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Journal of Neurochemistry
© International Society for Neurochemistry
Edited By: Jörg Schulz
Impact Factor: 4.061
ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2011: 59/244 (Neurosciences); 77/290 (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Online ISSN: 1471-4159
Editorial Board
Chief Editor & Editorial Office | Deputy Chief Editors | Deputy Chief Editor Reviews | Handling Editors | ISN Publication Committee
Chief Editor & Editorial Office
Jörg B. Schulz, Aachen, Germany (JNC-CE@ukaachen.de)
Laura Hausmann, Aachen, Germany (Lhausmann@ukaachen.de)
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Steven Barger, Little Rock, AK, USA (bargerstevenw@uams.edu) – Gene Regulation & Genetics
Hiroyuki Nawa, Niigata, Japan (hnawa@bri.niigata-u.ac.jp) - Signal Transduction & Synaptic Transmission
Gennadij Raivich, London, UK (g.raivich@ucl.ac.uk) - Development & Cell Biology
Xiongwei Zhu, Cleveland, OH, USA (xiongwei.zhu@case.edu) - Bioenergetics & Metabolism
Tammy Kielian, Omaha, NE, USA (tkielian@unmc.edu) - Neuroinflammation & Neuroimmunology
Min Zhuo, Toronto, Canada (min.zhuo@utoronto.ca) - Neuronal Plasticity & Behavior
Roberto Cappai, Melbourne, Australia (r.cappai@unimelb.edu.au) - Molecular Basis of Disease
David H. Small, Hobart, Australia (d.h.small@menzies.utas.edu.au) - Molecular Basis of Disease
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Marcus Rattray, Bradford, UK (m.rattray@bradford.ac.uk)
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Jan Albrecht, Warsaw, Poland (jalbrecht@imdik.pan.pl)
Christian Behl, Mainz, Germany (cbehl@uni-mainz.de)
Juan P. Bolanos, Salamanca, Spain (jbolanos@aida.usal.es)
Piotr Bregestovski, Marseille, France (piotr.bregestovski@univmed.fr)
Susan Browne, West Point, PA, USA (Susan_browne@merck.com)
Andrés Buonanno, Bethesda, USA (buonanno@mail.nih.gov)
Martin Cammarota, Natal, Brazil (mcammaro@terra.com.br)
Rudolph Castellani, Baltimore, ML, USA (rcastellani@som.umaryland.edu)
Bill Piu Chan, Beijing, China (pbchan90@gmail.com)
Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Hyderabad, India (amit@ccmb.res.in)
Janet Clark, Philadelphia, PA, USA (jclark@drexelmed.edu)
James R. Connor, Hershey, PA, USA (jconnor@hmc.psu.edu)
Mark R. Cookson, Bethesda, MD, USA (cookson@mail.nih.gov)
Martin Dichgans, Munich, Germany ( mdichgans@nefo.med.uni-muenchen.de)
Alexander Dityatev, Genoa, Italy (alexander.dityatev@iit.it)
Douglas L. Feinstein, Chicago, IL, USA (dlfeins@uic.edu)
Sergio T. Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (ferreira@bioqmed.ufrj.br)
Babette Fuss, Richmond, VA, USA (bfuss@hsc.vcu.edu)
Christian Giaume, Paris, France (christian.giaume@college-de-France.fr)
Paul E. Gottschall, Little Rock, AR, USA (pegottschall@uams.edu)
Natalia V. Gulyaeva, Moscow, Russia (nata_gul@pisem.net)
Eckart D. Gundelfinger, Magdeburg, Germany (gundelfinger@ifn-magdeburg.de)
John Hardy, London, UK (j.hardy@ion.ucl.ac.uk)
Teresa G. Hastings, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (hastings@bns.pitt.edu)
Michael Heneka, Bonn, Germany (michael.heneka@ukb.uni-bonn.de)
Etienne Hirsch, Paris, France (etienne.hirsch@upmc.fr)
William (Roberto) Invernizzi, Milan, Italy (rinvernizzi@marionegri.it)
Philipp Kahle, Tübingen, Germany (Philipp.Kahle@uni-tuebingen.de)
Paul J. Kenny, Jupiter, FL, USA (pjkenny@scripps.edu)
Kyong-Tai Kim, Pohang, Korea (ktk@postech.ac.kr)
Mark Kindy, Charleston, SC, USA (kindyms@musc.edu)
Hiroshi Kiyama, Nagoya, Japan (kiyama@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp)
Michael Koch, Bremen, Germany (Michael.koch@uni-bremen.de)
Michael Lee, Minneapolis, MN, USA (mklee@umn.edu)
Marcel Leist, Konstanz, Germany (marcel.leist@uni-konstanz.de)
Vilma R. Martins, Sao Paulo, Brazil (vmartins@cipe.accamargo.org.br)
Mary C. McKenna, Baltimore, MD, USA (mmckenna@umaryland.edu)
Kevin St. P. McNaught, New York, NY, USA (kevin.mcnaught@mssm.edu)
Frederic A. Meunier, Brisbane, Australia (f.meunier@uq.edu.au)
Elek Molnár, Bristol, UK (Elek.Molnar@bristol.ac.uk)
Anne N. Murphy, La Jolla, CA, USA (anmurphy@cox.net)
Eric J. Murphy, Grand Forks, ND, USA (emurphy@medicine.nodak.edu)
Akihiko Nunomura, Yamanashi, Japan (anunomura@yamanashi.ac.jp)
Jean-Noël Octave, Brussels, Belgium (octave@nchm.ucl.ac.be)
Arturo Ortega, Mexico City, Mexico (arortega@cinvestav.mx)
David S. Park, Ottawa, Canada (dpark@uottawa.ca)
Maria Passafaro, Milan, Italy (m.passafaro@in.cnr.it)
Marina Picciotto, New Haven, USA (marina.picciotto@yale.edu)
Peter Penzes, Chicago, IL, USA (p-penzes@northwestern.edu)
Marco A. M. Prado, London, ON, Canada (maximo.prado@gmail.com)
Alessandro Prinetti, Milan, Italy (alessandro.prinetti@unimi.it)
Elena A. Rybnikova, St.Petersburg, Russia (samoilov@pavlov.infran.ru, rybnikova1@rambler.ru)
Ester L. Sabban, Valhalla, NY, USA (esther_sabban@nymc.edu)
Carlo Sala, Milan, Italy (c.sala@in.cnr.it)
Michael F. Salvatore, Shreveport, LA, USA (msalva@lsuhsc.edu)
Ana M. Sebastião, Lisbon, Portugal (anaseb@fm.ul.pt)
Frank R. Sharp, Sacramento, CA, USA (frank.sharp@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu)
Tomoaki Shirao, Gunma, Japan (tshirao@med.gunma-u.ac.jp)
Weihong Song, Vancouver, Canada (weihong@exchange.ubc.ca)
Maria de Souza Silva, Duesseldorf, Germany (desouza@uni-duesseldorf.de)
David G. Standaert, Birmingham, AL, USA (dstandaert@uab.edu)
Jörg Stehle, Frankfurt, Germany (stehle@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Tetsuya Terasaki, Sendai, Japan (terasaki@mail.pharm.tohoku.ac.jp)
Roxanne A. Vaughan, Grand Forks, ND, USA (rvaughan@medicine.nodak.edu)
Jose L. Venero, Seville, Spain (jlvenero@us.es)
Bryce Vissel, Sydney, Australia (b.vissel@garvan.org.au)
Helle S. Waagepetersen, Copenhagen, Denmark (hsw@farma.ku.dk)
Michael Weller, Zurich, Switzerland (michael.weller@usz.ch)
Wolfgang Wick, Heidelberg, Germany (wolfgang.wick@med.uni-heidelberg.de)
Stephen R. Williams, Manchester, UK (steve.williams@manchester.ac.uk)
Marina E. Wolf, North Chicago, IL, USA (marina.wolf@rosalindfranklin.edu)
Yung H. Wong, Hong Kong, China (boyung@ust.hk)
Ian C. Wood, Leeds, UK (i.c.wood@leeds.ac.uk)
Bryan Yamamoto, Toledo, OH, USA (Bryan.Yamamoto@utoledo.edu)
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International Society for Neurochemistry Publications Committee
A. J. Turner, Leeds, Chair
M. J. Carson, Riverside, ISN Secretary
K. Ikenaka, Okazaki, ISN Treasurer
M. A. Rattray, Bradford, Deputy Chief Editor (Reviews)
A. Saria, Innsbruck, ISN President
J. B. Schulz, Aachen, Chief Editor
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Editors and their specialist fields:
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Chief Editor
Professor of Neurology and Chair, Department of Neurology, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstrasse 30, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Phone: 49 241 808 9600 Fax: 49 241 808 2582
Email: JNC-CE@ukaachen.de
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, apoptosis, cell death, clinical studies, gene therapy, motor neuron disorders, neuroprotection, Parkinson's disease, protein aggregation, synuclein, trinucleotide disorders
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Managing Editor
Department of Neurology, University Hospital, RWTH Aachen, Pauwelsstrasse 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel: 49 241 80 89920
Email: Lhausmann@ukaachen.de
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Deputy Chief Editor - Gene Regulation & Genetics
University of Arkansas Medical School, Little Rock, AK, USA
Email: bargerstevenw@uams.edu
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, aging, multi-lineage kinases, cytokines, cyclic nucleotides, proteins, calcium-binding, calcium regulation, glutamate receptors, neuroinflammation, transcriptional regulation, microglia
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Deputy Chief Editor - Signal Transduction & Synaptic Transmission
Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
Email: hnawa@bri.niigata-u.ac.jp
Web URL: http://www.bri.niigata-u.ac.jp/
Keywords: cellular neurobiology or brain disease, cytokine, neurotrophic factor, development schizophrenia, dopamine, behavior
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Deputy Chief Editor - Development & Cell Biology
University College London, London, UK
Email: g.raivich@ucl.ac.uk
Keywords: neurotrophins, colony stimulating factors, transcription factors, axonal injury and regeneration, microglia and phagocytes, neuroinflammation, hypoxic ischemic insult
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Deputy Chief Editor - Bioenergetics & Metabolism
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Email: xiongwei.zhu@case.edu
Keywords: Alzheimer disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), apoptosis, cell cycle, Huntington disease, metal ion, mitochondria, neurodegenerative diseases, neurodegeneration, oxidative stress, Parkinson disease, Signal Transduction
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Deputy Chief Editor - Neuroinflammation & Neuroimmunology
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Email: tkielian@unmc.edu
Keywords: chemokines, neuroimmunology, gap junctions, experimental brain abscess, astrocytes, microglia, cytokines
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Deputy Chief Editor - Neuronal Plasticity & Behavior
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Email: min.zhuo@utoronto.ca
Phone: 417-978-4018 Fax: 416-978-4940
Keywords: adenylyl cyclase, AMPA receptors, behaviour, Calcium, calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, GABA, glutamate, kainate, learning, memory, molecular biology, NMDA receptor NR2B, nociception, pain, plasminogen activator receptor LRP
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Deputy Chief Editor - Molecular Basis of Disease
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Email: r.cappai@unimelb.edu.au
Web URL: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, amyloid precursor protein, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prion, synuclein, Parkinson's disease, neurodegeneration, copper
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Deputy Chief Editor - Molecular Basis of Disease
Menzies Research Institute, Private Bag 23, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Email: d.h.small@menzies.utas.edu.au
Web URL: http://www.menzies.utas.edu.au/information.php?Doo=ViewData&type=Person&ID=119
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid precursor protein, acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, enzymology, molecular modelling, neurite outgrowth, ion channels, amyloid, neurodegeneration, protein misfolding
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Deputy Chief Editor - Reviews
University of Bradford, School of Life Sciences, Bradford, BD7 1DP, UK
Email: m.rattray@bradford.ac.uk
Keywords: neurotransmitter transporters; drug abuse, 5-HT (serotonin); gene expression; motor neurone disease; astrocytes; neurodegeneration
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Handling Editors
Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Email: jalbrecht@imdik.pan.pl
Keywords: amino acids, ammonia, astrocytes, blood brain barrier, excitotoxicity, glia, gliotransmission, glutamine, glutathione, neuron-glia interaction, neurotoxicity, neurotoxicology, neurotransmitters, neurotransmitter transporters, neurotransmitter receptors, oxidative and nitrosative stress
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Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Phone: 49 6131 3925890 Fax: 49 6131 3925792
Email: cbehl@uni-mainz.de
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), pathobiochemistry, stroke, molecular biology, cell biology, neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, cell death, apoptosis, necrosis, aging, amyloid, glutamate, free radical species, oxidative stress, protein homeostasis, animal model systems (C. elegans, mouse, rat)
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University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Email: jbolanos@aida.usal.es
Web URL: http://web.usal.es/~jbolanos/
Keywords: Oxidative stress, Mitochondrial bioenergetics, Glutathione, Parkinson's disease, Regulation of glycolysis, Cell cycle and neurodegeneration, Nitric oxide, Peroxynitrite, Neuronal-glial metabolic interactions, Neurotoxicity signalling, Neuroprotective signalling, AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signalling
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Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology (INMED), Marseille, France
Email: piotr.bregestovski@univmed.fr
Keywords: Function, modulation and structure of receptor-operated channels, cys-loop receptors; GABA- and glycinergic synapses; electrophysiological and image analysis of synaptic transmission; chloride monitoring; imaging of neuronal networks; endocannabinoids in modulation of synaptic function; patch-clamp and image analysis of retina.
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Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, USA
Email: Susan_browne@merck.com
Keywords: animal models of neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, Huntington's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's disease
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National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA
Email: buonanno@mail.nih.gov
Keywords: ErbB signaling, neuregulin, neuronal networks, psychiatric disorders
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Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil
Email: mcammaro@terra.com.br
Keywords: AMPA receptors, acetylcholine (ACh), angiotensin, behavior, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protin kinase II (CaMKII), cannabinoids, dopamine, glutamate, histamine, learning, MAPK, memory consolidation, NMDA receptors, noradrenaline, protein kinases (PKA, PKC), psychopharmacology, synaptic plasticity, tyrosine kinases
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University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, ML, USA
Email: rcastellani@som.umaryland.edu
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, PrPsc molecules, molecular genetics, oxidative stress
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Xunanwu Hospital, Beijing, China
Email: pbchan90@gmail.com
Keywords: neurodegeneration, neurotoxicity, molecular genetics, Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders
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Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
Email: amit@ccmb.res.in
Keywords: G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR); Membrane lipid-receptor interaction; Fluorescence spectroscopy; FRAP; FCS; Membrane cholesterol; Neuronal membrane; Membrane domain
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Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phone: 1 215 762 8578 Fax: 1 215 762 2299
Email: jclark@drexelmed.edu
Web URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/janeteaclark
Keywords: neurotransmitter transporters, neuroendocrinology, hormones, estrogen, glucocorticoid effects, psychiatric diseases, depression, stress, neuropharmacology, tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), GABAB receptors, cytokines, indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase, microglia, human platelet antigen (HPA), molecular biology, cloning, protein biochemistry
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Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Email: jconnor@hmc.psu.edu
Keywords: Metals in the brain, Neurodegenerative diseases, Blood-brain-barrier, CSF, Biomarkers, Glia, Myelin
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Laboratory of Neurogenetics, NIA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Email: cookson@mail.nih.gov
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, genetics, cell biology, kinases, oxidative stress, gene expression
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Clinic of the Munich University, Munich, Germany
Email: mdichgans@nefo.med.uni-muenchen.de
Keywords: cerebrovascular system, microvascular system, stroke, vascular cognitive impairment
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Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
Email: alexander.dityatev@iit.it
Keywords: in vitro and in vivo neurophysiology, immunocyto- and histochemistry, and cognitive behavioral tests, with emphasis on fear conditioning, cell adhesion, extracellular matrix, synaptic plasticity, LTP, LTD, metaplasticity, GABAergic and glutamatergic synaptic transmission, synaptogenesis
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Email: dlfeins@uic.edu
Keywords: glial cells, nitric oxide, cell signalling, cytokines, inflammation, astrocyte, astroglia, glioma, microglia, nitric oxide, endotoxin, LPS, GFAP, heat shock, HSP, MAPK (mitogen activated protein kinases), arginine, cytokines, EAE, MS, CAMP, astrocyte, nitric oxide, cytokines, TgAPP, EAE, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, PPAR, NFkB, microgila
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Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Email: ferreira@bioqmed.ufrj.br
Tel: ( 5521)2562-6790 (off) or ( 5521)3888-8308 (lab) Fax: ( 5521)2270-8647
Keywords: AMPA receptors, Alzheimer’s disease, Abeta oligomers, amyloid, behavioral testing, glutamatergic neurotransmission, neurodegeneration, neuronal insulin signaling, NMDA receptors, memory, synapses
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Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, VA, USA
Email: bfuss@hsc.vcu.edu
Keywords: Extracellular matrix, Transgenic mice, Oligodendrocyte, Multiple sclerosis, Focal adhesion, Myelination, Myelin
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INSERM U840, Collège de France, Paris, France
Email: christian.giaume@college-de-France.fr
Keywords: Neuroglial interaction, gap junctions, astrocytes, microglia, reactive gliosis, calcium signaling, glial electrophysiology
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Email: pegottschall@uams.edu
Keywords: proteoglycans, extracellular matrix, matrix metalloproteinases, proteases, neural plasticity, synaptic plasticity, neuroinflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, vaccination, cerebral palsy, hypoxia-ischemia
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, Russia
Email: nata_gul@pisem.net
Keywords: neuronal cell death, apoptosis, neurodegeneration, excitotoxicity, neuroprotection, neurogenesis, neurodegenerative diseases –animal and cellular models, mechanisms, biomarkers, glia in neurodegeneration, cerebral ischemia, stroke, neuroinflammation, proteases, caspases, cathepsins, free radicals, oxidative stress, neuronal(synaptic) plasticity – molecular mechanisms and behavior, nitric oxide, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta toxicity, neuropeptides, stress-induced pathology
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Federal Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
Email: gundelfinger@ifn-magdeburg.de
Keywords: synapse, synaptic proteins, neurotransmitter receptors, molecular biology of neurotransmitter release, neuronal cytoskeleton, calcium-binding proteins, DNA cloning, molecular biology of protein-protein interaction.
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Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Reta Lilla Weston Laboratories, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Email: j.hardy@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Keywords: genetics, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer, Parkinson
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University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Email: hastings@bns.pitt.edu
Keywords: proteomics, 2D-DIGE, mitochondria, PC12, dopamine, endoplasmic reticulum stress
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University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Email: michael.heneka@ukb.uni-bonn.de
Keywords: Neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, nuclear hormone receptor biology, nitric oxide
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INSERM UMR679, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Email: etienne.hirsch@upmc.fr
Keywords: Cell death, neurodegenerative disorders, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, molecular and cellular biology, histology, animal studies.
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Mario Negri Institute of Pharmacological Research (Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri"), Milan, Italy
Email: rinvernizzi@marionegri.it
Phone: 39 02 390141Fax: 39 02 3546277
Keywords: antidepressants, antipsychotics, serotonin, in vivo microdialysis, neurotransmitter release, dopamine, noradrenaline
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Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Email: Philipp.Kahle@uni-tuebingen.de
Web URL: http://www.hih-tuebingen.de/funct-neurogenet/
Phone: ( 49-7071) 29-81970 / -81968 (lab) / -82039 (secr) Fax: ( 49-7071) 29-4620
Keywords: DJ-1, frontotemporal dementia, functional neurogenetics, FUS protein, leucine-rich repeat kinase, Parkinson's disease, parkin, synuclein, TDP-43
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The Scripps Research Institute, Laboratory of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience, Jupiter, FL, USA
Email: pjkenny@scripps.edu
Keywords: addiction, behavior, kinases, microRNA, nicotine, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, noncoding RNAs, obesity, orexin/hypocretin, schizophrenia
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Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea
Email: ktk@postech.ac.kr
Keywords: receptor signaling, exocytosis, regulation of circadian genes, posttranscriptional regulation, regulation of melatonin biosynthesis
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Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Email: kindyms@musc.edu
Phone: 843-792-0559Fax: 843-876-5099
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, neurodegeneration, Abeta, APoE, tau, toxins, biochemistry, behaviour, receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE), Neprilysin
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Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Phone: 81-52744-2015
Email: kiyama@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Keywords: neuronal regeneration, mechanisms underlying neuronal cell death and survival after nerve injury, neurite elongation after nerve injury, nerve regeneration events
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University of Bremen, Center for Cognitive Sciences, Bremen, Germany
Email: Michael.koch@uni-bremen.de
Phone: 49 421 218 62970 Fax: 49 421 218 62984
Keywords: behavioral pharmacology, animal models of neurological and psychiatric diseases, drugs of abuse, fear, anxiety, schizophrenia, neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Email: mklee@umn.edu
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration, synuclein, protein aggregation, transgenic mice
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University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Email: marcel.leist@uni-konstanz.de
Web URL: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/
Keywords: neural stem cells, microglia activation, astrocyte activation, glia in neurodegeneration, Mixed-lineage kinase, amyloid-beta processing, amyloid beta toxicity, Parkinson's disease models, neurite degeneration, dopamine storage
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Hospital A.C. Camargo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Email: vmartins@cipe.accamargo.org.br
Keywords: Prion, Cellular prion protein, Neuronal survival, Development, Heat shock proteins
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University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Email: mmckenna@umaryland.edu
Keywords: energy metabolism, glutamate metabolism, lactate metabolism, perinatal brain injury, 1H and 13C-NMR spectroscopy, Fragile X syndrome, mitochondrial transporters, synaptosomal metabolism, astrocyte metabolism, malate-aspartate shuttle, glutamine, MCT1, MCT2, mitochondrial enzymes, traumatic brain injury to developing brain, perinatal hypoxia ischemia, intrauterine inflammation
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Email: kevin.mcnaught@mssm.edu
Keywords: alpha-synuclein, dystonia, animal models, Parkinson's disease, parkin, proteasome, ubiquitin, torsinAl
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The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Email: f.meunier@uq.edu.au
Web URL: http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/group-leader-meunier
Keywords: Neuroexocytosis, neurotransmitter release, synaptic vesicles, neurosecretory vesicles, calcium channels, synaptotagmin, SNARE proteins, Munc18-1, fatty acids, phosphoinositides, pre-synaptic trafficking, neurotoxins, clostridial toxins, marine toxins
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Email: Elek.Molnar@bristol.ac.uk
Web URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/neuroscience/
Keywords: glutamate receptors, AMPA, kainate, NMDA, development, synaptic plasticity, LTP, LTD, receptor targeting, oligodendrocytes
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University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Email: anmurphy@cox.net
Keywords: biochemistry, bioenergetics, metabolism mitochondria, Ca2 , oxidative phosphorylation, neurodegeneration, electron transport, ion transport, excitotoxicity, membrane potential, mitochondrial ion transport, mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial movement and morphology, mitochondrial free radical generation
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University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Email: emurphy@medicine.nodak.edu
Keywords: broad lipid metabolism in the CNS, fatty acids, phospholipids, including ether lipids, and acylhydrolases, such as phospholipase A2; alterations of lipid metabolism in pathophysiological states, e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, CNS diseases
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Yamanashi University, Chuo, Yamanashi, Japan
Email: anunomura@yamanashi.ac.jp
Keywords: RNA, aging, Alzheimer’s disease, apoptosis, cell cycle, free radicals, hippocampus, immunocytochemistry, metabolism, metals, mitochondria, neurodegeneration, nutrition, oxidative stress, Parkinson’s disease
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels. Belgium
Email: octave@nchm.ucl.ac.be
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease: cellular and animal models, neurodegenerative diseases, cloning and expression, adenoviruses as expression vectors both in vitro and in vivo, cell biology, cell culture, primary cultures of neurones, signal transduction
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Cinvestav-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
Email: arortega@cinvestav.mx
Keywords: signal transduction, transcriptional regulation, Bergmann glia, glutamate receptors
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University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Email: dpark@uottawa.ca
Keywords: Chk1, Cdc25A, DNA damage, cell cycle, apoptosis, neurons
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Dulbecco Telethon Institute, Milan, Italy
Email: m.passafaro@in.cnr.it
Keywords: excitatory glutamate synapses, genetic disorders, molecular mechanisms of synapse formation
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Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Email: p-penzes@northwestern.edu
Keywords: dendritic spine, plasticity, actin, GEF, schizophrenia, autism, postsynaptic, signal transduction, synaptogenesis
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Yale University, New Haven, USA
Email: marina.picciotto@yale.edu
Phone: 1 203 737 2041Fax: 1 203 737 2043
Keywords: adducin, calmodulin kinase I (CaM kinase I), drug abuse, galanin, molecular basis of addiction, mouse models of psychiatric diseases, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (NAChRs)
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The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Email: maximo.prado@gmail.com
Keywords: cholinergic mechanisms, protein and membrane trafficking, pre-synaptic mechanisms, calcium signaling, toxins and neuronal function, prion diseases, Alzheimer´s disease, neurodegeneration, neurotransmitter transporters, synaptic vesicle
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Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
Email: alessandro.prinetti@unimi.it
Web URL: http://www.unimi.it/
Keywords: complex membrane lipid biochemistry and biophysic, biological role of sphingolipid, neuronal membranes and disease, segregation phenomena in neuronal membranes, lipid rafts in cell signalling
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St.Petersburg, Russian Federation
Email: samoilov@pavlov.infran.ru, rybnikova1@rambler.ru
Tel: 7-813-7072850 Mobile 7-911-9541596 Fax: 7-812-3280501
Keywords: neuroendocrinology, stress, stress-related disorders, hormone-dependent mechanisms of adaptation, brain injury and tolerance, hypobaric hypoxia, molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuroprotection, preconditioning, postconditioning
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New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
Email: esther_sabban@nymc.edu
Keywords: biochemistry, molecular biology, gene expression for catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes and neuropeptides by stress, estrogens, tyrosine hydroxylase, transcription, promoter, cAMP, adrenal medulla, noradrenergic system
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CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy
Email: c.sala@in.cnr.it
Phone: 39 025031 7096 Fax: 39 02749 0574
Keywords: autism spectrum disorders, dendritic spines, intellectual disabilities, memory, mental retardation, neurodegenerative disorders, postsynaptic mechanisms, proteomics, synaptic plasticity, synaptic proteins, synaptic transmission, synaptogenesis
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LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, USA
Phone: 1 318 675-7874
Email: msalva@lsuhsc.edu
Keywords: aging, dopamine regulation in vivo, dopamine transporter, glutamate, locomotor function, nigrostriatum, Parkinson’s disease, protein phosphorylation, stimulants, tyrosine hydroxylase
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University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Email: anaseb@fm.ul.pt
Web URL: http://www.imm.fm.ul.pt/web/imm/neurosciencesunit
Keywords: neuromodulation of synaptic transmission, in particular at the hippocampus, cross-talk between neuromodulatoras, focusing on neurotrophins, adenosine, neuropeptides and cannabinoids, neuroprotection. adenosine receptors and adenosine transporters, G-protein coupled receptors and kinase receptors
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University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
Email: frank.sharp@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Keywords: stroke and cerebral ischemia, heat shock and immediate early gene expression in brain, cerebral glucose and glycogen metabolism, neurogenesis and gliogenesis following ischemia, genomics and proteomics of neurological diseases
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Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan
Email: tshirao@med.gunma-u.ac.jp
Phone: 81 27 220 8050 Fax: 81 27 220 8053
Keywords: actin filaments, dendritic spines, growth cone, myosin, neurite outgrowth, neuronal culture, synapse formation, synaptic plasticity, time-lapse imaging
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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Email: weihong@exchange.ubc.ca
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, secretases, amyloid, stroke, hypoxia, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, aging, mental disorders, neuronal apoptosis, transcriptional regulation, gene expression, molecular genetics, signal transduction
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University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany
Email: desouza@uni-duesseldorf.de
Keywords: neuropeptides, neurokinin, intranasal, microdialysis, learning and memory, acetylcholine, dopamine
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University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Email: dstandaert@uab.edu
Web URL: www.uab.edu/CNET
Keywords: NMDA receptors, glutamate receptors, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, synuclein
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Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Email: stehle@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Keywords: cAMP-signalling pathway, circadian, clock gene, hippocampus, melatonin, pineal organ, rhythm, transcriptional regulation
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Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Email: terasaki@mail.pharm.tohoku.ac.jp
Web URL: http://www.pharm.tohoku.ac.jp/~soutatsu/dds/index.htm
Keywords: Blood-brain barrier, transport, P-glycoprotein, abc transporter, drug delivery, pharmacokinetics, brain microdialysis, slc transporter, bcrp, mrp transporter
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University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Email: rvaughan@medicine.nodak.edu
Keywords: molecular mechanisms of dopamine transporters including phosphorylation, photoaffinity labeling, and structure-function analysis. Neurotransmitter transporters, cocaine binding, dopamine regulation, receptor or transporter phosphorylation, and receptor or transporter photoaffinity labeling
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University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Email: jlvenero@us.es
Keywords: Microglia, substantia nigra, peroxynitrites, Parkinson's disease, minocycline, dopaminergic system
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Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia
Email: b.vissel@garvan.org.au
Keywords: Neurogenesis , stem cells , neurodegeneration , Parkinson's disease , Alzheimer's disease, Dopamine neurons, Excitotoxicity, neural stem cells, neural precursor cells, neural regeneration, synaptic transmssion, glutamate receptors, RNA editing
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University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Email: hsw@farma.ku.dk
Web URL: http://www.neurometabolism.dk
Keywords: Brain energy metabolism, neurons, astrocytes, d-aspartate, ATP, transport, norepinephrine, lactate, cellular metabolism
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University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Email: michael.weller@usz.ch
Web URL: http://www.neurologie.usz.ch
Keywords: glioma, astrocytoma, apoptosis, cell death, astrocyte, stem cell, death receptors, death ligands, neuroimmunology
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University Clinic Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Email: wolfgang.wick@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: 49 (0) 6221-56/7337 Fax: 49 (0) 6221-56/7554
Keywords: cell migration and invasion, glioma, hypoxia, neurooncology, tumor microenvironment, tumor suppressor gene
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University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Email: steve.williams@manchester.ac.uk
Keywords: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, MRI, MRS, stroke, ischaemia, energy metabolism, neurotransmitter metabolism, cerebral blood flow
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Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA
Email: marina.wolf@rosalindfranklin.edu
Web URL: www.rosalindfranklin.edu
Keywords: glutamate, dopamine, NMDA receptors, AMPA receptors, microdialysis, in situ hybridization, immunocytochemistry, Addiction, plasticity, receptor trafficking, glutamate receptors, dopamine receptors, cocaine, amphetamine
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The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China
Email: boyung@ust.hk
Web URL: http://life-sci.ust.hk/faculty/Prof.Y.H.Wong/index.html
Keywords: Opioid peptides and receptors, signal transduction, neuropeptides, G proteins, melatonin, neuropharmacology, opioid tolerance and dependence
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University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Email: i.c.wood@leeds.ac.uk
Web URL: http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/..?tag=Wood_I
Keywords: Chromatin, transcription, Gene regulation, transcription factors, epigenetics, epilepsy, transgenic mice, DNA, mRNA, expression, differentiation, stem cells
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University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus, Toledo, OH, USA
Email: Bryan.Yamamoto@utoledo.edu
Keywords: excitotoxicity, drug abuse, amphetamines, oxidative stress, neurodegeneration
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