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DR HEATHER MARGARET YOUNG



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Organization: Anatomy and Cell Biology
Position: SENIOR RESERCH FELLOW (NH&MRC)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Migration and differentiation of enteric neuron precursors Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2001
Migration and differentiation of enteric neuron precursors Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2001
Development of sympathetic nerve pathways Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
An electoporation system: BTX ECM 2001 embryo manipulation system Chief Investigator RAMACIOTTI FOUNDATION Major Equipment Grant 01/01/2005
Guidance molecules involved in the development of the enteric nervous system Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2005
Cellular mechanisms controlling neural crest cell migration along the developing gut Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2006
Research Fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2006
High resolution cellular and molecular imaging system Chief Investigator MONASH UNIVERSITY,
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
The development of glial cells in the sympathetic nervous system Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008
Adhesion molecules in gut development Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008
Electrical activity in early enteric neuron development Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Disturbances of colonic motility in mouse models of Hirschsprung's disease
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
    Volume: 294
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: G996-G1008
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  • Functional development of the enteric nervous system - from migration to motility
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neurogastroenterology and Motility
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 20-31
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  • On the outside looking in: longitudinal muscle development in the gut
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neurogastroenterology and Motility
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 431-433
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Effects of different regions of the embryonic gut on the migration of enteric neural crest-derived cells: A role for Sema3A, but not Sema3F.


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Developmental Biology
    Volume: 305
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 287-299
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  • Effects of pharmacological inhibition of small GTPases on axon extension and migration of enteric neural crest-derived cells


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Developmental Biology
    Volume: 307
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 92-104
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  • Development of colonic motility in the neonatal mouse - studies using spatiotemporal maps
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
    Volume: 292
    Page numbers: G930-G938
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  • Effect of Gdnf haploinsufficiency on rate of migration and number of enteric neural crest-derived cells
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Developmental Dynamics
    Volume: 236
    Page numbers: 134-141
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Development of the enteric nervous system in relation to Hirschsprung's disease
    Year: 2006
    Book: Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Neural stem cell therapy and gastrointestinal biology
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Gastroenterology
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 2092-2095
    Publisher: WB Saunders Co(Pennsylvania)
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  • The location and phenotype of proliferating neural-crest-derived cells in the developing mouse gut
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cell and Tissue Research
    Volume: 320
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Dynamics of neural crest-derived cell migration in the embryonic mouse gut
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Developmental Biology
    Volume: 270
    Page numbers: 455-473
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Enteric neural crest-derived cells and neural stem cells: biology and therapeutic potential
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Neurogastroenterology and Motility
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-7
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Guidance cues involved in the development of the peripheral autonomic nervous system
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Autonomic Neuroscience - Basic & Clinical
    Volume: 112
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Neural cells in the esophagus respond to glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor and neurturin and are RET-dependent
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Developmental Biology
    Volume: 272
    Page numbers: 118-133
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • The enteric nervous system is not essential for the propulsion of gut contents in fetal mice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Gut
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 1546-1547
    Publisher: British Medical Journal Publishing Group(London)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Acquisition of Neuronal and Glial Markers by Nueral Crest-Dervied Cells in the Mouse Intestine
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 456
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Characterization of lacZ-Expressing Cells in the Gut of Embryonic and Adult DβH-nlacZ Mice
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 464
    Page numbers: 208-219
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Developmental changes in neurite outgrowth responses of dorsal root and sympathetic ganglia to GDNF, neurturin and artemin
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Developmental Dynamics
    Volume: 227
    Page numbers: 395-401
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Enteric Nervous System: Development and Developmental Disturbances - Part 1
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Pediatric and Developmental Pathology
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 224-247
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Enteric Nervous System: Development and Developmental Disturbances - Part 2
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Pediatric and Developmental Pathology
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 329-349
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Identification of cells expressing somatostatin receptor 2 in the gastro-intestinal tract of Sstr 2 knockout/lacZ knockin mice
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 454
    Page numbers: 329-340
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • The projections of early enteric neurons are influenced by the direction of neural crest cell migration
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 6005-6018
    Publisher: Society of Neuroscience(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Enteric Neural Crest-Derived Cells: Origin, Identification, Migration and Differentiation
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Anatomical Record
    Volume: 262
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-15
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • GDNF is a Chemoattractant for Enteric Neural Cells
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Developmental Biology
    Volume: 229
    Page numbers: 503-516
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Relationship between Postsynaptic NK1 Receptor Distribution and Nerve Terminals Innervating Myenteric Neurons in the Guinea-Pig Ileum
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Anatomical Record
    Volume: 263
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 248-254
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • The development of the submucous plexus in the large intestine of the mouse
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Cell and Tissue Research
    Volume: 303
    Page numbers: 301-305
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