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Overview

François Tronche is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with a concentration on cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and immunology.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics including neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, stress responses and cortisol, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, chromatin remodeling and cancer, nuclear receptors and signaling, interferon and immune responses, and protein degradation and inhibitors.

Frequent coauthors of François Tronche include Cécile Vernochet, Fabio Marti, Philippe Fauré, Sébastien Parnaudeau, and Abdallah Zayed. These collaborations have contributed collectively to a range of publications.

The major publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Nature Communications
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Some recent papers by François Tronche cover topics related to dopamine neuron activity, stress signaling, chromatin remodeling, social hierarchy, and behavioral adaptations to stress. Selected publications include:

  • "Dopamine Neuron Activity and Stress Signaling as Links Between Social Hierarchy and Psychopathology Vulnerability" (2023) published in Biological Psychiatry
  • "SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler complex within the reward pathway is required for behavioral adaptations to stress" (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • "Social status influences normal and pathological behaviors in mice, a role for dopamine and stress signaling" (2020) published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler complex within the reward pathway is required for behavioral adaptations to stress" (2021) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Social hierarchy and behavioral individuality in colonies of isogenic female mice" (2025) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Resetting of circadian time in peripheral tissues by glucocorticoid signaling.

    Aurélio Balsalobre;Steven A. Brown;Lysiane Marcacci;François Tronche

  • Disruption of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in the nervous system results in reduced anxiety

    François Tronche;Christoph Kellendonk;Oliver Kretz;Peter Gass

  • Mineralocorticoid receptors are indispensable for nongenomic modulation of hippocampal glutamate transmission by corticosterone

    Henk Karst;Stefan Berger;Marc Turiault;Francois Tronche

  • Disruption of CREB function in brain leads to neurodegeneration

    Theo Mantamadiotis;Thomas Lemberger;Susanne C. Bleckmann;Heidrun Kern

  • Glucocorticoid hormones inhibit food-induced phase-shifting of peripheral circadian oscillators

    Nguyet Le Minh;Nguyet Le Minh;Francesca Damiola;Francesca Damiola;Francesca Damiola;François Tronche;Günther Schütz

  • Intrahepatic Bile Ducts Develop According to a New Mode of Tubulogenesis Regulated by the Transcription Factor SOX9

    Aline Antoniou;Peggy Raynaud;Sabine Cordi;Yiwei Zong

  • Bile system morphogenesis defects and liver dysfunction upon targeted deletion of HNF1β

    Catherine Coffinier;Lionel Gresh;Laurence Fiette;François Tronche

  • The glucocorticoid receptor is required for stress erythropoiesis

    Anton Bauer;Francois Tronche;Oliver Wessely;Oliver Wessely;Christoph Kellendonk

  • Regulation of Cre Recombinase Activity by the Synthetic Steroid RU 486

    Christoph Kellendonk;François Tronche;A. Paula Monaghan;Pierre Olivier Angrand

  • Impaired postnatal hepatocyte proliferation and liver regeneration in mice lacking c-jun in the liver.

    Axel Behrens;Axel Behrens;Maria Sibilia;Maria Sibilia;Jean Pierre David;Uta Möhle-Steinlein

  • Plasticity and expanding complexity of the hepatic transcription factor network during liver development.

    Irene Kyrmizi;Pantelis Hatzis;Nitsa Katrakili;Francois Tronche

  • Chronic Stress and Glucocorticoids: From Neuronal Plasticity to Neurodegeneration

    Sheela Vyas;Ana João Rodrigues;Joana Margarida Silva;Francois Tronche

  • Macrophages and neutrophils are the targets for immune suppression by glucocorticoids in contact allergy

    Jan P. Tuckermann;Anna Kleiman;Anna Kleiman;Richard Moriggl;Rainer Spanbroek

  • Hepatocyte-specific expression of Cre recombinase.

    Christoph Kellendonk;Christian Opherk;Katrin Anlag;Günther Schütz

  • Liver adenosine monophosphate-activated kinase-alpha2 catalytic subunit is a key target for the control of hepatic glucose production by adiponectin and leptin but not insulin.

    Fabrizio Andreelli;Marc Foretz;Claude Knauf;Patrice D. Cani

  • Inducible site-specific recombination in the brain

    Christoph Kellendonk;François Tronche;Emilio Casanova;Katrin Anlag

  • Conditional Inactivation of Androgen Receptor Gene in the Nervous System: Effects on Male Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Responses

    Kalina Raskin;Karel de Gendt;Anne Duittoz;Philippe Liere

  • Inactivation of the glucocorticoid receptor in hepatocytes leads to fasting hypoglycemia and ameliorates hyperglycemia in streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus.

    Christian Opherk;François Tronche;Christoph Kellendonk;Dirk Kohlmüller

  • The MAPK pathway and Egr-1 mediate stress-related behavioral effects of glucocorticoids.

    Jean-Michel Revest;Francesco Di Blasi;Pierre Kitchener;Françoise Rougé-Pont

  • Microglial glucocorticoid receptors play a pivotal role in regulating dopaminergic neurodegeneration in parkinsonism

    Francisco Ros-Bernal;Stéphane Hunot;Maria Trinidad Herrero;Sebastien Parnadeau

Frequent Co-Authors

Günther Schütz
Günther Schütz German Cancer Research Center
Christoph Kellendonk
Christoph Kellendonk Columbia University
Holger M. Reichardt
Holger M. Reichardt University of Göttingen
Moshe Yaniv
Moshe Yaniv Institut Pasteur
Oliver Kretz
Oliver Kretz Universität Hamburg
Nicolette Farman
Nicolette Farman Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers
Mary C. Weiss
Mary C. Weiss Institut Pasteur
Peter Gass
Peter Gass Heidelberg University
Christine Perret
Christine Perret Université Paris Cité

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