Our thanks to Drs. Frank Porecca, Victory Hruby and Josephine Lai, Department of Pharmacology, The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for sharing the results of their studies. Cholecystokinin (CCK) is widely distributed in the central nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract. The 33-amino acid peptide contains a carboxyl terminal octapeptide sequence Asp-Tyr-Met-Gly-Trp-Met-Asp-Phe-NH2 which confers […]

Contributed by Dr. Patrick O. Kanold, Dept Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.Dr. Kanold summarizes his work with ME20.4-SAP. A complete report was published in Science 301:521-525. The processing of information in the visual system happens in multiple stages. Retinal neurons in the eye connect to neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), that

Dopaminergic neurons are widely studied because of their role in one of the devastating diseases of old age, Parkinson’s. Lesioning studies using 6-hydroxydopamine or MPTP have been useful in research on Parkinson’s Disease. However, these reagents have limitations such as MPTP affecting catecholaminergic neurons and 6-OHDA stability and specificity issues. Targeting dopaminergic neurons with an

For the IB4-SAP (Cat. #IT-10) illustration (Figure 1), our thanks to Christopher N. Honda, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University ofMinnesota, 6-145 Jackson Hall, 321 Church Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455 This issue of our quarterly newsletter addresses the use of biotinylated materials in targeting. ATS is now offering a biotinylation service (see p. 7)