{"id":6108,"date":"2021-02-03T14:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cgibd\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=6108"},"modified":"2024-03-06T18:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:30:24","slug":"anthony-blikslager-dvm-phd","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cgibd\/directory\/anthony-blikslager-dvm-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Blikslager, DVM, PhD, DACVS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Research Summary<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Dr. Blikslager is a veterinarian with a clinical emphasis on surgical gastroenterology in large animals, and a doctorate in gastrointestinal physiology, He has developed novel large animal models of intestinal diseases that afflict both people and animals. He is the director of the Large Animal Models Core for the CGIBD.  His research has primarily focused on mechanisms of mucosal epithelial repair in the setting of ischemia\/ reperfusion injury in pigs, and originally developed a fundamental model of ex vivo porcine mucosal repair. He has used knowledge of electrophysiology as well as anatomical cellular components of the mucosa to design models that answer basic questions about intestinal mucosal integrity. Much of this research has focused on the relative roles of epithelial restitution and re-assembly of tight junctions, with detailed analyses of the mechanistic roles of ion transporters, enteric nerves, and inflammatory cells in mucosal repair. He has also studied neural-epithelial interactions in the context of stress-induced gut dysfunction, but the interaction between glial cells in particular and injured epithelium is a recent area of study. <\/p>\n<p><strong>CGIBD Focus Area(s):\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Regeneration and Repair<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborators:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Dellon, Garman, Gonzalez, Magness, van Landeghem, Zeigler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Summary Dr. Blikslager is a veterinarian with a clinical emphasis on surgical gastroenterology in large animals, and a doctorate in gastrointestinal physiology, He has developed novel large animal models of intestinal diseases that afflict both people and animals. He is the director of the Large Animal Models Core for the CGIBD. 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