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A/PROF DAVID FINKELSTEIN FINKELSTEIN



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Organization: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctorate Monash University 01-Jan-1991

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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
Developing a novel therapy for Parkinson's Disease Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008

Additional Grant and Contract Information

2009-2012 ARC Grant, Dr JS Forsythe; A/Prof DI Finkelstein; Dr W Shen, Title: The use of nano fibres to assist in regeneration of brain and spinal cord.

2009-2011 566853, CIs Adlard, Finkelstein, Project "The role of metals in the neuropathology and learning/memory symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease"

2008-10 NHMRC 509286 Cherny, Finkelstein, Mok, Project Grant. Developing a novel therapy for Parkinson's Disease.


2007-2010 Alzheimer’s Association (USA) Prof Bush, Dr Adlard, A/Prof DI Finkelstein. IIRG-07-58260, Modulation of toxic ABeta species by novel therapeutics

 

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 2009

Journal Articles

  • Enhancing neurite outgrowth from primary neurones and neural stem cells using thermoresponsive hydrogel scaffolds for the repair of spinal cord injury.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A
    Volume: 89
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 24-35
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Estrogen enhances the number of nigral dopaminergic neurons of adult male mice without affecting nigral neuroglial number and morphology


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroscience Letters
    Volume: 435
    Page numbers: 210-214
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  • Sprouting of dopamine terminals and altered dopamine release and uptake in Parkinsonian dyskinesia


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Brain
    Volume: 131
    Page numbers: 1574-1587
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  • Fetal striatum and ventral mesencephalon-derived expanded neurospheres rescue dopaminergic neurons in vitro and the nigro-striatal system in vivo
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 154
    Page numbers: 606-620
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  • Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-Protein-coupled Receptor 8 in the rat brain: enrichment in thalamic neurons and their efferent projections
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 156
    Page numbers: 319-333
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  • Neural Tissue Engineering of the CNS using hydrogels
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B
    Volume: 87
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 251-263
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  • Rapid Restoration of Cognition in Alzheimer’s Transgenic Mice with 8-Hydroxy Quinoline Analogs Is Associated with Decreased Interstitial Aβ
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuron
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 43-55
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Metals, oxidative stress, and brain biology
    Year: 2007
    Book: Encyclopedia of Stress
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Interaction of embryonic cortical neurons on nanofibrous scaffolds for neural tissue engineering
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Neural Engineering
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 35-41
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  • Polylysine-functionalised thermoresponsive chitosan hydrogel for neural tissue engineering
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Biomaterials
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 441-449
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Alterations to the proportions of skeletal muscle proteins following a unilateral lesion to the substantia nigra pars compacta of rats
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
    Volume: 26
    Issue: No. 2
    Page numbers: 149-155
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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  • Chronic corticotropin-releasing factor type 1 receptor antagonism with antalarmin regulates the dopaminergic system of Fawn-Hooded rats
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry
    Volume: 94
    Page numbers: 1523-1534
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  • Differential expression of the GABA transporters GAT-1 and GAT-3 in brains of rats, cats, monkeys and humans
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cell and Tissue Research
    Volume: 320
    Page numbers: 379-392
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Dopaminergic Innervation of the Human Striatum in Parkinson's Disease
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Movement Disorders
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 810-818
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Glial glutamate transporter expression patterns in brains from multiple mammalian species
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Glia
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 520-541
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Haloperidol treatment reverses behavioural and anatomical changes in cocaine-dependent mice
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neurobiology of Disease
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 301-311
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Mice lacking the α4 nicotinic receptor subunit fail to modulate dopaminergic neuronal arbors and posses impaired dopamine transporter function
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Pharmacology
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics(Maryland)
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  • Morphology and gelation of thermosensitive chitosan hydrogels
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biophysical Chemistry
    Volume: 117
    Page numbers: 47-53
    Publisher: Elsevier Science
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  • Postural chenges after lesions of the substantia nigra pars reticulata in hemiparkinsonian monkeys
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
    Volume: 160
    Page numbers: 267-276
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Glial responses associated with dopaminergic striatal reinnervation following lesions of the rat substantia nigra
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1023
    Page numbers: 83-91
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Merozoite surface proteins 4 and 5 of plasmodium knowlesi have differing cellular localisation and association with lipid rafts
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
    Volume: 138
    Page numbers: 153-158
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Changes in function and ultrastructure of striatal dopaminergic terminals that regenerate following partial lesions of the SNpc
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry
    Volume: 86
    Page numbers: 329-343
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  • D2 Dopamine receptor blockade results in sprouting of DA axons in the intact animal but prevents sprouting following nigral lesions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 1033-1045
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Electroencephalographic characterisation of pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in mice lacking the α4 subunit of the neuronal nicotinic receptor
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Neuropharmacology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 234-243
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Neurochemical changes in dopamine D1, D3 and D1/D3 receptor knockout mice
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Pharmacology
    Volume: 472
    Page numbers: 39-47
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Timecourse of striatal re-innervation following lesions of dopaminergic SNpc neurons of the rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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