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Gregers Wegener

Gregers Wegener

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Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
10943
World Ranking
3889
National Ranking
27

Overview

Gregers Wegener is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, pharmacology, biological psychiatry, and physiology.

Their research addresses multiple main topics, including:

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Gregers Wegener has collaborated frequently with several co-authors in their research work. The most common co-authors include:

  • Sâmia Joca
  • Shokouh Arjmand
  • Maryam Ardalan
  • Anne M. Landau
  • Heidi Kaastrup Müller

Their publications have appeared regularly in specific scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Acta Neuropsychiatrica
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Brain Research

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 - A systematic review" (2021) published in Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • "Transcriptional regulation in the rat prefrontal cortex and hippocampus after a single administration of psilocybin" (2020) published in Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • "Faecal microbiota transplantation from patients with depression or healthy individuals into rats modulates mood-related behaviour" (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Rapid effects of S-ketamine on the morphology of hippocampal astrocytes and BDNF serum levels in a sex-dependent manner" (2020) published in European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Autistic-like behaviours and associated brain structural plasticity are modulated by oxytocin in maternally separated rats" (2020) published in Behavioural Brain Research

Best Publications

  • Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19 - A systematic review.

    Thor Mertz Schou;Samia Joca;Gregers Wegener;Cecilie Bay-Richter

  • Pharmacological effects of Lu AA21004: a novel multimodal compound for the treatment of major depressive disorder.

    A. Mørk;A. Pehrson;L. T. Brennum;S. Møller Nielsen

  • Reference genes for normalization: a study of rat brain tissue.

    Birgit Egeskov Bonefeld;Betina Elfving;Gregers Wegener

  • The Flinders Sensitive Line Rat Model of Depression—25 Years and Still Producing

    David H. Overstreet;Gregers Wegener

  • Stress–restress evokes sustained iNOS activity and altered GABA levels and NMDA receptors in rat hippocampus

    Brian H. Harvey;Frasia Oosthuizen;Linda Brand;Gregers Wegener

  • Cannabidiol Induces Rapid and Sustained Antidepressant-Like Effects Through Increased BDNF Signaling and Synaptogenesis in the Prefrontal Cortex

    Amanda J Sales;Manoela V Fogaça;Ariandra G Sartim;Vitor S Pereira

  • Endogenous nitric oxide decreases hippocampal levels of serotonin and dopamine in vivo.

    Gregers Wegener;Vallo Volke;Raben Rosenberg

  • Animal models of depression and anxiety: What do they tell us about human condition?

    I D Neumann;G Wegener;J R Homberg;H Cohen

  • Probiotic treatment reduces depressive-like behaviour in rats independently of diet.

    Anders Abildgaard;Anders Abildgaard;Betina Elfving;Marianne Hokland;Gregers Wegener

  • Antidepressant- and anxiolytic-like effects of selective neuronal NOS inhibitor 1-(2-trifluoromethylphenyl)-imidazole in mice.

    Vallo Volke;Gregers Wegener;Michel Bourin;Eero Vasar

  • Central functions of neuropeptide Y in mood and anxiety disorders.

    Gang Wu;Adriana Feder;Gregers Wegener;Christopher Bailey

  • Repeated electroconvulsive seizures increase the total number of synapses in adult male rat hippocampus

    Fenghua Chen;Fenghua Chen;Torsten M. Madsen;Torsten M. Madsen;Gregers Wegener;Jens R. Nyengaard

  • Antidepressant-Like Effect of Sodium Butyrate is Associated with an Increase in TET1 and in 5-Hydroxymethylation Levels in the Bdnf Gene

    Ya Bin Wei;Philippe A. Melas;Gregers Wegener;Aleksander A. Mathé

  • Local, but not systemic, administration of serotonergic antidepressants decreases hippocampal nitric oxide synthase activity.

    Gregers Wegener;Vallo Volke;Brian H Harvey;Raben Rosenberg

  • Reduction of cGMP and nitric oxide has antidepressant-like effects in the forced swimming test in rats.

    Ida Louise Heiberg;Gregers Wegener;Raben Rosenberg

  • Antidepressant treatment is associated with epigenetic alterations in the promoter of P11 in a genetic model of depression.

    Philippe A. Melas;Maria Rogdaki;Andreas Lennartsson;Karl Björk

  • Inverse correlation of brain and blood BDNF levels in a genetic rat model of depression.

    Betina Elfving;Pia Høgh Plougmann;Heidi Kaastrup Müller;Aleksander A. Mathé

  • Stress and corticosterone increase the readily releasable pool of glutamate vesicles in synaptic terminals of prefrontal and frontal cortex.

    G Treccani;L Musazzi;C Perego;M Milanese

  • Detection of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in rat blood and brain preparations using ELISA: Pitfalls and solutions

    Betina Elfving;Pia Høgh Plougmann;Gregers Wegener

  • P2X7 Receptor Signaling in Stress and Depression.

    Deidiane Elisa Ribeiro;Aline Lulho Roncalho;Talita Glaser;Henning Ulrich

  • Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors as Antidepressants

    Gregers Wegener;Vallo Volke

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Popoli
Maurizio Popoli University of Milan
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Doris J. Doudet
Doris J. Doudet University of British Columbia
Albert Gjedde
Albert Gjedde University of Copenhagen
Laura Musazzi
Laura Musazzi University of Milano-Bicocca
Marianne B. Müller
Marianne B. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Eero Vasar
Eero Vasar University of Tartu
Giambattista Bonanno
Giambattista Bonanno University of Genoa
David A. Slattery
David A. Slattery Goethe University Frankfurt
Aleksander A. Mathé
Aleksander A. Mathé Karolinska University Hospital

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