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Name: Dr. Israel Sekler

Faculty: Medicine

Department: Physiology

Rank: Lecturer

Degree: Ph.D. [Weizmann Inst. of Science]

Areas of Research:
zinc receptor
zinc transport
zinc methabolism
zinc pathpysiology
ion transport
zinc homeaostasis

Neuroscience Courses:
membrane transporters in heath and disease

Research Students:
Dror Segal.
zinc trasport acrosss the cell membrane.
Hadas Levi.
zinc and zinc trasporters in brain ischemia.

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.