Imre Kovacs, M.D., Ph.D.             
kimre@comser.szote.u-szeged.hu

EDUCATION:

• M.D., Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged, Hungary,  1994.
• Ph.D. Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged, Hungary, 1998.
 

        Research fellow

Since 1994

• Hungarian Neuroscience Association (1996-)
• European Neuroscience Association (1996-)
• The Hungarian Society of Neuropathology (1997-)
• International Brain Research Organization (1997-)

• Winner of the "Ferenc Joo Award for the Brain Research" of the Ferenc Joo Foundation. 1998, Szeged, Hungary.
• Winner of the prize Teva-Biogal Pharmaceutical Company. 1998, Szeged, Hungary.

        Neuromorphological studies in the rodent and human central nervous system with special regards to the Alzheimer’s Disease.

        Immunohistochemical and histochemical  methods

• Neurotransmitter systems in the human central nervous system.
• Amyloid Precursor Protein processing.
• Molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease.

• 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.
• Kovacs, I., Török, I., Zombori, J., Kasa, P. (1996) Neuropathologic changes in the olfactory bulb in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology 4, 123-126.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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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