Fellows Display Research Results at

Eighth Annual MFP/Neuroscience Poster Session


MFP held its eighth annual poster sesssion and reception at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington, DC on November 16, 1996. Presenting their poster at the MFP session provided many of the Fellows the benefit of practicing their presentations in a supportive environment before presenting at the Society sessions. Presentations given by the seven participating MFP Fellows covered a wide range of topics. The titles of the projects and the co-authors are listed below.

Lactating Rats are Protected Against the Excitotoxicity of Kainate. D.A. Cruz, K.A. Berghorn, and G.E. Hoffman. Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

Do Sprague Dawley Rats Use Spatial Cues In Learning A Morris Water Maze? J.J. Fey, J.L. Martinez, Jr., and E. Barea-Rodriguez. Division of Life Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio.

Autoradiographic Localization of Blood-Borne Proteins Within the Brain After Saturable Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier. L.M. Maness, W.A. Banks, J.E. Zadina, and A.J. Kastin. School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans.

A Paradoxical Form of Activity-Dependent Facilitation May Underlie Context Learning in Hermissenda. I.A. Muzzio, A.C. Talk, and L. Matzel. Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Post-Transplant Evaluation of Grafted Sertoli Cells in the Rat Brain. A.I. Rodriguez, S. Saporta, D.F. Cameron, C.V. Borlongan, A. Anton, A.I. Othberg, and P.R. Sanberg. Departments of Psychology, Surgery and Anatomy, University of South Florida, Tampa.

Transposition and its Role in the Ontogeny of an Anal Nerve Plexus in a Teleost, The Western Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis affinis. E. Rosa- Molinar, S.E. Hendricks, and B. Fritzsch. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy and Psychiatry, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha.

The Regulation of Sodium Channel Subunits in the HEK293 Mammalian Cell Line. S.L. Stewart, S.J. Wieland, and J.E. Fletcher. Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnermann University, Philadelphia.
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