Tau Researchers Garner 2011 Potamkin Prize

COMMUNITY NEWS 2011-02-16 Community News This year’s Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases goes to Dennis Dickson of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, and wife-and-husband team Eva-Maria and Eckhard Mandelkow, who both have labo

PAPER Esteves AR, Arduíno DM, Silva DF, Oliveira CR, Cardoso SM

Mitochondrial Dysfunction: The Road to Alpha-Synuclein Oligomerization in PD.

Parkinsons Dis. 2011;2011:693761. PubMed: 21318163

PAPER Gardoni F, Boraso M, Zianni E, Corsini E, Galli CL, Cattabeni F, Marinovich M, Di Luca M, Viviani B

Distribution of interleukin-1 receptor complex at the synaptic membrane driven by interleukin-1β and NMDA stimulation.

J Neuroinflammation. 2011;8(1):14. PubMed: 21314939

PAPER Abdallah DM, Nassar NN, Abd-El-Salam RM

Glibenclamide ameliorates ischemia-reperfusion injury via modulating oxidative stress and inflammatory mediators in the rat hippocampus.

Brain Res. 2011 Apr 18;1385:257-62. PubMed: 21316351

PAPER Maccabee PJ, Eberle LP, Stein IA, Willer JA, Lipitz ME, Kula RW, Marx T, Muntean EV, Amassian VE

Upper leg conduction time distinguishes demyelinating neuropathies.

Muscle Nerve. 2011 Apr;43(4):518-30. PubMed: 21319166

PAPER Zhu C, Gao J, Li Q, Huang Z, Zhang Y, Li H, Kuhn HG, Blomgren K

Repeated exposure of the developing rat brain to magnetic resonance imaging did not affect neurogenesis, cell death or memory function.

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2011 Jan 7;404(1):291-6. PubMed: 21130074

PAPER Cui W, Li W, Zhao Y, Mak S, Gao Y, Luo J, Zhang H, Liu Y, Carlier PR, Rong J, Han Y

Preventing H₂O₂-induced apoptosis in cerebellar granule neurons by regulating the VEGFR-2/Akt signaling pathway using a novel dimeric antiacetylcholinesterase bis(12)-hupyridone.

Brain Res. 2011 Jun 7;1394:14-23. PubMed: 21315693

PAPER Kim R, Moki R, Kida S

Molecular mechanisms for the destabilization and restabilization of reactivated spatial memory in the Morris water maze.

Mol Brain. 2011;4:9. PubMed: 21314917

PAPER Robinson L, Platt B, Riedel G

Involvement of the cholinergic system in conditioning and perceptual memory.

Behav Brain Res. 2011 Aug 10;221(2):443-65. PubMed: 21315109

PAPER Finn R, Kovács AD, Pearce DA

Altered sensitivity of cerebellar granule cells to glutamate receptor overactivation in the Cln3(Δex7/8)-knock-in mouse model of juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.

Neurochem Int. 2011 May;58(6):648-55. PubMed: 21315126

PAPER Alberi L, Liu S, Wang Y, Badie R, Smith-Hicks C, Wu J, Pierfelice TJ, Abazyan B, Mattson MP, Kuhl D, Pletnikov M, Worley PF, Gaiano N

Activity-induced Notch signaling in neurons requires Arc/Arg3.1 and is essential for synaptic plasticity in hippocampal networks.

Neuron. 2011 Feb 10;69(3):437-44. PubMed: 21315255

PAPER Tai DJ, Hsu WL, Liu YC, Ma YL, Lee EH

Novel role and mechanism of protein inhibitor of activated STAT1 in spatial learning.

EMBO J. 2011 Jan 5;30(1):205-20. PubMed: 21102409

PAPER Nakamichi S, Yamanaka K, Suzuki M, Watanabe T, Kagiwada S

Human VAPA and the yeast VAP Scs2p with an altered proline distribution can phenocopy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated VAPB(P56S).

Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2011 Jan 14;404(2):605-9. PubMed: 21144830

PAPER Yang WW, Sidman RL, Taksir TV, Treleaven CM, Fidler JA, Cheng SH, Dodge JC, Shihabuddin LS

Relationship between neuropathology and disease progression in the SOD1(G93A) ALS mouse.

Exp Neurol. 2011 Feb;227(2):287-95. PubMed: 21145892

PAPER Waldbaum S, Liang LP, Patel M

Persistent impairment of mitochondrial and tissue redox status during lithium-pilocarpine-induced epileptogenesis.

J Neurochem. 2010 Dec;115(5):1172-82. PubMed: 21219330