Pimenta, Aurea F. , Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

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Email Address: aurea.pimenta@vanderbilt.edu

8114C MRB III

8114C MRB III 6600

Pimenta, AF, Levitt, P. Applications of gene targeting technology to mental retardation and developmental disability research. Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev, 11(4), 295-302, 2005.

Chan, WK, Dickerson, A, Ortiz, D, Pimenta, AF, Moran, CM, Motil, J, Snyder, SJ, Malik, K, Pant, HC, Shea, TB. Mitogen-activated protein kinase regulates neurofilament axonal transport. J Cell Sci, 117(Pt 20), 4629-42, 2004.

Jung, C, Chylinski, TM, Pimenta, A, Ortiz, D, Shea, TB. Neurofilament transport is dependent on actin and myosin. J Neurosci, 24(43), 9486-96, 2004.

Pimenta, AF, Levitt, P. Characterization of the genomic structure of the mouse limbic system-associated membrane protein (Lsamp) gene. Genomics, 83(5), 790-801, 2004.

Shea, TB, Yabe, JT, Ortiz, D, Pimenta, A, Loomis, P, Goldman, RD, Amin, N, Pant, HC. Cdk5 regulates axonal transport and phosphorylation of neurofilaments in cultured neurons. J Cell Sci, 117(Pt 6), 933-41, 2004.

Eagleson, KL, Pimenta, AF, Burns, MM, Fairfull, LD, Cornuet, PK, Zhang, L, Levitt, P. Distinct domains of the limbic system-associated membrane protein (LAMP) mediate discrete effects on neurite outgrowth. Mol Cell Neurosci, 24(3), 725-40, 2003.

Gil, OD, Zhang, L, Chen, S, Ren, YQ, Pimenta, A, Zanazzi, G, Hillman, D, Levitt, P, Salzer, JL. Complementary expression and heterophilic interactions between IgLON family members neurotrimin and LAMP. J Neurobiol, 51(3), 190-204, 2002.

Pimenta, AF, Strick, PL, Levitt, P. Novel proteoglycan epitope expressed in functionally discrete patterns in primate cortical and subcortical regions. J Comp Neurol, 430(3), 369-88, 2001.

Yabe, JT, Chan, WK, Chylinski, TM, Lee, S, Pimenta, AF, Shea, TB. The predominant form in which neurofilament subunits undergo axonal transport varies during axonal initiation, elongation, and maturation. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton, 48(1), 61-83, 2001.

Yabe, JT, Chylinski, T, Wang, FS, Pimenta, A, Kattar, SD, Linsley, MD, Chan, WK, Shea, TB. Neurofilaments consist of distinct populations that can be distinguished by C-terminal phosphorylation, bundling, and axonal transport rate in growing axonal neurites. J Neurosci, 21(7), 2195-205, 2001.

Levitt, P, Pimenta, A. LAMP (Limbic System Associated Membrane Protein). In: Guidebook to the extracellular matrix and adhesion proteins. Kreis, T. and Vale, R. eds , pp 224-226, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Yabe, JT, Pimenta, A, Shea, TB. Kinesin-mediated transport of neurofilament protein oligomers in growing axons. J Cell Sci, 112 ( Pt 21), 3799-814, 1999.

Mann, F, Zhukareva, V, Pimenta, A, Levitt, P, Bolz, J. Membrane-associated molecules guide limbic and nonlimbic thalamocortical projections. J Neurosci, 18(22), 9409-19, 1998.

Pimenta, AF, Tsui, LC, Heng, HH, Levitt, P. Assignment of the gene encoding the limbic system-associated membrane protein (LAMP) to mouse chromosome 16B5 and human chromosome 3q13.2-q21. Genomics, 49(3), 472-4, 1998.

Zhang, JH, Pimenta, AF, Levitt, P, Zhou, R. Dynamic expression suggests multiple roles of the eph family receptor brain-specific kinase (Bsk) during mouse neurogenesis. Brain Res Mol Brain Res, 47(1-2), 202-14, 1997.

Zhukareva, V, Chernevskaya, N, Pimenta, A, Nowycky, M, Levitt, P. Limbic system-associated membrane protein (LAMP) induces neurite outgrowth and intracellular Ca2+ increase in primary fetal neurons. Mol Cell Neurosci, 10(1-2), 43-55, 1997.

Pimenta, AF, Fischer, I, Levitt, P. cDNA cloning and structural analysis of the human limbic-system-associated membrane protein (LAMP). Gene, 170(2), 189-95, 1996.

Pimenta, AF, Reinoso, BS, Levitt, P. Expression of the mRNAs encoding the limbic system-associated membrane protein (LAMP): II. Fetal rat brain. J Comp Neurol, 375(2), 289-302, 1996.

Reinoso, BS, Pimenta, AF, Levitt, P. Expression of the mRNAs encoding the limbic system-associated membrane protein (LAMP): I. Adult rat brain. J Comp Neurol, 375(2), 274-88, 1996.

Pimenta, AF, Zhukareva, V, Barbe, MF, Reinoso, BS, Grimley, C, Henzel, W, Fischer, I, Levitt, P. The limbic system-associated membrane protein is an Ig superfamily member that mediates selective neuronal growth and axon targeting. Neuron, 15(2), 287-97, 1995.

Guimaraes, A, Zaremba, S, Hockfield, S. Molecular and morphological changes in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex induced by visual deprivation are revealed by monoclonal antibodies Cat-304 and Cat-301. J Neurosci, 10(9), 3014-24, 1990.

Hockfield, S, Kalb, RG, Guimaraes, A . Experience-dependent expression of neuronal cell- surface molecules. In Neuroimmune Networks: Physiology and Deseases. Goetzl, E. & Spector, N.H. eds, p. 57-63, New York: Wiley, 1989.

Zaremba, S, Guimaraes, A, Kalb, RG, Hockfield, S. Characterization of an activity-dependent, neuronal surface proteoglycan identified with monoclonal antibody Cat-301. Neuron, 2(3), 1207-19, 1989.