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Research
Latest papers
Phenotypic Behavioural Effects of Genetic Deletion of the Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 3 in 5-Hydroxytryptamine Neurons.
Genes, brain, and behavior · 2026
Synaptic Targets and Cellular Sources of CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor and Vesicular Glutamate Transporter-3 Expressing Nerve Terminals in Relation to GABAergic Neurons in the Human Cerebral Cortex.
The European journal of neuroscience · 2025
The human VGLUT3-pT8I mutation elicits uneven striatal DA signaling, food or drug maladaptive consumption in male mice.
Nature communications · 2024 · senior author
Latest funding
- $47,000
Dissecting molecular and neuronal implication of a point mutation (p.T8I) of the atypical vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT3.
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $125,000
Regulation of the striatal network by glutamate and acetylcholine co-transmission.
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $105,000
Neurochemical correlates of psychostimulant-induced sensitization: focus on glutamatergic mechanisms
CIHR · 2014 · Supervisor
41 publications.
Phenotypic Behavioural Effects of Genetic Deletion of the Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 3 in 5-Hydroxytryptamine Neurons.
Gullino LS, Chabbah N, Jayaram S, Pinacho R, El Mestikawy S, Daumas S, Bannerman DM, Sharp T
Synaptic Targets and Cellular Sources of CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor and Vesicular Glutamate Transporter-3 Expressing Nerve Terminals in Relation to GABAergic Neurons in the Human Cerebral Cortex.
Somogyi P, Horie S, Lukacs I, Hunter E, Sarkany B, Viney TJ, Livermore J, Plaha P, Stacey R, Ansorge O, El Mestikawy S, Zhao Q
The human VGLUT3-pT8I mutation elicits uneven striatal DA signaling, food or drug maladaptive consumption in male mice.
Favier M, Martin Garcia E, Icick R, de Almeida C, Jehl J, Desplanque M, Zimmermann J, Henrion A, Mansouri-Guilani N, Mounier C, Ribeiro S, Henderson F, Geoffroy A, Mella S, Poirel O, Bernard V, Fabre V, Li Y, Rosenmund C, Jamain S, Vorspan F, Mourot A, Duriez P, Pinhas L, Maldonado R, Pietrancosta N, Daumas S, El Mestikawy S
Evidence for a Role of 5-HT-glutamate Co-releasing Neurons in Acute Stress Mechanisms.
Gullino LS, Fuller C, Dunn P, Collins HM, El Mestikawy S, Sharp T
Regulation of stress-induced sleep perturbations by dorsal raphe VGLUT3 neurons in male mice.
Henderson F, Dumas S, Gangarossa G, Bernard V, Pujol M, Poirel O, Pietrancosta N, El Mestikawy S, Daumas S, Fabre V
Persistent extrasynaptic hyperdopaminergia in the mouse hippocampus induces plasticity and recognition memory deficits reversed by the atypical antipsychotic sulpiride.
Rocchetti J, Fasano C, Dal-Bo G, Guma E, El Mestikawy S, Wong TP, Fakhfouri G, Giros B
VGLUT3 Deletion Rescues Motor Deficits and Neuronal Loss in the zQ175 Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease.
Ibrahim KS, El Mestikawy S, Abd-Elrahman KS, Ferguson SSG
Absence of VGLUT3 Expression Leads to Impaired Fear Memory in Mice.
de Almeida C, Chabbah N, Eyraud C, Fasano C, Bernard V, Pietrancosta N, Fabre V, El Mestikawy S, Daumas S
Reduced Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Type 5 Availability in the Epileptogenic Hippocampus: An in vitro Study
Zimmermann M, Minuzzi L, Aliaga AA, Guiot M-C, Hall JA, Soucy J-P, Massarweh G, Mestikawy SE, Rosa-Neto P, Kobayashi E
VGLUT3 Ablation Differentially Modulates Glutamate Receptor Densities in Mouse Brain.
Ibrahim KS, El Mestikawy S, Abd-Elrahman KS, Ferguson SSG
Dissecting molecular and neuronal implication of a point mutation (p.T8I) of the atypical vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT3.
Principal investigators: el mestikawy, salah
Keywords: brain; neurones; neurotransmitters; glutamate; vesicular glutamate transporters; vglut3; point mutation; vesicular synergy
Regulation of the striatal network by glutamate and acetylcholine co-transmission.
Principal investigators: elmestikawy, salah
Neurochemical correlates of psychostimulant-induced sensitization: focus on glutamatergic mechanisms
Principal investigators: Smart, Kelly
Keywords: Abp688; Glutamate; Mglur5; Mouse; Positron Emission Tomography; Psychostimulants; Sensitization; Vglut3
Mechanism and function of glutamate release from GABAergic interneurons in hippocampus
Principal investigators: Williams, Sylvain; El Mestikawy, Salah
Keywords: Behavior; Biochemistry; Electrophysiology; Immunocytochemistry; In Situ Hybridization; Optogenetics; Transgenic Mice
Ultracentrifugation for the biochemical characterization of biomarkers involved in neurobiological functions
Principal investigators: Ma, Weiya
VGLUT3 and vulnerability to addiction
Principal investigators: El Mestikawy, Salah
Keywords: Acetylcholine; Behavior; Biochemistry; Brain; Electrophysiology; Glutamate; Neurotransmission; Reward And Addiction; Vglut3
Characterization of an atypical vesicular glutamate transporter (VGLUT3): vesicular synergy and point mutation
Principal investigators: ElMestikawy, Salah
La transmission glutamatergique dans la maladie d’Alzheimer
Principal investigators: El Mestikawy, Salah; Archer, Francine
Keywords: Biomarqueurs; Démence; Imagerie In Vivo; Maladie D’Alzheimer; Mci; Modèles Animaux; Pharmaco-Chimie; Transmission Glutamatergique; Transporteurs Vésiculaires Du Glutamate; Études Postmortem
Structural properties of glutamatergic neurons in major depression and suicide
Principal investigators: Mechawar, Naguib
Keywords: Axon Terminals; Bdnf; Cellular Neuroanatomy; Cerebral Cortex; Dendrites; Glutamatergic; Hippocampus; Major Depression; Suicide
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Pierrette Gaudreau and Pierrette Gaudreau: 65 shared papers
- Bruno Giros and Bruno Giros: 34 shared papers
- Guylaine Ferland and Pierrette Gaudreau: 15 shared papers
- Guylaine Ferland and Pierrette Gaudreau: 15 shared papers
- Bruno Giros and Naguib Mechawar: 10 shared papers
- Naguib Mechawar and Bruno Giros: 9 shared papers
- Luciano Minuzzi and Pedro Rosa-Neto: 5 shared papers
- Salah El Mestikawy and Naguib Mechawar: 4 shared papers
- Salah El Mestikawy and Bruno Giros: 3 shared papers
- Sylvain Williams and Naguib Mechawar: 3 shared papers
- Pedro Rosa-Neto and Naguib Mechawar: 3 shared papers
- Paul Pavlidis and Naguib Mechawar: 2 shared papers
- Salah El Mestikawy and Sylvain Williams: 2 shared papers
- Sylvain Williams and Bruno Giros: 2 shared papers
- Liam Crapper and Naguib Mechawar: 2 shared papers
- Luciano Minuzzi and Salah El Mestikawy: 1 shared paper
- Luciano Minuzzi and Naguib Mechawar: 1 shared paper
- Guylaine Ferland and Salah El Mestikawy: 1 shared paper
- Pierrette Gaudreau and Salah El Mestikawy: 1 shared paper
- Pierrette Gaudreau and Pedro Rosa-Neto: 1 shared paper
- Paul Pavlidis and Salah El Mestikawy: 1 shared paper
- Paul Pavlidis and Liam Crapper: 1 shared paper
- Salah El Mestikawy and Liam Crapper: 1 shared paper
- Salah El Mestikawy and Louis-Eric Trudeau: 1 shared paper
- Salah El Mestikawy and Nicolas Cermakian: 1 shared paper
- Salah El Mestikawy and Sylvain Meloche: 1 shared paper
- Salah El Mestikawy and Pedro Rosa-Neto: 1 shared paper
- Salah El Mestikawy and Pierrette Gaudreau: 1 shared paper
- Salah El Mestikawy and Bruno Giros: 1 shared paper
- Sylvain Williams and Louis-Eric Trudeau: 1 shared paper
- Nicolas Cermakian and Sylvain Meloche: 1 shared paper
- Nicolas Cermakian and Naguib Mechawar: 1 shared paper
- Sylvain Meloche and Naguib Mechawar: 1 shared paper
- Psychiatry
- Research Centre
- Pharmacology
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Sciences de l'activité physique
- Institut de recherche en immunologie et cancer
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Naguib Mechawar
Psychiatry
4 shared papers, latest 2018
Bruno Giros
Psychiatry
3 shared papers, latest 2023
Sylvain Williams
Psychiatry
2 shared papers, latest 2017
Nicolas Cermakian
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Sylvain Meloche
Institut de recherche en immunologie et cancer
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Pedro Rosa-Neto
Neurology and Neurosurgery
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Pierrette Gaudreau
Sciences de l'activité physique
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Bruno Giros
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Liam Crapper
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Louis-Eric Trudeau
Pharmacology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Luciano Minuzzi
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Guylaine Ferland
Research Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Pierrette Gaudreau
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Paul Pavlidis
Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2014
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