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Overview

Andreas Vlachos is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and focuses primarily on the field of Neuroscience. Their body of work extends into various subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Immunology.

The scientific topics that Andreas has explored encompass Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Their recent publications include:

  • Microbiota-derived acetate enables the metabolic fitness of the brain innate immune system during health and disease, 2021, Cell Metabolism
  • Novel Hexb-based tools for studying microglia in the CNS, 2020, Nature Immunology
  • Cytomegalovirus subverts macrophage identity, 2021, Cell
  • Selecting stimulation intensity in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation studies: A systematic review between 1991 and 2020, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • All-trans retinoic acid induces synaptic plasticity in human cortical neurons, 2021, eLife

Frequent co-authors in Andreas Vlachos's research include Maximilian Lenz, Christos Galanis, Jürgen Beck, Marco Prinz, and Amelie Eichler.

The venues in which Andreas has often published consist of bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain Stimulation, Neuro-Oncology, eLife, and Cells.

Best Publications

  • Microbiota-derived acetate enables the metabolic fitness of the brain innate immune system during health and disease

    Daniel Erny;Nikolaos Dokalis;Charlotte Mezö;Angela Castoldi

  • Novel Hexb-based tools for studying microglia in the CNS.

    Takahiro Masuda;Takahiro Masuda;Lukas Amann;Roman Sankowski;Ori Staszewski

  • Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation Induces Functional and Structural Plasticity of Excitatory Postsynapses in Mouse Organotypic Hippocampal Slice Cultures

    Andreas Vlachos;Florian Müller-Dahlhaus;Johannes Rosskopp;Maximilian Lenz

  • Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces plasticity of inhibitory synapses

    Maximilian Lenz;Christos Galanis;Florian Müller-Dahlhaus;Alexander Opitz

  • Synaptopodin Regulates Plasticity of Dendritic Spines in Hippocampal Neurons

    Andreas Vlachos;Eduard Korkotian;Eldi Schonfeld;Ekaterini Copanaki

  • Association with the auxiliary subunit PEX5R/Trip8b controls responsiveness of HCN channels to cAMP and adrenergic stimulation.

    Gerd Zolles;Daniela Wenzel;Wolfgang Bildl;Uwe Schulte

  • A role for the spine apparatus in LTP and spatial learning

    Peter Jedlicka;Andreas Vlachos;Stephan W. Schwarzacher;Thomas Deller

  • Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces plasticity of excitatory postsynapses on proximal dendrites of cultured mouse CA1 pyramidal neurons

    Maximilian Lenz;Steffen Platschek;Viola Priesemann;Denise Becker

  • Increased Dentate Gyrus Excitability in Neuroligin-2-Deficient Mice in Vivo

    Peter Jedlicka;Mrinalini Hoon;Theofilos Papadopoulos;Andreas Vlachos

  • The Spine Apparatus, Synaptopodin, and Dendritic Spine Plasticity

    Menahem Segal;Andreas Vlachos;Eduard Korkotian

  • Synaptopodin regulates denervation-induced homeostatic synaptic plasticity

    Andreas Vlachos;Benno Ikenberg;Maximilian Lenz;Denise Becker

  • Unraveling the cellular and molecular mechanisms of repetitive magnetic stimulation

    Florian Müller-Dahlhaus;Andreas Vlachos

  • A role for synaptopodin and the spine apparatus in hippocampal synaptic plasticity.

    Thomas Deller;Carlos Bas Orth;Domenico Del Turco;Andreas Vlachos

  • sAPPalpha antagonizes dendritic degeneration and neuron death triggered by proteasomal stress.

    Ekaterini Copanaki;Steffi Chang;Andreas Vlachos;Jakob-A. Tschäpe

  • Thrombin induces ischemic LTP (iLTP): implications for synaptic plasticity in the acute phase of ischemic stroke.

    Efrat Shavit Stein;Zeev Itsekson-Hayosh;Anna Aronovich;Anna Aronovich;Yair Reisner

  • GABA-from Inhibition to Cognition: Emerging Concepts.

    T Schmidt-Wilcke;E Fuchs;K Funke;A Vlachos

  • Selecting stimulation intensity in repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation studies: A systematic review between 1991 and 2020

    Zsolt Turi;Zsolt Turi;Maximilian Lenz;Walter Paulus;Matthias Mittner

  • Thrombin regulation of synaptic transmission and plasticity: implications for health and disease.

    Marina Ben Shimon;Maximilian Lenz;Maximilian Lenz;Benno Ikenberg;Benno Ikenberg;Denise Becker

  • Homeostatic Regulation of Gephyrin Scaffolds and Synaptic Strength at Mature Hippocampal GABAergic Postsynapses

    Andreas Vlachos;Suneel Reddy-Alla;Suneel Reddy-Alla;Suneel Reddy-Alla;Theofilos Papadopoulos;Thomas Deller

  • All-trans retinoic acid induces synaptic plasticity in human cortical neurons

    Maximilian Lenz;Pia Kruse;Amelie Eichler;Jakob Straehle

  • Lamina-specific distribution of Synaptopodin, an actin-associated molecule essential for the spine apparatus, in identified principal cell dendrites of the mouse hippocampus.

    Carlos Bas Orth;Andreas Vlachos;Domenico Del Turco;Guido J. Burbach

  • Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) modulates synaptic plasticity in a concentration-dependent manner through intracellular calcium stores.

    Nicola Maggio;Andreas Vlachos

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Deller
Thomas Deller Goethe University Frankfurt
Joab Chapman
Joab Chapman Tel Aviv University
Ulf Ziemann
Ulf Ziemann University of Tübingen
Alexander Opitz
Alexander Opitz University of Minnesota
Klaus Funke
Klaus Funke Ruhr University Bochum
Domenico Del Turco
Domenico Del Turco Goethe University Frankfurt
Thomas Misgeld
Thomas Misgeld Technical University of Munich
Menahem Segal
Menahem Segal Weizmann Institute of Science
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage University of Freiburg
Matthias Staufenbiel
Matthias Staufenbiel University of Tübingen

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