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David P. Wolfer is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics focus on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, animal behavior and welfare studies, and adipose tissue and metabolism.

David P. Wolfer has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • Premature aging in mice with error-prone protein synthesis, 2022, Science Advances
  • Loss of all three APP family members during development impairs synaptic function and plasticity, disrupts learning, and causes an autism-like phenotype, 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • Role of Environment and Experimenter in Reproducibility of Behavioral Studies With Laboratory Mice, 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Error-prone protein synthesis recapitulates early symptoms of Alzheimer disease in aging mice, 2022, Cell Reports
  • The rearing environment persistently modulates mouse phenotypes from the molecular to the behavioural level, 2022, PLoS Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Irmgard Amrein (15 collaborations)
  • Martina Nigri (8 collaborations)
  • Erik C. Böttger (6 collaborations)
  • Rashid Akbergenov (5 collaborations)
  • Kader Thiam (5 collaborations)

David P. Wolfer commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (5 papers)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature (4 papers)
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy (3 papers)
  • Cell Reports (2 papers)
  • PNAS Nexus (2 papers)

Best Publications

  • Arc/Arg3.1 Is Essential for the Consolidation of Synaptic Plasticity and Memories

    Niels Plath;Ora Ohana;Ora Ohana;Björn Dammermann;Mick L. Errington

  • Essential Role for TrkB Receptors in Hippocampus-Mediated Learning

    Liliana Minichiello;Martin Korte;David Wolfer;Ralf Kühn

  • GlyR alpha3: an essential target for spinal PGE2-mediated inflammatory pain sensitization.

    Robert J. Harvey;Ulrike B. Depner;Heinz Wässle;Seifollah Ahmadi

  • Mice with Combined Gene Knock-Outs Reveal Essential and Partially Redundant Functions of Amyloid Precursor Protein Family Members

    Sabine Heber;Jochen Herms;Vladan Gajic;Johannes Hainfellner

  • The AP-1 Transcription Factor c-Jun Is Required for Efficient Axonal Regeneration

    Gennadij Raivich;Marion Bohatschek;Clive Da Costa;Osuke Iwata

  • Knockout of ERK1 MAP kinase enhances synaptic plasticity in the striatum and facilitates striatal-mediated learning and memory

    Cristina Mazzucchelli;Chiara Vantaggiato;Alessandro Ciamei;Stefania Fasano

  • A role for the Ras signalling pathway in synaptic transmission and long-term memory

    Riccardo Brambilla;Nerina Gnesutta;Liliana Minichiello;Gail White

  • The Secreted -Amyloid Precursor Protein Ectodomain APPs Is Sufficient to Rescue the Anatomical, Behavioral, and Electrophysiological Abnormalities of APP-Deficient Mice

    Sabine Ring;Sascha W. Weyer;Susanne B. Kilian;Elaine Waldron

  • Mice lacking the gene encoding tissue-type plasminogen activator show a selective interference with late-phase long-term potentiation in both Schaffer collateral and mossy fiber pathways

    Yan-You Huang;Mary Elizabeth Bach;Hans-Peter Lipp;Min Zhuo

  • Cerebellar ataxia and Purkinje cell dysfunction caused by Ca2+-activated K+ channel deficiency

    M. Sausbier;H. Hu;C. Arntz;S. Feil

  • Mutant mice and neuroscience: Recommendations concerning genetic background

    Alcino J. Silva;Elizabeth M. Simpson;Joseph S. Takahashi;Hans Peter Lipp

  • BEHAVIORAL AND ANATOMICAL DEFICITS IN MICE HOMOZYGOUS FOR A MODIFIED BETA -AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN GENE

    Ulrike Müller;Nadine Cristina;Zhi-Wei Li;David P. Wolfer

  • Kinase-Independent Requirement of EphB2 Receptors in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity

    Ilona C. Grunwald;Martin Korte;David Wolfer;George A. Wilkinson

  • Knockout mice: simple solutions to the problems of genetic background and flanking genes

    David P Wolfer;Wim E Crusio;Hans Peter Lipp

  • Loss of the limbic mineralocorticoid receptor impairs behavioral plasticity

    Stefan Berger;David P. Wolfer;Oliver Selbach;Heike Alter

  • Does cAMP response element-binding protein have a pivotal role in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and hippocampus-dependent memory?

    Detlef Balschun;David P. Wolfer;Peter Gass;Theo Mantamadiotis

  • Lack of parvalbumin in mice leads to behavioral deficits relevant to all human autism core symptoms and related neural morphofunctional abnormalities.

    M. Wöhr;D. Orduz;Patrick Gregory;H Moreno

  • Genetically modified mice and cognition.

    Hans-Peter Lipp;David P Wolfer

  • Deficits in Memory Tasks of Mice with CREB Mutations Depend on Gene Dosage

    Peter Gass;David P. Wolfer;Detlef Balschun;Dorothea Rudolph

  • Laboratory animal welfare: cage enrichment and mouse behaviour

    David P. Wolfer;Oxana Litvin;Samuel Morf;Roger M. Nitsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Lipp
Hans-Peter Lipp University of Zurich
Martin Korte
Martin Korte Technische Universität Braunschweig
Igor Branchi
Igor Branchi Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Peter Gass
Peter Gass Heidelberg University
Wim E. Crusio
Wim E. Crusio University of Bordeaux
Cristina Limatola
Cristina Limatola Sapienza University of Rome
Francesca Cirulli
Francesca Cirulli Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Melitta Schachner
Melitta Schachner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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