Regents' Professor and Director of Medical Physiology

 PhonDr. Michael Brandse:  (706) 721-9785
 Fax:  (706) 721-7299
 Email:  mbrands@augusta.edu
 Office: CA-3098
 Lab: CA-3095

 

 

 

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Education and Training

Rockhurst Jesuit University, Kansas City, MO: BS, 1983
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO: PhD in Physiology, 1988
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS: Postdoctoral fellowship, 1988-1991




Academic Appointments

1991 - Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center
1996 - Associate Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center
2000 - Professor, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University
2016 - Regents' Professor, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University




Research Interests

Cardiovascular-renal integrative physiology and hypertension. Longstanding interest in renal and hormonal mechanisms for chronic blood pressure and circulatory system control in states of insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and diabetes.

(Go to Pub Med)

Brands MW.  Unifying Approach for Interpreting the Physiological Effect of High Salt Intake.  Hypertension 2020;75:620-622.
Klemens CA, Brands MW, Staruschenko A.  Postprandial effects on electrolyte homeostasis in the kidney.  Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2019;317:F1405-F1408.
Blass G, Klemens CA, Brands MW, Palygin O, Staruschenko A.  Postprandial effects on ENaC-mediated sodium absorption.  Sci. Rep. 2019;12:4296-4306.
Brands MW.  The Role of Insulin-Mediated Antinatriuresis in Sodium Homeostasis and Hypertension.  Hypertension. 2018 72:1255-1262.
Irsik DL, Brands MW.  Physiologic Hyperinsulinemia Caused by Acute Hyperglycemia Minimizes Renal Sodium Loss by Direct Action on the Kidney.  Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2018;315:R547-R552.
Irsik D, Blazer-Yost B, Staruschenko A, Brands MW.  The normal increase in insulin after a meal may be required to prevent postprandial renal sodium and volume losses.  Am J Physiol Reg Integ Comp Physiol, 2017 2017;312:R965-R972.
Brands MW and Manhiani MM.   Sodium retaining effect of insulin in diabetes.  Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 303:R1101-1109, 2012.
Manhiani MM, Duggan AD, Wilson H, and Brands MW.  Chronic Intra-Renal Insulin Replacement Reverses Diabetes Induced Natriuresis and Diuresis. Hypertension. 2012;59:421-430.

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LAB PERSONNEL

Weston Bush
Research Assistant

Alex Coleman
Research Assistant

2021 Brands LabPictured from left to right: Weston Bush, Alex Coleman (2021)
 
2019 Brands LabPictured from left to right: Katherine
Hatcher, Rob Muller, Dr. Michael
Brands (2019)
 
Dr. Brands LabPictured from left to right: Dan Duggan, Rabei Alaisami, Debra Irsik, Michael Brands, Ashley Washington