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Overview

Eliezer Masliah is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and works within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research emphasizes Neurology, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work concentrates on key topics including Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, nuclear receptors and signaling, dementia and cognitive impairment research, neurological diseases and metabolism, and nerve injury and regeneration.

Eliezer Masliah has published extensively in journals such as JAMA Neurology, Brain, Neurobiology of Disease, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Neuron.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include Richard J. Perrin, Robert A. Rissman, Changyoun Kim, Clifford R. Jack, and Laurel Beckett.

Their recent papers cover a range of significant topics and include:

  • "Microvascular Injury in the Brains of Patients with Covid-19" (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • "Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture" (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • "Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Fourth consensus report of the DLB Consortium" (2020, Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle University))
  • "The innate immunity protein IFITM3 modulates γ-secretase in Alzheimer's disease" (2020, Nature)
  • "The Role of Mitochondria in Neurodegenerative Diseases: the Lesson from Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease" (2020, Molecular Neurobiology)

Best Publications

  • NIA-AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

    Clifford R. Jack;David A. Bennett;Kaj Blennow;Maria C. Carrillo

  • Ubiquitinated TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Manuela Neumann;Deepak M. Sampathu;Linda K. Kwong;Adam C. Truax

  • Physical basis of cognitive alterations in Alzheimer's disease: synapse loss is the major correlate of cognitive impairment.

    Robert D. Terry;Eliezer Masliah;David P. Salmon;Nelson Butters

  • Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies Fourth consensus report of the DLB Consortium

    Ian G. McKeith;Bradley F. Boeve;Dennis W. DIckson;Glenda Halliday

  • Neuropathological Alterations in Alzheimer Disease

    Alberto Serrano-Pozo;Matthew P. Frosch;Eliezer Masliah;Bradley T. Hyman

  • Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing

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  • Alzheimer-type neuropathology in transgenic mice overexpressing V717F beta-amyloid precursor protein.

    Dora Games;David Adams;Ree Alessandrini;Robin Barbour

  • National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association guidelines for the neuropathologic assessment of Alzheimer's disease

    Bradley T. Hyman;Creighton H. Phelps;Thomas G. Beach;Eileen H. Bigio

  • National Institute on Aging–Alzheimer’s Association guidelines for the neuropathologic assessment of Alzheimer’s disease: a practical approach

    Thomas J. Montine;Creighton H. Phelps;Thomas G. Beach;Eileen H. Bigio

  • Dopaminergic Loss and Inclusion Body Formation in α-Synuclein Mice: Implications for Neurodegenerative Disorders

    Eliezer Masliah;Edward Rockenstein;Isaac Veinbergs;Margaret Mallory

  • High-level neuronal expression of abeta 1-42 in wild-type human amyloid protein precursor transgenic mice: synaptotoxicity without plaque formation.

    Lennart Mucke;Eliezer Masliah;Gui-Qiu Yu;Margaret Mallory

  • |[alpha]|-Synuclein is phosphorylated in synucleinopathy lesions

    Hideo Fujiwara;Masato Hasegawa;Naoshi Dohmae;Akiko Kawashima

  • Correlation of Alzheimer Disease Neuropathologic Changes With Cognitive Status: A Review of the Literature

    Peter T Nelson;Irina Alafuzoff;Eileen H Bigio;Constantin Bouras

  • Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

    Adam C. Naj;Gyungah Jun;Gary W. Beecham;Li-San Wang

  • Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding an unrecognized component of amyloid in Alzheimer disease

    Kenji Ueda;Hisashi Fukushima;Eliezer Masliah;Yu Xia

  • The many faces of α-synuclein: from structure and toxicity to therapeutic target

    Hilal A. Lashuel;Cassia R. Overk;Abid Oueslati;Eliezer Masliah

  • Inclusion formation and neuronal cell death through neuron-to-neuron transmission of alpha-synuclein.

    Paula Desplats;He Jin Lee;Eun Jin Bae;Christina Patrick

  • In vivo demonstration that alpha-synuclein oligomers are toxic.

    Beate Winner;Roberto Jappelli;Samir K. Maji;Paula A. Desplats

  • The precursor protein of non-Aβ component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid is a presynaptic protein of the central nervous system

    Akihiko Iwai;Eliezer Masliah;Makoto Yoshimoto;Nianfeng Ge

  • Primary age-related tauopathy (PART): a common pathology associated with human aging

    John F. Crary;John Q. Trojanowski;Julie A. Schneider;Jose F. Abisambra

  • Axonopathy and transport deficits early in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

    Gorazd B. Stokin;Concepción Lillo;Tomás L. Falzone;Richard G. Brusch

  • Plaque-independent disruption of neural circuits in Alzheimer's disease mouse models.

    Albert Y. Hsia;Eliezer Masliah;Lisa Mcconlogue;Gui Qiu Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward Rockenstein
Edward Rockenstein University of California, San Diego
Margaret Mallory
Margaret Mallory University of California, San Diego
Michael Mante
Michael Mante University of California, San Diego
Lawrence A. Hansen
Lawrence A. Hansen University of California, San Diego
Douglas Galasko
Douglas Galasko University of California, San Diego
Leslie Crews
Leslie Crews University of California, San Diego
Lennart Mucke
Lennart Mucke University of California, San Francisco
Robert D. Terry
Robert D. Terry University of California, San Diego
Stuart A. Lipton
Stuart A. Lipton Scripps Research Institute
Robert A. Rissman
Robert A. Rissman University of California, San Diego

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