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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Baljit S. Khakh is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Neuroscience, with a significant number of publications in this field.

The main topics of Baljit S. Khakh's work include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation

The scientist's research spans several subfields, especially:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues where Baljit S. Khakh's work appears include:

  • Neuron
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Neuroscience

Among the recent papers are:

  • "Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions," 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Molecular basis of astrocyte diversity and morphology across the CNS in health and disease," 2022, Science
  • "Behaviorally consequential astrocytic regulation of neural circuits," 2020, Neuron
  • "Improved tools to study astrocytes," 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • "Breakdown of spatial coding and interneuron synchronization in epileptic mice," 2020, Nature Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors in Baljit S. Khakh's publications include:

  • Xinzhu Yu
  • Joselyn S. Soto
  • Blanca Díaz-Castro
  • Jun Nagai
  • Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi

Baljit S. Khakh received the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

    Carole Escartin;Elena Galea;András Lakatos;James P. O’Callaghan

  • Astrocyte scar formation aids central nervous system axon regeneration

    Mark A. Anderson;Joshua E. Burda;Yilong Ren;Yan Ao

  • Optimization of a GCaMP calcium indicator for neural activity imaging.

    Jasper Akerboom;Tsai Wen Chen;Trevor J. Wardill;Lin Tian;Lin Tian

  • Diversity of astrocyte functions and phenotypes in neural circuits

    Baljit S Khakh;Michael V Sofroniew

  • P2X receptors as cell-surface ATP sensors in health and disease

    Baljit S. Khakh;Baljit S. Khakh;R. Alan North

  • CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis

    Andrea Giovannucci;Johannes Friedrich;Pat Gunn;Jérémie Kalfon

  • International Union of Pharmacology. XXIV. Current Status of the Nomenclature and Properties of P2X Receptors and Their Subunits

    Khakh Bs;Burnstock G;Kennedy C;King Bf

  • Neural Circuit-Specialized Astrocytes: Transcriptomic, Proteomic, Morphological, and Functional Evidence

    Hua Chai;Blanca Diaz-Castro;Eiji Shigetomi;Emma Monte

  • Astrocyte Kir4.1 ion channel deficits contribute to neuronal dysfunction in Huntington's disease model mice

    Xiaoping Tong;Yan Ao;Guido C Faas;Sinifunanya E Nwaobi

  • Molecular basis of astrocyte diversity and morphology across the CNS in health and disease

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  • Ca 2+ signaling in astrocytes from Ip3r2 −/− mice in brain slices and during startle responses in vivo

    Rahul Srinivasan;Ben S Huang;Sharmila Venugopal;April D Johnston

  • Molecular physiology of P2X receptors and ATP signalling at synapses

    Baljit S. Khakh;Baljit S. Khakh

  • TRPA1 channels regulate astrocyte resting calcium and inhibitory synapse efficacy through GAT-3

    Eiji Shigetomi;Xiaoping Tong;Kelvin Y Kwan;David P Corey

  • New Transgenic Mouse Lines for Selectively Targeting Astrocytes and Studying Calcium Signals in Astrocyte Processes In Situ and In Vivo.

    Rahul Srinivasan;Tsai-Yi Lu;Hua Chai;Ji Xu

  • The Emerging Nature of Astrocyte Diversity.

    Baljit S. Khakh;Benjamin Deneen

  • Neuronal P2X transmitter-gated cation channels change their ion selectivity in seconds.

    Baljit S. Khakh;Xiaoyan R. Bao;Cesar Labarca;Henry A. Lester

  • ATP-gated P2X cation-channels.

    Michael F. Jarvis;Baljit S. Khakh

  • Neuromodulation by extracellular ATP and P2X receptors in the CNS.

    Baljit S. Khakh;R. Alan North

  • Allosteric Control of Gating and Kinetics at P2X4Receptor Channels

    Baljit S. Khakh;William R. Proctor;Thomas V. Dunwiddie;Cesar Labarca

  • Imaging calcium microdomains within entire astrocyte territories and endfeet with GCaMPs expressed using adeno-associated viruses.

    Eiji Shigetomi;Eiji Shigetomi;Eric A. Bushong;Martin D. Haustein;Xiaoping Tong

  • Self-Organized Cerebral Organoids with Human-Specific Features Predict Effective Drugs to Combat Zika Virus Infection

    Momoko Watanabe;Jessie E. Buth;Neda Vishlaghi;Luis de la Torre-Ubieta

  • Contribution of calcium ions to P2X channel responses.

    Terrance M. Egan;Baljit S. Khakh

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael V. Sofroniew
Michael V. Sofroniew University of California, Los Angeles
Peyman Golshani
Peyman Golshani University of California, Los Angeles
Patrick P.A. Humphrey
Patrick P.A. Humphrey International Headache Society
Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy University of Strathclyde
Alcino J. Silva
Alcino J. Silva University of California, Los Angeles
Steven A. Goldman
Steven A. Goldman University of Rochester Medical Center
Gary D. Housley
Gary D. Housley University of New South Wales
Thomas J. O'Dell
Thomas J. O'Dell University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles
Timothy J. Deming
Timothy J. Deming University of California, Los Angeles

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