Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology
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Increased fibroblast growth factor-like autoantibodies in serum from a subset of patients with cancer-associated hypercalcemia.
Life sciences Nov, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12384179
Transcriptional analysis in the brain: trophin-induced hippocampal synaptic plasticity.
Neurochemical research Oct, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12462406
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-induced gene expression reveals novel actions of VGF in hippocampal synaptic plasticity.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Nov, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 14645472
Early presynaptic and late postsynaptic components contribute independently to brain-derived neurotrophic factor-induced synaptic plasticity.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Mar, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15788764
Transcriptional profiling of brain-derived-neurotrophic factor-induced neuronal plasticity: a novel role for nociceptin in hippocampal neurite outgrowth.
Journal of neurobiology Mar, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16408296
The neuropeptide VGF produces antidepressant-like behavioral effects and enhances proliferation in the hippocampus.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Nov, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17989282
Neuropeptides in depression: role of VGF.
Behavioural brain research Feb, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 18983874
Neurotrophic effects of fibroblast growth factor-like autoantibodies in serum from three patients with breast cancer.
Brain research Jan, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19059221
Heme oxygenase-1-dependent central cardiorespiratory adaptations to chronic hypoxia in mice.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19458275
The neuropeptide VGF is reduced in human bipolar postmortem brain and contributes to some of the behavioral and molecular effects of lithium.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20631166
Brain-Derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)produced by human umbilical Tissue-derived cells (hUTC) Is required for itseffect on hippocampal dendritic differentiation.
Developmental neurobiology Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21954108
1Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,
2, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center,
3Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center