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Overview

Elisabeth Traiffort is affiliated with Inserm: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale in France. Their research spans several domains within neuroscience, medicine, and molecular biology, focusing particularly on mechanisms underlying the nervous system and related pathologies.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, as well as the hedgehog signaling pathway. Other notable topics of their work include epigenetics and DNA methylation, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones, immune cells in cancer, and stress responses involving cortisol.

Elisabeth Traiffort's main fields of study are:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their research also covers important subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Immunology
  • Reproductive Medicine

Frequent publication venues for Elisabeth Traiffort include:

  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Cells
  • Nature Communications
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Glia

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Amina Zahaf
  • Abdelmoumen Kassoussi
  • Claudia Mattern
  • Michaël Schumacher
  • Yousra Laouarem

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Elisabeth Traiffort are:

  • Astrocytes and Microglia as Major Players of Myelin Production in Normal and Pathological Conditions, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Androgens show sex-dependent differences in myelination in immune and non-immune murine models of CNS demyelination, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Defective Oligodendroglial Lineage and Demyelination in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Functional cooperation of the hedgehog and androgen signaling pathways during developmental and repairing myelination, 2021, Glia
  • LINGO family receptors are differentially expressed in the mouse brain and form native multimeric complexes, 2020, The FASEB Journal

Best Publications

  • Molecular cloning, characterization, and localization of a high-affinity serotonin receptor (5-HT7) activating cAMP formation

    Martial Ruat;Elisabeth Traiffort;Rob Leurs;Joel Tardivel-Lacombe

  • A novel rat serotonin (5-HT6) receptor: molecular cloning, localization and stimulation of cAMP accumulation.

    M. Ruat;E. Traiffort;J.M. Arrang;J. Tardivellacombe

  • Three histamine receptors (H1, H2 and H3) visualized in the brain of human and non-human primates

    M.I. Martinez-Mir;H. Pollard;J. Moreau;J.M. Arrang

  • Quantitative RT‐PCR distribution of serotonin 5‐HT6 receptor mRNA in the central nervous system of control or 5,7‐dihydroxytryptamine‐treated rats

    Caroline Gérard;Salah El Mestikawy;Cécile Lebrand;Joëlle Adrien

  • Discrete localizations of hedgehog signalling components in the developing and adult rat nervous system

    Elisabeth Traiffort;Dorota Charytoniuk;Laurent Watroba;Hélène Faure

  • Reversible and irreversible labeling and autoradiographic localization of the cerebral histamine H2 receptor using [125I]iodinated probes

    M Ruat;E Traiffort;M L Bouthenet;J C Schwartz

  • Astrocytes and Microglia as Major Players of Myelin Production in Normal and Pathological Conditions.

    Elisabeth Traiffort;Abdelmoumen Kassoussi;Amina Zahaf;Yousra Laouarem

  • Calcium sensing receptor‐dependent and receptor‐independent activation of osteoblast replication and survival by strontium ranelate

    Olivia Fromigué;Eric Haÿ;Alain Barbara;Christophe Petrel

  • Regional Distribution of Sonic Hedgehog, Patched, and Smoothened mRNA in the Adult Rat Brain

    Elisabeth Traiffort;Dorota Anna Charytoniuk;Helene Faure;Martial Ruat

  • Sonic Hedgehog signaling in the mammalian brain

    Elisabeth Traiffort;Elodie Angot;Martial Ruat

  • Guinea Pig Histamine H1 Receptor. II. Stable Expression in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells Reveals the Interaction with Three Major Signal Transduction Pathways

    R. Leurs;E. Traiffort;J. M. Arrang;J. Tardivel-Lacombe

  • Distribution of bone morphogenetic protein and bone morphogenetic protein receptor transcripts in the rodent nervous system and up-regulation of bone morphogenetic protein receptor type II in hippocampal dentate gyrus in a rat model of global cerebral ischemia.

    Dorota Charytoniuk;Elisabeth Traiffort;E. Pinard;O. Issertial

  • Sonic Hedgehog signaling is a positive oligodendrocyte regulator during demyelination.

    Julien Ferent;Céline Zimmer;Pascale Durbec;Martial Ruat

  • High expression and anterograde axonal transport of aminoterminal sonic hedgehog in the adult hamster brain.

    Elisabeth Traiffort;Kenneth L. Moya;Hélène Faure;Raymonde Hässig

  • Detailed mapping of the histamine H2 receptor and its gene transcripts in guinea-pig brain

    M.L. Vizuete;E. Traiffort;M.L. Bouthenet;M. Ruat

  • Chemoattractive activity of sonic hedgehog in the adult subventricular zone modulates the number of neural precursors reaching the olfactory bulb.

    Elodie Angot;Karine Loulier;Kim T Nguyen-Ba-Charvet;Alain-Pierre Gadeau

  • Cloning and tissue expression of a rat histamine H2-receptor gene.

    Martial Ruat;Elisabeth Traiffort;Jean-Michel Arrang;Rob Leurs

  • Molecular characterization of the family of choline transporter-like proteins and their splice variants.

    Elisabeth Traiffort;Martial Ruat;Seana O'Regan;François-Marie Meunier

  • Pharmacological Characterization and Autoradiographic Localization of Histamine H2 Receptors in Human Brain Identified with [125I]Iodoaminopotentidine

    E. Traiffort;H. Pollard;J. Moreau;M. Ruat

  • Developmental expression of the cellular prion protein in elongating axons

    Nicole Salès;Nicole Salès;Raymonde Hässig;Katia Rodolfo;Luigi Di Giamberardino

  • Reversible and irreversible labeling and autoradiographic localization of the cerebral histamine H_2-receptor

    Martial Ruat;Elisabeth Traiffort;M. L. Bouthenet;Jean-Charles Schwartz

Frequent Co-Authors

Véronique David
Véronique David Université de Rennes
Christèle Dubourg
Christèle Dubourg University of Rennes
Sylvie Odent
Sylvie Odent University of Rennes
Michel Dy
Michel Dy Université Paris Cité
Salah El Mestikawy
Salah El Mestikawy Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Jean Champagnat
Jean Champagnat Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Dick F. Swaab
Dick F. Swaab Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

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