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Published on January 31, 2012


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Guy Gingras

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Company: Inserm U846


Mailing Address:
18 av du Doyen Jean Lepine

69675 - Bron Cedex - France
External Link:
E-mail: guy.gingras@inserm.fr
Phone: 04 72 91 34 55
Fax: 04 72 91 34 61


Group(s):
Neurobiology of circadian rhythms and Sleep - Teams

Research interest

Assessment of visual functions in animal models of human visual disorders.

 

Keywords: retinal pathologies, gene therapy, recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors (rAVV), melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells, blindness, visual recovery, animal psychophysics, fMRI.
Publications
Reinstein SL, Gingras G, Broussard CG, Aguirre GK, Brainard DH, Komaromy AM (2010) Behavioral measurement of photoreceptor-directed contrast sensitivity in the canine. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, FL (Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2010 51: E-Abstract 1063) download
Gingras G, Rowland BA, Stein BE (2009) The differing impact of multisensory and unisensory integration on behavior. J Neurosci 29(15): 4897-4902 download
Gingras G, Komaromy AM, Tseng B, Alexander JJ, Chiodo VA, Hauswirth WW, Acland GM, Aguirre GD, Brainard DH, Aguirre GK (2009) Cortical recovery following gene therapy in a canine model of achromatopsia [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 9 (8): 311-311a download
Gingras G, Mitchell DE, Hess RF (2005) Haphazard neural connections underlie the visual deficits of cats with strabismic or deprivation amblyopia. Eur J Neurosci 22(1): 119-124 download
Gingras G, Mitchell DE, Hess RF (2005) The spatial localization deficit in visually deprived kittens. Vision Res 45(8): 975-989 download
Mitchell DE, Gingras G, Kind PC (2001) Initial recovery of vision after early monocular deprivation in kittens is faster when both eyes are open. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 98(20): 11662-11667 download
Frost DO, Boire D, Gingras G, Ptito M (2000) Surgically created neural pathways mediate visual pattern discrimination. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 97(20): 11068-11073. download
Mitchell DE, Gingras G (1998) Visual recovery after monocular deprivation is driven by absolute, rather than relative, visually evoked activity levels. Curr Biol 8(21): 1179-1182 download



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