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Ankyrin and NR1 staining in a cultured neuron
GFP expression in a 21 div cultured neuron
Neuroligin expression and synapsin staining in an 18 div cultured neuron
Publications:
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 TR Bomfim, L Forny-Germano, LB Sathler, J Brito- Moreira, JC Houzel, H Decker, MA Silverman, H Kazi, HM Melo, PL McClean, C Holscher, SE Arnold, K Talbot, WL Klein, DP Munoz, ST Ferreira and FG De Felice.. Anti-diabetic drugs protect the brain from defective insulin signaling caused by Alzheimer’s toxic Aß oligomers. J. of Clinical Investigation, In press.
21
 Fonte V, Dostal V, Roberts CM, Gonzales P, Lacor P, Magrane J, Dingwell N, Fan EY, Silverman MA, Stein GH, Link CD.. A glycine zipper motif mediates the formation of toxic ß-amyloid oligomers in vitro and in vivo. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 2011 Aug 23;6(1):61.
20
 Lo, K.Y. , Kuzmin A. , Unger, S. M., Petersen, J.D., and Silverman, M.A.. KIF1A is the primary anterograde motor protein required for the axonal transport of dense-core vesicles in cultured hippocampal neurons. Neuroscience Letters. 2011 Mar 24;491(3):168-73.
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 Silverman MA*, Kaech S*, E. M. Ramser, Lu X, Lasarev MR, Nagalla S, and Banker G, (* equal authorship) Expression of kinesin superfamily genes in cultured hippocampal neurons. Cytoskeleton, 2010 Dec; 67(12):784-95.
18
 Decker H, Lo KY, Unger SM, Ferreira ST, Silverman MA. Aß oligomers disrupt axonal transport via an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-dependent mechanism in primary cultured hippocampal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 2010 Jul 7;30(27):9166-71.
17
 Dynactin regulates bidirectional transport of dense-core vesicles in the axon and dendrites of cultured hippocampal neurons. Kwinter DM, Lo K, Mafi P, Silverman MA. Neuroscience. 2009 Sep 15;162(4):1001-10
16 Live imaging of dense-core vesicles in primary cultured hippocampal neurons. David Kwinter and Michael Silverman, Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2009 May 29; (27).
15
 Intraflagellar transport and the generation of dynamic, structurally and functionally diverse cilia. Silverman MA, Leroux MR. Trends in Cell Biology. 2009 Jul;19(7):306-16.
14
 The beta amyloid peptide can act as a modular aggregation domain. Link CD, Fonte V, Roberts CM, Hiester B, Silverman MA, Stein GH. Neurobiol Dis. 2008 Dec;32(3):420-5.
13
 Christopher D. Link, Virginia Fonte, Brian Hiester, John Yerg, Jmil Ferguson, Susan Csontos, Michael A. Silverman, and Gretchen H. Stein. Conversion of Green Fluorescent Protein into a Toxic, Aggregation-prone Protein by C-terminal Addition of a Short Peptide. THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. VOL. 281, NO. 3, pp. 1808–1816, January 20, 2006.
12
 Janis E. Lochner, Leah S. Honigman, Wilmon F. Grant, Sarah K. Gessford,Alexis B. Hansen, Michael A. Silverman, and Bethe A. Scalettar. Activity-Dependent Release of Tissue Plasminogen Activator from the Dendritic Spines of Hippocampal Neurons Revealed by Live-Cell Imaging. Journal of Neurobiology. November 2005
11
 Rosales, C. R., Osborne, K. O., Scheiffele, P., and M. A. Silverman. A cytoplasmic motif targets neuroligin-1 exclusively to dendrites of cultured hippocampal neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. Vol. 22, pp. 2381–2386, 2005
10
 Silverman, M. A.,* Peck, R*. Glover, G. He, C., Carlin, C., and G. Banker, (* equal authorship). Motifs that mediate dendritic targeting in hippocampal neurons: a comparison with basolateral targeting signals. (2005) Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. Jun;29(2):173-180.
9
 Silverman, M. A., Johnson, S. Gurkins, D. Farmer, M. Rosa, P. Lochner, J., and Scalettar, B. G. Mechanisms of transport and exocytosis for dense-core granules containing tissue plasminogen activator in hippocampal neurons. (2005) J. of Neuroscience. March 23;25(12):3095-106
8
 Washburn C.L., Bean J.E., Silverman M.A., Pellegrino M.J., Yates P.A., Allen R.G. Regulation of peptidergic vesicle mobility by secretagogues. (2002). Traffic. Nov;3(11):801-9.
7
 Silverman, M. A., Kaech, S., Jareb, M., Burack, M. A., Vogt, L., Sonderegger, P., Banker, G. (2001). Sorting and directed transport of membrane proteins during the development of hippocampal neurons in culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. June 19; 98 (13): 7051-7057
6 Silverman, M. A., Kaech, S., Burack, M. A., Banker, G. (2000). Vesicle transport in neurons. ‘GFP in Motion II’ CD-ROM, Volume 2. Trends in Cell Biology.
5
 Burack, M. A., Silverman, M. A., Banker, G. (2000). The role of selective transport in neuronal protein sorting. Neuron. 26(2): 465-472.
4
 Silverman, M.A., Bernard, O., Jaaro, H., Rattner, A., Citri, Y., Seger, R. (1999). CPG16, a novel protein serine/threonine kinase downstream of cAMP-dependent protein kinase J. of Biological Chemistry. 274(5): 2631-2636.
3 Hevroni, D., Rattner, A., Bundman, M., Lederfein, D., Gbarah, A., Mangelus, M., Silverman, M. A., Kedar, H., Naor, K., Kornuc, M., Theill, L., Nedivi, E., Citri, Y. (1998). Evidence for involvement of extensive gene induction in multiple mechanisms of plasticity J. of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. 10: 75-98.
2 Silverman, M.A., Blaxter, M.L., Link, C.D. (1997). Biochemical Analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans lectin-binding mutants. J. of Nematology. 29(3):296-305 1997.
1 Link, C. D., Silverman, M.A., Breen, M., Watt, K.E., Dames, S.A. (1992). Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans Lectin - Binding Mutants. Genetics 131: 867-881.