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Overview

Farida Sohrabji is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has a significant body of work in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on neurology, with additional contributions to pediatrics, molecular biology, epidemiology, and genetics.

The main topics covered in Sohrabji's research include:

  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Barrier Structure and Function Studies
  • Gut microbiota and health

Sohrabji has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication journals include:

  • Stroke
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Translational Stroke Research

Among recent papers authored by Sohrabji are:

  • Sex differences in stroke co-morbidities, 2020, Experimental Neurology
  • Sex differences in stroke outcome correspond to rapid and severe changes in gut permeability in adult Sprague-Dawley rats, 2021, Biology of Sex Differences
  • Prenatal alcohol-induced sex differences in immune, metabolic and neurobehavioral outcomes in adult rats, 2021, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Intestinal epithelial stem cell transplants as a novel therapy for cerebrovascular stroke, 2022, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • New Mechanistic Insights, Novel Treatment Paradigms, and Clinical Progress in Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2021, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators with Sohrabji include:

  • Taylor Branyan
  • Kathiresh Kumar Mani
  • Shameena Bake
  • David A. Hurst
  • Dayalan Sampath

Best Publications

  • Identification of a putative estrogen response element in the gene encoding brain-derived neurotrophic factor

    Farida Sohrabji;R. C. G. Miranda;C. D. Toran-Allerand

  • Estrogen receptors colocalize with low-affinity nerve growth factor receptors in cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain.

    C. D. Toran-Allerand;R. C. Miranda;W. D. L. Bentham;F. Sohrabji

  • Selective impairment of song learning following lesions of a forebrain nucleus in the juvenile zebra finch

    Farida Sohrabji;Ernest J. Nordeen;Kathy W. Nordeen

  • Estrogen differentially regulates estrogen and nerve growth factor receptor mRNAs in adult sensory neurons

    F Sohrabji;RC Miranda;CD Toran-Allerand

  • Considering sex as a biological variable in preclinical research

    Leah R. Miller;Cheryl Marks;Jill B. Becker;Patricia D. Hurn

  • Estrogen-BDNF Interactions: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases

    Farida Sohrabji;Danielle K Lewis

  • Neuronal colocalization of mRNAs for neurotrophins and their receptors in the developing central nervous system suggests a potential for autocrine interactions

    R C Miranda;F Sohrabji;C D Toran-Allerand

  • An antagomir to microRNA Let7f promotes neuroprotection in an ischemic stroke model.

    Amutha Selvamani;Pratheesh Sathyan;Rajesh C. Miranda;Farida Sohrabji

  • Sex differences in the brain: Implications for behavioral and biomedical research.

    Elena Choleris;Liisa A.M. Galea;Farida Sohrabji;Karyn M. Frick

  • Fas/Apo [Apoptosis]-1 and Associated Proteins in the Differentiating Cerebral Cortex: Induction of Caspase-Dependent Cell Death and Activation of NF-κB

    Zulfiqar F. Cheema;Stephen B. Wade;Masataka Sata;Kenneth Walsh

  • Why estrogens matter for behavior and brain health

    Liisa A.M. Galea;Karyn M. Frick;Elizabeth Hampson;Farida Sohrabji

  • Reciprocal regulation of estrogen and NGF receptors by their ligands in PC12 cells

    Farida Sohrabji;L. A. Greene;R. C. Miranda;C. D. Toran-Allerand

  • 17β-Estradiol Differentially Regulates Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability in Young and Aging Female Rats

    Shameena Bake;Farida Sohrabji

  • Sex differences in stroke: Review of current knowledge and evidence.

    Raghavendra L Girijala;Farida Sohrabji;Ruth L Bush

  • Vitamin D deficiency exacerbates experimental stroke injury and dysregulates ischemia-induced inflammation in adult rats.

    Robyn Balden;Amutha Selvamani;Farida Sohrabji

  • Interactions of Estrogen with the Neurotrophins and Their Receptors during Neural Development

    Rajesh C. Miranda;Farida Sohrabji;Dominique Toran-Allerand

  • Neurotrophin expression in the reproductively senescent forebrain is refractory to estrogen stimulation

    M.K Jezierski;F Sohrabji

  • Region- and peptide-specific regulation of the neurotrophins by estrogen.

    M.K. Jezierski;F. Sohrabji

  • Reproductive age modulates the impact of focal ischemia on the forebrain as well as the effects of estrogen treatment in female rats.

    Amutha Selvamani;Farida Sohrabji

  • The Neurotoxic Effects of Estrogen on Ischemic Stroke in Older Female Rats Is Associated with Age-Dependent Loss of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1

    Amutha Selvamani;Farida Sohrabji

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathy W. Nordeen
Kathy W. Nordeen University of Rochester
E. J. Nordeen
E. J. Nordeen University of Rochester
Elena Choleris
Elena Choleris University of Guelph
Liisa A.M. Galea
Liisa A.M. Galea University of British Columbia
Friedhelm C. Hummel
Friedhelm C. Hummel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Raghu Vemuganti
Raghu Vemuganti University of Wisconsin–Madison
Karyn M. Frick
Karyn M. Frick University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Michael Chopp
Michael Chopp Oakland University
Doodipala Samba Reddy
Doodipala Samba Reddy Texas A&M University
Jan S. Suchodolski
Jan S. Suchodolski Texas A&M University

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