
Nancy Castro Borjas
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08-08-2012 23:17:48
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Ran into @neurocircuitlab alum and patch clamper extraordinaire Nancy Castro Borjas in Chicago!


Excited to share our publication in JNP! #femalemotorunits! Thanks, Greg Pearcey James (Drew) Beauchamp Matheus Machado Gomes Franky Black and #CJ for all your guidance and help with this work



Inflammation is a common feature of many diseases. Murali Prakriya, PhD, discusses the evolution of this groundbreaking research in ion channels and his latest findings, which were published in Nature Communications, in this episode of our #BreakthroughsPodcast. spr.ly/6018kJdyC

Richard Miles, a key scientist in the fields of hippocampal synaptic communication, networks and epilepsy, has died in Guadeloupe. A great mentor and scientist, he will be sorely missed. Our obituary of Richard in Journal of Physiology, his favourite journal. doi.org/10.1113/JP2863…



Excited to share our new article now available in Journal of Physiology! Matheus Machado Gomes James (Drew) Beauchamp Franky Black #CJ Greg Pearcey physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Nancy Castro Borjas, Maccaferri Lab (Northwestern Neuroscience) and Max Anstötz (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) show how multiple layers of diversity govern the cell type specificity of GABAergic input received by mouse subicular pyramidal neurons! 📜buff.ly/3AXfY98


Dopamine dysfunction during adolescence can lead to development of various neuropsychiatric disorders. Gabriela Carolina Lopez (Gaby) reports on a recent study from University of Rochester that showed how dopamine neurostimulation can rescue adolescent cognitive deficits. ow.ly/7kS350Tnbvw

Check out this article I wrote highlighting some interesting work out of University of Rochester 🧬#neuroscience #sciencejournalism

I'm happy to share that our paper is out! We found that Kv4 channels shape action potential durations in the inferior olive after periods of hyperpolarization (e.g., inhibition or oscillations), thus allowing for graded outputs to the cerebellum physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…