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Principal Investigator

Ania K. Majewska, Ph.D. University of Rochester work Box 603 601 Elmwood Ave Rochester NY 14642 office: MC 5-8153 p 585-275-4173 f 585-756-5334 Ania_Majewska@urmc.rochester.edu

Recent Publications

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• 1. Madden KS
  2. Zettel ML
  3. Majewska AK
  4. Brown EB
  (2013 Mar 01). Brain tumor imaging: imaging brain metastasis using a brain-metastasizing breast adenocarcinoma. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2013, .
• 1. Madden KS
  2. Zettel ML
  3. Majewska AK
  4. Brown EB
  (2013 Mar 01). Brain tumor imaging: live imaging of glioma by two-photon microscopy. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2013, .
• 1. Sukhotinsky I
  2. Chan AM
  3. Ahmed OJ
  4. Rao VR
  5. Gradinaru V
  6. Ramakrishnan C
  7. Deisseroth K
  8. Majewska AK
  9. Cash SS
  (2013 Jan 01). Optogenetic delay of status epilepticus onset in an in vivo rodent epilepsy model. PLoS One. 8, e62013.
• 1. Tremblay MÈ
  2. Zettel ML
  3. Ison JR
  4. Allen PD
  5. Majewska AK
  (2012 Apr 01). Effects of aging and sensory loss on glial cells in mouse visual and auditory cortices. Glia. 60, 541-58.
• 1. Mower AF
  2. Kwok S
  3. Yu H
  4. Majewska AK
  5. Okamoto K
  6. Hayashi Y
  7. Sur M
  (2011 Dec 27). Experience-dependent regulation of CaMKII activity within single visual cortex synapses in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108, 21241-6.
• 1. Yu H
  2. Majewska AK
  3. Sur M
  (2011 Dec 27). Rapid experience-dependent plasticity of synapse function and structure in ferret visual cortex in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108, 21235-40.
• 1. Tremblay MÈ
  2. Majewska AK
  (2011 Mar 01). A role for microglia in synaptic plasticity? Commun Integr Biol. 4, 220-2.
• 1. Tropea D
  2. Sur M
  3. Majewska AK
  (2011 Mar 01). Experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex: Dendritic spines and visual responsiveness. Commun Integr Biol. 4, 216-9.
• 1. Lu SM
  2. Tremblay MÈ
  3. King IL
  4. Qi J
  5. Reynolds HM
  6. Marker DF
  7. Varrone JJ
  8. Majewska AK
  9. Dewhurst S
  10. Gelbard HA
  (2011 Jan 01). HIV-1 Tat-induced microgliosis and synaptic damage via interactions between peripheral and central myeloid cells. PLoS One. 6, e23915.
• 1. Bogart LJ
  2. Levy AD
  3. Gladstone M
  4. Allen PD
  5. Zettel M
  6. Ison JR
  7. Luebke AE
  8. Majewska AK
  (2011 Jan 01). Loss of prestin does not alter the development of auditory cortical dendritic spines. Neural Plast. 2011, 305621.
• 1. Jeong JK
  2. Tremere LA
  3. Burrows K
  4. Majewska AK
  5. Pinaud R
  (2011 Jan 01). The mouse primary visual cortex is a site of production and sensitivity to estrogens. PLoS One. 6, e20400.
• 1. Tropea D
  2. Majewska AK
  3. Garcia R
  4. Sur M
  (2010 Aug 18). Structural dynamics of synapses in vivo correlate with functional changes during experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex. J Neurosci. 30, 11086-95.
• 1. Kozai TD
  2. Marzullo TC
  3. Hooi F
  4. Langhals NB
  5. Majewska AK
  6. Brown EB
  7. Kipke DR
  (2010 Aug 01). Reduction of neurovascular damage resulting from microelectrode insertion into the cerebral cortex using in vivo two-photon mapping. J Neural Eng. 7, 046011.
• 1. Kelly EA
  2. Tremblay ME
  3. McCasland JS
  4. Majewska AK
  (2010 Jul 01). Postsynaptic deregulation in GAP-43 heterozygous mouse barrel cortex. Cereb Cortex. 20, 1696-707.
• 1. Lowery RL
  2. Majewska AK
  (2010 Jan 01). Intracranial injection of adeno-associated viral vectors. J Vis Exp. In press.
• 1. Kelly EA
  2. Majewska AK
  (2010 Jan 01). Chronic imaging of mouse visual cortex using a thinned-skull preparation. J Vis Exp. In press.
• 1. Tremblay MÈ
  2. Lowery RL
  3. Majewska AK
  (2010 Jan 01). Microglial interactions with synapses are modulated by visual experience. PLoS Biol. 8, e1000527.
• 1. Marker DF
  2. Tremblay ME
  3. Lu SM
  4. Majewska AK
  5. Gelbard HA
  (2010 Jan 01). A thin-skull window technique for chronic two-photon in vivo imaging of murine microglia in models of neuroinflammation. J Vis Exp. In press.
• 1. Tremblay ME
  2. Riad M
  3. Majewska A
  (2010 Jan 01). Preparation of mouse brain tissue for immunoelectron microscopy. J Vis Exp. In press.
• 1. Lowery RL
  2. Zhang Y
  3. Kelly EA
  4. Lamantia CE
  5. Harvey BK
  6. Majewska AK
  (2009 Sep 01). Rapid, long-term labeling of cells in the developing and adult rodent visual cortex using double-stranded adeno-associated viral vectors. Dev Neurobiol. 69, 674-88.
• 1. Deisseroth K
  2. Feng G
  3. Majewska AK
  4. Miesenböck G
  5. Ting A
  6. Schnitzer MJ
  (2006 Oct 11). Next-generation optical technologies for illuminating genetically targeted brain circuits. J Neurosci. 26, 10380-6.
• 1. Wang KH
  2. Majewska A
  3. Schummers J
  4. Farley B
  5. Hu C
  6. Sur M
  7. Tonegawa S
  (2006 Jul 28). In vivo two-photon imaging reveals a role of arc in enhancing orientation specificity in visual cortex. Cell. 126, 389-402.
• 1. Majewska AK
  2. Sur M
  (2006 Jun 01). Plasticity and specificity of cortical processing networks. Trends Neurosci. 29, 323-9.
• 1. Oray S
  2. Majewska A
  3. Sur M
  (2006 May 01). Effects of synaptic activity on dendritic spine motility of developing cortical layer v pyramidal neurons. Cereb Cortex. 16, 730-41.
• 1. Majewska AK
  2. Newton JR
  3. Sur M
  (2006 Mar 15). Remodeling of synaptic structure in sensory cortical areas in vivo. J Neurosci. 26, 3021-9.
• 1. Hayashi Y
  2. Majewska AK
  (2005 May 19). Dendritic spine geometry: functional implication and regulation. Neuron. 46, 529-32.
• 1. Oray S
  2. Majewska A
  3. Sur M
  (2004 Dec 16). Dendritic spine dynamics are regulated by monocular deprivation and extracellular matrix degradation. Neuron. 44, 1021-30.
• 1. Majewska A
  2. Sur M
  (2003 Dec 23). Motility of dendritic spines in visual cortex in vivo: changes during the critical period and effects of visual deprivation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 100, 16024-9.
• 1. Yuste R
  2. Majewska A
  (2001 Oct 01). On the function of dendritic spines. Neuroscientist. 7, 387-95.
• 1. Majewska A
  2. Yuste R
  (2001 Sep 21). Topology of gap junction networks in C. elegans. J Theor Biol. 212, 155-67.
• 1. Majewska A
  2. Yiu G
  3. Yuste R
  (2000 Dec 01). A custom-made two-photon microscope and deconvolution system. Pflugers Arch. 441, 398-408.
• 1. Majewska A
  2. Tashiro A
  3. Yuste R
  (2000 Nov 15). Regulation of spine calcium dynamics by rapid spine motility. J Neurosci. 20, 8262-8.
• 1. Yuste R
  2. Majewska A
  3. Holthoff K
  (2000 Jul 01). From form to function: calcium compartmentalization in dendritic spines. Nat Neurosci. 3, 653-9.
• 1. Majewska A
  2. Brown E
  3. Ross J
  4. Yuste R
  (2000 Mar 01). Mechanisms of calcium decay kinetics in hippocampal spines: role of spine calcium pumps and calcium diffusion through the spine neck in biochemical compartmentalization. J Neurosci. 20, 1722-34.
• 1. Dunaevsky A
  2. Tashiro A
  3. Majewska A
  4. Mason C
  5. Yuste R
  (1999 Nov 09). Developmental regulation of spine motility in the mammalian central nervous system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 96, 13438-43.
• 1. Smetters D
  2. Majewska A
  3. Yuste R
  (1999 Jun 01). Detecting action potentials in neuronal populations with calcium imaging. Methods. 18, 215-21.
• 1. Yuste R
  2. Majewska A
  3. Cash SS
  4. Denk W
  (1999 Mar 15). Mechanisms of calcium influx into hippocampal spines: heterogeneity among spines, coincidence detection by NMDA receptors, and optical quantal analysis. J Neurosci. 19, 1976-87.
• 1. Murphy GM
  2. Lee YL
  3. Jia XC
  4. Yu AC
  5. Majewska A
  6. Song Y
  7. Schmidt K
  8. Eng LF
  (1995 Dec 01). Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and basic fibroblast growth factor decrease glial fibrillary acidic protein and its encoding mRNA in astrocyte cultures and glioblastoma cells. J Neurochem. 65, 2716-24.
• 1. Murphy GM
  2. Bitting L
  3. Majewska A
  4. Schmidt K
  5. Song Y
  6. Wood CR
  (1995 Aug 25). Expression of interleukin-11 and its encoding mRNA by glioblastoma cells. Neurosci Lett. 196, 153-6.