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.: Antal, Miklós

Schools Committee Member (2006-08)

M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. Miklós Antal
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology
Faculty of Medicine
Medical and Health Science Center
University of Debrecen
Nagyerdei krt. 98.
Debrecen
H-4032, Hungary
Phone: (36) (52) 416-392
Fax: (36) (52) 432-290
E-mail: antal@chondron.anat.dote.hu

Scientific interest

Pain and pain modulation. Nociceptive information processing in the superficial spinal dorsal horn. Endogeneous pain attenuation mechanisms of the central nervous system.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1976
M.D. (Medical Doctor), University Medical School of Debrecen, Hungary
1988
Ph.D. (Candidate of Science) Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
2000
D.Sc. (Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Habilitation

1994
Dr. Med. Habil., University Medical School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

Professional experience

1976 - 1978
Instructor in Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, University Medical School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
1978 - 1990
Assistant professor, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, University Medical School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
1984
Postdoctoral Fellow, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
1986
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
1987 - 1988
Welcome Trust Fellow, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
1990 - 1992
Visiting Associate, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
1992 - 1994
Associate professor, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, University Medical School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
1994
Professor and Chairman, Dept. Anat. Histol. Embryol., Univ. Med. School, Debrecen, Hungary)
2006
Visiting Professor, National Institutes of Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

Administrative activities

1987
Member of the Administrative Board of the Hungarian Society of Anatomists
1993
Member of the Neurobiological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1997
Member of the Administrative Board of the Hungarian Neuroscience Society
2001
Secretary of the Neurobiological Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2005
President of the Hungarian Neuroscience Society

Professional honors

1976
Weszprémi Award (University Medical School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary) for outstanding research activities during study years
1981
Award for Outstanding Work (Ministry of Health, Hungary)
1984
Lenhossék Award (Hungarian Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists) for outstanding research activities to a young scientist
1989
Award for Outstanding Teaching Activities (Ministrty of Health, Hungary)
1996
Educator of the Year (University Medical School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary)
1997
Széchenyi Fellowship (Ministry of Culture and Education, Hungary)
1999
Educator of the Year (University Medical School of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary)
2004
Educator of the Year (University of Debrecen, MHSC, Debrecen, Hungary)
2005
Award of the Academy of Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) for outstanding research activities
2005
gr. Mikó Imre Award (Hungarian National Council of Transsylvania) for supporting the reorganization of Hungarian higher education in Transsylvania
2005
Educator of the Year (University of Debrecen, MHSC, Debrecen, Hungary)

Selected Publications

  • Freund , T.F. and Antal, M.: GABA-containing neurons in the septum control inhibitory interneurons in the hippocampus. Nature, 336, 170-173 (1988)
  • Antal, M., Freund, T.F. and Polgár,E.: Calcium binding proteins, parvalbumin and calbindin-D 28k immunoreactive neurons in the rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia. A light and electron microscopic study. J. Comp. Neurol., 295, 467-484 (1990)
  • Antal, M., Sholomenko, G.N., Moschovakis, A.K, Storm-Mathisen, J., Heizmann, C.W. and Hunziker, W.: The termination pattern and postsynaptic targets of rubrospinal fibers in the rat spinal cord. A light and electron microscopic study. J. Comp. Neurol. 325, 22-37 (1992)
  • Antal, M., Berki, Á. Cs, Horváth, L., O'Donovan, M. J.: Developmental changes in the distribution of GABA-immunoreactive neurons in the embryonic chick lumbosacral spinal cord. J. Comp. Neurol., 343, 228-236 (1994)
  • Berki, Á. Cs, O'Donovan, M. J. and Antal, M.: Developmental expression of glycine immunoreactivity and its colocalization with GABA in the embryonic chick lumbosacral spinal cord. J. Comp. Neurol., 362, 583-596 (1995)
  • Antal, M., Petkó, M., Polgár, E., Heizmann, C. W. and Storm-Mathisen, J.: Direct evidence of an extensive GABAergic innervation of the spinal dorsal horn by fibers descending from the rostral ventromedial medulla. Neuroscience, 73, 509-518 (1996)
  • Odeh, F., Antal, M.: The projections of the midbrain periaqueductal gray to the pons and medulla oblongata in rats. Eur. J. Neurosci., 14, 1275-1286 (2001)
  • Antal, M., Papp, I., Bahaerguli, N., Veress, G. and Vereb, Gy.: Expression of hyperpolarization-activated and cyclic nucleotid-gated cation channel subunit 2 in axon terminals of peptidergic nociceptive primary sensory neurons in the superficial spinal dorsal horn of rats. Eur. J. Neurosci., 19, 1336-1342 (2004)
  • Petkó, M., Veress, G., Vereb, Gy., Storm-Mathisen, J. and Antal. M.: Commissural propriospinal connections between the lateral aspects of laminae III-IV in the lumbar spinal cord of rats. J. Comp. Neurol., 480, 364-377 (2004)
  • Hughes, D.I., Mackie, M., Nagy, G.G., Riddell, J.S., Maxwell, D.J., Szabó, G., Erdélyi, F., Veress, G., Szucs, P., Antal, M. and Todd, A.J.: P boutons in lamina IX of the rodent spinal cord express high levels of glutamic acid decarboxilase-65 and originate from cells in deep medial dorsal horn. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 102, 9038-9043 (2005)