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Programme 1st Portuguese-Brazilian Colloquium on Neurochemistry Day 1 (May 23rd) 13.30 – Registration Desk Opens 14.00 – 20.00 SYMPOSIUM - FROM PURINES TO NEUROTROPHINS AND NEUROPEPTIDES: PATHWAYS FOR NEUROMODULATION AND NEUROPROTECTION Chair: João Malva & Roberto Paes de Carvalho 14.00 - 14.20 Rodrigo Cunha NEUROMODULATION AND NEUROPROTECTION BY ADENOSINE RECEPTORS: FROM A1 TO A2A RECEPTORS 14.20 - 14.40 Diogo Souza NEUROPROTECTION BY GUANOSINE AGAINST GLUTAMATE EXCITOTOXICITY 14.40 - 15.00 Luísa V. Lopes, Bruno Fontinha, Ana Rita Costenla, Vasco Sousa and Ana M. Sebastião ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTORS AND CHRONIC STRESS IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS 15.00 - 15.20 Ana Ventura, Guilherme R. França, Patricia H. C. Nunes Isis M. Ornelas and Rodrigo C. C. Freitas. NUCLEOTIDE P2Y RECEPTOR-MEDIATED CELL PROLIFERATION IN THE DEVELOPING RETINA 15.20 - 15.40 Paulo Correia de Sá, Margarida Duarte-Araújo, Teresa Magalhães-Cardoso, Miguel Faria, M. Alexandrina Timóteo & Laura Oliveira PURINERGIC DYNAMICS AT MYONEURAL SYNAPSES: ORIGIN, METABOLISM AND BEYOND 15.40 - 16.00 Roberto Paes-de-Carvalho, Renato E.S. Socodato, Telmo A.Mejía-García and Cristiane R. Magalhães SIGNALING BY ADENOSINE AND NITRIC OXIDE IN THE DEVELOPING RETINA: PATHWAYS TO SURVIVAL OR CELL DEATH? COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 16.50 Ana Sebastião, Maria José Diógenes, Paula A. Pousinha, Catarina C. Fernandes, António Pinto-Duarte, Bruno Fontinha, Catarina A Gomes, Sylvie Duflot, Sandra H. Vaz, Sofia S Ferreira, Natália Assaife-Lopes and J. Alexandre Ribeiro NEUROMODULATION BY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOS REQUIRES CROSS-TALK WITH ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTORS 16.50 - 17.10 Elizabeth Araujo IL4 AND RETINAL GANGLION CELL SURVIVAL 17.10 - 17.30 Carlos Duarte, R.D. Almeida, B.J. Manadas, J.R. Gomes, C.V. Melo, P. Fernández NEUROPROTECTION BY BDNF 17:30 - 17:50 Ricardo Reis, Mauricio e Castro Cabral-da-Silva, Vitor Resende, Rosália Mendez-Otero, Fernando Garcia de Mello, Jeremy SH Taylor, MULLER GLIA TROPHIC FACTORS SUPPORT PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL NEURONS 17.50 - 18.10 Ramalho RM, Solá S, Steer CJ, Cecília Rodrigues NEUROPROTECTION BY BILE ACIDS: GENES AND CELLULAR PATHWAYS 18.10 - 18.30 Santos SD, Maria João Saraiva PROTECTIVE ROLE OF HSF1 IN THE CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS 18.30 - 18.50 João Malva, Ana P. Silva, Sara Xapelli, Raquel Ferreira, Liliana Bernardino and Fabienne Agasse NEUROPEPTIDE Y IN NEUROPROTECTION AND NEUROGENESIS- TOOL FOR BRAIN REPAIR? 19.00 - 20.00 CONFERENCE - Fernando Garcia de Melo DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY AND RETINA DEVELOPEMENT |
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