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Steven Driska, PhD

Associate Professor, Physiology

Telephone:  215-707-3283

Fax:  215-707-4003

Office: Old Medical School Room 230A

Email: driska@temple.edu

Department of Physiology

BS, Chemistry, 1970

Canisius College

Buffalo, NY

 

PhD, Chemistry, 1976

Carnegie-Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

 

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1975-1979

University of Virginia Medical School

Charlottesville, VA

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Contraction of airway and vascular smooth muscle cells.

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

19434687. Laudadio RE, Wolfson MR, Shaffer TH, Driska SP, Developmental differences in the contractile response of isolated ovine tracheal smooth muscle cells. Pediatr Pulmonol 44:6(602-12)2009 Jun

17436327. Cullen AB, Cooke PH, Driska SP, Wolfson MR, Shaffer TH, Correlation of tracheal smooth muscle function with structure and protein expression during early development. Pediatr Pulmonol 42:5(421-32)2007 May

16534184. Cullen AB, Cooke PH, Driska SP, Wolfson MR, Shaffer TH, The impact of mechanical ventilation on immature airway smooth muscle: functional, structural, histological, and molecular correlates. Biol Neonate 90:1(17-27)2006

9887157. Driska SP, Laudadio RE, Wolfson MR, Shaffer TH, A method for isolating adult and neonatal airway smooth muscle cells and measuring shortening velocity. J Appl Physiol 86:1(427-35)1999 Jan

9648651. Driska SP, Using light scattering to locate less than a microgram of protein per band in polyacrylamide tube gels after isoelectric focusing. Anal Biochem 260:1(44-9)1998 Jun 15

2003572. Dougherty TJ, Driska SP, Unusual [Ca2+] dependence of vascular smooth muscle cell shortening velocity. Am J Physiol 260:3 Pt 1(C449-56)1991 Mar

2537571. Driska SP, Stein PG, Porter R, Myosin dephosphorylation during rapid relaxation of hog carotid artery smooth muscle. Am J Physiol 256:2 Pt 1(C315-21)1989 Feb

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