JOHN ALEXANDER
jalexand@uchicago.edu

Lab: Dr. Bill Green

Research Topic: Investigating the Cellular Machinery that Regulates Nicotinic Acetycholine Receptor Expression.

Selected Publications:

McGinn, M.J., Sun, D., Schneider, S.L., Alexander, J.K. and Colello, R.J. (2004) Epidermal growth factor-induced cell proliferation in the adult rat striatum. Brain Res 1007(1-2):29-38.
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Fox, M.A., Alexander, J.K., Afshari, F.S., Colello, R.J. and Fuss, B. (2004) Phosphodiesterase-Iα/autotaxin controls cytoskeletal organization and FAK phosphorylation during myelination. Mol Cell Neurosci 2:140-50.
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Fox, M.A., Afshari, F.S., Alexander, J.K., Colello, R.J. and Fuss, B. (2006) Growth conelike sensorimotor structures are characteristic features of postmigratory, premyelinating oligodendrocytes. Glia 53(5):563-6.
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Drisdel, R.C., Alexander, J.K., Sayeed, A., and Green, W.N. (2006) Assays of Protein Palmitoylation. Methods 40(2):127-34.
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Alexander, J.K., Fuss, B. and Colello, R.J. (2006) Electric field-induced astrocyte alignment directs neurite outgrowth. Neuron Glia Biology 2(2):93-103.
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Selected Abstracts/Presentations:

Alexander, J.K., Fox, M.A., Fuss, B. and Colello, R.J. (2004) The Influence of Neuronal Activity on Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Migration. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience.
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Baker, L.K., Alexander, J.K., Vallejo, Y.F., Chi, H., Green, W.N. and Vezina, P. (2005) Nicotine Upregulates VTA nAchRs and Requires These Receptors to Induce Locomotor Sensitization. Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience.
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Loweth, J., Singer, B.F., Baker, L.K., Alexander, J.K., Josselyn, S.A., Bayer, K.U., Neve, R.L., Carlezon, W.A., and Vezina, P. (2006) Viral-mediated overexpression of CaMKII in the NAcc but not the VTA enhances locomotor responding to amphetamine. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.
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