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- Monday, 13 January 2014 14:13
Presentation of the Institute
The Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM) is located in the Neuroscience (Head and Neck) hospital, close to the University Campus. It will celebrate its 10th anniversary on September 25th, 2014.
The INM houses 200 people working on vision, hearing, somatosensory wiring, and myelination. Molecular to systems level investigations are carried-out through core technical facilities, which are opened to academic and private users outside the INM. Team competences cover expertise in genetic, molecular and cellular biology, electrophysiology, computational neurosciences pre-clinical and clinical researches. Research outputs favor the development of new treatments for sensory and motor deficits, with a strong interest in inherited retinal and optic blindness, auditory neuropathies, neurodegenerative diseases (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, giant axonal neuropathy), somatosensation disorders (touch and pain) and glial pathologies (gliomas and Charcot Marie Tooth disease).
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- Monday, 13 January 2014 18:50
Relevant Publications (2009-2014)
Boizot A, Talmat-Amar Y, Morrogh D, Kuntz NL, Halbert C, Chabrol B, Houlden H, Stojkovic T, Schulman BA, Rautenstrauss B, Bomont P. The instability of the BTB-KELCH protein Gigaxonin causes Giant Axonal Neuropathy and constitutes a new penetrant and specific diagnostic test. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2014, 2(1):47.
Gonzalez S, Fernando RN, Perrin-Tricaud C, Tricaud N. In vivo introduction of transgenes into mouse sciatic nerve cells in situ using viral vectors. Nat Protoc. 2014, 9(5):1160-9.
von Boxberg Y, Soares S, Féréol S, Fodil R, Bartolami S, Taxi J, Tricaud N, Nothias F. Giant scaffolding protein AHNAK1 interacts with β-dystroglycan and controls motility and mechanical properties of schwann cells. Glia. 2014 May 3
Otsmane B, Moumen A, Aebischer J, Coque E, Sar C, Sunyach C, Salsac C, Valmier J, Salinas S, Bowerman M, Raoul C. Somatic and axonal LIGHT signaling elicit degenerative and regenerative responses in motoneurons, respectively. EMBO Rep. 2014, 15(5):540-7.
Sendin G, Bourien J, Rassendren F, Puel JL, Nouvian R. Spatiotemporal pattern of action potential firing in developing inner hair cells of the mouse cochlea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014, 111(5):1999-2004.
Mahammad S, Murthy SN, Didonna A, Grin B, Israeli E, Perrot R, Bomont P, Julien JP, Kuczmarski E, Opal P, Goldman RD. Giant axonal neuropathy-associated gigaxonin mutations impair intermediate filament protein degradation. J Clin Invest. 2013, 123(5):1964-75.
