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Christopher Power

Christopher Power

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Immunology

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83
Citations
24401
World Ranking
1448
National Ranking
25

Medicine

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Citations
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Overview

Christopher Power is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine, with a specialization across multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Virology, and Immunology.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as HIV Research and Treatment, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, HIV-related health complications and treatments, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, and Inflammasome and immune disorders.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Acute and chronic neurological disorders in COVID-19: potential mechanisms of disease, 2021, Brain
  • Activation of the executioner caspases-3 and -7 promotes microglial pyroptosis in models of multiple sclerosis, 2020, Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Bacterial Peptidoglycan as a Driver of Chronic Brain Inflammation, 2020, Trends in Molecular Medicine
  • Anti-inflammatory role of GM1 and other gangliosides on microglia, 2022, Journal of Neuroinflammation

Christopher Power frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • William G. Branton
  • M. John Gill
  • Tom C. Hobman
  • Éric A. Cohen
  • Esther Fujiwara

The scientist's work appears regularly in certain publication venues, notably:

  • AIDS
  • Neurology
  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity

Best Publications

  • Metalloproteinases in biology and pathology of the nervous system

    V. Wee Yong;Christopher Power;Peter Forsyth;Dylan R. Edwards

  • Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity Inactivates the CXC Chemokine Stromal Cell-derived Factor-1

    G. Angus McQuibban;Georgina S. Butler;Jiang Hong Gong;Linda Bendall

  • Inflammasomes in the CNS

    John G. Walsh;Daniel A. Muruve;Christopher Power

  • Induction of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in HIV-1 Tat-stimulated astrocytes and elevation in AIDS dementia

    Katherine Conant;Alfredo Garzino-Demo;Avindra Nath;Justin C. McArthur

  • The promise of minocycline in neurology

    V Wee Yong;Jennifer Wells;Fabrizio Giuliani;Steven Casha

  • Caspase-1 inhibition prevents glial inflammasome activation and pyroptosis in models of multiple sclerosis

    Brienne A. McKenzie;Manmeet K. Mamik;Leina B. Saito;Roobina Boghozian;Roobina Boghozian

  • Intracerebral cytokine messenger RNA expression in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome dementia.

    Steven L. Wesselingh;Christopher Power;Jonathan D. Glass;William R. Tyor

  • HIV Dementia Scale: a rapid screening test.

    Christopher Power;Ola A. Selnes;Julie A. Grim;Justin C. McArthur

  • Intracerebral hemorrhage induces macrophage activation and matrix metalloproteinases

    Christopher Power;Scot Henry;Marc R. Del Bigio;Peter H. Larsen

  • Human endogenous retrovirus glycoprotein-mediated induction of redox reactants causes oligodendrocyte death and demyelination.

    Joseph M Antony;Guido van Marle;Wycliffe Opii;D Allan Butterfield

  • Cerebral white matter changes in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome dementia: Alterations of the blood‐brain barrier

    Christopher Power;Pei‐Ann ‐A Kong;Thomas O. Crawford;Steven Wesselingh

  • HIV-induced metalloproteinase processing of the chemokine stromal cell derived factor-1 causes neurodegeneration

    Kunyan Zhang;G Angus McQuibban;Claudia Silva;Georgina S Butler

  • A1 Adenosine Receptor Upregulation and Activation Attenuates Neuroinflammation and Demyelination in a Model of Multiple Sclerosis

    Shigeki Tsutsui;Jurgen Schnermann;Farshid Noorbakhsh;Scot Henry

  • Zika virus inhibits type-I interferon production and downstream signaling.

    Anil Kumar;Shangmei Hou;Adriana M Airo;Daniel Limonta

  • Interleukin‐1β promotes oligodendrocyte death through glutamate excitotoxicity

    Jennifer L. Takahashi;Fabrizio Giuliani;Christopher Power;Yoshinori Imai

  • Fiery Cell Death: Pyroptosis in the Central Nervous System.

    Brienne A. McKenzie;Vishva M. Dixit;Christopher Power

  • The Tat Protein of HIV-1 Induces Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Production IMPLICATIONS FOR HIV-1-ASSOCIATED NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES

    Peiqin Chen;Michael Mayne;Christopher Power;Avindra Nath

  • Demented and nondemented patients with AIDS differ in brain-derived human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope sequences.

    Christopher Power;Justin C. McArthur;Richard T. Johnson;Diane E. Griffin

  • Monocyte activation and differentiation augment human endogenous retrovirus expression: implications for inflammatory brain diseases

    James B. Johnston;Claudia Silva;Janet Holden;Kenneth G. Warren

  • Neurologic disease burden in treated HIV/AIDS predicts survival: A population-based study

    P. Vivithanaporn;G. Heo;J. Gamble;H.B. Krentz

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Nef protein mediates neural cell death: a neurotoxic role for IP-10.

    Guido van Marle;Scot Henry;Tiona Todoruk;Andrea Sullivan

  • Rapid inflammasome activation in microglia contributes to brain disease in HIV/AIDS

    John G Walsh;Stacey N Reinke;Manmeet K Mamik;Brienne A McKenzie

  • Impaired neurosteroid synthesis in multiple sclerosis

    Farshid Noorbakhsh;Kristofor K. Ellestad;Ferdinand Maingat;Kenneth G. Warren

  • Autopsy study of HIV-1-positive and HIV-1-negative adult medical patients in Nairobi, Kenya.

    F S Rana;M P Hawken;C Mwachari;S M Bhatt

  • HIV Infection of the Central Nervous System: Clinical Features and Neuropathogenesis

    Lysa Boissé;M. John Gill;Christopher Power

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin C. McArthur
Justin C. McArthur Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Éric A. Cohen
Éric A. Cohen University of Montreal
Avindra Nath
Avindra Nath National Institutes of Health
Richard T. Johnson
Richard T. Johnson Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Morley D. Hollenberg
Morley D. Hollenberg University of Calgary
Glen B. Baker
Glen B. Baker University of Alberta
Michael Gill
Michael Gill Trinity College Dublin
Benjamin B. Gelman
Benjamin B. Gelman The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Douglas W. Zochodne
Douglas W. Zochodne University of Alberta
Bruce Chesebro
Bruce Chesebro National Institutes of Health

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