Objective
The proposed research will investigate the involvement of mammalian sterile 20-like kinase-3b (Mst-3b) in central nervous system (CNS) regeneration. It has previously been shown that the purine nucleoside inosine stimulates extensive axon outgrowth from certain types of neurons in culture and from injured brain pathways in vivo, leading to improved behavioural outcome.
Pilot experiments in the outgoing host institution suggest that the target of inosine's actions is the protein kinase Mst-3b, and that suppressing Mst-3b levels or functioning inhibits the generation of neurites in culture.
The main aims of this study are to investigate the role of Mst-3b in optic nerve regeneration in vivo and to investigate whether signalling through this kinase regulates the expression of a constellation of regeneration-associated genes. This project will use innovative, cutting-edge techniques such as adeno-associated virus transfection and microarray to alter/assess gene expression in vivo.
The aims of this fellowship are
- to advance our understanding of the basic mechanisms underlying regenerative success/failure in the CNS,
- training of the fellow Barbara Lorber to become an independent scientist leading her own research group in Europe, and
- to establish a, potentially long term, scientific collaboration between the outgoing host institution (Children's Hospital Boston (affiliated to Harvard Medical School), USA) and the return host institution (University of Birmingham, UK).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesneurobiology
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineophthalmologyglaucoma
- natural sciencesbiological sciencescell biologycell signaling
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologyvirology
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologystroke
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Call for proposal
FP6-2002-MOBILITY-6
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Funding Scheme
OIF - Marie Curie actions-Outgoing International FellowshipsCoordinator
BIRMINGHAM
United Kingdom