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Contributed by Jean-Christophe Cassel, PhD, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales, UMR 7521 Université Louis Pasteur/CNRS, Strasbourg, France & Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie und Toxikologie der Universität Freiburg, Neuropharmakologisches Labor, Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Cassel and colleagues are the authors of four publications released this quarter using 192-Saporin (Cat. #IT-01) Trying to understand how […]

Contributed by Jason J. Radley, Ph.D., Laboratory of Neuronal Structure and FunctionThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Foundation for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been proposed to play a role in the inhibition of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) responses to emotional stress via influences on neuroendocrine effector mechanisms

By Jigna Rajesh Kumar, [a, b, c, d] Ramamoorthy Rajkumar, [a, b, c] Liying Corinne Lee, [a, b, c] Gavin S. Dawe [a, b, c, d][a] Dept Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Health System, National University of Singapore, 117600, Singapore [b] Neurobiology and Ageing Programme, Life Sciences Institute, National University of

Contributed by Dr. Thomas Beach, Sun Health Research Institute, Sun City, AZ Our hypothesis, developed through our own human and animal studies1-6 and the cell culture work of others (beginning with Nitsch7), is that the normal, age-related loss of cortical cholinergic innervation leads to Aβ deposition and Alzheimer’s disease. To test this hypothesis, we have been

Contributed by Kevin C.H. Pang, Xilu Jiao and Richard J. ServatiusNeuroscience Dept, New Jersey Med Sch – UMDNJ and VA Med Ctr – East Orange, NJ The medial septum and diagonal band of Broca (MSDB) provide a major afferent pathway to the hippocampus.[1] Cholinergic and GABAergic neurons are the main components of this pathway, but

Congratulations to Dr. Kucinski as this year’s winner of the SfN Poster of the Year Award for the most interesting work presented using ATS products. You can read a summary of this work from Dr. Sarter’s lab in the cover article in this issue of Targeting Trends. Here is a small sample of the comments