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Gabriel A. Silva

Professor of Bioengineering and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
Verified email at ucsd.edu
Cited by 10099

Introduction to nanotechnology and its applications to medicine

GA Silva - Surgical neurology, 2004 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology can be defined as the science and engineering involved in the design,
synthesis, characterization, and application of materials and devices whose smallest functional …

Neuroscience nanotechnology: progress, opportunities and challenges

GA Silva - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2006 - nature.com
Nanotechnologies exploit materials and devices with a functional organization that has been
engineered at the nanometre scale. The application of nanotechnology in cell biology and …

Cell type specificity of neurovascular coupling in cerebral cortex

…, E Masliah, S Djurovic, OA Andreassen, GA Silva… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.14315.001 Identification of the cellular players and molecular messengers
that communicate neuronal activity to the vasculature driving cerebral hemodynamics is …

Nanomaterials for neural interfaces

…, M Prato, RV Bellamkonda, GA Silva… - Advanced …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on the application of nanomaterials for neural interfacing. The junction
between nanotechnology and neural tissues can be particularly worthy of scientific attention …

Quantum dot applications to neuroscience: new tools for probing neurons and glia

…, E Cao, MC Davidson, S Jin, GA Silva - Journal of …, 2006 - Soc Neuroscience
Semiconductor fluorescent quantum dots are nanometer-sized functionalized particles that
display unique physical properties that make them particularly well suited for visualizing and …

Characterization of the functional binding properties of antibody conjugated quantum dots

S Pathak, MC Davidson, GA Silva - Nano Letters, 2007 - ACS Publications
Antibody conjugated quantum dots are an emerging technology for high-resolution labeling
of biological systems. In this work we determined the number of functional antibodies (ie, …

Selective differentiation of neural progenitor cells by high-epitope density nanofibers

GA Silva, C Czeisler, KL Niece, E Beniash… - Science, 2004 - science.org
Neural progenitor cells were encapsulated in vitro within a three-dimensional network of
nanofibers formed by self-assembly of peptide amphiphile molecules. The self-assembly is …

In vivo stimulus-induced vasodilation occurs without IP3 receptor activation and may precede astrocytic calcium increase

…, J Chen, E Masliah, AM Dale, GA Silva… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Calcium-dependent release of vasoactive gliotransmitters is widely assumed to trigger
vasodilation associated with rapid increases in neuronal activity. Inconsistent with this hypothesis, …

The role of abnormal vitreomacular adhesion in age-related macular degeneration: spectral optical coherence tomography and surgical results

F Mojana, L Cheng, DUG Bartsch, GA Silva… - American journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To assess the incidence of vitreomacular adhesion and traction in age-related
macular degeneration (AMD), and to evaluate surgical treatment in a subset of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotechnology approaches to crossing the blood-brain barrier and drug delivery to the CNS

GA Silva - BMC neuroscience, 2008 - Springer
Nanotechnologies are materials and devices that have a functional organization in at least
one dimension on the nanometer (one billionth of a meter) scale, ranging from a few to about …