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Jean-Antoine Girault

Jean-Antoine Girault

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Biology and Biochemistry
France
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
91
Citations
26760
World Ranking
1079
National Ranking
33

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
91
Citations
26931
World Ranking
2344
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in France Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Antoine Girault is affiliated with Inserm in France and conducts research primarily in neuroscience and molecular biology. Their work focuses on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying brain function, receptor signaling, and neurological processes.

The scientist's research spans several main fields of study, including:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader fields, their work delves into multiple subfields such as:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Physiology

The key topics Jean-Antoine Girault has addressed include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on molecular mechanisms and brain function, including:

  • Mouse Modeling Dissecting Macrophage-Breast Cancer Communication Uncovered Roles of PYK2 in Macrophage Recruitment and Breast Tumorigenesis, 2022, Advanced Science
  • Functional and molecular heterogeneity of D2R neurons along dorsal ventral axis in the striatum, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Non-receptor Tyrosine Kinase Pyk2 in Brain Function and Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases, 2021, Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
  • DARPP-32 40 years later, 2020, Advances in pharmacology
  • fMRI detects bilateral brain network activation following unilateral chemogenetic activation of direct striatal projection neurons, 2020, NeuroImage

Jean-Antoine Girault frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Denis Hervé
  • Albert Giralt
  • Benoit de Pins
  • Yuki Nakamura
  • Enrica Montalban

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Communications Biology
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • DARPP-32: an integrator of neurotransmission.

    Per Svenningsson;Akinori Nishi;Gilberto Fisone;Jean-Antoine Girault

  • Regulation of a protein phosphatase cascade allows convergent dopamine and glutamate signals to activate ERK in the striatum

    Emmanuel Valjent;Vincent Pascoli;Per Svenningsson;Surojit Paul

  • Opposing patterns of signaling activation in dopamine D1 and D2 receptor-expressing striatal neurons in response to cocaine and haloperidol.

    Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Clémentine Bosch;Matthieu Maroteaux;Miriam Matamales

  • Protein interaction mapping: A Drosophila case study

    Etienne Formstecher;Sandra Aresta;Vincent Collura;Alexandre Hamburger

  • Phosphorylation of DARPP-32 by Cdk5 modulates dopamine signalling in neurons

    James A. Bibb;Gretchen L. Snyder;Akinori Nishi;Zhen Yan

  • DARPP-32: Regulator of the Efficacy of Dopaminergic Neurotransmission

    A. A. Fienberg;N. Hiroi;Paul G Mermelstein;W. J. Song

  • The Neurobiology of Dopamine Signaling

    Jean-Antoine Girault;Paul Greengard

  • Addictive and non-addictive drugs induce distinct and specific patterns of ERK activation in mouse brain.

    Emmanuel Valjent;Christiane Pagès;Denis Hervé;Jean-Antoine Girault

  • Critical Involvement of cAMP/DARPP-32 and Extracellular Signal-Regulated Protein Kinase Signaling in l-DOPA-Induced Dyskinesia

    Emanuela Santini;Emmanuel Valjent;Alessandro Usiello;Manolo Carta

  • ERK2: a logical AND gate critical for drug-induced plasticity?

    Jean-Antoine Girault;Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Jocelyne Caboche;Jocelyne Caboche;Denis Hervé;Denis Hervé

  • Activation of NMDA receptors induces dephosphorylation of DARPP-32 in rat striatal slices.

    Shelley Halpain;Jean-Antoine Girault;Jean-Antoine Girault;Paul Greengard

  • Regulation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase by Cannabinoids in Hippocampus

    Pascal Derkinderen;Emmanuel Valjent;Emmanuel Valjent;Madeleine Toutant;Jean-Christophe Corvol

  • Histone acetyltransferase activity of CBP is controlled by cycle-dependent kinases and oncoprotein E1A

    S. Ait-Si-Ali;S. Ramirez;F.-X. Barre;F. Dkhissi

  • G(olf) and Gs in rat basal ganglia: possible involvement of G(olf) in the coupling of dopamine D1 receptor with adenylyl cyclase

    D Herve;M Levi-Strauss;I Marey-Semper;C Verney

  • Neurofascin Is a Glial Receptor for the Paranodin/Caspr-Contactin Axonal Complex at the Axoglial Junction

    Perrine Charles;Steven Tait;Catherine Faivre-Sarrailh;Gilles Barbin

  • Inhibition of ERK pathway or protein synthesis during reexposure to drugs of abuse erases previously learned place preference

    Emmanuel Valjent;Anne-Gaëlle Corbillé;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Denis Hervé

  • Parsing Molecular and Behavioral Effects of Cocaine in Mitogen- and Stress-Activated Protein Kinase-1-Deficient Mice

    Karen Brami-Cherrier;Emmanuel Valjent;Denis Hervé;Joanne Darragh

  • Genome-wide association and genetic functional studies identify autism susceptibility candidate 2 gene (AUTS2) in the regulation of alcohol consumption

    Gunter Schumann;Lachlan J. Coin;Anbarasu Lourdusamy;Pimphen Charoen;Pimphen Charoen

  • How can drug discovery for psychiatric disorders be improved

    Yves Agid;György Buzsáki;David M. Diamond;Richard Frackowiak

  • Striatal Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons: Identification by Nuclear Staining and Study of Neuronal Subpopulations in BAC Transgenic Mice

    Miriam Matamales;Miriam Matamales;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Jesus Bertran-Gonzalez;Lucas Salomon;Bertrand Degos

  • Paranodin, a Glycoprotein of Neuronal Paranodal Membranes

    Mathias Menegoz;Patricia Gaspar;Marc Le Bert;Thierry Galvez

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Hervé
Denis Hervé Université Paris Cité
Emmanuel Valjent
Emmanuel Valjent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Angus C. Nairn
Angus C. Nairn Yale University
Jacques Glowinski
Jacques Glowinski Collège de France
Jean-Christophe Corvol
Jean-Christophe Corvol Institut du Cerveau
Jocelyne Caboche
Jocelyne Caboche Sorbonne University
Akinori Nishi
Akinori Nishi Kurume University
Gilberto Fisone
Gilberto Fisone Karolinska Institute
Stefan T. Arold
Stefan T. Arold King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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