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Gerlinde A. S. Metz

Gerlinde A. S. Metz

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Neuroscience

D-Index
56
Citations
12391
World Ranking
4495
National Ranking
258

Overview

Gerlinde A. S. Metz is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected fields within medicine and neuroscience, with a focus on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, as well as behavioral neuroscience and molecular biology. The scientist's work contributes to understanding mechanisms related to birth, development, and health.

Their research interests cover multiple main topics, including:

  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism

Gerlinde Metz has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent venues of publication include:

  • Metabolites
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Current Zoology

Collaborations have been important in Metz's career, with recurring co-authors being:

  • Jamshid Faraji
  • Tony Montina
  • David M. Olson
  • Mirela Ambeskovic
  • Nasrin Soltanpour

Recent representative papers include:

  • "Climate change is a major stressor causing poor pregnancy outcomes and child development," 2020, published in F1000Research
  • "Prenatal Maternal Stress Causes Preterm Birth and Affects Neonatal Adaptive Immunity in Mice," 2020, published in Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Aging, Social Distancing, and COVID-19 Risk: Who is more Vulnerable and Why?", 2021, published in Aging and Disease
  • "Cardiorenal metabolic biomarkers link early life stress to risk of non-communicable diseases and adverse mental health outcomes," 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • "Metabolic dysfunction in pregnancy: Fingerprinting the maternal metabolome using proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy," 2020, published in Endocrinology Diabetes & Metabolism

The main fields of study for Metz include Medicine, with 71 publications, and Neuroscience, with 33 publications. Subfields strongly represented are pediatrics, perinatology, and child health; behavioral neuroscience; molecular biology; social psychology; and physiology, which reflects the interdisciplinary nature of their investigations.

Best Publications

  • Cortical and subcortical lesions impair skilled walking in the ladder rung walking test: a new task to evaluate fore- and hindlimb stepping, placing, and co-ordination.

    Gerlinde A Metz;Ian Q Whishaw

  • Stress-induced perinatal and transgenerational epigenetic programming of brain development and mental health.

    Olena Babenko;Igor Kovalchuk;Gerlinde A.S. Metz

  • Enriched childhood experiences moderate age-related motor and cognitive decline

    Megan J. Metzler;Deborah M. Saucier;Gerlinde A. S. Metz

  • Neurite growth inhibitors restrict plasticity and functional recovery following corticospinal tract lesions.

    Michaela Thallmair;Gerlinde A. S. Metz;Werner J. Z'Graggen;Olivier Raineteau

  • Validation of the weight-drop contusion model in rats: a comparative study of human spinal cord injury.

    Gerlinde A.S. Metz;Armin Curt;Henk van de Meent;Isabel Klusman

  • Locomotor Recovery in Spinal Cord-Injured Rats Treated with an Antibody Neutralizing the Myelin-Associated Neurite Growth Inhibitor Nogo-A

    Doron Merkler;Gerlinde A. S. Metz;Olivier Raineteau;Volker Dietz

  • Efficient testing of motor function in spinal cord injured rats

    Gerlinde A.S. Metz;Doron Merkler;Volker Dietz;Martin E. Schwab

  • Functional recovery and enhanced corticofugal plasticity after unilateral pyramidal tract lesion and blockade of myelin-associated neurite growth inhibitors in adult rats.

    Werner J. Z’Graggen;Gerlinde A. S. Metz;Gwendolyn L. Kartje;Michaela Thallmair

  • The ladder rung walking task: a scoring system and its practical application.

    Gerlinde A S Metz;Ian Q. Whishaw

  • Reaching training in rats with spinal cord injury promotes plasticity and task specific recovery.

    J. Girgis;D. Merrett;S. Kirkland;G. A. S. Metz

  • Prenatal stress and epigenetics

    L Cao-Lei;S R de Rooij;S King;S G Matthews

  • Maternal stress induces epigenetic signatures of psychiatric and neurological diseases in the offspring.

    Fabiola C. R. Zucchi;Youli Yao;Isaac D. Ward;Yaroslav Ilnytskyy

  • Modulation of motor function by stress: a novel concept of the effects of stress and corticosterone on behavior.

    Gerlinde A. Metz;Nafisa M. Jadavji;Lori K. Smith

  • Skilled reaching an action pattern: stability in rat (Rattus norvegicus) grasping movements as a function of changing food pellet size

    Gerlinde A.S Metz;Ian Q Whishaw

  • Treadmill training in incomplete spinal cord injured rats

    Karim Fouad;Gerlinde A.S Metz;Doron Merkler;Volker Dietz

  • Ancestral exposure to stress epigenetically programs preterm birth risk and adverse maternal and newborn outcomes

    Youli Yao;Alexandra M. Robinson;Fabiola C. R. Zucchi;Jerrah C. Robbins

  • Impairment of pronation, supination, and body co-ordination in reach-to-grasp tasks in human Parkinson's disease (PD) reveals homology to deficits in animal models.

    Ian Q Whishaw;Oksana Suchowersky;Oksana Suchowersky;Leigh Davis;Justyna Sarna

  • Stress accelerates neural degeneration and exaggerates motor symptoms in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

    Lori K. Smith;Nafisa M. Jadavji;Keri L. Colwell;S. Katrina Perehudoff

  • Maternal circulating leukocytes display early chemotactic responsiveness during late gestation

    Nardhy Gomez-Lopez;Nardhy Gomez-Lopez;Satomi Tanaka;Zoya Zaeem;Gerlinde A. S. Metz

  • Accelerated nervous system development contributes to behavioral efficiency in the laboratory mouse: a behavioral review and theoretical proposal.

    Ian Q. Whishaw;Gerlinde A. S. Metz;Bryan Kolb;Sergio M. Pellis

  • Regeneration and sprouting of chronically injured corticospinal tract fibers in adult rats promoted by NT-3 and the mAb IN-1, which neutralizes myelin-associated neurite growth inhibitors

    J. Von Meyenburg;C. Brösamle;G. A. S. Metz;M. E. Schwab

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Q. Whishaw
Ian Q. Whishaw University of Lethbridge
Martin E. Schwab
Martin E. Schwab University of Zurich
Karim Fouad
Karim Fouad University of Alberta
Robert J. Sutherland
Robert J. Sutherland University of Lethbridge
Bryan Kolb
Bryan Kolb University of Lethbridge
Suzanne King
Suzanne King McGill University
Sergio M. Pellis
Sergio M. Pellis University of Lethbridge
Olivier Raineteau
Olivier Raineteau Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Otto W. Witte
Otto W. Witte Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Nicole Letourneau
Nicole Letourneau University of Calgary

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