Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science (IBBS)

Neurochemical Anatomy & Psychopharmacology Group

Neurochemical Anatomy

 

 

 

Research Focus:

  • The expression of neurotransmsitter receptors in mono-aminergic brain regions 
  • Genetic, cellular and behavioural correlates of environmental stress 

Group members:

Jerome D Swinny PhD- Group Leader and Senior Lecturer

Nicole Corteen- PhD student

Victoria Stanford- Research Assistent

Gabor Kuhn- Erasmus Student

Renin Arsalen- MSc student

Yasmeen Farooqi- MSc student

Publications:

  • Differential localization of GABA(A) receptor subunits in relation to rat striatopallidal and pallidopallidal synapses. Gross A, Sims RE, Swinny JD, Sieghart W, Bolam JP, Stanford IM. European Journal of Neuroscience (2011)
  • Quantitative localisation of synaptic and extrasynaptic GABAA receptor subunits on CA1pyramidal cell somata by SDS-digested freeze fracture replica labelling. Yu Kasugai, Jerome D Swinny, J David Roberts, Yugo Fukazawa, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Peter Somogyi. European Journal of Neuroscience (2010) 32(11):1868-88
  • Neonatal rearing conditions distinctively shape locus coeruleus neuronal activity, dendritic arborization, and sensitivity to corticotropin releasing factor (2010). Swinny JD, O'Farrell E, Bingham BC, Piel DA, Valentino RJ and Beck SG. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol.13(4):515-25
  • Individual Domains of Tensin2 exhibit Distinct Subcellular Localizations and Migratory Effects. Hafizi S, Gomez M, Swinny JD and Dahlbäck B (2010). Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 42(1):52-61
  • From synapse to behavior: rapid modulation of defined neuronal types with engineered GABAA receptors. (2007) Wulff, P., Goetz, T., Leppa, E., Linden, A.-M., Renzi, M., Swinny J.D,. Vekovischeva, O.Y., Sieghart, W., Somogyi, P., Korpi, E.R., Farrant, M. & Wisden, W. Nature Neuroscience., 10, 923-929 
  • Corticotropin-releasing factor promotes growth of brain norepinephrine neuronal processes through Rho GTPase regulators of the actin cytoskeleton in rat. (2006) JD Swinny & RJ Valentino. European Journal of Neuroscience 24(9):2481-90 
  • Corticotropin-releasing factor and urocortin differentially modulate rat Purkinje cell dendritic outgrowth and differentiation in vitro. (2004) J. D. Swinny, F. Metzger, J. IJkema-Paassen, N. V. Gounko, A. Gramsbergen and J. J. L. van der Want. European Journal of Neuroscience. 19 (7) 1749-1758. 
  • The postnatal developmental expression pattern of urocortin in the rat olivocerebellar system. (2004) JD Swinny, Kalicharan D, Brouwer N, Biber K, Shi F, Gramsbergen A, Van Der Want JJ. J Comparative Neurology. 472(1):40-51. 
  • Corticotropin Releasing Factor receptor types 1 and 2 are differentially expressed in pre- and postsynaptic elements in the postnatal developing rat cerebellum. (2003) JD Swinny, D. Kalicharan, E.H. Blaauw, J. IJkema-Paassen, F. Shi , A. Gramsbergen , J.J.L. van der Want. European Journal of Neuroscience 18: 549 
  • The localisation of urocortin in the adult rat cerebellum: A light and electron microscopic study. (2002) JD Swinny, D Kalicharan, A Gramsbergen, JJL van der Want. Neuroscience 114(4):891-903.