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      HYPERTENSION /CARDIOLOGY ::    THOMAS CHIN, M.D.      tchin@uthsc.edu  
 
 Publications :: Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiology

Dr. Thomas Chin’s research interests are in the field of cardiac physiology, with a special interest in altered contractility at the ventricular myocyte (heart muscle cell) level during development, and with congenital heart disease. Current studies, performed in collaboration with the Molecular Cardiology Laboratory at the NIH/NHLBI, focus on altered myocyte structure and function in a mouse model with the congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot, an important problem in children. Dr. Chin has additional research interests in cardiomyopathies and the treatment of hypercholesterolemia in children and adolescents.

Peter J Leary PJ, Rajasekaran S, Morrison RR, Tuomanen EI, Chin TK, Hofmann PA. A cardioprotective role for platelet activating factor through NOS-dependent S-nitrosylation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2008. 294(6):H2775-2784.
 
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