Recent Imaging Centre Publications

•  Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds. McNamara ME, Zhang F, Kearns SL, Orr PJ, Toulouse A, Foley T, Hone DWE, Rogers CS, Benton MJ, Johnson D, Xu X, Zhou Z. Nat Commun. 2018 May 25;9(1):2072. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04443-x.
• Victor K. Langsi, Benjamin A. Ashu-Arrah, Jeremy D. Glennon. Sub-2-μm seeded growth mesoporous thin shell particles for high-performance liquid chromatography: Synthesis, functionalisation and characterisation. Journal of Chromatography A. Volume 1402, 10 July 2015, Pages 17–26. Imaging Centre Microscopes used: JEOL 5510 Scanning Electron Microscope and JEOL 2000FXII Transmission Electron Microscope.

• O'Halloran, O'Leary, Kuijper, Downer E. MyD88 acts as an adaptor protein for inflammatory signalling induced by amyloid-β in macrophages. Immunol Lett. 2014 Aug 12. pii: S0165-2478(14)00171-0. doi: 10.1016/j.imlet.2014.08.001[Epub ahead of print] Link to Epub article 

• Andre´ Toulouse • Grace C. Collins • Aideen M. Sullivan. Neurotrophic Effects of Growth/Differentiation Factor 5 in a Neuronal Cell Line Neurotrophic Effects of Growth/Differentiation Factor 5 in a Neuronal Cell Line
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• Louise M Collins, Eric J Downer, André Toulouse, Yvonne M Nolan: Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase (MKP)-1 in Nervous System Development and Disease. Molecular neurobiology. 06/2014; N/A

• Shane V Hegarty, Louise M Collins, Aisling M Gavin, Sarah L Roche, Sean L Wyatt, Aideen M Sullivan, Gerard W O'Keeffe: Canonical BMP-Smad Signalling Promotes Neurite Growth in Rat Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons. Neuromolecular medicine 03/2014; Microscope used: Olympus Provis AX 70 (inverted).
  

• Louise M Collins, Aisling M Gavin, Sinead Walsh, Aideen M Sullivan, Sean L Wyatt, Gerard W O'Keeffe, Yvonne M Nolan, André Toulouse: Expression of endogenous Mkp1 in 6-OHDA rat models of Parkinson's disease. SpringerPlus  01/2014; 3:205. Microscope used: Olympus IX 70 (upright).
  

• Louise M Collins, Gerard W O'Keeffe, Caitriona M Long-Smith, Sean L Wyatt, Aideen M Sullivan, André Toulouse, Yvonne M Nolan: Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase (MKP)-1 as a Neuroprotective Agent: Promotion of the Morphological Development of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons. Neuromolecular medicine 04/2013; Microscope used: Olympus IX 70 (upright) and Olympus Provis AX 70 (inverted).
  
• Louise M Collins, André Toulouse, Thomas J Connor, Yvonne M Nolan: Contributions of central and systemic inflammation to the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease.. Neuropharmacology 02/2012; 62(7):2154-68.N/ASean J Crampton, Louise M Collins, Andre Toulouse, Yvonne M Nolan, Gerard W O'Keeffe: Exposure of foetal neural progenitor cells to IL-1β impairs their proliferation and alters their differentiation - a role for maternal inflammation?. Journal of Neurochemistry 12/2011; 120(6):964-73. Microscope used: Olympus Provis AX 70 (inverted).
  
• Caitríona M Long-Smith, Louise Collins, André Toulouse, Aideen M Sullivan, Yvonne M Nolan: Interleukin-1β contributes to dopaminergic neuronal death induced by lipopolysaccharide-stimulated rat glia in vitro. Journal of neuroimmunology 09/2010; 226(1-2):20-6. Microscope used: Olympus IX 70 (upright).
  
• Louise M Collins, Luc J Adriaanse, Surabhi D Theratile, Shane V Hegarty, Aideen M Sullivan, Gerard W O'Keeffe: Class-IIa Histone Deacetylase Inhibition Promotes the Growth of Neural Processes and Protects Them Against Neurotoxic Insult. Molecular Neurobiology 07/2014;  Microscope used: Olympus Provis AX 70 (inverted).
•  Ryan SM, O' Keeffe GW, O'Connor C, Keeshan K, Nolan YM (2013) Negative regulation of TLX by IL-1B correlates with an inhibition of adult hippocampal neural precursor cell proliferation. Brain Behav. Immun. 33: 7-13. Microscope used: Olympus IX 70 (upright). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23510989

• Green HF, Treacy E, Keohane A, Sullivan AM, O'Keeffe G, Nolan YM: A role for interleukin-1β in determining the lineage fate of embryonic rat hippocampal neural precursor cells. Mol Cell Neurosci. 2012; 49: 311-321. Microscope used: Olympus AX70 & Olympus IX70.

• Green HF, Nolan YM: GSK-3 mediates the release of IL-1β, TNFα and IL-10 from cortical glia. Neurochem Int 2012; 61(5): 666-671. Microscope used:Olympus IX70.

• Green HF, Nolan YM: Unlocking mechanisms in Interleukin-1β-induced changes in hippocampal neurogenesis - a role for GSK-3β and TLX. 2012 Transl Psychiatry 2012; 2(11): e194. Microscope used:Olympus AX70.