NAME:
Imre Kovacs, M.D., Ph.D.
kimre@comser.szote.u-szeged.hu
EDUCATION:
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M.D., Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University,
Szeged, Hungary, 1994.
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Ph.D. Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University,
Szeged, Hungary, 1998.
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AWARDS AND PRIZES:
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Winner of the "Ferenc Joo Award for the Brain
Research" of the Ferenc Joo Foundation. 1998, Szeged, Hungary.
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Winner of the prize Teva-Biogal Pharmaceutical
Company. 1998, Szeged, Hungary.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY:
Neuromorphological studies in the rodent and human central nervous system
with special regards to the Alzheimer’s Disease.
APPLIED METHODS:
Immunohistochemical and histochemical methods
OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST:
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Neurotransmitter systems in the human central
nervous system.
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Amyloid Precursor Protein processing.
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Molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
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Kasa,
P., Kovacs, I., Farkas, Z., Geula, C. (1996) Effect of hypocholinergic
activity on the immunoreactivity of ß-amyloid precursor protein in
the central nervous system. Neurobiology 4, 119-121.
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Kovacs,
I., Török, I., Zombori, J., Kasa, P. (1996) Neuropathologic changes
in the olfactory bulb in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology 4, 123-126.
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Kasa,
P., Karcsu, S., Kovacs, I., Wolff, J.R. (1996) Cholinoceptive neurons without
acetylcholinesterase activity and enzime-positive neurons without cholinergic
synaptic innervation are present in the main olfactory bulb of adult rat.
Neuroscience 73, 831-844.
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Kasa, P., Kovacs, I., Farkas, Z., Geula, C., Yamaguchi,
H. (1996) ß-amyloid precursor protein immunoreactivity does not increases
in the cortex and hippocampus of the rat brain in consequence of cholinergic
hypoactivity. Neurobiol. Aging 17, S19.
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Zombori, J., Kovacs, I., Török, I.,
Kasa, P. (1996) Structural localization of amyloid ß-peptide in the
olfactory bulb of Alzheimer’s disease brain samples. Clin. Neurosci. 49,
Suppl. 1. 46-47.
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Kovacs, I., Török, I., Zombori, J.,
Kasa, P. (1996) Cholinergic structures and neuropathological changes in
human olfactory bulb. Clin. Neurosci. 49, Suppl. 1. 23-24.
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Kalman, J., Juhasz, A., Csaszar, A., Kovacs, I.,
Kanka, A., Rimanoczy, A., Kasa, P., Janka, Z., Rasko, I. (1996) Apolipoprotein
E allele frequencies in patients with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease in
Hungary. Clin. Neurosci. 49, Suppl. 1. 37-38.
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Kalman,
J., Engelhardt, J.I., Le, W.D., Kovacs, I., Kasa, P., Appel, S.H. (1997)
Experimental immune-mediated damage to the septal cholinergic structures,
and its effect on learning and memory functions. J. Neuroimmunol. 77, 63-74.
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Kovacs, I., Farkas, Z., Kasa, P. Jr., Geula, C.,
Kasa, P. Sr. (1997) Effects of 192-IgG-saporin on cholinergic and galaninergic
neurons in the brain of the rat. Neurobiology (in press).
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Kovacs,
I., Torok, I., Zombori, J., Kasa, P. (1998) Cholinergic structures and
neuropathologic alterations in the olfactory bulb of Alzheimer's disease
brain samples. Brain Res. 789, 167-70.
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