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Work from the D'Arcangelo Lab was recently featured on the cover of The Journal of Neuroscience in the March 17th, 2010 issue (Volume 30:11). Cover legend: E15.5 mouse embryonic cortex subjected to in utero electroporation with plasmids encoding Dyrk1A-EGFP (green), BrdU labeling (blue), and immunofluorescence staining with Tbr2 (red). For more information, see the article by Yabut et al. in this issue. |
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NJ Autism Grant Awarded:
Reelin Protein and Autism Prof. Gabriella D'Arcangelo was recently awarded a grant from the New Jersey Governor's Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism. Autism is believed to be associated with altered synaptic function. The project seeks to investigate the Reelin signaling pathway in synapse formation in the developing mouse brain. |
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Rutgers Research Tackles Childhood Epilepsy Recent studies in the D'Arcangelo Lab discovered a potential new way to treat childhood epilepsy, using a widely available therapeutic drug. Click above, or read our recently published study: Rapamycin suppresses seizures and neuronal hypertrophy in a mouse model of cortical dysplasia. |
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