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Denis Hervé is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France, contributing extensively to the fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on cellular and molecular neuroscience alongside molecular biology and neurology, with additional work in cell biology and developmental neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas within neuroscience and neuropharmacology, including neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neurological disorders and treatments, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, zebrafish biomedical research applications, and neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Denis Hervé has published numerous papers, with a selection of recent works including:

  • Astrocytic BDNF and TrkB regulate severity and neuronal activity in mouse models of temporal lobe epilepsy (2020, Cell Death and Disease)
  • fMRI detects bilateral brain network activation following unilateral chemogenetic activation of direct striatal projection neurons (2020, NeuroImage)
  • Translational profiling of mouse dopaminoceptive neurons reveals region-specific gene expression, exon usage, and striatal prostaglandin E2 modulatory effects (2022, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Functional abnormalities in the cerebello-thalamic pathways in a mouse model of DYT25 dystonia (2022, eLife)
  • Long-lasting tagging of neurons activated by seizures or cocaine administration in Egr1-CreER T2 transgenic mice (2020, European Journal of Neuroscience)

Hervé has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Jean-Antoine Girault
  • Yuki Nakamura
  • Assunta Pelosi
  • Sophie Longueville
  • Emmanuel Valjent

Their research outputs have been published in prominent journals and venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Cell Death and Disease
  • NeuroImage

Denis Hervé's work extends across 29 publications classified within neuroscience, 12 in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and 11 within medicine, indicating a broad interdisciplinary approach. The focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience is supported by 23 related publications, highlighting a specialized expertise in this area.

Best Publications

  • Regulation of a protein phosphatase cascade allows convergent dopamine and glutamate signals to activate ERK in the striatum

    Emmanuel Valjent;Vincent Pascoli;Per Svenningsson;Surojit Paul

  • Opposing patterns of signaling activation in dopamine D1 and D2 receptor-expressing striatal neurons in response to cocaine and haloperidol.

    Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Clémentine Bosch;Matthieu Maroteaux;Miriam Matamales

  • Addictive and non-addictive drugs induce distinct and specific patterns of ERK activation in mouse brain.

    Emmanuel Valjent;Christiane Pagès;Denis Hervé;Jean-Antoine Girault

  • Serotonin axon terminals in the ventral tegmental area of the rat: fine structure and synaptic input to dopaminergic neurons

    Denis Hervé;Virginia M. Pickel;Tong H. Joh;Alain Beaudet

  • Critical Involvement of cAMP/DARPP-32 and Extracellular Signal-Regulated Protein Kinase Signaling in l-DOPA-Induced Dyskinesia

    Emanuela Santini;Emmanuel Valjent;Alessandro Usiello;Manolo Carta

  • Blockade by benzodiazepines of the selective high increase in dopamine turnover induced by stress in mesocortical dopaminergic neurons of the rat

    Solange Lavielle;Jean-Pol Tassin;Anne-Marie Thierry;Gérard Blanc

  • ERK2: a logical AND gate critical for drug-induced plasticity?

    Jean-Antoine Girault;Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Jocelyne Caboche;Jocelyne Caboche;Denis Hervé;Denis Hervé

  • Response to stress of mesocortico-frontal dopaminergic neurones in rats after long-term isolation

    G. Blanc;D. Hervé;H. Simon;A. Lisoprawski

  • G(olf) and Gs in rat basal ganglia: possible involvement of G(olf) in the coupling of dopamine D1 receptor with adenylyl cyclase

    D Herve;M Levi-Strauss;I Marey-Semper;C Verney

  • Mutations in GNAL cause primary torsion dystonia.

    Tania Fuchs;Rachel Saunders-Pullman;Rachel Saunders-Pullman;Ikuo Masuho;Marta San Luciano

  • Inhibition of ERK pathway or protein synthesis during reexposure to drugs of abuse erases previously learned place preference

    Emmanuel Valjent;Anne-Gaëlle Corbillé;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Denis Hervé

  • Parsing Molecular and Behavioral Effects of Cocaine in Mitogen- and Stress-Activated Protein Kinase-1-Deficient Mice

    Karen Brami-Cherrier;Emmanuel Valjent;Denis Hervé;Joanne Darragh

  • Striatal Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons: Identification by Nuclear Staining and Study of Neuronal Subpopulations in BAC Transgenic Mice

    Miriam Matamales;Miriam Matamales;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Lucas Salomon;Bertrand Degos

  • Galpha(olf) is necessary for coupling D1 and A2a receptors to adenylyl cyclase in the striatum.

    J. C. Corvol;J. M. Studler;J. S. Schonn;J. A. Girault

  • Looking BAC at striatal signaling: cell-specific analysis in new transgenic mice

    Emmanuel Valjent;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Denis Hervé;Denis Hervé;Gilberto Fisone

  • A phosphatase cascade by which rewarding stimuli control nucleosomal response

    Alexandre Stipanovich;Alexandre Stipanovich;Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Miriam Matamales;Miriam Matamales;Akinori Nishi;Akinori Nishi

  • Role of the ERK pathway in psychostimulant-induced locomotor sensitization

    Emmanuel Valjent;Jean-Christophe Corvol;James M Trzaskos;Jean-Antoine Girault

  • Persistent Increase in Olfactory Type G-Protein α Subunit Levels May Underlie D1 Receptor Functional Hypersensitivity in Parkinson Disease

    Jean-Christophe Corvol;Marie-Paule Muriel;Emmanuel Valjent;Jean Féger

  • Mechanisms of locomotor sensitization to drugs of abuse in a two-injection protocol.

    Emmanuel Valjent;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Benjamin Aubier;Benjamin Aubier;Paul Greengard

  • Extensive co-localization of neurotensin with dopamine in rat meso-cortico-frontal dopaminergic neurons

    Jeanne-Marie Studler;Patrick Kitabgi;Gérard Tramu;Denis Herve

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pol Tassin
Jean-Pol Tassin Sorbonne University
Jacques Glowinski
Jacques Glowinski Collège de France
Emmanuel Valjent
Emmanuel Valjent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Paul Vezina
Paul Vezina University of Chicago
Jocelyne Caboche
Jocelyne Caboche Sorbonne University
William Rostène
William Rostène Institut de la Vision
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Anne-Marie Thierry
Anne-Marie Thierry Collège de France
Joël Bockaert
Joël Bockaert University of Montpellier

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