Shivendra D. Shukla , PhD
- Professor Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
- Margaret Proctor Mulligan Professorship in Medical Research
Research
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Areas of expertise
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Research Summary
The research in Dr. Shukla’s laboratory deals with the pharmacology of transmembrane signaling, and epigenetic pathways in cellular responses and disease processes. Two areas have been targeted [a] blood platelet responses to platelet activating factor and thrombin with relevance to diabetes; and [b] alcohol-induced liver injury. The current focus is onto the epigenetic histone modifications by alcohol (ethanol) and its relevance to cellular damage in liver subjected to chronic and binge ethanol in vivo.