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C. Geoffrey Lau

Associate Professor
Verified email at cityu.edu.hk
Cited by 2611

NMDA receptor trafficking in synaptic plasticity and neuropsychiatric disorders

CG Lau, RS Zukin - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007 - nature.com
The number and subunit composition of synaptic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs)
are not static, but change in a cell- and synapse-specific manner during development and …

Protein kinase A regulates calcium permeability of NMDA receptors

VA Skeberdis, V Chevaleyre, CG Lau… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Calcium (Ca 2+ ) influx through NMDA receptors (NMDARs) is essential for synaptogenesis,
experience-dependent synaptic remodeling and plasticity. The NMDAR-mediated rise in …

Activity-dependent regulation of inhibition via GAD67

CG Lau, VN Murthy - Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Persistent alterations in network activity trigger compensatory changes in excitation and
inhibition that restore neuronal firing rate to an optimal range. One example of such synaptic …

Regulation of NMDA receptor Ca2+ signalling and synaptic plasticity

CG Lau, K Takeuchi, A Rodenas-Ruano, Y Takayasu… - 2009 - portlandpress.com
C. Geoffrey Lau 1 … GluR4 delivery requires PKA-dependent phosphorylation at Ser 842 in
its C-terminal tail [80,81]. Thus a deficit in RIIβ, which is required for correct targeting of PKA to …

Phosphorylation of Ser1166 on GluN2B by PKA is critical to synaptic NMDA receptor function and Ca2+ signaling in spines

JA Murphy, IS Stein, CG Lau, RT Peixoto… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
The NMDA-type glutamate receptor (NMDAR) is essential for synaptogenesis, synaptic
plasticity, and higher cognitive function. Emerging evidence indicates that NMDAR Ca 2+ …

SNAP-25 is a target of protein kinase C phosphorylation critical to NMDA receptor trafficking

CG Lau, Y Takayasu, A Rodenas-Ruano… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Protein kinase C (PKC) enhances NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-mediated currents and
promotes NMDAR delivery to the cell surface via SNARE-dependent exocytosis. Although the …

Environmental enrichment or selective activation of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons ameliorates synaptic and behavioral deficits in animal models with …

…, H Jiang, Q Zheng, AHK Fok, X Li, CG Lau… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Synaptic deficit-induced excitation and inhibition (E/I) imbalance have been implicated in
the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Using in vivo two-photon microscopy, we examined the …

[PDF][PDF] Entorhinohippocampal cholecystokinin modulates spatial learning by facilitating neuroplasticity of hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapses

…, ST Bello, D Zeng, P Jendrichovsky, CG Lau… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The hippocampus is broadly impacted by neuromodulations. However, how neuropeptides
shape the function of the hippocampus and the related spatial learning and memory remains …

Distinct projection patterns of different classes of layer 2 principal neurons in the olfactory cortex

C Mazo, J Grimaud, Y Shima, VN Murthy, CG Lau - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The broadly-distributed, non-topographic projections to and from the olfactory cortex may
suggest a flat, non-hierarchical organization in odor information processing. Layer 2 principal …

TCOF1 upregulation in triple-negative breast cancer promotes stemness and tumour growth and correlates with poor prognosis

…, W Cheuk, GYK So, Q He, C Geoffrey Lau… - British Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast
cancer with poor prognosis. By performing multiomic profiling, we recently uncovered super-…