koh(USA), Richard Lang (Australia) |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Yoshi Kito (Japan) 'Interstitial cells of Cajal generate spontaneous transient depolarizations in the rat gastric fundus' |
| 10:30-11:00 | Sung Jin Hwang (USA) 'β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is an inhibitory neurotransmitter in colonic tissues' |
| Coffee break (11:00-11:30) | |
| 11:30-12:00 | San Don Koh (USA) 'Ca2+ sensitivity of Ca2+-activated Cl- conductance in interstitial cells of Cajal and TMEM16A' |
| 12:00-12:30 | Hikaru Suzuki (Japan) 'Factors which modulate the duration of slow waves in the guinea-pig stomach' |
| Lunch (12:30-14:10) | |
| Oral communications-2 Chair persons: Helena Parkington (Australia), Shigeko Torihashi (Japan) |
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| 14:10-14:30 | Hiromi Aranishi (Japan) Student presentation 'Morphological features of the interstitial cells of Cajal in the subserosal layer in the guinea-pig proximal colon' |
| 14:30-15:00 | Dirk Van Helden (Australia) 'Role of Ca2+ Stores in Pacemaking and Signalling' |
| 15:00-15:30 | Shigeko Torihashi (Japan) 'Differentiation of smooth muscle cells and ICC both in vivo and in vitro' |
| Coffee break (15:30-16:00) | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Helena Parkington (Australia) 'Co-ordinating contraction in the pregnant uterus' |
| 16:30-17:00 | Shinsuke Nakayama (Japan) 'Methods to Analyze Smooth Muscle Rhythmic Activity' |
| 17:00- | Free discussion |
| 9th February 2010 (Tuesday) | |
| Special lecture Chair person: Hikaru Suzuki (Japan) |
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| 9:00-10:00 | Giorgio Gabella (UK) 'Smooth muscles: Their variety and the presence of interstitial and other non-muscle cells' |
| Coffee break (10:00-10:30) | |
| Work shop-1 "ICC and neuromuscular transmission" Chair person: Kenton Sanders (USA) |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Kenton Sanders (USA) 'The role of interstitial cells of Cajal in enteric motor neurotransmission' |
| 11:00-11:30 | Satoshi Iino (Japan) 'Morphological arguments for innervation of ICC and involvement of ICC in neurotransmission' |
| 11:30-12:00 | Jan Huizinga (Canada) 'Synaptic and non-synaptic innervation of ICC and smooth muscle' |
| 12:00-12:30 | Sean Ward (USA) 'Neuromuscular apparatus facilitating a role for ICC in neurotransmission' |
| Lunch (12:30-13:30) | |
| 13:30- | Free discussion |
| 10th February 2010 (Wednesday) | |
| Work shop-2 "ICC-like cells in uro-genital organs - Current and Future
Views" Chair person: Noel McHale (Ireland), Clinical commentator: Masaki Yoshida (Japan) |
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| 9:00-9:10 | Hikaru Hashitani (Japan) 'Introduction' |
| 9:10-9:40 | Richard Lang (Australia) 'Electrical properties of single atypical smooth muscle cells and ICC-like cells freshly isolated from the mouse pyeloureteric system' |
| 9:40-10:10 | Christopher Fry (UK) 'The role of suburothelial interstitial cells in the bladder wall' |
| 10:10-10:40 | Karen McCloskey (UK) 'ICC in the bladder detrusor' |
| Coffee break (10:40-11:10) | |
| 11:10-11:40 | Gerard Sergeant (Ireland) 'Regulation of pacemaker activity in urethral interstitial cells of Cajal by mitochondria' |
| 11:40-12:00 | Hikaru Hashitani (Japan) 'Role of perinuclear mitochondria in spatiotemporal dynamics of spontaneous Ca2+ waves in ICC-like cells-Do they sense metabolic demand?-' |
| 12:00-12:30 | Keith Thornbury (Ireland) 'Purinergic responses of ICC and smooth muscle cells isolated from rabbit urogenital tissues' |
| 12:30-13:00 | Discussion |
| Lunch (13:00-14:30) | |
| Oral communications-3 Chair persons: Christopher Fry (UK), Keith Thornbury (Ireland) |
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| 14:30-14:50 | Shuni Kajioka (Japan) 'The features of oscillating currents observed in detrusor smooth muscle' |
| 14:50-15:10 | Yasue Kubota (Japan) 'Altered distribution of interstitial cells in the guinea pig bladder following bladder outlet obstruction' |
| 15:10-15:30 | Tokumasa Hayashi (Japan) 'The contractile function and morphological characteristics of the guinea pig seminal vesicle' |
| 15:30-15:50 | Hiromichi Takano (Japan) 'Properties of spontaneous vasoconstrictions in suburothelial venules of the rat bladder' |
| Coffee break (15:50-16:20) | |
| Work shop-3 "Definition and terminology of ICC" Chair persons: Terumasa Komuro (Japan), Jan Huizinga (Canada) |
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| 16:20-16:50 | Terumasa Komuro (Japan) 'Introductory comments on terminology of ICC in the gut and morphological features of each ICC subtype' |
| 16:50-17:20 | Jan Huizinga (Canada) 'Nomenclature of interstitial cells of Cajal within and outside the gut' |
| 17:20-18:00 | Discussion |
| Dinner (19:00- ) | |
| 11th February 2010 (Thursday) | |
| Departure | |
