University of Tasmania, Australia

2009 to 2012

• Professor JC Vickers
• Assoc Prof TC Dickson

• National Health and Medical Research Council

• Jerome A. Staal and James C. Vickers. Selective vulnerability of non-myelinated axons to stretch injury in an in vitro co-culture system. Journal of Neurotrauma. May 2011, 28(5): 841-847.
• Jerome A. Staal, Tracey C. Dickson, Robert Gasperini, Yao Liu, Lisa Foa, James C. Vickers. (2009). Initial calcium release from intracellular stores followed by calcium dysregulation is linked to secondary axotomy following transient axonal stretch injury.Journal of Neurochemistry, 112(5), pp. 1147–1155.
• Staal JA, Dickson TC, Chung RS, Vickers JC. (2009). Disruption of the ubiquitin proteasome system following axonal stretch injury accelerates progression to secondary axotomy. J Neurotrauma, 26(5), pp. 781-788.
• Staal JA, Dickson TC, Chung RS, Vickers JC. (2007). Cyclosporin-A treatment attenuates delayed cytoskeletal alterations and secondary axotomy following mild axonal stretch injury. Dev Neurobiol, 67(14), 1831-1842.
• Chung RS, Staal JA, McCormack GH, Dickson TC, Cozens MA, Chuckowree JA, Quilty MC, Vickers JC. (2005). Mild axonal stretch injury in vitro induces a progressive series of neurofilament alterations ultimately leading to delayed axotomy. J Neurotrauma, 22(10), pp. 1081-1091.