Issue 04 (Fall 2011)

Table of contents:

• Decrease in filopodia sprouting after exposure to methyl mercury / Hannah Blomquist
• Decrease in total length of filopodia of chick embryonic neural cells after exposure to mercury / Robin Bradley
• The characterization of neurite recovery after mercury using environmentally relevant exposure in vitro / Jason Browne
• Number of mitochondria proximal to growth cones decreases in chick sympathetic neurons following in vitro mercury exposure / Elyza Chadwick
• Decreased mitochondrial activity in glial cells of peripheral neurons after in vitro exposure to mercury / Emily Chadwick
• The effects on mitochondrial charged regions in chick embryonic peripheral neuronal axons pre-exposed to mercury / Natasha Colon-Ortiz
• Evidence that in vitro mercury exposure decreases strength of charge of individual mitochondria located in axons of embryonic chick peripheral neurons / Nicole Cullinane
• Axonal degeneration as a result of in vitro Mercury exposure / Jenifer DeNormandie
• With exposure to mercury, there is a lesser amount of movement of growth cones of chick sympathetic neurons in the experimental sample than in the control sample as measured by a change in degree / Elyse Doherty
• The effect of mercury on direction of mitochondrial movement in embryonic Gallus gallus neurons / Elaine Grulke
• Comparative function of glial mitochondria, using rhodamine 123 vital stain, after subjection to an ionic mercury solution / Tyler Hamerla
• Retraction in sympathetic neuronal growth cones when exposed to mercury / Danielle Hamlett
• The effect of mercury on the distribution of neurite area / Kevin Hewitt
• Effects of mercuric chloride on the growth of neuron in chick nerve cells / Eastern Hsu
• Neuronal exposure to mercury II chloride decreases the number of endosomes present in the growth cone of a degenerating neuron / Kristin Lang
• A 30-minute exposure to mercuric chloride results in a decrease in axon diameter in embryonic peripheral neurons, suggesting mercuric chloride as a possible neurotoxin inducing microtubule disassembly / Lindsay Leddy
• Substantial retraction of growth cones resulting immediately after exposure to mercury / Stacey Liberman
• A growth cone axon will undergo retraction in vitro, following exposure to mercuric chloride (HgCl2) / Elizabeth Mills
• The effect of mercuric chloride on the concentration of mitochondria along the axon / Katherine Niegisch
• Mitochondrial distribution in axon branch points affected by mercury / Helen Pauly-Hubbard
• Effects mercury exposure has on axonal transport of mitochondria / Sara Seeman
• Nerve growth cone area decreases after mercury exposure / Bonnie Thorne
• Mitochondria function in response to in vitro exposure to mercury / Valerie Tratner