Poster session
Session 050: Glia - Sunday 09/07/2006,

List of poster sessions

A050.1. Poster board 289 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Benfenati V. (1), Amiry-Moghaddam M. (2), Caprini M. (1), Mylonakou M. N. (2), Rapisarda C. (1), Ottersen O. P. (2) & Ferroni S. (1)
(1) Dept. of Human and General Physiology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; (2) Centre for Mol. Biol. and Neurosci., University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TRPV4 CHANNEL IN RAT CORTICAL ASTROCYTES.

A050.2. Poster board 290 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Bonanno G. (1, 2), Paluzzi S. (1), Alloisio S. (5), Raiteri L. (1), Zappettini S. (1), Tacchetti C. (2, 3) & Nobile M. (5)
(1) Dept. Experimental Medicine - Pharmacology Section, Univ. Ge, Genoa, Italy; (2) Center of Excellence for Biomedical Research, Univ. Genoa, Genoa, Italy; (3) Dept. of Experimental Medicine, Human Anatomy, Univ. Genoa, Genoa, Italy; (4) Inst. Mol. Oncol. (IFOM), Ital. Foundation Cancer Res. (FIRC), Milan, Italy; (5) Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Genoa, Italy
- EXOCYTOTIC GLUTAMATE RELEASE EVOKED BY MILD DEPOLARIZING STIMULI FROM GLIA PARTICLES FRESHLY PREPARED FROM THE ADULT RAT BRAIN CORTEX.

A050.3. Poster board 291 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Bougrid A.
Lab. Neurochem., USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
- CHARACTERIZATION OF DYSTROPHIN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN COMPLEX (DAPC) IN CULTURED PITUICYTES ISOLATED FROM ADULT RAT NEUROHYPOPHYSIS.

A050.4. Poster board 292 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Frischknecht R., John N., Franken G., Gundelfinger E. D. & Seidenbecher C. S.
Leibniz IfN, Magdeburg, Germany
- DISTINCT TYPES OF BREVICAN-CONTAINING PERINEURONAL NETS IN HIPPOCAMPAL PRIMARY CULTURES.

A050.5. Poster board 293 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Gibson W. G. (1), Farnell L. (1), Buljan V. (2) & Bennett M. R. (2)
(1) Maths and Stats, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; (2) Neurobiology Lab, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- TRANSMISSION AND PROPAGATION OF CALCIUM WAVES IN STRUCTURED ARRAYS OF ASTROCYTES.

A050.6. Poster board 294 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Härtel K. (1), Singaravelu K. (2), Kaiser M. (3), Neusch C. (3), Deitmer J. W. (2) & Hülsmann S. (1)
(1) Dept. of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, Göttingen, Germany; (2) Dept. of Zoology, Kaiserslautern, Germany; (3) Dept. of Neurology, Göttingen, Germany
- THE INWARDLY RECTIFYING K+ CHANNEL KIR4.1 IS INVOLVED IN A LOW POTASSIUM INDUCED CALCIUM INFLUX INTO ASTROCYTES.

A050.7. Poster board 295 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Huck J. H. J. (1), Kang S. H. (2), Roberts J. D. B. (1), Somogyi P. (1), Nishiyama A. (3), Fukazawa Y. (4), Shigemoto R. (4) & Bergles D. E. (2)
(1) MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Mansfield Rd., Oxford, UK; (2) Dept. of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA; (3) Dept. of Neurobiol. and Physiol., University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA; (4) Div. of Cerebral Struct., NIPS, SOKENDAI, SORST, JST, Okazaki, Japan
- MEMBRANE ANCHORED EGFP AS A SENSITIVE MARKER FOR FREEZE-FRACTURE REPLICA EM IMMUNOGOLD LABELLING OF IDENTIFIED GLIAL CELLS IN MOUSE BRAIN.

A050.8. Poster board 296 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Kolikova J. (1), Afzalov R. (1), Giniatullina A. (2), Giniatullin R. (3) & Khiroug L. (1)
(1) Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; (2) Dept. of Normal Human Morphology, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy; (3) Neuroscience Program, Int. School for Advanced Studies SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- ACTIVITY- AND CA2+-DEPENDENT TRANSLOCATION OF MITOCHONDRIA TO PLASMA MEMBRANE IN CORTICAL ASTROCYTES.

A050.9. Poster board 297 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Kukley M. & Dietrich D.
Exp. Neurophysiol., Neurosurgery, Bonn, Germany
- ECTOPIC TRANSMITTER RELEASE ONTO OLIGODENDROCYTE PRECURSOR CELLS IN WHITE MATTER.

A050.10. Poster board 298 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Nadrigny F. (1), Hirrlinger P. G. (3), Koulakoff A. (2), Ropert N. (1), Giaume C. (2), Kirchhoff F. (3) & Oheim M. (1)
(1) INSERM U603, University Paris 5, Paris, France; (2) INSERM U587, Collège de France, Paris, France; (3) MPI for Exp. Med., Neurogenetics Dept., Goettingen, Germany
- CLASSIFYING ASTROGLIAL SECRETORY COMPARTMENTS WITH SPECTRAL EVANESCENT-FIELD IMAGING.

A050.11. Poster board 299 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Neprasova H. (1, 2, 3), Anderova M. (1, 3), Benesova J. (1) & Chvatal A. (1, 2, 3)
(1) Dept. Neurobiology, Inst. Exp. Medicine, ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic; (2) Dept. of Neurosci., 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; (3) Center for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic
- HIPPOCAMPAL ASTROCYTES AFTER GLOBAL CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA IN RATS – AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS.

A050.12. Poster board 300 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Nieweg K. & Pfrieger F. W.
Dept. Neurotransm. Inst. Cell. Integ. Neurosci. (INCI), Strasbourg, France
- CHOLESTEROL BIOSYNTHESIS AND ITS REGULATION IN NEURONS AND GLIAL CELLS.

A050.13. Poster board 301 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Perea G. & Araque A.
Neural Plasticity. Instituto Cajal. CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- ASTROCYTES MODULATE EVOKED SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION IN RAT HIPPOCAMPAL SLICES.

A050.14. Poster board 302 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Pivneva T. (1), Nolte C. (2), Reyes-Haro D. (2), Müller J. (2), Lübke J. (3) & Kettenmann H. (2)
(1) Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology. Cytology Department, Kiev, Ukraine; (2) 2Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Belin, Germany; (3) 3 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- ULTRASTRUCTURAL SPECIALIZATIONS FOR NEURON- ASTROCYTE INTERACTIONS IN THE CALYX OF HELD OF THE MEDIAL NUCLEUS OF TRAPEZOID BODY (MNTB).

A050.15. Poster board 303 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Rakic L., Stojiljkovic M., Subasic S. & Pekovic S.
Dept. Neurobiol. & Immunol., Institute "Sinisa Stankovic", Belgrade, Serbia A. Montenegro
- MODULATION OF GLIOSIS AFTER BRAIN INJURY IN ADULTS RATS.

A050.16. Poster board 304 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Schipke C. G., Serrano A., Lacaille J. C. & Robitaille R.
Dép. de Physiologie, Univ. de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- ASTROCYTIC CALCIUM ACTIVITY INDUCES LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION OF CA1 SCHAFFER COLLATERAL SYNAPSES IN MOUSE HIPPOCAMPAL SLICES.

A050.17. Poster board 305 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Slezak M. (1, 3), Metzger D. (2), Chambon P. (2) & Pfrieger F. W. (1)
(1) Dept. Neurotransmission, Inst. Cell. Integrative Neurosci., Strasbourg, France; (2) Inst. Genetics Mol. Cell. Biol., Mouse Clinical Inst., Illkirch, France; (3) Dept. Neuroanatomy, Jagiellonian Univ., Cracow, Poland
- NEW TRANSGENIC MOUSE LINES FOR TEMPORALLY-CONTROLLED TARGETED SOMATIC MUTAGENESIS IN ASTROCYTES.

A050.18. Poster board 306 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Turchinovich A. (1, 2), Zoidl G. (1) & Dermietzel R. (1)
(1) Dept. Neuroanat. & Mol. Brain Res., Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany; (2) IGSN, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, Germany
- GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN CONNEXIN43 IN ASTROCYTES: REACTIVITY AND APOPTOSIS IN VITRO.

A050.19. Poster board 307 - Sun 09/07, 16:45 - Hall Y
Ulbricht E., Raap M., Goczalik I., Biedermann B., Reichenbach A. & Francke M.
Paul Flechsig Inst. Brain Res., Univ. Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- KIR 4.1 CHANNEL SUBUNIT EXPRESSION OF MULLER GLIAL CELLS IN EXPERIMENTAL PROLIFERATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY.

A050.20. Poster board 308 - Sun 09/07, 16:00 - Hall Y
Wallraff A. (1), Kohling R. (2), Heinemann U. (3), Theis M. (5), Willecke K. (4) & Steinhauser C. (1)
(1) Exp. Neurobiol. Neurosur. Univ. Bonn, Bonn, Germany; (2) Physiol. Univ. Rostock, Rostock, Germany; (3) Neurophysiol. Charite, Berlin, Germany; (4) Genetics Univ. Bonn, Bonn, Germany; (5) How. Hughes Med. Inst. Univ. Columbia, New York, USA; (6) Exp. Neurobiol. Neurosur. Univ. Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- MICE WITH GENETIC ABLATION OF ASTROCYTIC GAP JUNCTIONS DISPLAY DEFICITS IN POTASSIUM BUFFERING AND A DECREASED THRESHOLD FOR EPILEPTIFORM EVENTS IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS IN VITRO.