Francisco Lopez Picon
PhD
francisco.lopez@utu.fi +358 29 450 3840 +358 50 356 2885 Tykistökatu 6 Turku Office: 4032 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3871-1735 |
Areas of expertise
Preclinical PET imaging, Neuropharmacology, Animal models of CNS diseases.
Preclinical PET imaging, Neuropharmacology, Animal models of CNS diseases.
Publications
- The calpain inhibitor MDL-28170 and the AMPA/KA receptor antagonist CNQX inhibit neurofilament degradation and enhance neuronal survival in kainic acid-treated hippocampal slice cultures (2006)
- European Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kainic acid-induced status epilepticus alters GABA(A) receptor subunit mRNA and protein expression in the developing rat hippocampus (2005)
- Journal of Neurochemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Status epilepticus alters GABAA receptor subunit messenger-RNA and protein expression in the developing rat hippocampus (2005)
- Journal of Neurochemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mechanisms of kainate-induced region-specific neuronal death in immature organotypic hippocampal slice cultures (2004)
- Neurochemistry International
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reactivity of neurofilaments and lack of neuronal death after kainic acid-induced status epilepticus in the developing rat hippocampus (2004)
- Epilepsia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Resistance of neurofilaments to degradation, and lack of neuronal death and mossy fiber sprouting after kainic acid-induced status epilepticus in the developing rat hippocampus (2004)
- Neurobiology of Disease
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Differential expression and localization of the phosphorylated and nonphosphorylated neurofilaments during the early postnatal development of rat hippocampus (2003)
- Hippocampus
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in neurofilament protein-immunoreactivity after kainic acid treatment of organotypic hippocampal slice cultures (2001)
- Journal of Neuroscience Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



