Poster abstracts

Alzheimer’s Disease: Memory and Aging

PP1 Bjugstad, KB
Neural stem cells as a potential treatment for Down syndrome using young and aged trisomic Ts65Dn mice

PP2 Freeman, L
Dietary fat and cholesterol effects on developing hippocampal grafts in oculo

PP3 Lockrow, J
Locus coeruleus degeneration in a mouse model for Down syndrome: A potential stimulus for neuroinflammation

Parkinson’s Disease: Models and Applications

PP4 Annett, L
Behavioural activity directed into contralateral space does not spare dopamine neurons following a unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesion of the striatum in rats

PP5 Boger, H
Setting the Stage for Age-Related Dopaminergic Dysfunction: Effects of a Genetic Reduction of GDNF

PP6 Büchele, F
Two-step grafting - a new method to enhance cell survival and study graft development in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease

PP7 Capetian, P
Inducible conditional ablation of transgenic intracerebral fetal tissue grafts

PP8 Carlsson, T
Extent of dopamine neuron degeneration determines the impact of serotonin neuron transplants on the development of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease

PP9 Dos Santos Nobre, A
Characterization and applications of immortalized rat ventral mesencephalic neuronal stem cells

PP10 Enza, L
A novel peptide that antagonizes Cripto signalling, promoting neuronal fate of embryonic stem cells and functional recovery in Parkinsonian rats

PP11 Fernandez-Espejo, E
Antiparkinsonian trophic effects of grafts of aggregated extra-adrenal chromaffin cells in rats

PP12 Fernandez-Espejo, E
Improved trophic efficacy of GDNF after combination with TGF-beta1 both in vitro and in vivo models of Parkinsonism

PP13 Freeman, T
The long-term survival of neural transplants in Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease is attenuated via different mechanisms

PP14 Garcia J
Distinctive pattern of anatomical maturation and functional integration of dopaminergic progenitor cells following transplantation in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease

PP15 Grealish, S
Functional reconstruction of the nigrostriatal pathway in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease

PP16 Hallett, P
Transplants of reuptake-deficient dopamine neurons improve ON L-dopa dyskinesias without inducing OFF-dyskinesias in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease

PP17 Herrmann, J
L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia after uni- and bilateral dopamine-denervating lesions in the rat Parkinson model

PP18 Jensen, P
Influence of oxygen on expansion and dopaminergic differentiation of ventral mesencephalic precursor cells

PP19 Klein, A
Unilateral Medial Forebrain Bundle Rotenone Lesions: an Alternative to the Intracerebral Injection of 6-hydroxydopamine in Parkinson’s Disease Research?

PP20 Krause, M
Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) transgenic rats: A new tool for neural transplantation

PP21 Lafford, H
Do intrinsic dopamine neurons in striatum account for the neuropathology observed in some long-term fetal neuronal grafts?

PP22 Lane, E
L-dopa-induced dyskinesias are vulnerable to context conditioning

PP23 Marschinke, F
Blocking CD47 affects nerve fiber formation from cultured VM dopamine neurons

PP24 Nevalainen, N
Nigrostriatal cografts degenerate when deprived of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF)

PP25 Papazoglou, A
The influence of pellet density on the graft-induced functional recovery in a skilled paw-reaching test in the rodent unilateral 6-OHDA Parkinson’s disease model

PP26 Parish, C
Improved dopamine cell replacement therapy in Parkinsonian mice with Wnt5a-treated midbrain neural stem cells

PP27 Pauly, MC
Gene expression analysis of axonal outgrowth factors in a neonate model of Parkinson’s disease

PP28 Paumier, K
Chronic antidepressant treatment protects nigral dopamine neurons in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease

PP29 Rath, A
Effects of Two-Step-Grafting on the survival of embryonal (E14) mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons and on the striatal reinnervation in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease (PD)

PP30 Schreglmann, S
The effect of human alpha-Synuclein on adult hippocampal neurogenesis is promoter dependent

PP31 Stirl, K
Development of biohybrid gels as possible cell carriers in cell replacement strategies

PP32 Strömberg, I
L-DOPA Conversion to Dopamine in the Rat Dopamine-Depleted Striatum

PP33 Szcznesiak, AM
Sonic hedgehog increases the survival and behavioural effects of transplanted DA neurons

PP34 Tajiri, N
Exercise has neuroprotective and neurorestorative effects on Parkinson’s disease model of rats

PP35 Tay, TL
Direct visualisation of catecholaminergic axonal projections by expressing membrane-anchored GFP under the control of tyrosine hydroxylase gene in zebrafish

PP36 Torres, E
Dopamine grafts in the rat model of Parkinson’s disease; E12 or E14?

PP37 Wang, FF
Administration of mesenchymal stem cells has neuroprotective effects through SDF-1 on parkinsonian model rats

PP38 Wessolleck, J
Influence of foetal dopaminergic progenitor cell transplantation on gait pattern in the 6-hydroxy dopamine rat model of Parkinson’s disease

PP39 Weyrauch, UM
Fate mapping of developing dopaminergic cells using 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine

Huntington’s Disease: Models and Applications

PP40 Döbrössy, M
Validating the use of BAC-GFP animals as tissue donors in HD graft studies
PP41 Franich, N
AAV vector-mediated heat shock protein expression modulates mutant huntingtin aggregation and toxicity in a genetic rat model of Huntington’s disease

PP42 Jiang, W
Micro-transplantation approach in a quinolinic acid induced rodent model of Huntington’s disease

PP43 Kelly, C
Medical termination of pregnancy as a source of tissue for cell replacement therapies

PP44 Mazurova, Y
Huntington’s disease model: Compartmentalization of neurogenic niche in response to neurodegenerative process within the striatum

PP00 Raber, K
Early detection of a behavioral phenotype in rats transgenic for huntington’s disease

PP00 Urbach, Y
Differential effects of environmental enrichment by voluntary wheel running on Huntington’s transgenic rats as detected by automated phenotyping technology


Gene Therapy and Neuroplasticity

PP45 Kastenhuber, E
Establishment of catecholaminergic circuitry in the zebrafish

Repair Mechanisms and Stroke

PP46 Cavaliere, F
Block of P2X receptors reduces delay time between cortical damage and activation of neurogenesis in a 3D model of in vitro ischemia

PP47 Kadota, T
Continuous infusion of erythropoietin has neuroprotective effects of traumatic brain injury model of rats

PP48 Kondo, A
Erythropoietin delays initiation of rapid amygdala kindling in the rat

PP49 Wagner, DC
Intravenous cell treatment of stroke by human umbilical cord blood cells: Investigation of the therapeutic time window

PP50 Wagner, DC
Autologous bone marrow cells delivery reduces sensorimotor deficits and lesion size in a large animal model of stroke

PP51 Yasuhara, T
Effects of rehabilitation upon neurogenesis

Stem Cells

PP52 Anderova, M
The role of Sonic hedgehog and Wnt-7a in neural stem cell differentiation in vitro

PP53 Fricker-Gates, R
Neural and embryonic stem cells show similar responses to exogenous factors in their differentiation to GABAergic neurons

PP54 Ganser, C
Neuronal differentiation and transplantation of human cord blood (HCB)-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSC)

PP55 Görlitz, C
Active notch signaling maintains the quiescence and suppresses stroke induced neurogenesis by ependymal cells

PP56 Janowski, M
Systemic neurotransplantation - a problem-oriented meta-analysis

PP57 Kahlert, U
Characterisation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC): differentiation and labelling - an approach for cell transplantation therapy

PP58 Maciaczyk, J
Long-distance migration and multi-lineage differentiation of fetal human neural stem cells after transplantation into the rat brain

PP59 Lepski, G
cAMP promotes differentiation of neural stem cells via modulation of voltage-gated calcium channels

PP60 Madhavan, L
Transplantation of postnatal subventricular zone neural precursors induces a host endogenous precursor cell response in a parkinsonian rat model

PP61 Michetti, F
Fate of transplanted neural and mesenchymal stem cells in a rat model of microgyria

PP62 Moloney, T
Mesenchymal stem cells from the green fluorescent protein reporter rat survive for up to two months in the hemi-Parkinsonian rat brain but induce a pronounced phagocytic immune response

PP63 Prajerova I
Immunohistochemical and electrophysiological analysis of D6/GFP-neural stem/progenitor cells during in vitro differentiation and after transplantation into the injured rat brain

PP64 Schaarschmidt, G
Characterization of voltage-gated potassium channels in human neural progenitor cells

PP65 Scheibe, J
Transplantation efficacy of different cultivated and VSOP labelled human neural progenitor cells (hNPCs) in an animal model for Parkinson’s disease (PD)

PP66 Schewtschik, S
De- and hyperpolarizing influences lead to functional neuronal development of human neural progenitor cells

PP67 Schmidt, NO
The adult human brain contains a unique population of highly motile neural progenitors

PP68 Shin, E
Generation of functional GABA neurons from mouse embryonic stem cells

PP69 Sibbe, M
Reelin functions in hippocampal development by interacting with Notch1 signalling

PP70 Subramanian, T
Human retinal pigment epithelial cell (hRPEC) cotransplants protect mouse fetal ventral mesencephalic striatal xenografts from immune rejection and enhance graft survival

PP71 Zietlow, R
Embryonic germ cells - a potential alternative cell source for neural transplantation

Spinal Cord Injury

PP72 Bernreuther, C
Transplanted neural stem cells expressing the neual cell adhesion molecule L1 under the influence of the promoter of the human glial fibrillary acidic protein enhance functional recovery in a mouse model of spinal cord injury

PP73 Knerlich-Lukoschus, F
Chemokine expression in the white matter spinal cord precursor niche after spinal cord contusion injury in adult rats

PP74 Sandner, B
Co-transplantation of adult neural progenitor cells with cells of mesenchymal origin for oligodendrogia replacement after spinal cord injury

PP75 Weidner, N
Combining alginate-based anisotropic hydrogels and adult neural progenitor cells for spinal cord repair

Poster dimensions

Format: Portrait (upright)

Size: DIN A0

1189mm high x 841mm broad

46,81 inches high x 33,11 inches broad