Education

PhD, PEDECIBA, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, 2011, 2011

Lab information

Yang Lab

Publications

1. Garré JM, Yang G. (2018) Contributions of monocytes to nervous system disorders. J Mol Med (Berl). doi: 10.1007/s00109-018-1672-3.
2. Garré JM, Moura-Silva H, Lafaille JJ, Yang G. CX3CR1+ monocytes modulate learning and learning-dependent spine plasticity via TNFα. (2017) Nature Medicine, DOI:10.1038/nm.4340.
3. Garré JM, Retamal M.A., Cassina M.P, Barbeito L, Bukauskas F.F., Sáez J.C., Bennett M.V.L. and Abudara V (2010) FGF-1 induces ATP release from spinal astrocytes in culture and opens pannexin and connexin hemichannels. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107, 22659-64.
4. Bennett MVL, Garré JM, Orellana JA, Bukauskas FF, Nedergaard M, Sáez JC (2012) Connexin and pannexin hemichannels in inflammatory responses of glia and neurons. Brain Research, 1487:3-15.
5. Huang CL, Han XN, Li X, Lam E, Peng WG, Lou NH, Torres A, Tian GF, Willecke K, Garré JM, Bennett, MVL, , Nedergaard M., and Takano T (2012) Critical role of connexin 43 in secondary expansion of traumatic spinal cord injury. Journal of Neuroscience 32: 3333-8. PMID: 22399755
6. Garré JM, Yang G, Bukauskas FF., Bennett MV (2016) FGF-1 triggers pannexin-1 hemichannel opening in spinal astrocytes of rodents and promotes inflammatory responses in acute spinal cord slices. Journal of Neuroscience 36, 4785-801.
7. Garré J M and Bennett MVL (2009) Gap junctions as electrical synapses. The sticky synapse–cell adhesion molecules and their role in synapse formation and maintenance (Hortsch & Umemori eds), chapter 21, Springer, New York.