Dr Sherie Ma
BSc (Hons) (Mon) PhD (Melb)
Research Officer
Neuropeptides Group
Peptide Neurobiology Laboratory
Contact Details
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Phone: | +61 (0)3 8344 6759 |
Fax: | +61 (0)3 9347 0446 |
Research Interests
- Function of relaxin and related peptides and receptors in the brain, particularly related to animal behavior, stress responses, fear conditioning, learning and memory.
Laboratory Techniques
- Immunohistochemistry
- Radioligand-binding autoradiography
- In situ hybridisation histochemistry
- Stereotaxic implantation of intra-cerebral cannulae into rat brain
- Inhibitory avoidance paradigm
- Spontaneous alternation maze
- Barnes circular maze
Publications and Articles
Ma, S., Bonaventure, P., Ferraro, T., Shen, P.-J., Burazin, T.C.D., Bathgate, R.A.D., Liu, C., Tregear, G.W., Sutton, S.W., Gundlach, A.L. Relaxin-3 in GABA projection neurons of nucleus incertus suggests widespread influence on forebrain circuits via GPCR135 (RXFP3) in the rat. Neuroscience, in press.
Ma, S., Shen, P.-J., Burazin, T.C.D., Tregear, G.W., Gundlach, A.L. (2006) Comparative localization of LGR7 (RXFP1) mRNA and [33P]-relaxin binding sites in rat brain: restricted somatic co-expression a clue to functional effects?. Neuroscience, 141(1):329-344.
Bathgate, R.A.D., Lin, F., Hanson, N.F., Otvos, L. Jr., Guidolin, A., Giannakis, C., Bastiras, S., Layfield, S.L., Ferraro, T., Ma, S., Zhao, C., Gundlach, A.L., Samuel, C.S., Tregear, G.W., Wade J.D. (2006) Relaxin-3: Improved synthesis strategy and demonstration of its high-affinity interaction with the relaxin receptor LGR7 both in vitro and in vivo. Biochemistry, 45, 1043-1053.
Ma, S., Roozendaal, B., Burazin, T.C.D., Tregear, G.W., McGaugh, J.L., Gundlach, A.L. (2005) Relaxin receptor activation in the basolateral amygdala impairs memory consolidation. European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 2117-2122.
Burazin, T.C.D., Johnson, K.J., Ma, S., Bathgate, R.A.D., Tregear, G.W., Gundlach, A.L. (2005) Localization of LGR7 (relaxin receptor) mRNA and protein in rat forebrain: Correlation with relaxin binding site distribution. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1041, 205-210.
Piccenna, L., Shen, P.-J., Ma, S., Burazin, T.C.D., Gossen, J.A., Mosselman, S., Bathgate, R.A.D., Gundlach, A.L. (2005) Localisation of LGR7 gene expression in adult mouse brain using LGR7 knock-out/LacZ knock-in mice: Correlation with LGR7 mRNA distribution. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1041, 197-204.
Tregear, G.W., Bathgate, R.A.D., Layfield, S., Ferraro, T., Gundlach, A.L., Ma, S., Lin, F., Hanson, N.F., Summers, R.J., Rosengrenc, J., Craik, D.J., Wade, J.D. (2005) The chemistry and biology of human relaxin-3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1041, 40-46.
Ma, S., Story, M.E., Pennefather, J.N. (2004) Muscarinic receptors mediating contraction of female mouse urinary bladder: effects of oestrogen. European Journal of Pharmacology, 487, 205-211.
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