COM/CEN faculty member Colin Willis has book chapter published

Colin Willis, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biomedical Sciences in COM and a faculty member in the Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences (CEN), has a book chapter published in the series Methods in Molecular Biology 鈥淎strocytes: Methods and Protocols." The chapter, entitled 鈥淚maging in vivo astrocyte/endothelial cell interactions at the blood-brain barrier鈥 describes the methods and protocols used in in vivo imaging. Dr. Willis has been working on these techniques for a number of years at the University of Arizona before he joined the 51小黄车Community in the summer of 2010. Since then he has made great steps at getting his research projects up and running and has obtained funding through 1) the American Heart Association to determine the role intracellular signaling pathways play in modifying blood-brain barrier integrity under hypoxic and post-hypoxic stress and 2) the Migraine Research Foundation to study mechanisms of blood-brain barrier dysfunction induced by overuse of migraine medication.

Citation: Willis CL. Imaging in vivo astrocyte/endothelial cell interactions at the blood-brain barrier. Methods Mol Biol. 2012;814:515-29. PubMed PMID: 22144329.
 

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