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Christopher E. Henderson

Christopher E. Henderson

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Neuroscience

D-Index
56
Citations
20272
World Ranking
4438
National Ranking
2008

Best Publications

  • Induced pluripotent stem cells generated from patients with ALS can be differentiated into motor neurons.

    John T. Dimos;Kit T. Rodolfa;Kathy K. Niakan;Laurin M. Weisenthal

  • GDNF: a potent survival factor for motoneurons present in peripheral nerve and muscle

    Christopher E. Henderson;Heidi S. Phillips;Richard A. Pollock;Alun M. Davies

  • Characterization of a multicomponent receptor for GDNF

    James J. S. Treanor;Laurie Goodman;Frederic de Sauvage;Donna M. Stone

  • Neurotrophins promote motor neuron survival and are present in embryonic limb bud

    Christopher E. Henderson;William Camu;Clément Mettling;Annie Gouin

  • Neuronal Cell Death

    Brigitte Pettmann;Christopher E Henderson

  • Lentiviral-mediated silencing of SOD1 through RNA interference retards disease onset and progression in a mouse model of ALS

    Cédric Raoul;Toufik Abbas-Terki;Jean-Charles Bensadoun;Sandrine Guillot

  • Persephin, a Novel Neurotrophic Factor Related to GDNF and Neurturin

    Jeffrey Milbrandt;Frederic J de Sauvage;Timothy J Fahrner;Robert H Baloh

  • Semaphorin 3E and plexin-D1 control vascular pattern independently of neuropilins.

    Chenghua Gu;Yutaka Yoshida;Jean Livet;Dorothy V. Reimert

  • Motoneuron Death Triggered by a Specific Pathway Downstream of Fas: Potentiation by ALS-Linked SOD1 Mutations

    Cédric Raoul;Alvaro G. Estévez;Hiroshi Nishimune;Don W. Cleveland

  • Motor Neuron Diversity in Development and Disease

    Kevin C Kanning;Artem Kaplan;Christopher E Henderson

  • Necroptosis Drives Motor Neuron Death in Models of Both Sporadic and Familial ALS

    Diane B. Re;Virginia Le Verche;Changhao Yu;Mackenzie W. Amoroso

  • Nitric Oxide and Superoxide Contribute to Motor Neuron Apoptosis Induced by Trophic Factor Deprivation

    Alvaro G. Estévez;Nathan Spear;S. Machelle Manuel;Rafael Radi

  • Role of neurotrophic factors in neuronal development

    Christopher E Henderson

  • Cardiotrophin-1, a cytokine present in embryonic muscle, supports long- term survival of spinal motoneurons

    D. Pennica;V. Arce;Todd Swanson;R. Vejsada

  • Neuronal Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Is a Determinant of Selective Neurodegeneration

    Artem Kaplan;Krista J. Spiller;Krista J. Spiller;Christopher Towne;Kevin C. Kanning;Kevin C. Kanning

  • Identification and Characterization of Cholest-4-en-3-one, Oxime (TRO19622), a Novel Drug Candidate for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Thierry Bordet;Bruno Buisson;Magali Michaud;Cyrille Drouot

  • Programmed cell death of embryonic motoneurons triggered through the Fas death receptor.

    Cédric Raoul;Christopher E. Henderson;Brigitte Pettmann

  • Accelerated High-Yield Generation of Limb-Innervating Motor Neurons from Human Stem Cells

    Mackenzie W. Amoroso;Gist F. Croft;Damian J. Williams;Sean O'Keeffe

  • ETS gene Pea3 controls the central position and terminal arborization of specific motor neuron pools

    Jean Livet;Markus Sigrist;Simon Stroebel;Vincenzo De Paola

  • Gating of Sema3E/PlexinD1 Signaling by Neuropilin-1 Switches Axonal Repulsion to Attraction during Brain Development

    Sophie Chauvet;Samia Cohen;Yutaka Yoshida;Yutaka Yoshida;Lylia Fekrane

Frequent Co-Authors

Brigitte Pettmann
Brigitte Pettmann Grenoble Alpes University
Hynek Wichterle
Hynek Wichterle Columbia University
Serge Przedborski
Serge Przedborski Columbia University
Thomas M. Jessell
Thomas M. Jessell Columbia University
Patrick Aebischer
Patrick Aebischer École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Jean-Pierre Changeux Institut Pasteur
Jeffrey D. Rothstein
Jeffrey D. Rothstein Johns Hopkins University
Yutaka Yoshida
Yutaka Yoshida Cornell University
Michael Sendtner
Michael Sendtner University of Würzburg
Robert M. Brownstone
Robert M. Brownstone University College London

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