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Constantino Sotelo

Constantino Sotelo

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Neuroscience
France
2023

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Neuroscience

D-Index
100
Citations
26766
World Ranking
765
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award

Overview

Constantino Sotelo is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France, contributing to various areas within neuroscience and molecular biology. The scientist's research predominantly focuses on cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and neurology, with additional interests in biochemical genetics and molecular biology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
  • Connexins and lens biology
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

Sotelo has published frequently in venues such as The Anatomical Record, Cell Reports, Nature, Neuroscience, and The Journal of Comparative Neurology. Some of the recent papers include:

  • The History of the Synapse, 2020, The Anatomical Record
  • Excitatory granule neuron precursors orchestrate laminar localization and differentiation of cerebellar inhibitory interneuron subtypes, 2021, Cell Reports
  • Cellular Mechanisms Involved in Cerebellar Microzonation, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Single-cell transcriptomic and genomic changes in the ageing human brain, 2025, Nature
  • Uncoupling axon guidance and neuronal migration in Robo3-deficient inferior olivary neurons, 2022, The Journal of Comparative Neurology

Collaboration is a part of Sotelo's work, with frequent co-authorship alongside researchers such as Fabrice Ango, Alain Chédotal, Richard Hawkes, Fernando de Castro, and Zoltán Molnár. These partnerships reflect a network of expertise in related fields and interdisciplinary studies.

Best Publications

  • Electrotonic coupling between neurons in cat inferior olive.

    R Llinas;R Baker;C Sotelo

  • Regional and cellular patterns of reelin mRNA expression in the forebrain of the developing and adult mouse

    Soledad Alcántara;Soledad Alcántara;Mónica Ruiz;Gabriella D’Arcangelo;Frederic Ezan

  • Lack of Barrels in the Somatosensory Cortex of Monoamine Oxidase A-Deficient Mice: Role of a Serotonin Excess during the Critical Period

    Olivier Cases;Tania Vitalis;Isabelle Seif;Edward De Maeyer

  • THE AXON HILLOCK AND THE INITIAL SEGMENT

    Sanford L. Palay;Constantino Sotelo;Alan Peters;Paula M. Orkand

  • Structural study of inferior olivary nucleus of the cat: morphological correlates of electrotonic coupling.

    C Sotelo;R Llinas;R Baker

  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellar Development.

    Ketty Leto;Marife Arancillo;Esther B. E. Becker;Annalisa Buffo

  • Cellular and genetic regulation of the development of the cerebellar system.

    Constantino Sotelo

  • Anatomical, Physiological and Biochemical Studies of the Cerebellum from Reeler Mutant Mouse

    J. Mariani;F. Crepel;K. Mikoshiba;J. P. Changeux

  • Inferior olive: its role in motor learing

    Rodolfo Llinás;Kerry Walton;Dean E. Hillman;Constantino Sotelo

  • Direct Immunohistochemical Evidence of the Existence of 5-HT1A Autoreceptors on Serotoninergic Neurons in the Midbrain Raphe Nuclei.

    Constantino Sotelo;Béatrice Cholley;Salah El Mestikawy;Henri Gozlan

  • Spatiotemporal expression patterns of slit and robo genes in the rat brain.

    Valérie Marillat;Oliver Cases;Kim Tuyen Nguyen-Ba-Charvet;Marc Tessier-Lavigne

  • Subventricular zone-olfactory bulb migratory pathway in the adult mouse: cellular composition and specificity as determined by heterochronic and heterotopic transplantation.

    Aleksandar Jankovski;Constantino Sotelo

  • THE FINE STRUCTURE OF THE LATERAL VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS IN THE RAT I. Neurons and Neuroglial Cells

    Constantino Sotelo;Sanford L. Palay

  • Reconstruction of the defective cerebellar circuitry in adult Purkinje cell degeneration mutant mice by Purkinje cell replacement through transplantation of solid embryonic implants.

    C. Sotelo;R.M. Alvarado-Mallart

  • Slit2-Mediated Chemorepulsion and Collapse of Developing Forebrain Axons

    Kim Tuyen Nguyen Ba-Charvet;Katja Brose;Valérie Marillat;Tom Kidd

  • Transsynaptic degeneration ‘en cascade’ in the cerebellar cortex of staggerer mutant rice

    Constantino Sotelo;Jean-Pierre Changeux

  • Specialized membrane junctions between neurons in the vertebrate cerebellar cortex.

    Constantino Sotelo;Rodolfo Llinás

  • Altered axons and axon terminals in the lateral vestibular nucleus of the rat. Possible example of axonal remodeling.

    Sotelo C;Palay Sl

  • Anatomical, physiological and biochemical studies of the cerebellum from mutant mice. II. Morphological study of cerebellar cortical neurons and circuits in the weaver mouse.

    Constantino Sotelo

  • Localization of glutamic-acid-decarboxylase-immunoreactive axon terminals in the inferior olive of the rat, with special emphasis on anatomical relations between GABAergic synapses and dendrodendritic gap junctions

    C. Sotelo;T. Gotow;M. Wassef

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabelle Dusart
Isabelle Dusart Université Paris Cité
Alain Chédotal
Alain Chédotal Institut de la Vision
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Tessier-Lavigne Xaira Therapeutics
Jean Mariani
Jean Mariani Sorbonne University
Eduardo Soriano
Eduardo Soriano University of Barcelona
Francis Crepel
Francis Crepel University of Paris-Saclay
P. Angaut
P. Angaut Grenoble Alpes University
Rodolfo R. Llinás
Rodolfo R. Llinás New York University
Jean-Louis Guénet
Jean-Louis Guénet Institut Pasteur
Sanford L. Palay
Sanford L. Palay Harvard University

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