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Tak Pan Wong

Tak Pan Wong

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Neuroscience

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Overview

Tak Pan Wong is a researcher affiliated with McGill University in Canada, specializing in neuroscience. Their work spans across multiple subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology.

Their research is associated with key topics such as neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, tryptophan and brain disorders, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Recent publications by Tak Pan Wong include:

  • Aging of the Cerebral Cortex, 2020, McGill Journal of Medicine

Additional recent influential papers from Wong's broader research context include:

  • It Is All in the Right Amygdala: Increased Synaptic Plasticity and Perineuronal Nets in Male, But Not Female, Juvenile Rat Pups after Exposure to Early-Life Stress, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • The hippocampus in stress susceptibility and resilience: Reviewing molecular and functional markers, 2022, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Neurodevelopmental insights into circuit dysconnectivity in schizophrenia, 2020, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • SNORD90 induces glutamatergic signaling following treatment with monoaminergic antidepressants, 2023, eLife

Tak Pan Wong frequently collaborates with several researchers including Amanda Larosa, Moushumi Nath, Lalit K. Srivastava, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Hong Long.

The researcher often publishes in several venues, with notable recurrent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
  • Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • McGill Journal of Medicine
  • The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Their body of work encompasses a significant number of publications in neuroscience, reflecting a consistent focus on molecular and behavioral aspects of brain function and disorders.

Best Publications

  • Role of NMDA Receptor Subtypes in Governing the Direction of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity

    Lidong Liu;Tak Pan Wong;Mario F. Pozza;Kurt Lingenhoehl

  • NMDA receptor subunits have differential roles in mediating excitotoxic neuronal death both in vitro and in vivo.

    Yitao Liu;Tak Pan Wong;Michelle Aarts;Amanda Rooyakkers

  • LTP inhibits LTD in the hippocampus via regulation of GSK3beta.

    Stéphane Peineau;Changiz Taghibiglou;Clarrisa Bradley;Tak Pan Wong

  • A balance between excitatory and inhibitory synapses is controlled by PSD-95 and neuroligin

    Oliver Prange;Tak Pan Wong;Kimberly Gerrow;Yu Tian Wang

  • Activation of PI3-kinase is required for AMPA receptor insertion during LTP of mEPSCs in cultured hippocampal neurons

    Heng-Ye Man;Qinhua Wang;Wei-Yang Lu;William Ju

  • Tyrosine phosphorylation of GluR2 is required for insulin‐stimulated AMPA receptor endocytosis and LTD

    Gholamreza Ahmadian;William Ju;William Ju;Lidong Liu;Lidong Liu;Michael Wyszynski

  • Neuroligins mediate excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation: involvement of PSD-95 and neurexin-1beta in neuroligin-induced synaptic specificity

    Joshua N. Levinson;Nadège Chéry;Kun Huang;Tak Pan Wong

  • Nucleus Accumbens Long-Term Depression and the Expression of Behavioral Sensitization

    Karen Brebner;Tak Pan Wong;Lidong Liu;Yitao Liu

  • Hippocampal long-term depression is required for the consolidation of spatial memory

    Yuan Ge;Zhifang Dong;Rosemary C. Bagot;John G. Howland

  • Hippocampal long-term depression mediates acute stress-induced spatial memory retrieval impairment.

    Tak Pan Wong;John G. Howland;Julie M. Robillard;Yuan Ge

  • Reorganization of Cholinergic Terminals in the Cerebral Cortex and Hippocampus in Transgenic Mice Carrying Mutated Presenilin-1 and Amyloid Precursor Protein Transgenes

    Tak Pan Wong;Thomas Debeir;Karen Duff;A. Claudio Cuello

  • A critical role for myosin IIb in dendritic spine morphology and synaptic function

    Jubin Ryu;Lidong Liu;Tak Pan Wong;Dong Chuan Wu

  • Calpain-Mediated mGluR1α Truncation: A Key Step in Excitotoxicity

    Wei Xu;Tak Pan Wong;Nadege Chery;Tara Gaertner

  • Changes in retinal expression of neurotrophins and neurotrophin receptors induced by ocular hypertension.

    Marcelo Rudzinski;Tak-Pan Wong;H. Uri Saragovi

  • Involvement of myosin Vb in glutamate receptor trafficking.

    Marie-France Lisé;Tak Pan Wong;Alex Trinh;Rochelle M. Hines

  • Astrocytes Control Glutamate Receptor Levels at Developing Synapses through SPARC–β-Integrin Interactions

    Emma V. Jones;Yann Bernardinelli;Yiu Chung Tse;Sabrina Chierzi

  • Cholinergic nerve terminals establish classical synapses in the rat cerebral cortex: synaptic pattern and age-related atrophy.

    P Turrini;M.A Casu;T.P Wong;Y De Koninck

  • Variations in postnatal maternal care and the epigenetic regulation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 expression and hippocampal function in the rat

    Rosemary C. Bagot;Tie-Yuan Zhang;Xianglan Wen;Thi Thu Thao Nguyen

  • Presynaptic D2 Dopamine Receptors Control Long-Term Depression Expression and Memory Processes in the Temporal Hippocampus

    Jill Rocchetti;Elsa Isingrini;Gregory Dal Bo;Sara Sagheby

  • dcc orchestrates the development of the prefrontal cortex during adolescence and is altered in psychiatric patients

    C. Manitt;C. Eng;M. Pokinko;R. T. Ryan

  • The impact of Aβ-plaques on cortical cholinergic and non-cholinergic presynaptic boutons in alzheimer's disease-like transgenic mice

    L Hu;T.P Wong;S.L Côté;K.F.S Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu Tian Wang
Yu Tian Wang University of British Columbia
Rosemary C. Bagot
Rosemary C. Bagot McGill University
Bruno Giros
Bruno Giros McGill University
Patricia Boksa
Patricia Boksa Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva
Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva McGill University
Yves De Koninck
Yves De Koninck Université Laval
A. Claudio Cuello
A. Claudio Cuello McGill University
Morgan Sheng
Morgan Sheng Broad Institute
Anthony G. Phillips
Anthony G. Phillips University of British Columbia
John G. Howland
John G. Howland University of Saskatchewan

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