GARY F. MERRILL,  Ph.D.

Professor of Physiology

to contact:

732-445-2320 (office phone)

732-445-5870 (office fax)

merrill@biology.rutgers.edu (e-mail)

Research interests

        We are interested in cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology.  Our particular foci include:  ischemic heart disease (e.g. drug treatment of ischemia/reperfusion injury), hypoxia and reoxygenation, and the general metabolic control of coronary circulation.

Recent publications

1.    Merrill GF, VanDyke K, McConnell P, Powell SR.  Coronary and myocardial effects of acetaminophen:  protection during ischemia and reperfusion.  Am. J. Physiol. 2001 (in press).

2.    Merrill GF, Goldberg E.  Antioxidant actions of acetaminophen and cardioprotection.  Bas. Res. Cardiol., 2001 (in press).

3.    Merrill GF.  Antioxidant actions of acetaminophen and the injured myocardium.  In Luminescence Biotechnology: Instruments and Applications, ed. K. VanDyke, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2001 (in press).