E-mail: ivan@luptak.org
Place of Birth: Martin, Slovak Republic
Education:
1999- PhD-pending (Normal and pathological physiologySchool of Medicine,Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Postgraduate study at the Department of Pathophysiology
1994-99 MD (general medicine) School of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
1993-94 1st School of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
International electives:
07-08/1998 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - IIT, Haifa, Israel
Postdoctoral Training:
10/2002- postdoctoral fellow at the NMR Laboratory for Physiological Chemistry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
10/1999-9/2002 Research assistant at the Department of Pathophysiology, Comenius University, Bratislava, part-time position as a research assistant at the Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
08/1999-10/1999 Internship at the Internal Medicine Unit, General Hospital, Lucenec, Slovak Republic
Licensure and Certification:
2001- Open Water Diver PADI Certification
Professional Societies:
2002 New York Academy of Sciences, member
1999 Nitric Oxide Society, Slovak Academy of Sciences, member
Awards and Honors:
2001 Comenius University Award for Young Researchers
1997-1998 Dean's scholarship (merit award based on academic performance)
Research, Teaching, and Clinical Contributions
2000, Pathophysiology - heart failure, medical students (groups of 40) - 30 hours
2000, Pathophysiology - orthostatic hypotension medical students (groups of 40) - 30 hours
2001, Physiology -, blood pressure regulations students of biology (group of 10) - 6 hours
Original Articles:
1. Ronglih Liao, Mohit Jain, Lei Cui, Jessica D'Agostino, Francesco Aiello, Ivan Luptak, Soeun Ngoy, Richard M. Mortensen, Rong Tian: Cardiac-Specific Overexpression of GLUT1 Prevents the Development of Heart Failure Attributable to Pressure Overload in Mice. Circulation 2002 106: 2125 - 2131: published online before print September 30, 2002
2. Simko F, Luptak I, Matuskova J, Babal P, Pechanova O, Bernatova I, Hulin I. Heart remodeling in the hereditary hypertriglyceridemic rat: effect of captopriland nitric oxide deficiency.Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Jun;967:454-62
3. Torok J, Babal P, Matuskova J, Luptak I, Klimes I, Simko F. Impaired endothelial function of thoracic aorta in hereditaryhypertriglyceridemic rats.Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2002 Jun;967:469-75
4. Mladosievicova B, Foltinova A, Luptak I, Petrasova H, Hulin I. Frequency-domain analysis of the QRS complex after treatment of childhood cancer with anthracycline cytostatics. Pediatric Cardiology 2001 , Vol 22, Iss 6, pp 478-482
5. Skalova K, Luptak I, Matuskova J, Turcani M, Hulin I. Adenosine and cardioprotection: What can we learn from nature's genetic polymorphism? Bratisl Lek Listy. 2002; 103(6): 2-
Abstracts:
1. Luptak I, Matuskova J, Babal P, Pechanova O, Bernatova I, Simko F. The alteration of the heart growth in HTG rats: Effect of ACE inhibition. (abstract) Physiol Res 2001
2. Matuskova J, Luptak I, Babal P, Pechanova O, Bernatova I, Simko F. Captopril prevents hypertension and fibrosis in NO deficient HTG rats. (abstract). Physiol Res 2001
3. Simko F, Luptak I, Matuskova J, Pechanova O, Bernatova I, Hulin I. High dose of L-Arginine did not prevent hypertension and hypertrophy development in the model of L-NAME induced hypertension. (abstract) Physiol Res 2001
4. Bernadic M, Murin J, Turcani M, Holzerova J, Luptak I, Skalova K, Duris I, Hulin I. In vivo assessment of myocardial function in the model of haemorrhagic shock and ischaemic-reperfusion injury (abstract) European Journal of Internal Medicine 12 (2001) 222
5. Matuskova J; Luptak I; Pechanova O; Babal P; Stvrtina S; Simko F Spironolactone prevents hypertension and left ventricular hypetrophy development in no-deficient hypertension Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2002, Vol 34, Iss 6, pp A86-A86
6. Simko F; Matuskova J; Luptak I; Pechanova O; Babal P Simvastatin fails to prevent remodeling of the left ventricle and aorta in L-NAME induced hypertension hypertension Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2002, Vol 34, Iss 6, pp A90-A90
7. Simko F; Matuskova J; Luptak I; Bernatova I; Pechanova O; Braunova Z; Kucharska J; Gvozdjakova A L-arginine fails to prevent heart remodeling but prevents a coenzyme Q decline in L-NAME-induced hypertension Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2002, Vol 34, Iss 6, pp A90-A90
8. Simko F; Luptak I; Matuskova J; Babal P; Pechanova O; Bernatova I; Hulin I Remodeling of the heart in the hereditary hypertriglyceridemic rat: Effect of captopril and L-NAME Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 2002, Vol 34, Iss 6, pp A90-A90
Book Chapters:
1. In: Patofyziologia, Experimental models of hypertension (in Slovak), Skalova K, Luptak I, 2002, Volume: , Pages: (in press)
2. In: Patofyziologia, Cytoskeleton (in Slovak), Matuskova J, Luptak I, 2002, Volume: , Pages: (in press)
My name is Ivan Luptak.
Mozete ma volat aj Ivko.
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