Publications by Erika Myrna Borcel Novoa

Unaltered cocaine self-administration in the prenatal LPS rat model of schizophrenia

Although cocaine abuse is up to three times more frequent among schizophrenic patients, it remains unclear why this should be the case and whether sex influences this relationship. Using a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia, we tested whethe ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Shedding of neurexin 3 beta ectodomain by ADAM10 releases a soluble fragment that affects the development of newborn neurons

Patrick Fraering, Erika Myrna Borcel Novoa, Mitko Dimitrov, Magda Maria Palczynska, Giorgio Ulrich, Marine Krzisch

Neurexins are transmembrane synaptic cell adhesion molecules involved in the development and maturation of neuronal synapses. In the present study, we report that Nrxn3 beta is processed by the metalloproteases ADAM10, ADAM17, and by the intramembrane-clea ...

Nature Research2016

Long Term Hippocampal and Cortical Changes Induced by Maternal Deprivation and Neonatal Leptin Treatment in Male and Female Rats

Erika Myrna Borcel Novoa

Maternal deprivation (MD) during neonatal life has diverse long-term behavioral effects and alters the development of the hippocampus and frontal cortex, with several of these effects being sexually dimorphic. MD animals show a marked reduction in their ci ...

Public Library of Science2015

Facilitation of AMPA receptor synaptic delivery as a molecular mechanism for cognitive enhancement

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Erika Myrna Borcel Novoa, Lidia Alonso-Nanclares

Cell adhesion molecules and downstream growth factor-dependent signaling are critical for brain development and synaptic plasticity, and they have been linked to cognitive function in adult animals. We have previously developed a mimetic peptide (FGL) from ...

2012

Chronic stress in adulthood followed by intermittent stress impairs spatial memory and the survival of newborn hippocampal cells in aging animals: prevention by FGL, a peptide mimetic of neural cell adhesion molecule

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Erika Myrna Borcel Novoa, Thomas Brionne

In this study, we examined whether chronic stress in adulthood can exert long-term effects on spatial-cognitive abilities and on the survival of newborn hippocampal cells in aging animals. Male Wistar rats were subjected to chronic unpredictable stress at ...

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins2008