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Andrey Y. Abramov is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with specific emphasis on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Clinical Biochemistry.

The scientific topics addressed by Abramov include mitochondrial function and pathology, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, and genetic neurodegenerative diseases.

Among Abramov's recent papers are the following:

  • Phospholipase iPLA2β averts ferroptosis by eliminating a redox lipid death signal, 2021, Nature Chemical Biology
  • Alpha synuclein aggregation drives ferroptosis: an interplay of iron, calcium and lipid peroxidation, 2020, Cell Death and Differentiation
  • Mitochondria and lipid peroxidation in the mechanism of neurodegeneration: Finding ways for prevention, 2020, Medicinal Research Reviews
  • Pathological structural conversion of α-synuclein at the mitochondria induces neuronal toxicity, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Nrf2 as a regulator of mitochondrial function: Energy metabolism and beyond, 2022, Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Frequent collaborators in Abramov's work include:

  • Plamena R. Angelova
  • Noemí Esteras
  • Andrey Y. Vinokurov
  • Sonia Gandhi
  • Minee L. Choi

Publishing venues Abramov has contributed to repeatedly include:

  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • FEBS Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cells
  • Cell Death and Differentiation

Best Publications

  • Mechanism of Oxidative Stress in Neurodegeneration

    Sonia Gandhi;Andrey Y. Abramov

  • Direct observation of the interconversion of normal and toxic forms of α-synuclein.

    Nunilo Cremades;Samuel I.A. Cohen;Emma Deas;Andrey Y. Abramov

  • The emerging role of Nrf2 in mitochondrial function.

    Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Andrey Y. Abramov

  • Three distinct mechanisms generate oxygen free radicals in neurons and contribute to cell death during anoxia and reoxygenation

    Andrey Y. Abramov;Antonella Scorziello;Michael R. Duchen

  • PINK1-Associated Parkinson's Disease Is Caused by Neuronal Vulnerability to Calcium-induced Cell Death

    Sonia Gandhi;Alison Wood-Kaczmar;Zhi Yao;Helene Plun-Favreau

  • β-Amyloid Peptides Induce Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Stress in Astrocytes and Death of Neurons through Activation of NADPH Oxidase

    Andrey Y. Abramov;Laura Canevari;Michael R. Duchen

  • Role of mitochondrial ROS in the brain: from physiology to neurodegeneration

    Plamena R. Angelova;Andrey Y. Abramov

  • Nrf2 regulates ROS production by mitochondria and NADPH oxidase

    Stjepana Kovac;Plamena R. Angelova;Kira M. Holmström;Ying Zhang

  • PINK1 cleavage at position A103 by the mitochondrial protease PARL

    Emma Deas;Helene Plun-Favreau;Sonia Gandhi;Howard Desmond

  • Structural characterization of toxic oligomers that are kinetically trapped during α-synuclein fibril formation

    Serene W. Chen;Srdja Drakulic;Emma Deas;Myriam Ouberai

  • Maternal diet-induced obesity alters mitochondrial activity and redox status in mouse oocytes and zygotes.

    Natalia Igosheva;Andrey Y. Abramov;Lucilla Poston;Judith J. Eckert

  • α-synuclein oligomers interact with ATP synthase and open the permeability transition pore in Parkinson's disease.

    Marthe H. R. Ludtmann;Marthe H. R. Ludtmann;Plamena R. Angelova;Mathew H. Horrocks;Mathew H. Horrocks;Minee L. Choi;Minee L. Choi

  • Changes in Intracellular Calcium and Glutathione in Astrocytes as the Primary Mechanism of Amyloid Neurotoxicity

    Andrey Y. Abramov;Laura Canevari;Michael R. Duchen

  • Nrf2 impacts cellular bioenergetics by controlling substrate availability for mitochondrial respiration

    Kira M. Holmström;Liam Baird;Ying Zhang;Iain Hargreaves

  • Alpha-Synuclein Oligomers Interact with Metal Ions to Induce Oxidative Stress and Neuronal Death in Parkinson's Disease

    Emma Deas;Nunilo Cremades;Plamena R. Angelova;Marthe H.R. Ludtmann

  • PINK1 is necessary for long term survival and mitochondrial function in human dopaminergic neurons.

    Alison Wood-Kaczmar;Sonia Gandhi;Zhi Yao;Andrey S. Y. Abramov

  • Ambroxol improves lysosomal biochemistry in glucocerebrosidase mutation-linked Parkinson disease cells

    Alisdair McNeill;Joana Magalhaes;Chengguo Shen;Kai-Yin Chau

  • The Parkinson's disease–linked proteins Fbxo7 and Parkin interact to mediate mitophagy

    Victoria S Burchell;David E Nelson;Alvaro Sanchez-Martinez;Alvaro Sanchez-Martinez;Marta Delgado-Camprubi

  • Expression and modulation of an NADPH oxidase in mammalian astrocytes.

    Andrey Y. Abramov;Jake Jacobson;Frans Wientjes;John Hothersall

  • Amyloid beta peptides induce mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress in astrocytes and death of neurons through activation of NADPH oxidase.

    AY Abramov;L Canevari;Duchen

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas W. Wood
Nicholas W. Wood University College London
Michael R. Duchen
Michael R. Duchen University College London
David Klenerman
David Klenerman University of Cambridge
Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova
Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova University of Dundee
Iain P. Hargreaves
Iain P. Hargreaves Liverpool John Moores University
Matthew C. Walker
Matthew C. Walker University College London
John Hardy
John Hardy University College London
Henry Houlden
Henry Houlden University College London
Alexander V. Gourine
Alexander V. Gourine University College London
Paul Gissen
Paul Gissen University College London

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