Abstract

The Tissue Culture Core has as its major objective the acquisition, storage and culturing of various cells and providing these cultures to projects for in vitro evaluation of drugs. Cells to be cultured by the Core include primary neuronal cultures and neuroblastoma cell lines. These cell cultures will provide an early screen for cellular toxicity of new compounds as well as provide an in vitro model for experiments on signal transduction, intracellular calcium and trophic factor responses. Additionally, since loss of cholinergic markers in primary neuronal cultures shares some features with Alzheimer's disease, the Core may play a role in developing an in vitro model of Alzheimer's disease.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01AG010485-04
Application #
3746237
Study Section
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
1994
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Florida
Department
Type
DUNS #
073130411
City
Gainesville
State
FL
Country
United States
Zip Code
32611

  Publications

Richter, Frank; Koulen, Peter; Kaja, Simon (2016) N-Palmitoylethanolamine Prevents the Run-down of Amplitudes in Cortical Spreading Depression Possibly Implicating Proinflammatory Cytokine Release. Sci Rep 6:23481
Means, John C; Gerdes, Bryan C; Kaja, Simon et al. (2016) Caspase-3-Dependent Proteolytic Cleavage of Tau Causes Neurofibrillary Tangles and Results in Cognitive Impairment During Normal Aging. Neurochem Res 41:2278-88
Montgomery, Christa L; Keereetaweep, Jantana; Johnson, Heather M et al. (2016) Changes in Retinal N-Acylethanolamines and their Oxylipin Derivatives During the Development of Visual Impairment in a Mouse Model for Glaucoma. Lipids 51:857-66
Kaja, Simon; Payne, Andrew J; Singh, Tulsi et al. (2015) An optimized lactate dehydrogenase release assay for screening of drug candidates in neuroscience. J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods 73:1-6
Sarkar, Saumyendra; Jun, Sujung; Simpkins, James W (2015) Estrogen amelioration of A?-induced defects in mitochondria is mediated by mitochondrial signaling pathway involving ER?, AKAP and Drp1. Brain Res 1616:101-11
Kaja, Simon; Payne, Andrew J; Naumchuk, Yuliya et al. (2015) Plate reader-based cell viability assays for glioprotection using primary rat optic nerve head astrocytes. Exp Eye Res 138:159-66
Cheli, V T; Santiago González, D A; Spreuer, V et al. (2015) Voltage-gated Ca2+ entry promotes oligodendrocyte progenitor cell maturation and myelination in vitro. Exp Neurol 265:69-83
Kaja, Simon; Sumien, Nathalie; Shah, Vidhi V et al. (2015) Loss of Spatial Memory, Learning, and Motor Function During Normal Aging Is Accompanied by Changes in Brain Presenilin 1 and 2 Expression Levels. Mol Neurobiol 52:545-54
Kaja, S; Payne, A J; Nielsen, E Ø et al. (2015) Differential cerebellar GABAA receptor expression in mice with mutations in CaV2.1 (P/Q-type) calcium channels. Neuroscience 304:198-208
Grillo, Stephanie L; Koulen, Peter (2015) Psychophysical testing in rodent models of glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Exp Eye Res 141:154-63

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