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Overview

Attila Sik is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Within these main fields, their work further delves into subfields such as Neurology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

The scientist's research themes center on neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, autophagy in disease and therapy, zebrafish biomedical research applications, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, natural antidiabetic agents studies, and medicinal plants with neuroprotective properties.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative network include:

  • Kechun Liu
  • Meng Jin
  • Rostyslav Stoika
  • Ruidie Shi
  • Andor Magony

The scientist has published in various journals, with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • European Journal of Pharmacology
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology
  • Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Representative recent papers include:

  • Anti-Inflammation Associated Protective Mechanism of Berberine and its Derivatives on Attenuating Pentylenetetrazole-Induced Seizures in Zebrafish, 2020, Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology
  • Neuroprotective effect of chlorogenic acid on Parkinson's disease like symptoms through boosting the autophagy in zebrafish, 2023, European Journal of Pharmacology
  • Potential implications of polyphenolic compounds in neurodegenerative diseases, 2022, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
  • Mild hypoxia-induced structural and functional changes of the hippocampal network, 2023, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • α-asarone induces cardiac defects and QT prolongation through mitochondrial apoptosis pathway in zebrafish, 2020, Toxicology Letters

Best Publications

  • Presynaptically Located CB1 Cannabinoid Receptors Regulate GABA Release from Axon Terminals of Specific Hippocampal Interneurons

    István Katona;Beáta Sperlágh;Attila Sı́k;Attila Käfalvi

  • Sharp wave-associated high-frequency oscillation (200 Hz) in the intact hippocampus: network and intracellular mechanisms

    A Ylinen;A Bragin;Z Nadasdy;G Jando

  • Trans-synaptic shift in anion gradient in spinal lamina I neurons as a mechanism of neuropathic pain

    Jeffrey A. M. Coull;Dominic Boudreau;Karine Bachand;Steven A. Prescott;Steven A. Prescott

  • GABAergic Cells Are the Major Postsynaptic Targets of Mossy Fibers in the Rat Hippocampus

    László Acsády;Anita Kamondi;Attila Sı́k;Tamás Freund

  • Hippocampal CA1 interneurons: an in vivo intracellular labeling study

    A Sik;M Penttonen;A Ylinen;G Buzsaki

  • Hippocampal theta activity following selective lesion of the septal cholinergic systeM

    M.G. Lee;J.J. Chrobak;A. Sik;R.G. Wiley

  • Chromogranin-mediated secretion of mutant superoxide dismutase proteins linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    Makoto Urushitani;Attila Sik;Takashi Sakurai;Nobuyuki Nukina

  • Intracellular correlates of hippocampal theta rhythm in identified pyramidal cells, granule cells, and basket cells

    Aarne Ylinen;Iván Soltész;Anatol Bragin;Markku Penttonen

  • Hippocampal pyramidal cells excite inhibitory neurons through a single release site

    A. I. Gulyás;R. Miles;A. Sik;K. Tóth;K. Tóth

  • A cell cycle-coordinated Polymerase II transcription compartment encompasses gene expression before global genome activation

    Yavor Hadzhiev;Haseeb K. Qureshi;Lucy Wheatley;Ledean Cooper

  • Inhibitory CA1-CA3-hilar region feedback in the hippocampus

    Attila Sik;Aarne Ylinen;Markku Penttonen;Gyorgy Buzsaki

  • The KCl cotransporter, KCC2, is highly expressed in the vicinity of excitatory synapses in the rat hippocampus

    A. I. Gulyás;A. Sík;John A Payne;K. Kaila

  • Interneurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus: An in vivo intracellular study

    Attila Sik;Markku Penttonen;György Buzsáki

  • CONNEXIN-47 AND CONNEXIN-32 IN GAP JUNCTIONS OF OLIGODENDROCYTE SOMATA, MYELIN SHEATHS, PARANODAL LOOPS AND SCHMIDT-LANTERMAN INCISURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR IONIC HOMEOSTASIS AND POTASSIUM SIPHONING

    N. Kamasawa;A. Sik;M. Morita;T. Yasumura

  • The absence of a major Ca2+ signaling pathway in GABAergic neurons of the hippocampus

    Attila Sík;Norbert Hájos;Alexandra Gulácsi;Istvan Mody

  • A Mechanism for Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II Clustering at Synaptic and Nonsynaptic Sites Based on Self-Association

    Andy Hudmon;Eric LeBel;Hugo Roy;Attila Sik

  • Feed‐forward and feed‐back activation of the dentate gyrus in vivo during dentate spikes and sharp wave bursts

    Markku Penttonen;Markku Penttonen;Anita Kamondi;Attila Sik;Attila Sik;László Acsády;László Acsády

  • Serotonergic neuron diversity: Identification of raphe neurons with discharges time-locked to the hippocampal theta rhythm

    Bernat Kocsis;Viktor Varga;Lionel Dahan;Attila Sik

  • Opening of the blood–brain barrier during isoflurane anaesthesia

    Samuel Tétrault;Oana Chever;Attila Sik;Attila Sik;Florin Amzica;Florin Amzica

  • Dendritic properties of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in the rat: intracellular staining in vivo and in vitro

    G.K. Pyapali;A. Sik;M. Penttonen;G. Buzsaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Tamás F. Freund
Tamás F. Freund Institute of Experimental Medicine
György Buzsáki
György Buzsáki New York University
Markku Penttonen
Markku Penttonen University of Jyväskylä
Florin Amzica
Florin Amzica University of Montreal
Bernat Kocsis
Bernat Kocsis Harvard University
László Acsády
László Acsády Institute of Experimental Medicine
Anatol Bragin
Anatol Bragin University of California, Los Angeles
Hajime Hirase
Hajime Hirase University of Copenhagen
John E. Rash
John E. Rash Colorado State University
E. Sylvester Vizi
E. Sylvester Vizi Institute of Experimental Medicine

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