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  1. Selective decrease of cholinergic signaling from pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei has little impact on cognition but markedly increases susceptibility to stress

    Article • The FASEB Journal, March 2019, Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB)

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  2. Detection of Active Caspase-3 in Mouse Models of Stroke and Alzheimer’s Disease with a Novel Dual Positron Emission Tomography/Fluorescent Tracer [68Ga]Ga-TC3-OGDOTA

    Article • Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging, January 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Robert Hudson, Professor Marco A M Prado

  3. Acute lung injury is reduced by the α7nAChR agonist

    Article • The FASEB Journal, January 2017, Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB)

    Professor Marco A M Prado, PhD Carla M Prado

  4. Prion protein in exosomes: partnering Aβ peptides and driving fibrilization

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  5. Role of the atypical vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT3 in l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia

    Article • Neurobiology of Disease, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  6. Regulation of Cognitive Processing by Hippocampal Cholinergic Tone

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, January 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  7. Endogenous Acetylcholine Controls the Severity of Polymicrobial Sepsisassociated Inflammatory Response in Mice

    Article • Current Neurovascular Research, January 2016, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  8. α7 nicotinic ACh receptor-deficient mice exhibit sustained attention impairments that are reversed by β2 nicotinic ACh receptor activation

    Article • British Journal of Pharmacology, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  9. Whole-Retina Reduced Electrophysiological Activity in Mice Bearing Retina-Specific Deletion of Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2015, PLOS

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  10. Autonomic cardiocirculatory control in mice with reduced expression of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter

    Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, June 2015, American Physiological Society

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  11. Increased Airway Reactivity and Hyperinsulinemia in Obese Mice Are Linked by ERK Signaling in Brain Stem Cholinergic Neurons

    Article • Cell Reports, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Eduardo Costa Alexandre, Professor Marco A M Prado, PhD Carla M Prado

  12. Pulmonary Inflammation Is Regulated by the Levels of the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2015, PLOS

    Professor Marco A M Prado, PhD Carla M Prado

  13. Impairment in Acetylcholine Release by Cardiomyocytes Leads to Enhanced Pathological Hypertrophy

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  14. Cholinergic Signaling Exerts Protective Effects in Models of Sympathetic Hyperactivity-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2014, PLOS

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  15. Quantitative Tissue Ph Measurement during Cerebral Ischemia Using Amine and Amide Concentration-Independent Detection (AACID) with MRI

    Article • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marco A M Prado, Dr. Susan O Meakin

  16. Nitric oxide regulates AKT phosphorylation and nuclear translocation in cultured retinal cells

    Article • Cellular Signalling, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado, Roberto Paes-de-Carvalho

  17. Reduced Expression of the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter and Neurotransmitter Content Affects Synaptic Vesicle Distribution and Shape in Mouse Neuromuscular Junction

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2013, PLOS

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  18. P4–289: Normal healthy donors possess plasma IgG reactive to a neutralizing epitope for toxic and amyloid‐seeding beta‐amyloid oligomers

    Article • Alzheimer s & Dementia, July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  19. Membrane cholesterol regulates different modes of synaptic vesicle release and retrieval at the frog neuromuscular junction

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  20. Erratum to: The unconventional secretion of stress-inducible protein 1 by a heterogeneous population of extracellular vesicles

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  21. The unconventional secretion of stress-inducible protein 1 by a heterogeneous population of extracellular vesicles

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  22. Regulation of cholinergic activity by the vesicular acetylcholine transporter

    Article • Biochemical Journal, March 2013, Portland Press Ltd.

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  23. Decreased acetylcholine release delays the consolidation of object recognition memory

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  24. Mice with selective elimination of striatal acetylcholine release are lean, show altered energy homeostasis and changed sleep/wake cycle

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  25. The monoterpene (-)-carvone: A novel agonist of TRPV1 channels

    Article • Cytometry Part A, January 2013, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  26. Laminin-γ1 chain and stress inducible protein 1 synergistically mediate PrPC-dependent axonal growth via Ca2+mobilization in dorsal root ganglia neurons

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  27. Autonomic nervous system modulation affects the inflammatory immune response in mice with acute Chagas disease

    Article • Experimental Physiology, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  28. 1H, 15N and 13C backbone resonance assignments of the TPR1 and TPR2A domains of mouse STI1

    Article • Biomolecular NMR Assignments, October 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  29. Non-neuronal cholinergic machinery present in cardiomyocytes offsets hypertrophic signals

    Article • Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  30. An Analysis of the Myocardial Transcriptome in a Mouse Model of Cardiac Dysfunction with Decreased Cholinergic Neurotransmission

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2012, PLOS

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  31. Reduction Of Cholinergic Neurotransmission Causes Lung Mechanics Alterations Associated To Airway Inflammation And Remodeling In Mice

    Article • May 2012, American Thoracic Society

    Professor Marco A M Prado, PhD Carla M Prado

  32. Seeding plaques in Alzheimer’s disease

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, February 2012, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  33. Elimination of the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter in the Striatum Reveals Regulation of Behaviour by Cholinergic-Glutamatergic Co-Transmission

    Article • PLoS Biology, November 2011, PLOS

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  34. Antinociceptive effect of Brazilian armed spider venom toxin Tx3–3 in animal models of neuropathic pain

    Article • Pain, October 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  35. Vesicular acetylcholine transporter knock-down mice show sexual dimorphism on memory

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, April 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  36. Amyloid-beta oligomers increase the localization of prion protein at the cell surface

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes

  37. Novel Strains of Mice Deficient for the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter: Insights on Transcriptional Regulation and Control of Locomotor Behavior

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2011, PLOS

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  38. Antiarrhythmogenic effects of a neurotoxin from the spider Phoneutria nigriventer

    Article • Toxicon, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  39. The Effect of Spider Toxin PhTx3-4, ω-Conotoxins MVIIA and MVIIC on Glutamate Uptake and on Capsaicin-Induced Glutamate Release and [Ca2+]i in Spinal cord Synaptosomes

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  40. Quantal release of acetylcholine in mice with reduced levels of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, May 2010, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  41. Phoneutria spider toxins block ischemia-induced glutamate release, neuronal death, and loss of neurotransmission in hippocampus

    Article • Hippocampus, November 2009, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  42. Ouabain evokes exocytosis dependent on ryanodine and mitochondrial calcium stores that is not followed by compensatory endocytosis at the neuromuscular junction

    Article • November 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  43. Prion protein

    Article • AfCS-Nature Molecule Pages, July 2009, Nature

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  44. Analgesic effect in rodents of native and recombinant Phα1β toxin, a high-voltage-activated calcium channel blocker isolated from armed spider venom

    Article • Pain, November 2008, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  45. Internalization of mammalian fluorescent cellular prion protein and N-terminal deletion mutants in living cells

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, July 2008, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  46. Tx3-4 a toxin from the venom of spider Phoneutria nigriventer blocks calcium channels associated with exocytosis

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, July 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  47. VAChT

    Article • AfCS-Nature Molecule Pages, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  48. Vesicular acetylcholine transporter knock-down mice are more susceptible to pilocarpine induced status epilepticus

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, May 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Luiz E Mello, Professor Marco A M Prado

  49. Protective Effect of Retinal Ischemia by Blockers of Voltage-dependent Calcium Channels and Intracellular Calcium Stores

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado, Dr Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes

  50. Regulated recycling and plasma membrane recruitment of the high-affinity choline transporter

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  51. Envelhecimento e memória: foco na doença de Alzheimer

    Article • Revista USP, November 2007, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  52. A rat homologue of CED-6 is expressed in neurons and interacts with clathrin

    Article • Brain Research, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  53. Neuroprotective effect on brain injury by neurotoxins from the spider Phoneutria nigriventer

    Article • Neurochemistry International, October 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  54. Mice Deficient for the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter Are Myasthenic and Have Deficits in Object and Social Recognition

    Article • Neuron, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado, Dr Vinícius R. Cota

  55. The "ins" and "outs" of the high-affinity choline transporter CHT1

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, April 2006, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  56. The effect of sevoflurane on intracellular calcium concentration from cholinergic cells

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  57. Constitutive high-affinity choline transporter endocytosis is determined by a carboxyl-terminal tail dileucine motif

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, July 2005, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  58. Dopamine Release Evoked by Beta Scorpion Toxin, Tityus Gamma, in Prefrontal Cortical Slices is Mediated by Intracellular Calcium Stores

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  59. S3-02-03 Prion protein conversions and TSE infections

    Article • Neurobiology of Aging, July 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  60. Effect of halothane on the release of [Ca2+]i in dorsal root ganglion neurons

    Article • Neuroreport, May 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  61. Okadaic acid disrupts synaptic vesicle trafficking in a ribbon-type synapse

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  62. Trafficking of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in SN56 cells: a dynamin-sensitive step and interaction with the AP-2 adaptor complex

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, February 2004, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  63. PrPc on the road: trafficking of the cellular prion protein

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  64. Exocytotic Release of [ 3 H]-Acetylcholine by Ouabain Involves Intracellular Ca 2+ Stores in Rat Brain Cortical Slices

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  65. PnTx3-6 a spider neurotoxin inhibits K+-evoked increase in [Ca2+]i and Ca2+-dependent glutamate release in synaptosomes

    Article • Neurochemistry International, March 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  66. Towards cellular receptors for prions

    Article • Reviews in Medical Virology, January 2003, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  67. Inhibition of Na+,K+-ATPase by Ouabain Opens Calcium Channels Coupled to Acetylcholine Release in Guinea Pig Myenteric Plexus

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 2002, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  68. Recycling of Synaptic Vesicles at the Frog Neuromuscular Junction in the Presence of Strontium

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, November 2002, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  69. Regulation of acetylcholine synthesis and storage

    Article • Neurochemistry International, November 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  70. Cellular prion protein: on the road for functions

    Article • FEBS Letters, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  71. Halothane-induced intracellular calcium release in cholinergic cells

    Article • Brain Research, December 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  72. Changes in Ca2+ channel expression upon differentiation of SN56 cholinergic cells

    Article • Brain Research, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  73. Molecular cloning of cDNAs encoding insecticidal neurotoxic peptides from the spider Phoneutria nigriventer

    Article • Toxicon, October 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  74. Inhibition of glutamate uptake by Tx3-4 is dependent on the redox state of cysteine residues

    Article • Neuroreport, July 2000, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  75. Muscarinic regulation of Ca2+ oscillation frequency in GH3 cells

    Article • Brain Research, December 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  76. Inhibition of glutamate uptake by a polypeptide toxin (phoneutriatoxin 3-4) from the spider Phoneutria nigriventer

    Article • Biochemical Journal, October 1999, Portland Press Ltd.

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  77. Inhibition of glutamate uptake by a polypeptide toxin (phoneutriatoxin 3-4) from the spider Phoneutria nigriventer

    Article • Biochemical Journal, October 1999, Portland Press Ltd.

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  78. Control of the binding of a vesamicol analog to the vesicular acetylcholine transporter

    Article • Neuroreport, September 1999, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  79. Cloning of cDNAs encoding neurotoxic peptides from the spider Phoneutria nigriventer

    Article • Toxicon, December 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  80. Investigation of the effect of PhTx2, from the venom of the spider Phoneutria nigriventer, on the release of [3H]-acetylcholine from rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes

    Article • Toxicon, August 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  81. Phoneutria nigriventer toxins block tityustoxin-induced calcium influx in synaptosomes

    Article • Neuroreport, May 1998, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  82. A novel tool for the investigation of glutamate release from rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes: the toxin Tx3-3 from the venom of the spider Phoneutria nigriventer

    Article • Biochemical Journal, February 1996, Portland Press Ltd.

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  83. Effect of vesamicol on the release of ATP from cortical synaptosomes

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, February 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  84. Inhibition of potassium-stimulated acetylcholine release from rat brain cortical slices by two high-affinity analogs of vesamicol

    Article • Brain Research, December 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  85. Mobilization of a Vesamicol-Insensitive Pool of Acetylcholine from a Sympathetic Ganglion by Ouabain

    Article • Journal of Neurochemistry, July 1993, Wiley

    Professor Marco A M Prado

  86. The effect of 2-(4-phenylpiperidino)cyclohexanol (AH-5183), tityustoxin and ouabain on the release of acetylcholine and its mobilization from cytoplasmic and vesicular pools of rat brain cortical slices

    Article • Neuroscience Letters, March 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Marco A M Prado