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Alexander Velumian
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Latest papers
Excitotoxic glutamate levels drive spinal cord ependymal stem cell proliferation and fate specification through CP-AMPAR signaling
Stem Cell Reports · 2023
In Vivo Neocortical [K]o Modulation by Targeted Stimulation of Astrocytes.
International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
Examining the fundamental biology of a novel population of directly reprogrammed human neural precursor cells
Stem Cell Research & Therapy · 2019
Latest funding
- $125,000
The living myelin sheath: functional organization and role in dynamic modulation of axonal function in CNS
NSERC · 2008 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Excitotoxic glutamate levels drive spinal cord ependymal stem cell proliferation and fate specification through CP-AMPAR signaling
Laureen D. Hachem, James Hong, Alexander A. Velumian, Andrea J. Mothe, Charles H. Tator, Michael George Fehlings
In Vivo Neocortical [K]o Modulation by Targeted Stimulation of Astrocytes.
EbrahimAmini A, Mylvaganam S, Bazzigaluppi P, Khazaei M, Velumian A, Stefanovic B, Carlen PL
Examining the fundamental biology of a novel population of directly reprogrammed human neural precursor cells
Jan-Eric W. Ahlfors, Ashkan Azimi, Rouwayda El-Ayoubi, Alexander A. Velumian, Ilan Vonderwalde, Cécile Boscher, Oana Mihai, Sarathi Mani, Marina Samoilova, Mohammad Rasool Khazaei, Michael George Fehlings, Cindi M. Morshead
The living myelin sheath: functional organization and role in dynamic modulation of axonal function in CNS
Principal investigators: Velumian, Alexander
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Bojana Stefanovic and Peter Carlen: 14 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Cindi Morshead: 5 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Peter Carlen: 5 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Alexander Velumian: 2 shared papers
- Bojana Stefanovic and Alexander Velumian: 1 shared paper
- Cindi Morshead and Alexander Velumian: 1 shared paper
- Peter Carlen and Alexander Velumian: 1 shared paper
- Department of Surgery
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Division of Anatomy
- Department of Medicine
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