Anatomy and Cell Biology Publications
Research within the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology examines and explores basic cellular processes such as stem cell differentiation and aging as well as pathologies such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington disease, prion diseases, stroke, schizophrenia, spinal cord injury and cancer.
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Submissions from 2012
Oncolytic virotherapy of ovarian cancer, Shoudong Li, Jessica Tong, Masmudur M. Rahman, Trevor G. Shepherd, and Grant McFadden
Elimination of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in the forebrain causes hyperactivity and deficits in spatial memory and long-term potentiation, Amanda C. Martyn, Xavier De Jaeger, Ana C. Magalhaes, Rohit Kesarwani, Daniela F. Goncalves, Sanda Raulic, Monica S. Guzman, Michael F. Jackson, Ivan Izquierdo, John F. MacDonald, Marco A. M. Prado, and Vania F. Prado
The Cellular Life of Pannexins, Silvia Penuela and Dale Laird
Natural reward experience alters AMPA and NMDA receptor distribution and function in the nucleus accumbens, Kyle K. Pitchers, Susanne Schmid, Andrea R. Di Sebastiano, Xu Wang, Steven R. Laviolette, Michael N. Lehman, and Lique M. Coolen
An Analysis of the Myocardial Transcriptome in a Mouse Model of Cardiac Dysfunction with Decreased Cholinergic Neurotransmission, Ashbeel Roy, Aline Lara, Diogo Guimaraes, Rita Pires, Eneas R. Gomes, David E. Carter, Marcus V. Gomez, Silvia Guatimosim, Vania F. Prado, Marco A. M. Prado, and Robert Gros
Submissions from 2011
Use of Imaging Biomarkers to Assess Perfusion and Glucose Metabolism in the Skeletal Muscle of Dystrophic Mice, Nabeel Ahmad, Ian Welch, Robert Grange, Jennifer Hadway, Savita Dhanvantari, David Hill, Ting-Yim Lee, and Lisa M Hoffman
DHA Supplemented in Peptamen Diet Offers No Advantage in Pathways to Amyloidosis: Is It Time to Evaluate Composite Lipid Diet?, Zareen Amtul, Mary Keet, Peter Merrifield, David Westaway, and Richard F. Rozmahel
Deletion of the Thrombin Cleavage Domain of Osteopontin Mediates Breast Cancer Cell Adhesion, Proteolytic Activity, Tumorgenicity, and Metastasis, Michel S. Beausoleil, Erika B. Schulze, David Goodale, Carl O. Postenka, and Alison L. Allan
Elimination of the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter in the Striatum Reveals Regulation of Behaviour by Cholinergic-Glutamatergic Co-Transmission, Monica S. Guzman, Xavier De Jaeger, Sanda Raulic, Ivana A. Souza, Alex X. Li, Susanne Schmid, Ravi S. Menon, Raul R. Gainetdinov, Marc G. Caron, Robert Bartha, Vania F. Prado, and Marco A. M. Prado
Proteomics of Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Chris S. Hughes, Amelia A. Nuhn, Lynne M. Postovit, and Gilles A. Lajoie
Novel Strains of Mice Deficient for the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter: Insights on Transcriptional Regulation and Control of Locomotor Behavior, Christina Martins-Silva, Xavier De Jaeger, Monica S. Guzman, Ricardo D. F. Lima, Magda S. Santos, Christopher Kushmerick, Marcus V. Gomez, Marc G. Caron, Marco A. M. Prado, and Vania F. Prado
Capacity-building and Participatory Research Development of a Community-based Nutrition and Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP) for Pregnant and Postpartum Aboriginal Women:Information Gathered from Talking Circles., Michelle F. Mottola, Maggie M. Sopper, Lindsay Doxtator, Katie Big-Canoe, Harry Prapavessis, Stewart Harris, and Anthony Hanley
VAChT knock-down mice show normal prepulse inhibition but disrupted long-term habituation, S. Schmid, E. Azzopardi, X. De Jaeger, Marco Prado, and V. F. Prado
On the Path to Translation: Highlights from the 2010 Canadian Conference on Ovarian Cancer Research, Brigitte L. Thériault and Trevor G. Shepherd
Ocular Pathology Relevant to Glaucoma in a Gja1(Jrt) Mouse Model of Human Oculodentodigital Dysplasia, Edmund Tsui, Kathleen A. Hill, Alex M. Laliberte, Daniel Paluzzi, Ilia Kisilevksy, Qing Shao, Godfrey J. Heathcote, Dale W. Laird, Gerald M. Kidder, and Cindy M. L. Hutnik
Habituation and prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle in rodents, Bridget Valsamis and Susanne Schmid
Imaging Mass Spectrometry Detection of Gangliosides Species Within the Mouse Brain Following Transient Focal Cerebral Ischemia, Shawn N. Whitehead, Kenneth H. N. Chan, Sandhya Gangaraju, Jacqueline Slinn, Jianjun Li, and Sheng T. Hou
GPR54 (KISS1R) Transactivates EGFR to Promote Breast Cancer Cell Invasiveness, Mateusz Zajac, Jeffrey Law, Dragana Donna Cvetkovic, Macarena Pampillo, Lindsay McColl, Cynthia Pape, Gianni M. Di Guglielmo, Lynne M. Postovit, Andy V. Babwah, and Moshmi Bhattacharya
Submissions from 2010
Role of alpha 7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor in Calcium Signaling Induced by Prion Protein Interaction with Stress-inducible Protein 1, Flavio H. Beraldo, Camila P. Arantes, Tiago G. Santos, Nicolle G. T. Queiroz, Kirk Young, Jane R. Rylett, Regina P. Markus, Marco A. M. Prado, and Vilma R. Martins
Increased Incidence of Glucose Disorders during Pregnancy Is Not Explained by Pre-pregnancy Obesity in London, Canada, Margie H. Davenport, M. Karen Campbell, and Michelle F. Mottola
Inhibition of Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 in Telomerase Deficient Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts Increases Arsenite-induced Genome Instability, Resham L. Gurung, Lakshmidevi Balakrishnan, Rabindra N. Bhattacharjee, Jayapal Manikandan, Srividya Swaminathan, and M. Prakash Hande
Matrigel: A Complex Protein Mixture Required for Optimal Growth of Cell Culture, Chris S. Hughes, Lynne M. Postovit, and Gilles A. Lajoie
Neuropilin 1 directly interacts with Fer kinase to mediate semaphorin3A-induced death of cortical neurons, Susan X. Jiang, Shawn N. Whitehead, Amy Aylsworth, Bogdan Zurakowski, Kenneth Chan, Jianjun Li, and Sheng T. Hou
Dysautonomia Due to Reduced Cholinergic Neurotransmission Causes Cardiac Remodeling and Heart Failure, Aline Lara, Denis D. Damasceno, Rita Pires, Robert Gros, Eneas R. Gomes, Mariana Gavioli, Ricardo F. Lima, Diogo Guimaraes, Patricia Lima, Carlos Roberto Bueno Jr., Anilton Vasconcelos, Danilo Roman-Campos, Cristiane A. S. Menezes, Raquel A. Sirvente, Vera M. Salemi, Charles Mady, Marc G. Caron, Anderson J. Ferreira, Patricia C. Brum, Rodrigo R. Resende, Jader S. Cruz, Marcus Vinicius Gomez, Vania F. Prado, Alvair P. de Almeida, Marco A. M. Prado, and Silvia Guatimosim
Reduced expression of mir15a in the blood of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma is associated with tumor staging, Joao Artur Ricieri Brito, Carolina Cavalieri Gomes, Flavio Juliano Garcia Santos Pimenta, Alvimar Afonso Barbosa, Marco A. M. Prado, Vania F. Prado, Marcus Vinicius Gomez, and Ricardo Santiago Gomez