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49734
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793
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

David Attwell is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a significant number of publications in related subfields including Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Barrier Structure and Function Studies, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances, Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, and the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19.

Their recent papers cover a range of subjects within these topics, including:

  • The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings, 2020, Brain
  • Cerebral blood flow decrease as an early pathological mechanism in Alzheimer's disease, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Astrocyte Ca 2+ -evoked ATP release regulates myelinated axon excitability and conduction speed, 2021, Science
  • Noradrenaline released from locus coeruleus axons contracts cerebral capillary pericytes via α2 adrenergic receptors, 2023, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • Inhibiting Ca2+ channels in Alzheimer's disease model mice relaxes pericytes, improves cerebral blood flow and reduces immune cell stalling and hypoxia, 2024, Nature Neuroscience

David Attwell collaborates frequently with several coauthors, reflecting interdisciplinary efforts in their research. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Nils Korte
  • Chanawee Hirunpattarasilp
  • Huma Sethi
  • Pablo Izquierdo
  • Felipe Freitas

The scientist's work has been published extensively in several academic venues. The most common publication sources are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Science
  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism

David Attwell has been recognized with awards, including membership in the Academia Europaea granted in 2016 and fellowship in the Royal Society of the United Kingdom awarded in 2001.

Best Publications

  • An Energy Budget for Signaling in the Grey Matter of the Brain

    David Attwell;Simon B. Laughlin

  • Glial and neuronal control of brain blood flow.

    David Attwell;Alastair M. Buchan;Serge Charpak;Martin Lauritzen

  • Capillary pericytes regulate cerebral blood flow in health and disease

    Catherine N. Hall;Clare Reynell;Bodil Gesslein;Nicola B. Hamilton

  • Synaptic Energy Use and Supply

    Julia J. Harris;Renaud Jolivet;David Attwell

  • The release and uptake of excitatory amino acids.

    David Nicholls;David Attwell

  • Glutamate release in severe brain ischaemia is mainly by reversed uptake

    David J. Rossi;Takeo Oshima;David Attwell

  • Bidirectional control of CNS capillary diameter by pericytes

    Claire M. Peppiatt;Clare Howarth;Peter Mobbs;David Attwell

  • The neural basis of functional brain imaging signals.

    David Attwell;Costantino Iadecola

  • The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings.

    Ross W Paterson;Ross W Paterson;Rachel L Brown;Laura Benjamin;Laura Benjamin;Ross Nortley;Ross Nortley

  • Nonvesicular release of neurotransmitter

    David Attwell;Boris Barbour;Marek Szatkowski

  • Astrocyte Calcium Signaling: The Third Wave

    Narges Bazargani;David Attwell

  • Oligodendrocyte Dynamics in the Healthy Adult CNS: Evidence for Myelin Remodeling

    Kaylene M. Young;Konstantina Psachoulia;Richa B. Tripathi;Sara-Jane Dunn

  • Non-vesicular release of glutamate from glial cells by reversed electrogenic glutamate uptake

    Marek Szatkowski;Boris Barbour;David Attwell

  • Do astrocytes really exocytose neurotransmitters

    Nicola B. Hamilton;David Attwell

  • NMDA receptors are expressed in oligodendrocytes and activated in ischaemia

    Ragnhildur Káradóttir;Pauline Cavelier;Linda H. Bergersen;David Attwell

  • Updated energy budgets for neural computation in the neocortex and cerebellum.

    Clare Howarth;Padraig Gleeson;David Attwell

  • Triggering and execution of neuronal death in brain ischaemia: two phases of glutamate release by different mechanisms

    Marek Szatkowski;David Attwell

  • Miro1 Is a Calcium Sensor for Glutamate Receptor-Dependent Localization of Mitochondria at Synapses

    Andrew F. MacAskill;Johanne E. Rinholm;Alison E. Twelvetrees;I. Lorena Arancibia-Carcamo

  • What is a pericyte

    David Attwell;Anusha Mishra;Catherine N Hall;Fergus M O’Farrell

  • Amyloid β oligomers constrict human capillaries in Alzheimer’s disease via signaling to pericytes

    Ross Nortley;Nils Korte;Pablo Izquierdo;Chanawee Hirunpattarasilp

  • Pericyte-mediated regulation of capillary diameter: a component of neurovascular coupling in health and disease

    Nicola B Hamilton;David Attwell;Catherine N Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir
Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir University of Cambridge
Nicola J. Allen
Nicola J. Allen Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Alexander V. Gourine
Alexander V. Gourine University College London
Dmitri A. Rusakov
Dmitri A. Rusakov University College London
Linda H. Bergersen
Linda H. Bergersen University of Oslo
Niels C. Danbolt
Niels C. Danbolt University of Oslo
Nicoletta Kessaris
Nicoletta Kessaris University College London
Stephen J. Moss
Stephen J. Moss Tufts University
Brian A. MacVicar
Brian A. MacVicar University of British Columbia
Hannah Monyer
Hannah Monyer German Cancer Research Center

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