RESEARCH INTERESTS
Spinal cord regeneration in lamprey
KEY WORDS:
axon regeneration; central nervous system; neurofilament; glial cells; lamprey; axon guidance
RESEARCH TECHNIQUES
Immunocytochemistry; molecular cloning and sequencing; in-situ hybridization; intracellular recording; intracellular injection of tracers (HRP, etc), drugs and molecular agents; anatomical pathway tracing with retrograde labels; electron microscopy
Sees patients with epilepsy, trigeminal neuralgia. Advises patients on neurorehabilitation.
Selected Publications
Pizarro IV, Swain GP, Selzer ME: Cell proliferation in the lamprey central nervous system. J Comp Neurol 469: 298-310, Feb 2004.
Zhang G, Spencer PH, Jin L-Q, Cohlberg JA, Beaulieu JM, Julien J-P, Selzer ME: The single neurofilament subunit of lamprey may need another element for filament assembly. J Comp Neurol 471: 188-200, 2004.
Selzer ME, Jones SL, Gallo G: Actin-independent mechanism of axon regeneration. 56th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology April 2004.
Popescu A, Uematsu, Wehrli SL, Wehrli FW, Wright AC, Zhang G, Selzer ME, Hackney DB: Magnetization transfer micro imaging characterization of axonal degeneration and regeneration in live excised lamprey spinal cord. 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Kyoto, Japan May 2004.
Wright AC, Uematsu H, Popescu A, Zhang G, Wehrli SL, Hackney DB, Selzer ME, Wehrli FW: In vivo MRI of lamprey spinal cord. 12th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Kyoto, Japan May 2004.
Takahashi, M, Uematsu H, Zhang G, Popescu A, Selzer ME, Hackney DB: Diffusion-weighted micro MR studies of axonal regeneration in live injured excised larval sea lamprey spinal cord. 11th Annual of Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto May 2003.
Wright AC, Uematsu H,, Popescu A, Zhang G, Wehrli SL, Hackney DB, Selzer ME, Wehrli FW: In vivo MR microscopy of lamprey spinal cord. 11th Annual of Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto May 2003.
Popescu A, Hackney DB, Uematsu H, Wehrli SL, Wehrli FW, Wright AC, Zhang G, Takahashi M, Selzer ME: Micro MR imaging of live normal lamprey cord using magnetization transfer contrast. 11th Annual of Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto May 2003.
Jones SL, Gallo G, Selzer ME: Developmental changes in actin filament requirement for axon extension. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience 2003.
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