Our research laboratory is interested in studying, at the molecular level, the structure-function relationship of glutamine repeats in the calcium-activated SK3 potassium channel protein. At the cellular level, we are also interested in investigating the role of SK3 channel splice variants in regulating secretory processes of endocrine cells from the pancreas of the gastro-intestinal system and the anterior pituitary of the central nervous system.

Rayner, M.D., M. Andres, J.C. Brimecombe and J.G. Starkus. 2000. Ionic current deactivation and gating current return in conducting shaker channels. Biophys. J. 78:7a.

Murthy, S.R., M. Andres, J. Spiess, and T. Blank. 2005. Interaction network map of proteins involved in learning and memory under non-stressed and stressed conditions. Society for Neuroscience (11/05)

Andres, M. A., F. Bellinger, W. Chan, N. Baptista, and I. Cooke. 2006. The SK-Type of calcium-activated potassium channels mediate glutamate signaling in prolactin-releasing cells. FASEB Experimental Biology 2006

Bellinger, F., B. Fox, W. Chan, L. Davis, M. Andres, T. Hirano, E. Grau, I. Cooke. 2006. Ionotropic glutamate receptor activation increases intracellular calcium in prolactin-releasing cells of the adenohypophysis. American Journal of Physiology. (in press)