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    Classifying Neuronal Cell Types Based on Shared Electrophysiological Information from Humans and Mice

    The brain is an intricate system that controls a variety of functions. It consists of a vast number of cells that exhibit diverse characteristics. To understand brain function in health and disease, it is cruc...

    Ofek Ophir, Orit Shefi, Ofir Lindenbaum in Neuroinformatics (2024)

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    A streptavidin–biotin system combined with magnetic actuators for remote neuronal guidance

    The ability to control neuronal mobility and organization is of great importance in develo** neuronal interfaces and novel therapeutic approaches. An emerging promising method is the manipulation of neuronal...

    Dafna Rivka Levenberg, Eli Varon, Ganit Indech in Journal of Biological Engineering (2023)

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    Engineering Oriented Scaffolds for Directing Neuronal Regeneration

    Following nervous system injuries, such as peripheral or spinal cord injuries, severed nerves must regenerate to reinnervate tissues and restore lost-functionality. In many peripheral nerve injuries surgical i...

    Merav Antman-Passig, Orit Shefi in Virtual Prototy** & Bio Manufacturing in… (2021)

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    Axonal Tree Morphology and Signal Propagation Dynamics Improve Interneuron Classification

    Neurons are diverse and can be differentiated by their morphological, electrophysiological, and molecular properties. Current morphology-based classification approaches largely rely on the dendritic tree struc...

    Netanel Ofer, Orit Shefi, Gur Yaari in Neuroinformatics (2020)

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    Large-scale acoustic-driven neuronal patterning and directed outgrowth

    Acoustic manipulation is an emerging non-invasive method enabling precise spatial control of cells in their native environment. Applying this method for organizing neurons is invaluable for neural tissue engin...

    Sharon Cohen, Haim Sazan, Avraham Kenigsberg, Hadas Schori in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Branching morphology determines signal propagation dynamics in neurons

    Computational modeling of signal propagation in neurons is critical to our understanding of basic principles underlying brain organization and activity. Exploring these models is used to address basic neurosci...

    Netanel Ofer, Orit Shefi, Gur Yaari in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    26th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2017): Part 3

    Adam J. H. Newton, Alexandra H. Seidenstein, Robert A. McDougal in BMC Neuroscience (2017)

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    Effect of different densities of silver nanoparticles on neuronal growth

    Nerve regeneration has become a subject of great interest, and much effort is devoted to the design and manufacturing of effective biomaterials. In this paper, we report the capability of surfaces coated with ...

    Ifat Nissan, Hadas Schori, Anat Lipovsky, Noa Alon in Journal of Nanoparticle Research (2016)

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    Iron oxide nanoparticles for neuronal cell applications: uptake study and magnetic manipulations

    The ability to direct and manipulate neuronal cells has important potential in therapeutics and neural network studies. An emerging approach for remotely guiding cells is by incorporating magnetic nanoparticle...

    Michal Marcus, Moshe Karni, Koby Baranes, Itay Levy in Journal of Nanobiotechnology (2016)

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    De novo transcriptome assembly databases for the central nervous system of the medicinal leech

    The study of non-model organisms stands to benefit greatly from genetic and genomic data. For a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving neuronal development, and to characterize the entire leech

    Dror Hibsh, Hadas Schori, Sol Efroni, Orit Shefi in Scientific Data (2015)

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    Bombarding Cancer: Biolistic Delivery of therapeutics using Porous Si Carriers

    A new paradigm for an effective delivery of therapeutics into cancer cells is presented. Degradable porous silicon carriers, which are tailored to carry and release a model anti-cancer drug, are biolistically ...

    Neta Zilony, Adi Tzur-Balter, Ester Segal, Orit Shefi in Scientific Reports (2013)

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    Neuronal morphology as an instrument for information coding: studying the influence of axonal radius and branching points

    Netanel Ofer, Orit Shefi in BMC Neuroscience (2013)

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    Interactions of neurons with topographic nano cues affect branching morphology mimicking neuron–neuron interactions

    We study the effect of topographic nano-cues on neuronal growth-morphology using invertebrate neurons in culture. We use photolithography to fabricate substrates with repeatable line-pattern ridges of nano-sca...

    Koby Baranes, Davida Kollmar, Nathan Chejanovsky in Journal of Molecular Histology (2012)