Topics covered include the gamut of neuroprotection and neurorepair;
the Table of Contents from the 10th ICNA is listed below:
I. Neurodegenrative Diseases
Mandel Biomarkers for prediction and targeted prevention of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
diseases: evaluation of drug clinical efficacy
Cicchetti Neuroprotective approaches enhancing brain neurotrophic support and their implication
in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Lin Autophagy is involved in the protection by serum deprivation preconditioning of
MPP+-induced neurotocicity.
Wood Regulation of the HMG-coa Reductase Pathaway in Brain of Alzheimer’s patients.
Specific targeting of Isopreniods but not cholesterol.
Solomon Automated brain volume measurement in clinical practice: Literature review and early experience.
II. Nanotechniques
Behnke The control of growth and differentiation of cells with physical interaction.
Silva Engineering methods for making sense of the function of neural circuits and networks from cell signaling.
Tosi Nanoparticles for brain delivery of drugs: IN VIVO experiments and mechanism of BBB crossing.
Koehne Carbon nanofiber electrode and wireless instantaneous neurotransmitter concentration sensor system
for fast scan cyclic voltammetry detection of dopamine and adenosine.
Andrews Nanotechnology for neuromodulation: Lessons from sensory neuroprostheses.
III. Nervous System Injury-Spinal Cord and Nanoparticles
Feng Neuroprotective effects of Brdykinin B2 receptor antagonist Hoe-140 in spinal cord injury are
mediated through nitric oxide-related mechanisms.
Huang A combination of CNTF, GDNF And BDNF applied topically over the injured spinal cord improves
functional recovery and reduces hemeoxgenase-2(HO-2) expression, blood-spinal cord barrier permeability,
edema formation and cellular damage in the rat.
Winkler Ibuprofen and Indomethacin attenuate changes in the spinal cord evoked potentials recorded from the
epidural space after spinal cord injury and induce marked neuroprotection. An experimental study using
morphological and pharmacological approaches in the rat.
Lafuente Engineered nanoparticles from metals Ag, Cu an Al(50-60 Nm) induce oxidative stress, neuronal nitric
oxide synthase upregulation and cell injury in the brain. Neuroprotective effects of insulin like growth factor-1.
Sharma Chronic exposure of silica dust (Sio2 nanoparticles) exacerbate stress symptoms, cognitive dysfunction
and brain pathology following hyperthermic brain injury.
IV. Neurotoxicity-Anesthetic Agents
Jevtovic-Todorocic Anesthesia-induced impairment of developmental synaptogenesis: The role of mitochondrial regional distribution.
Paule Neonatal ketamine anesthesia and long-lasting cognitive deficits in rhesus macaques.
Pontén Propofal induces dose related upregulation of heat shock protein (Hsp 72 Kd) response
I the developing mice brain.
Todorovic Free radical signaling underlies subunit-specific inhibition of Cav3.2 T-type calcium channels by nitrous oxide.
Slikker The influence of pediatric anesthetics on the developing animal brain.
V. Neuroprotection Techniques/Agents
Kuffler Neuroprotection by hypothermia and alkalinization against excitotoxicity and oxidative stress.
Liu Environmental enrichment preserves cortical inputs to the parahippocampal areas and reduces
post stroke diaschisis.
Marini The neuroprotective effect of Alpha-Linolenic Acid, an omega-3 fatty acid, against Soman-induced neuropatholgy.
Braga The Glur5 Kainate /AMPA receptor antagonist LY293558 reduces Soman-induced seizures and neuropathology.
VI. Genomics
Oxenkrug Genetic polymorphism of IFNG (+874) gene and Pteridines/Kynurenines inflammation cascade.
Wiklund Mechanisms of neuroprotection by Methylene Blue: Effects on the genomic response to reperfusion
injury induced by cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation in porcine brain.
Oxenkrug Interferon-Gamma (+874) T/A genotypes and risk Of IFN-Alpha-induced depression.
Mandel Predictive diagnosis, targeted prevention, personalized health: An outlook.
VII. Neuroprotection Techniques/Agents (2)
Patnaik Pretreatment with 5-HT3 receptor antagonist ondansetron attenuates morphine withdrawal
induced neurotoxicity, blood-brain barrier dysfunciton, glial activation and heat shock protein.
Wakasugi Investigation of a neuroprotective mechanism of human neuroglobin.
Virmani Modulation of carnitine palmitoyltransferase enzyme system by carnitine in cultured rat cortical
neurons at different ages of development.
Collins Neuroprotective signal transduction mechanisms triggered by preconditioning brain cultures with
moderate, non-neurotoxic ethanol concentrations.
Lazarovici The neuroprotective role of human umbilical cord blood nerve growth factor in ischemia.
VIII. Heat Stress
Pant Astrocytes are sensitive indicators of hyperthermia induced brain pathology in normal and
in Cu nanoparticles treated rats. An experimental study using immunohistochemical and
pharmacological approaches.
Smith Age-related changes in lectin binding in the rat brain following heat stress. Implications for brain
pathology and neuroprotection.
Yilmaz Increased arteriovenous differences in circulating serotonin levels and decrease in lung monoamine
oxidase activity closely corresponds to the pathophysiology of hyperthermic brain injury in the rat. New
roles of serotonin receptor modulation in neuroprotection.
Muresanu Naoparticles exacerbate upregulation of heat shock protein (HSP 72 Kd), hemeoxygenase (HO-2) and
Proto-oncogene C-Fos expression in the rat brain areas exhibiting cell damage following heat stress.
Neuroprotective effects of cerebrolysin.
Zimmermann-Meinzingen Cerebrolysin modulates aquaporin-4 expression, reduces brain edema formation and brain
pathology in rats following heat stroke.
IX. Additional Topics
Collins Chronic alcohol abuse and brain damage accretion: neuroprotective approaches.
Nyberg Strategies for the repair of brain damage induced by anabolic androgenic steroids.
Lee Effects of androgrpaholide And 14-Deoxy-11, 12-didehydroandrographolide on cultured
primary astrocytes and PC12 cells.