[BIC-announce] FW: Killam today - Dr Salah El Mestikawy - The Atypical Vesicular Glutamate Transporter VGLUT3: Unravelling New Functions of Glutamate in the Brain

Tue May 4 09:23:46 EDT 2010

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Subject: Killam today - Dr Salah El Mestikawy

REMINDER 

KILLAM LECTURE TODAY

Speaker:  Salah El Mestikawy, PhD, CRC Professor

Douglas Hospital Research Centre

Title:  The Atypical Vesicular Glutamate Transporter VGLUT3: Unravelling New Functions of Glutamate in the Brain

Place:  de Grandpre Communications Centre

Time:  4 pm

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Hello all,

Dr Salah El Mestikawy will be presenting the Killam seminar today (May 4th). Salah works on vesicular neurotransmitter transporters, namely the VGLUTs and has published some important papers in the field. He has been one of the first to describe co-transmission by showing populations of neurons expressing more than one class of transporter. He has recently moved from Paris (INSERM and at the Pierre & Marie Curie University) to the Douglas Research Institute and I think this would be a good opportunity to welcome a new colleague at McGill. Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting seminar.

Thanks,

Ted

Below are some selected papers:

VGLUT3 (vesicular glutamate transporter type 3) contribution to the regulation of serotonergic transmission and anxiety. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147547> 

Amilhon B, Lepicard E, Renoir T, Mongeau R, Popa D, Poirel O, Miot S, Gras C, Gardier AM, Gallego J, Hamon M, Lanfumey L, Gasnier B, Giros B, El Mestikawy S.

J Neurosci. 2010 Feb 10;30(6):2198-210.

The vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT3 synergizes striatal acetylcholine tone. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18278042?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=4> 

Gras C, Amilhon B, Lepicard EM, Poirel O, Vinatier J, Herbin M, Dumas S, Tzavara ET, Wade MR, Nomikos GG, Hanoun N, Saurini F, Kemel ML, Gasnier B, Giros B, El Mestikawy S.

Nat Neurosci. 2008 Mar;11(3):292-300

Loss of VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 in the prefrontal cortex is correlated with cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17531353?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=6> 

Kashani A, Lepicard E, Poirel O, Videau C, David JP, Fallet-Bianco C, Simon A, Delacourte A, Giros B, Epelbaum J, Betancur C, El Mestikawy S.

Neurobiol Aging. 2008 Nov;29(11):1619-30

Altered expression of vesicular glutamate transporters VGLUT1 and VGLUT2 in Parkinson disease. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16563567?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=11> 

Kashani A, Betancur C, Giros B, Hirsch E, El Mestikawy S.

Neurobiol Aging. 2007 Apr;28(4):568-7

Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15379996?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=14> 

Herzog E, Landry M, Buhler E, Bouali-Benazzouz R, Legay C, Henderson CE, Nagy F, Dreyfus P, Giros B, El Mestikawy S.

Eur J Neurosci. 2004 Oct;20(7):1752-60

A third vesicular glutamate transporter expressed by cholinergic and serotoninergic neurons. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12097496?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=18> 

Gras C, Herzog E, Bellenchi GC, Bernard V, Ravassard P, Pohl M, Gasnier B, Giros B, El Mestikawy S.

J Neurosci. 2002 Jul 1;22(13):5442-51.

The existence of a second vesicular glutamate transporter specifies subpopulations of glutamatergic neurons. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11698619?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=19> 

Herzog E, Bellenchi GC, Gras C, Bernard V, Ravassard P, Bedet C, Gasnier B, Giros B, El Mestikawy S.

J Neurosci. 2001 Nov 15;21(22):RC181.

Identification and characterization of a lysosomal transporter for small neutral amino acids. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11390972?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=20> 

Sagné C, Agulhon C, Ravassard P, Darmon M, Hamon M, El Mestikawy S, Gasnier B, Giros B.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jun 19;98(13):7206-11.