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Alyson E. Fournier is affiliated with the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these areas, their work focuses on Molecular Biology, Immunology, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The main research topics covered by Fournier include:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Interferon and immune responses
  • Immune cells in cancer

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Polypharmacological Perturbation of the 14-3-3 Adaptor Protein Interactome Stimulates Neurite Outgrowth," 2020, published in Cell Chemical Biology
  • "Senolytic treatment diminishes microglia and decreases severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis," 2024, published in Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • "Collapsin Response Mediator Protein 4 (CRMP4) Facilitates Wallerian Degeneration and Axon Regeneration following Sciatic Nerve Injury," 2020, published in eNeuro
  • "Ependymal cells undergo astrocyte-like reactivity in response to neuroinflammation," 2024, published in Journal of Neurochemistry
  • "Comparing RNA-sequencing datasets from astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and microglia in multiple sclerosis identifies novel dysregulated genes relevant to inflammation and myelination," 2023, published in WIREs Mechanisms of Disease

Fournier frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nuclear Medicine and Biology
  • Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Cell Chemical Biology
  • Journal of Neurochemistry

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sienna Drake
  • Elizabeth M.-L. Hua
  • Aliyah Zaman
  • Jo Anne Stratton
  • Matthew A Hintermayer

Best Publications

  • Identification of a receptor mediating Nogo-66 inhibition of axonal regeneration

    Alyson E. Fournier;Tadzia GrandPre;Stephen M. Strittmatter

  • Plexin-neuropilin-1 complexes form functional semaphorin-3A receptors.

    Takuya Takahashi;Alyson Fournier;Fumio Nakamura;Li Hsien Wang

  • Rho Kinase Inhibition Enhances Axonal Regeneration in the Injured CNS

    Alyson E. Fournier;Bayan T. Takizawa;Stephen M. Strittmatter

  • Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein as a Functional Ligand for the Nogo-66 Receptor

    Betty P. Liu;Alyson Fournier;Tadzia GrandPré;Stephen M. Strittmatter

  • Inactivation of Rho Signaling Pathway Promotes CNS Axon Regeneration

    Maxine Lehmann;Alyson Fournier;Immaculada Selles-Navarro;Pauline Dergham

  • microRNA dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: A systematic review

    Camille A. Juźwik;Sienna S. Drake;Yang Zhang;Nicolas Paradis-Isler

  • Structure and axon outgrowth inhibitor binding of the Nogo-66 receptor and related proteins

    William A. Barton;Betty P. Liu;Betty P. Liu;Dorothea Tzvetkova;Philip D. Jeffrey

  • Truncated soluble Nogo receptor binds Nogo-66 and blocks inhibition of axon growth by myelin

    Alyson E. Fournier;Graham C. Gould;Betty P. Liu;Stephen M. Strittmatter

  • NeuriteTracer: a novel ImageJ plugin for automated quantification of neurite outgrowth.

    Madeline Pool;Joachim Thiemann;Amit Bar-Or;Alyson E. Fournier

  • Repulsive factors and axon regeneration in the CNS

    Alyson E Fournier;Stephen M Strittmatter

  • Semaphorin3a Enhances Endocytosis at Sites of Receptor–F-Actin Colocalization during Growth Cone Collapse

    Alyson E. Fournier;Fumio Nakamura;Susumu Kawamoto;Yoshio Goshima

  • Natalizumab effects on immune cell responses in multiple sclerosis

    Masaaki Niino;Caroline Bodner;Marie‐Lune Simard;Sudabeh Alatab

  • Myelin-Associated Inhibitors Regulate Cofilin Phosphorylation and Neuronal Inhibition through LIM Kinase and Slingshot Phosphatase

    Sidney H.-K. Hsieh;Gino B. Ferraro;Alyson E. Fournier

  • Neuronal cytoskeleton in synaptic plasticity and regeneration.

    Phillip R Gordon-Weeks;Alyson E Fournier

  • Identification of crmp4 as a convergent regulator of axon outgrowth inhibition

    Alyson E. Fournier;Yazan Z. Alabed

  • GSK3β Regulates Myelin-Dependent Axon Outgrowth Inhibition through CRMP4

    Yazan Z. Alabed;Madeline Pool;Stephan Ong Tone;Calum Sutherland

  • Neuroprotective Function of 14-3-3 Proteins in Neurodegeneration

    Tadayuki Shimada;Alyson E. Fournier;Kanato Yamagata

  • 14-3-3 Proteins Regulate a Cell-Intrinsic Switch from Sonic Hedgehog-Mediated Commissural Axon Attraction to Repulsion after Midline Crossing

    Patricia T. Yam;Christopher B. Kent;Christopher B. Kent;Steves Morin;W. Todd Farmer

  • Rho inhibition recruits DCC to the neuronal plasma membrane and enhances axon chemoattraction to netrin 1

    Simon W. Moore;James P. Correia;Karen Lai Wing Sun;Madeline Pool

  • Small-Molecule Stabilization of 14-3-3 Protein-Protein Interactions Stimulates Axon Regeneration

    Andrew Kaplan;Barbara Morquette;Antje Kroner;SooYuen Leong

  • Brain‐derived neurotrophic factor modulates GAP‐43 but not tα1 expression in injured retinal ganglion cells of adult rats

    A.E. Fournier;J. Beer;C.O. Arregui;C. Essagian

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy E. Kennedy
Timothy E. Kennedy Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Lisa McKerracher
Lisa McKerracher BioAxone BioSciences Inc.
Jack P. Antel
Jack P. Antel McGill University
Robert G. Kalb
Robert G. Kalb Northwestern University
Yves De Koninck
Yves De Koninck Université Laval
Peter Grutter
Peter Grutter McGill University
Guillermina Almazan
Guillermina Almazan McGill University
Andrei V. Krassioukov
Andrei V. Krassioukov University of British Columbia
Jordi Pérez-Tur
Jordi Pérez-Tur Spanish National Research Council

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