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Overview

Baoji Xu is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Developmental Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Neurology.

The main topics addressed in Baoji Xu's research encompass:

  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Regulation of appetite and obesity
  • Adipose tissue and metabolism
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms

Some of the recent publications authored or co-authored by Baoji Xu include:

  • Elevated protein synthesis in microglia causes autism-like synaptic and behavioral aberrations (2020, Nature Communications)
  • TrkB-expressing paraventricular hypothalamic neurons suppress appetite through multiple neurocircuits (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Discrete TrkB-expressing neurons of the dorsomedial hypothalamus regulate feeding and thermogenesis (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Genetic Dissection of BDNF and TrkB Expression in Glial Cells (2024, Biomolecules)
  • 3'UTRs Regulate Mouse Ntrk2 mRNA Distribution in Cortical Neurons (2020, Journal of Molecular Neuroscience)

Baoji Xu frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Guey-Ying Liao
  • Haifei Xu
  • Juan Ji An
  • Ji-Wei Tan
  • Jessica Houtz

The scientist's publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biomolecules
  • Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor regulates energy balance downstream of melanocortin-4 receptor

    Baoji Xu;Evan H Goulding;Keling Zang;David Cepoi

  • Distinct role of long 3' UTR BDNF mRNA in spine morphology and synaptic plasticity in hippocampal neurons.

    Juan Ji An;Kusumika Gharami;Guey Ying Liao;Newton H. Woo

  • New insights in the biology of BDNF synthesis and release: implications in CNS function.

    Michael E. Greenberg;Baoji Xu;Bai Lu;Barbara L. Hempstead

  • The Role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors in the Mature Hippocampus: Modulation of Long-Term Potentiation through a Presynaptic Mechanism involving TrkB

    Baoji Xu;Wolfram Gottschalk;Ana Chow;Rachel I. Wilson

  • Relationship of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Its Receptor TrkB to Altered Inhibitory Prefrontal Circuitry in Schizophrenia

    Takanori Hashimoto;Sarah E. Bergen;Quyen L. Nguyen;Baoji Xu

  • New insights into the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in synaptic plasticity.

    Emily G. Waterhouse;Baoji Xu

  • Cortical Degeneration in the Absence of Neurotrophin Signaling: Dendritic Retraction and Neuronal Loss after Removal of the Receptor TrkB

    Baoji Xu;Keling Zang;Naomi L Ruff;Y.Alex Zhang

  • BDNF promotes differentiation and maturation of adult-born neurons through GABAergic transmission.

    Emily G. Waterhouse;Juan Ji An;Lauren L. Orefice;Maryna Baydyuk

  • TrkB receptor signaling is required for establishment of GABAergic synapses in the cerebellum.

    Beatriz Rico;Baoji Xu;Louis F. Reichardt

  • BDNF Overexpression in the Forebrain Rescues Huntington’s Disease Phenotypes in YAC128 Mice

    Yuxiang Xie;Michael R. Hayden;Baoji Xu

  • BDNF signaling and survival of striatal neurons

    Maryna Baydyuk;Baoji Xu

  • ApoE4 Decreases Spine Density and Dendritic Complexity in Cortical Neurons In Vivo

    Sonya B. Dumanis;Joseph A. Tesoriero;Lenard W. Babus;Madeline T. Nguyen

  • Distinct 3′UTRs differentially regulate activity-dependent translation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)

    Anthony G. Lau;Hasan A. Irier;Jiaping Gu;Donghua Tian

  • Dendritically targeted Bdnf mRNA is essential for energy balance and response to leptin

    Guey-Ying Liao;Juan Ji An;Kusumika Gharami;Emily G Waterhouse

  • A human mitochondrial transcriptional activator can functionally replace a yeast mitochondrial HMG-box protein both in vivo and in vitro.

    M. A. Parisi;Baoji Xu;D. A. Clayton

  • RNA-DNA hybrid formation at the human mitochondrial heavy-strand origin ceases at replication start sites: an implication for RNA-DNA hybrids serving as primers.

    B Xu;D A Clayton

  • Late-onset corticohippocampal neurodepletion attributable to catastrophic failure of oxidative phosphorylation in MILON mice.

    Lene Sörensen;Mats Ekstrand;José P. Silva;Eva Lindqvist

  • Neurotrophic factor control of satiety and body weight

    Baoji Xu;Xiangyang Xie

  • Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Over-expression in the Forebrain Ameliorates Huntington’s Disease Phenotypes in Mice

    Kusumika Gharami;Yuxiang Xie;Juan Ji An;Susumu Tonegawa

  • Role of Neurotrophin Receptor TrkB in the Maturation of Rod Photoreceptors and Establishment of Synaptic Transmission to the Inner Retina

    Baerbel Rohrer;Juan I. Korenbrot;Matthew M. LaVail;Louis F. Reichardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis F. Reichardt
Louis F. Reichardt University of California, San Francisco
David A. Clayton
David A. Clayton Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bai Lu
Bai Lu Tsinghua University
Kirill A. Martemyanov
Kirill A. Martemyanov Scripps Research Institute
Kevin R. Jones
Kevin R. Jones University of Colorado Boulder
Michelle E. Ehrlich
Michelle E. Ehrlich Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael P. Stryker
Michael P. Stryker University of California, San Francisco
David R. Copenhagen
David R. Copenhagen University of California, San Francisco
Yuqing Li
Yuqing Li University of Florida

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