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Mariana Rebocho da Costa

@maricosta.bsky.social
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she/her ✽ PhD candidate at LSaude Lab, GIMM (former iMM) ✽ 🦓🐟👩‍🔬

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Natasha O'Brown @natashaobrown.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
And somehow I missed it going live last week 😂 - our #zebrafish glial-vascular paper is available for those finterested! One of the best ways to end 2024 as a #newPI www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Zebrafish glial-vascular interactions progressively expand over the course of brain development
Glial-vascular interactions are critical for the formation and maintenance of brain blood vessels and the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in mammals, but their role in the zebrafish BBB remains unclear. Using three glial gene promoters—gfap, glast, and glastini (a truncated glast)—we explored glial-vascular development in zebrafish. Sparse labeling showed fewer glial-vascular interactions at early stages, with glial coverage and contact area increasing with age. Stable transgenic lines for glast and glastini revealed similar developmental increases, starting at ∼30% coverage at 3 days post-fertilization (dpf) and peaking at ∼60% by 10 dpf, and consistently higher glial coverage in the forebrain and midbrain than in the hindbrain.
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Mariana Rebocho da Costa @maricosta.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The first work of my PhD is OUT 🎆 star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/38... In this work, we share with the community our protocol for preparation, clearing and visualization of adult 🦓🐟 spinal cords structures that has been tested, refined and used quite frequently in our lab.
A Star Protocols graphical abstract of the steps for the preparation, clearing and visualization of adult zebrafish spinal cords, together with alternative uses for these samples (e.g. cryosectioning and immunohistochemistry of reverted sectioned samples).
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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Another top-20 finish at Nikon Small World for Dan Castranova and #WeinsteinLab!! 🧪
Adult transgenic zebrafish head showing blood vessels (blue), lymphatic vessels (yellow), and the skin and scales (magenta)
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