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Department of Neurosurgery

Houston, Texas

Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
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Vladimir V. Didenko, M.D, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Medical School
Moscow Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Ph.D.
Institute of General Pathology, Heart Pathopysiology Division, Academy of Medical Science, Moscow, Russia

Postgraduate
Institute of General Pathology, Heart Pathopysiology Division, Academy of Medical Science, Moscow, Russia

Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Biomembranes, Moscow University, Moscow, Russia

Riga School of Molecular Biology, Riga, Latvia

Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Primary Neurosurgical Interests
Research: Neural cell injury and programmed cell death; cell cycle regulation in aging brain cells; mechanisms of age-related neural cell death; methods to detect and control programmed cell death in vivo; development and application of nucleic acid-based nanoprobes; molecular machines, nanoparticles, DNA-enzymes, self-assembling molecular systems and sensors made of carbon nanotubes.

Professional Associations
Society for Neuroscience
American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Contact Information
VAMC
2002 Holcomb Blvd.
Research Bldg 109, Room 204
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-794-7572
Fax: 713-794-7095

Selected Publications

Didenko VV, Minchew CL, Shuman S, Baskin DS: Semi-artificial fluorescent molecular machine for DNA damage detection. Nano Letters, 4, 2461-2466; 2004; (DOI: 10.1021/n1048357e).

Didenko VV, Moore VC, Baskin DS, Smalley RE: Visualization of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes by fluorescent polymer wrapping. Nano Lett. 5: 1563-1567, 2005.

Didenko VV, Ngo H, Baskin DS: Polyethyleneimine as a transmembrane carrier of fluorescently labeled proteins and antibodies. Anal Biochem, 344:168-173, 2005.

Didenko VV, Baskin DS: Horseradish peroxidase-driven fluorescent labeling of nanotubes with quantum dots. Biotechniques, 40:2006 (In press).

Didenko VV: Nucleic Acid Probes Using Fluorescent Energy Transfer: Designs and Protocols. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2006.