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Chrysanthy Ikonomidou is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with key subfields including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and genetics.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics related to brain function and pathology. Main research themes include anesthesia and neurotoxicity, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, epilepsy research and treatment, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, spinal cord injury research, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Chrysanthy Ikonomidou has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Brain pathology caused in the neonatal macaque by short and prolonged exposures to anticonvulsant drugs, 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
  • Isobaric Labeling Strategy Utilizing 4-Plex N,N-Dimethyl Leucine (DiLeu) Tags Reveals Proteomic Changes Induced by Chemotherapy in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Children with B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, 2020, Journal of Proteome Research
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Childhood Leukemias, 2021, Cancers
  • Effects of Soy-Based Infant Formula on Weight Gain and Neurodevelopment in an Autism Mouse Model, 2022, Cells
  • Mild hypothermia fails to protect infant macaques from brain injury caused by prolonged exposure to Antiseizure drugs, 2022, Neurobiology of Disease

The researcher has frequently contributed to several scientific venues, most notably:

  • Annals of Neurology
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • Cancers

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research activities. Frequent coauthors include Kazuma Noguchi, Kristin Crosno, Nicole A. Fuhler, Daniel H. Lench, and Melissa A. Villegas.

Best Publications

  • Blockade of NMDA receptors and apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing brain.

    Chrysanthy Ikonomidou;Friederike Bosch;Michael Miksa;Petra Bittigau

  • Ethanol-induced apoptotic neurodegeneration and fetal alcohol syndrome.

    Chrysanthy Ikonomidou;Petra Bittigau;Masahiko J. Ishimaru;David F. Wozniak

  • Antiepileptic drugs and apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing brain.

    Petra Bittigau;Marco Sifringer;Kerstin Genz;Ellen Reith

  • Review: Cholinergic mechanisms and epileptogenesis. The seizures induced by pilocarpine: A novel experimental model of intractable epilepsy

    Lechoslaw Turski;Chrysanthy Ikonomidou;Waldemar A. Turski;Zuner A. Bortolotto

  • Why did NMDA receptor antagonists fail clinical trials for stroke and traumatic brain injury?

    Unknown

  • Long-term effects of pilocarpine in rats: structural damage of the brain triggers kindling and spontaneous recurrent seizures.

    E. A. Cavalheiro;J. P. Leite;Z. A. Bortolotto;W. A. Turski

  • Synaptic NMDA receptor activity boosts intrinsic antioxidant defenses

    Sofia Papadia;Francesc X Soriano;Frédéric Léveillé;Marc-Andre Martel

  • Sensitivity of the developing rat brain to hypobaric/ischemic damage parallels sensitivity to N-methyl-aspartate neurotoxicity

    C Ikonomidou;JL Mosinger;KS Salles;J Labruyere

  • Glutamate antagonists limit tumor growth.

    Wojciech Rzeski;Lechoslaw Turski;Chrysanthy Ikonomidou

  • Neurotransmitters and apoptosis in the developing brain.

    Chrysanthy Ikonomidou;Petra Bittigau;Christian Koch;Kerstin Genz

  • Ethanol-induced apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing C57BL/6 mouse brain

    John W Olney;Tatyana Tenkova;Krikor Dikranian;Yue-Qin Qin

  • N-Methyl-d-aspartate antagonists and apoptotic cell death triggered by head trauma in developing rat brain

    D. Pohl;P. Bittigau;M. J. Ishimaru;D. Stadthaus

  • Apoptotic neurodegeneration following trauma is markedly enhanced in the immature brain.

    Petra Bittigau;Marco Sifringer;Daniela Pohl;Daniel Stadthaus

  • Antiepileptic Drugs and Apoptosis in the Developing Brain

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  • Oxygen causes cell death in the developing brain.

    Ursula Felderhoff-Mueser;Petra Bittigau;Marco Sifringer;Bozena Jarosz

  • Neuronal Death and Oxidative Stress in the Developing Brain

    Chrysanthy Ikonomidou;Angela M. Kaindl

  • Distinguishing excitotoxic from apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing rat brain.

    M.J. Ishimaru;C. Ikonomidou;T.I. Tenkova;T.C. Der

  • Neuronal death enhanced by N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists.

    Chrysanthy Ikonomidou;Vanya Stefovska;Lechoslaw Turski

  • Anandamide, but not 2-arachidonoylglycerol, accumulates during in vivo neurodegeneration.

    Henrik H. Hansen;Patricia C. Schmid;Petra Bittigau;Isabel Lastres-Becker

  • Expression of glutamate receptor subunits in human cancers.

    Andrzej Stepulak;Hella Luksch;Christine Gebhardt;Ortrud Uckermann

  • Environmental agents that have the potential to trigger massive apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing brain.

    John W. Olney;Nuri B. Farber;David F. Wozniak;Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic

  • Apoptosis in the in vivo mammalian forebrain.

    Krikor Dikranian;Masahiko J. Ishimaru;Tatyana Tenkova;Joann Labruyere

  • Mechanisms leading to disseminated apoptosis following NMDA receptor blockade in the developing rat brain

    Henrik H Hansen;Henrik H Hansen;Tim Briem;Mark Dzietko;Marco Sifringer;Marco Sifringer

  • Therapeutic doses of topiramate are not toxic to the developing rat brain

    Carmen Glier;Mark Dzietko;Petra Bittigau;Bozena Jarosz

  • Do pediatric drugs cause developing neurons to commit suicide

    John W Olney;Chainllie Young;David F Wozniak;Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Esper A. Cavalheiro
Esper A. Cavalheiro Federal University of Sao Paulo
Zuner A. Bortolotto
Zuner A. Bortolotto University of Bristol
Thomas Hummel
Thomas Hummel TU Dresden
Bruce P. Hermann
Bruce P. Hermann University of Wisconsin–Madison
Giles E. Hardingham
Giles E. Hardingham University of Edinburgh
Thomas Klockgether
Thomas Klockgether German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
David J. A. Wyllie
David J. A. Wyllie University of Edinburgh

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