Michael Ndung'u

Michael Njenga Ndung'u

Research Scientist

mndungu@kipre.go.ke

Qualifications

  • BVM, MPhil (Neurobiology)

Projects

  • Cyclospra cayetanensis project, Anti-phospholipid antibodies project, Dengue virus vaccine project, Schistosomiaisis project, cerebral hypoperfusion project (including the Edaravone® pre-clinical trial)

Publications

  1. 1.Ren Ding , Yoshiki Hase , Kamar E Ameen-Ali , Michael Ndung'u , William Stevenson , Joseph Barsby , Ryan Gourlay , Tolulope Akinyemi , Rufus Akinyemi , Maiko T Uemura , Tuomo Polvikoski , Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska, Masafumi Ihara , Raj N Kalaria(2020) Loss of capillary pericytes and the blood-brain barrier in white matter in poststroke and vascular dementias and Alzheimer's disease Brain Pathol 2020; 30(6): 1087-1101
  2. 2.Njenga MN, IO Farah, GK Muchemi and M Nyindo (1998) Peri-portal fibrosis of the liver due to natural or experimental infection with Schistososma mansoni occurs in the Kenyan Baboon. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Vol.92, no2, 187-193
  3. 3.3. Mark L Eberhard, Michael N. Njenga, Alex J. DaSilva, Daniel Owino, Eva K. Nace, Kimberly Y. Won and Jason M. Mwenda.A survey for Cyclospora in Kenyan primates, with some notes on its biology. J Parasitol., 87(6), 2001,pp 1394-1397.
  4. 4.2. Lang’at DK., Sichangi M., Rotes N., Kent M., Omollo E., Chai D., Njenga MN, Nyaundi JK., and Mwenda M.The prevalence of anti-phospholipid antibodies and fetal loss in a non-human primate colony in Kenya. J. Obstet. Gynaecol., Eastern & Central Africa, 1998, 14 (2): 55-61.
  5. 5.M. Ndung’u, W. Härtig, F. Wegner, J. M. Mwenda, R. W. C. Low, R. O. Akinyemi and R. N. Kalaria (2012) Cerebral amyloid b(42) deposits and microvascular pathology in ageing baboons Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 38, 487–499
  6. 6.Ganesh P, Jameela H, Michael N and Njoki K(2015) Dimensional Analysis of Selected Linear and Curved Measurements of Human and Baboon Brains. Austin J Nurs Health Care.;2(1): 1013.
  7. 7.Chen A, Akinyemi RO, Hase Y, Firbank MJ, Ndung'u MN, Foster V, Craggs LJ, Washida K, Okamoto Y1, Thomas AJ, Polvikoski TM, Allan LM,Oakley AE, O'Brien JT, Horsburgh K, Ihara M and Kalaria RN (2016) Frontal white matter hyperintensities, clasmatodendrosis and gliovascular abnormalities in ageing and post-stroke dementia. Brain 139(Pt 1):242-58.
  8. 8.Michael Njenga Ndung’u (2004). Alzheimer Proteins in Ischemic Brain Injury in Baboons MPhil Thesis; University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Faculty of Medicine, School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, United Kingdom.