Flora Vaccarino - Yale School of Medicine Faculty Member

Flora M. Vaccarino. M.D.
M.D. 1979, Padua University Medical School

Associate Professor
Child Study Center
& Section of Neurobiology
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven CT
USA 06520
SHM, I-373

Publications

Vaccarino, F.M., Ganat Y., Zhang Y., Zheng W.: Stem cells in neurodevelopment and plasticity. Neuropsychopharmacology, (2001) 25:805-815.
Ganat Y, Soni S, Chacon M, Schwartz ML, Vaccarino FM. Chronic hypoxia up-regulates Fibroblast Growth Factor ligands in the perinatal brain and induces Fibroblast Growth Factor -responsive radial glial cells in the sub-ependymal zone. Neuroscience 2002;112(4):977-991.
Shin DM, Korada S, Raballo R, Shashikant CS, Simeone A, Taylor JR, et al. Loss of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in frontal and temporal cortex resulting from attenuation of FGFR1 signaling is associated with spontaneous hyperactivity in mice. J Neurosci 2004;24(9):2247-58.
Zheng W, Nowakowski RS, Vaccarino FM. Fibroblast growth factor 2 is required for maintaining the neural stem cell pool in the mouse brain subventricular zone. Dev Neurosci 2004;26(2-4):181-96.
Ohkubo Y, Uchida AO, Shin D, Partanen J, Vaccarino FM. Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 is required for the proliferation of hippocampal progenitor cells and for hippocampal growth in mouse. J Neurosci 2004;24(27):6057-69.
Vaccarino FM, Ment LR. Injury and repair in developing brain. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2004;89(3):F190-2.
Kalanithi PS, Zheng W, Kataoka Y, DiFiglia M, Grantz H, Saper CB, et al. Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005;102(37):13307-12.
Smith KM, Ohkubo Y, Maragnoli ME, Rasin MR, Schwartz ML, Sestan N, et al. Midline radial glia translocation and corpus callosum formation require FGF signaling. Nat Neurosci 2006;9(6):787-97.
Fagel DM, Ganat Y, Silbereis J, Ebbitt T, Stewart W, Zhang H, et al. Cortical neurogenesis enhanced by chronic perinatal hypoxia. Exp Neurol 2006;199(1):77-91
Ganat YM, Silbereis J, Cave C, Ngu H, Anderson GM, Ohkubo Y, et al. Early postnatal astroglial cells produce multilineage precursors and neural stem cells in vivo. J Neurosci 2006;26(33):8609-21.
Vaccarino, F.M., Fagel, D,F., Ganat, Y., Maragnoli, M.E., Ment, L.R., Ohkubo, Y., Schwartz, M.L., Silbereis, J., Smith, K. Astroglial cells in Development, Regeneration and Repair. Neuroscientist, vol 13 (2):173-185, 2007.