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Calcium Imaging and Field Potential Analysis of Autocrine Neuromodulation in the Locus Coeruleus of Newborn Rat Brain Slices
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The locus coeruleus (LC) is a small brainstem nucleus that controls diverse behaviours and brain functions via release of noradrenaline (NA) in the neonatal time period. There is increasing evidence of complexity in this neuron-astrocyte ‘neural’ network that remains mostly unexplored in...
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Fall 2015
Vertebrate eye development is a dynamic process that couples morphogenesis, migration of extraocular periocular mesenchyme (POM) cells to the eye, and retinal patterning along the nasotemporal and dorsoventral (DV) axes. Aberrant patterning during ocular development often results in defects...
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Spring 2012
Silicon nanocrystals (Si-NCs) have been suggested for sensing and lasing applications due to their low-toxicity and compatibility with existing microelectronic technologies. Their broad luminescence, due to homogeneous (150 meV or 40 nm at room temperature) and inhomogeneous broadening, may...
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Spring 2011
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the biophysical basis underlying the nonlinear relationship between firing response and current stimulation in single motor neurons. After reviewing the relevant motoneuron physiology and theories that describe complex dendritic signaling properties, I...
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The roles of Pbx and Meis TALE-class homeodomain transcription factors in vertebrate neural patterning
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One of the major goals of developmental biology is to understand how specialized groups of cells arise from an initially unspecified cell population. The vertebrate hindbrain is transiently segmented along its anterior-posterior axis into lineage-restricted compartments called rhombomeres, making...