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Boris Tabakoff is affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions spanning medicine as well. Specific subfields of study include molecular biology, genetics, neurology, physiology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, molecular biology techniques and applications, RNA research and splicing, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, adipose tissue and metabolism, CRISPR and genetic engineering, as well as alcoholism and thiamine deficiency.

Tabakoff has published in several venues with multiple contributions to places such as Biological Psychiatry, Frontiers in Genetics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, and Cell Genomics.

Examples of recent publications include:

  • Sex Differences in the Brain Transcriptome Related to Alcohol Effects and Alcohol Use Disorder, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Research Needs for Inpatient Management of Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement, 2021, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Aptardi predicts polyadenylation sites in sample-specific transcriptomes using high-throughput RNA sequencing and DNA sequence, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats, 2024, Cell Genomics
  • A long non-coding RNA (Lrap) modulates brain gene expression and levels of alcohol consumption in rats, 2020, Genes Brain & Behavior

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Tabakoff's research career, with frequent coauthors including Laura Saba, Spencer Mahaffey, Paula Hoffman, Paula L. Hoffman, and Michal Pravenec. These collaborations underscore interdisciplinary engagements across genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Effects of Moderate Alcohol Consumption on the Central Nervous System

    Michael J. Eckardt;Sandra E. File;Gian Luigi Gessa;Kathleen A. Grant

  • N‐Methyl‐D‐Aspartate Receptors and Ethanol: Inhibition of Calcium Flux and Cyclic GMP Production

    Paula L. Hoffman;Carolyn S. Rabe;Frances Moses;Boris Tabakoff

  • Ethanol withdrawal seizures and the NMDA receptor complex.

    Kathleen A. Grant;Peter Valverius;Michael Hudspith;Boris Tabakoff

  • The multiMiR R package and database: integration of microRNA–target interactions along with their disease and drug associations

    Yuanbin Ru;Katerina J. Kechris;Boris Tabakoff;Paula Hoffman

  • Brain regional specificity and time-course of changes in the NMDA receptor-ionophore complex during ethanol withdrawal

    Karoly Gulya;Kathleen A. Grant;Peter Valverius;Paula L. Hoffman

  • Toward understanding the genetics of alcohol drinking through transcriptome meta-analysis.

    Megan K. Mulligan;Igor Ponomarev;Robert J. Hitzemann;John K. Belknap

  • CDT, GGT, and AST as markers of alcohol use: the WHO/ISBRA collaborative project.

    Katherine M. Conigrave;Louisa J. Degenhardt;John B. Whitfield;John B. Saunders

  • Body temperature in mice: a quantitative measure of alcohol tolerance and physical dependence

    R. F. Ritzmann;Boris Tabakoff

  • Differences in Platelet Enzyme Activity between Alcoholics and Nonalcoholics

    B Tabakoff;P L Hoffman;J M Lee;T Saito

  • Ethanol and guanine nucleotide binding proteins: a selective interaction.

    Paula L. Hoffman;Boris Tabakoff

  • Chronic exposure of cerebellar granule cells to ethanol results in increased N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor function.

    K R Iorio;L Reinlib;B Tabakoff;P L Hoffman

  • Regional and subunit specific changes in NMDA receptor mRNA and immunoreactivity in mouse brain following chronic ethanol ingestion.

    Lawrence D. Snell;Karin R. Nunley;Ronald L. Lickteig;Michael D. Browning

  • Addictions Biology: Haplotype-Based Analysis for 130 Candidate Genes on a Single Array

    Colin A. Hodgkinson;Qiaoping Yuan;Ke Xu;Pei-Hong Shen

  • Alcohol-induced neurodegeneration: when, where and why?

    Fulton T. Crews;Michael A. Collins;Cynthia Dlugos;John Littleton

  • Brain acetaldehyde after ethanol administration

    Boris Tabakoff;Robert A. Anderson;Ronald F. Ritzmann

  • Corticosterone concentrations in mice during ethanol drinking and withdrawal.

    Boris Tabakoff;Randal C. Jaffe;Ronald F. Ritzmann

  • Radioligand binding to the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor/ionophore complex: alterations by ethanol in vitro and by chronic in vivo ethanol ingestion.

    Lawrence D. Snell;Boris Tabakoff;Paula L. Hoffman

  • Glycine site-directed agonists reverse the actions of ethanol at the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor.

    C S Rabe;B Tabakoff

  • Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin and gamma-glutamyltransferase for the detection and monitoring of alcohol use: results from a multisite study.

    Raymond F. Anton;Charles Lieber;Boris Tabakoff

  • Purification and Characterization of a Reduced Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate-linked Aldehyde Reductase from Brain

    Boris Tabakoff;V. Gene Erwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Paula L. Hoffman
Paula L. Hoffman University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Kathleen A. Grant
Kathleen A. Grant Oregon National Primate Research Center
Joseph Yanai
Joseph Yanai Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sture Liljequist
Sture Liljequist Karolinska Institute
George F. Koob
George F. Koob National Institute on Drug Abuse
John Whitfield
John Whitfield QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
John K. Belknap
John K. Belknap Oregon Health & Science University
David Goldman
David Goldman National Institutes of Health
Bridget F. Grant
Bridget F. Grant National Institutes of Health
Robert W. Williams
Robert W. Williams University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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