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Name: Dr. Michal Hershfinkel

Faculty: Medicine

Department: Neurology

Rank: Lecturer

Degree: Ph.D. [Ben-Gurion University]

Areas of Research:
Zinc homeostasis
Zinc sensing receptor
Zinc signaling in the brain
Zinc transport
Zinc in wound healing

Neuroscience Courses:

Research Students:
Haleli Sharir
Limor Borovsky
Anna Borukhin

Selected Publications:
Palty, R., Ohana, E., Hershfinkel, M. Volokita, M., Elgazar, V. Silverman, W.F., Aragman, M. and I. Sekler. (2004) Lithium-calcium exchange is mediated by a distinct potassium-independent sodium calcium exchanger.
J. Biol. Chem. (In press).

Nitzan-Beebe, Y., Sekler, I. and W.F. Silverman. (2004)
Histochemical and histo-fluorescence tracing of chelatable zinc in pre- and postnatal development.
J. Histochem. Cytochem. 2:529-39.

Nitzan-Beebe, Y, Arie Moran, I, Hershfinkel, M., Sekler, I. and W.F. Silverman. (2003) Clioquinol effects on tissue chelatable zinc in mice. J. Mol. Medicine 81637-644.

I. Sekler A. Moran, M. Hershfinkel, N. Birenzwig and W.F. Silverman (2002).
Distribution of the zinc transporter ZnT-1 in the mouse brain.
JCN, 447, 201–209.

Y.B. Nitzan, I. Sekler, M. Hershfinkel, A. Moran, A. Dori and W. F. Silverman.
Ontogeny of ZnT-1 in the developing mouse brain with correlation to vesicular zinc.
Develop. Brain Res. 137, 149–157.

M. Hershfinkel, A. Moran, N. Grossman and I. Sekler (2001).
A Novel Zinc-Sensing Receptor Triggers the Release of Intracellular Ca2+ and Regulates Ion Transport.
PNAS, 98 ,11749-11754.