Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science (IBBS)
Prof Arthur Morgan Butt
Professor of Cellular Neurophysiology
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Profile
Qualifications
BSc, MPhil, PhD
Internal memberships / posts
Deputy Director of the Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences (IBBS)
External memberships
Society for Neuroscience
British Neuroscience Association
Physiological Society
Anatomical Society
Key teaching responsibilities
Level 2: Neuroscience
Level 3: Neurological disorders
Key research interests
Glial cell biology, myelination and multiple sclerosis, degeneration and regeneration, adult CNS stem cells, gliomas
Recent Publications
More recent publications
Publications Before 2006
Butt AM & Dinsdale J, Fibroblast growth factor 2 induces loss of adult oligodendrocytes and myelin in vivo, Exp. Neurol., 192, 125-133, 2005.
Butt AM & Dinsdale J, Opposing actions of fibroblast growth factor-2 on early and late oligodendrocyte lineage cells in vivo, J. Neuroimmunol., 166, 75-87, 2005.
Bolton S & Butt AM, The optic nerve: A model for axon-glial interactions, J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods, 51, 221-233, 2005.
Butt AM, Structure and Function of Oligodendrocytes, In: Neuroglia, 2nd edition, eds. BR Ransom and H Kettenmann, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, p. 36-47, 2004.
Butt AM, Pugh M, Hubbard P & James G, Functions of optic nerve glia: axoglial signalling in physiology and pathology, Eye, 18, 1110-1121, 2004.
Sandvig A, Berry M, Barrett, LB, Butt AM & Logan A, Reactive glia and scar derived CNS axon growth inhibitors, Glia, 46, 225-251, 2004.
Butt AM, Hubbard P, Kiff J, Ibrahim M & Berry M, Synantocytes: new functions for novel NG2 expressing glia, J. Neurocytol., 31, 551-565, 2003.
Chekenya M, Hjelstuen M, Enger PØ, Thorsen F, Jacob AL, Probst B, Haraldseth O, Pilkington G, Butt A,
Levine JM & Bjerkvig R, The NG2 proteoglycan promotes angiogenesis dependent tumor growth in CNS by sequestering angiostatin, FASEB J, 16, 586-588, 2002.
James G & Butt AM, P2Y and P2X purinoceptor mediated Ca2+ signalling in glial cell pathology in the central nervous system, Eur. J. Pharmacol., 447, 247-260, 2002.
Butt AM & Berry M, Oligodendrocytes and the control of myelination in vivo: new insights from the rat anterior medullary velum, J. Neurosci. Res., 59, 477-488, 2000.