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Inge Huitinga is affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in the Netherlands. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with notable work in Neurology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Physiology.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics including Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Immune cells in cancer, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

Huitinga has contributed frequently to a number of publication venues. The most common include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 13 publications, Acta Neuropathologica Communications with 4 publications, Brain with 3 publications, Acta Neuropathologica with 3 publications, and Alzheimer's & Dementia with 3 publications.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Huitinga's notable coauthors include Jörg Hamann with 27 joint publications, Joost Smolders with 22 publications, Aletta M.R. van den Bosch with 14 publications, Cheng-Chih Hsiao with 13 publications, and Nina L. Fransen with 12 publications.

Significant recent papers include the following:

  • Spatial Transcriptomics and In Situ Sequencing to Study Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, Cell
  • Microglia facilitate repair of demyelinated lesions via post-squalene sterol synthesis, 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • Tissue-resident memory T cells invade the brain parenchyma in multiple sclerosis white matter lesions, 2020, Brain
  • Locus for severity implicates CNS resilience in progression of multiple sclerosis, 2023, Nature
  • Lesion stage-dependent causes for impaired remyelination in MS, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica

Best Publications

  • Spatial Transcriptomics and In Situ Sequencing to Study Alzheimer's Disease.

    Wei-Ting Chen;Wei-Ting Chen;Ashley Lu;Ashley Lu;Katleen Craessaerts;Katleen Craessaerts;Benjamin Pavie

  • Depletion of hematogenous macrophages promotes partial hindlimb recovery and neuroanatomical repair after experimental spinal cord injury.

    P. G. Popovich;Zhen Guan;Ping Wei;I. Huitinga

  • Tissue-resident memory T cells populate the human brain

    Joost Smolders;Kirstin M. Heutinck;Nina L. Fransen;Ester B. M. Remmerswaal

  • Progressive multiple sclerosis patients show substantial lesion activity that correlates with clinical disease severity and sex: a retrospective autopsy cohort analysis

    Sabina Luchetti;Nina L. Fransen;Corbert G. van Eden;Valeria Ramaglia;Valeria Ramaglia

  • Extensive hippocampal demyelination in multiple sclerosis.

    Jeroen J. G. Geurts;Lars Bö;Lars Bö;Stefan D. Roosendaal;Thierry Hazes

  • Gene expression analysis in the human hypothalamus in depression by laser microdissection and real-time PCR: the presence of multiple receptor imbalances

    S.S. Wang;W. Kamphuis;I. Huitinga;J.N. Zhou

  • Staining of HLA-DR, Iba1 and CD68 in human microglia reveals partially overlapping expression depending on cellular morphology and pathology

    Debbie A.E. Hendrickx;Corbert G. van Eden;Karianne G. Schuurman;Jörg Hamann

  • Transcriptional profiling of human microglia reveals grey–white matter heterogeneity and multiple sclerosis-associated changes

    Marlijn van der Poel;Thomas Ulas;Mark R Mizee;Cheng-Chih Hsiao

  • Acute isolation and transcriptome characterization of cortical astrocytes and microglia from young and aged mice

    Marie Orre;Willem Kamphuis;Lana M. Osborn;Lana M. Osborn;Jeroen Melief

  • Complement C1q-C3–associated synaptic changes in multiple sclerosis hippocampus

    Iliana Michailidou;Janske G. P. Willems;Evert-Jan Kooi;Corbert van Eden

  • Microglia facilitate repair of demyelinated lesions via post-squalene sterol synthesis.

    Stefan A. Berghoff;Lena Spieth;Ting Sun;Leon Hosang

  • The role of macrophages, perivascular cells, and microglial cells in the pathogenesis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

    Jan Bauer;Inge Huitinga;Weiguo Zhao;Hans Lassmann

  • Downregulation of macrophage inhibitory molecules in multiple sclerosis lesions.

    Nathalie Koning;Lars Bö;Lars Bö;Robert M. Hoek;Inge Huitinga

  • Distribution of the immune inhibitory molecules CD200 and CD200R in the normal central nervous system and multiple sclerosis lesions suggests neuron-glia and glia-glia interactions.

    Nathalie Koning;Dick F. Swaab;Robert M. Hoek;Inge Huitinga

  • Phagocytic Response in Photochemically Induced Infarction of Rat Cerebral Cortex: The Role of Resident Microglia

    Michael Schroeter;Sebastian Jander;Inge Huitinga;Otto W. Witte

  • Effects of antemortem and postmortem variables on human brain mRNA quality: a BrainNet Europe study.

    Pascal F Durrenberger;Shama Fernando;Samira N Kashefi;Isidro Ferrer

  • Expression of interleukin-1 beta in rat dorsal root ganglia

    J.C.V.M. Copray;I. Mantingh;N. Brouwer;K. Biber

  • Tissue-resident memory T cells invade the brain parenchyma in multiple sclerosis white matter lesions

    Nina L Fransen;Cheng-Chih Hsiao;Marlijn van der Poel;Hendrik J Engelenburg

  • Neurosteroid and GABA-A receptor alterations in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis

    S. Luchetti;I. Huitinga;D.F. Swaab

  • C3-dependent mechanism of microglial priming relevant to multiple sclerosis.

    Valeria Ramaglia;Timothy R. Hughes;Rossen M. Donev;Marieta M. Ruseva

  • Longterm quiescent cells in the aged human subventricular neurogenic system specifically express GFAP-delta.

    Simone A. Van Den Berge;Jinte Middeldorp;C. Eleana Zhang;Maurice A. Curtis

  • Epstein Barr virus is not a characteristic feature in the central nervous system in established multiple sclerosis

    L.A.N. Peferoen;F. Lamers;L.N.R. Lodder;W.H. Gerritsen

  • Impaired hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and more severe multiple sclerosis with hypothalamic lesions.

    Inge Huitinga;Zeynel A. Erkut;Denis van Beurden;Dick F. Swaab

  • Management of a twenty-first century brain bank: experience in the BrainNet Europe consortium

    Jeanne E. Bell;Irina Alafuzoff;Safa Al-Sarraj;Thomas Arzberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Dick F. Swaab
Dick F. Swaab Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elly M. Hol
Elly M. Hol Utrecht University
Maarten H.P. Kole
Maarten H.P. Kole Utrecht University
Frank Baas
Frank Baas Leiden University Medical Center
Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld
Frank J. M. van Kuppeveld Utrecht University
Claude P. Muller
Claude P. Muller University of Trier
Susanne E. la Fleur
Susanne E. la Fleur University of Amsterdam
Frans G. Zitman
Frans G. Zitman Leiden University
Cheryl A. Frye
Cheryl A. Frye University at Albany, State University of New York
Alicia A. Walf
Alicia A. Walf Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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