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Overview

Joel M. Levine is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on several interconnected fields within neuroscience and medicine.

The main areas of study encompass:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these disciplines, they explore specific subfields including:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Developmental Neuroscience

Joel M. Levine's work concentrates on key topics such as:

  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Spinal Cord Injury Research
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Their recent publication record includes a paper titled AAV Vector Mediated Delivery of NG2 Function Neutralizing Antibody and Neurotrophin NT-3 Improves Synaptic Transmission, Locomotion, and Urinary Tract Function after Spinal Cord Contusion Injury in Adult Rats, published in 2023 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Joel M. Levine are:

  • Hayk Petrosyan
  • Valentina Alessi
  • Kristin Lasek
  • Sricharan Gumudavelli
  • Robert Muffaletto

Their publications have appeared primarily in the Journal of Neuroscience, which is the main venue for their work.

Best Publications

  • NG2-expressing glial progenitor cells: an abundant and widespread population of cycling cells in the adult rat CNS.

    Mary R L Dawson;Annabella Polito;Joel M Levine;Richard Reynolds

  • Late Oligodendrocyte Progenitors Coincide with the Developmental Window of Vulnerability for Human Perinatal White Matter Injury

    Stephen A. Back;Ning Ling Luo;Natalya S. Borenstein;Joel M. Levine

  • The oligodendrocyte precursor cell in health and disease

    Joel M Levine;Richard Reynolds;James W Fawcett

  • Fodrin: axonally transported polypeptides associated with the internal periphery of many cells.

    J Levine;M Willard

  • Neurocan is upregulated in injured brain and in cytokine-treated astrocytes.

    Richard A. Asher;Daniel A. Morgenstern;Penny S. Fidler;Kathryn H. Adcock

  • Inhibition of neurite growth by the NG2 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan

    Chang-Lin Dou;J. M. Levine

  • Increased expression of the NG2 chondroitin-sulfate proteoglycan after brain injury.

    JM Levine

  • NG2-expressing cells in the central nervous system: are they oligodendroglial progenitors?

    Mary R.L. Dawson;Joel M. Levine;Richard Reynolds

  • Response of the oligodendrocyte progenitor cell population (defined by NG2 labelling) to demyelination of the adult spinal cord.

    Hans S. Keirstead;Joel M. Levine;William F. Blakemore

  • Activation and proliferation of endogenous oligodendrocyte precursor cells during ethidium bromide-induced demyelination.

    Joel M. Levine;Richard Reynolds

  • Development and differentiation of glial precursor cells in the rat cerebellum

    Joel M. Levine;Francis Stincone;Ying‐Shuan Lee

  • Comparing Astrocytic Cell Lines that Are Inhibitory or Permissive for Axon Growth: the Major Axon-Inhibitory Proteoglycan Is NG2

    Penny S. Fidler;Katrin Schuette;Richard A. Asher;Alexandre Dobbertin

  • A monoclonal antibody recognizes an O-acylated sialic acid in a human melanoma-associated ganglioside.

    D A Cheresh;A P Varki;N M Varki;W B Stallcup

  • Cells expressing the NG2 antigen contact nodes of Ranvier in adult CNS white matter.

    Arthur M. Butt;Arthur M. Butt;Alan Duncan;M. Fraser Hornby;Sara L. Kirvell

  • A light and electron microscopic study of NG2 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan-positive oligodendrocyte precursor cells in the normal and kainate-lesioned rat hippocampus

    W.Y. Ong;J.M. Levine

  • Plasticity of developing cerebellar cells in vitro studied with antibodies against the NG2 antigen.

    Joel M. Levine;William B. Stallcup

  • Light and electron microscopic localization of a cell surface antigen (NG2) in the rat cerebellum: association with smooth protoplasmic astrocytes

    JM Levine;JP Card

  • Generation of oligodendroglial progenitors in acute inflammatory demyelinating lesions of the rat brain stem is associated with demyelination rather than inflammation

    I. Cenci Di Bello;M.R.L. Dawson;J.M. Levine;R. Reynolds

  • The response of NG2-expressing oligodendrocyte progenitors to demyelination in MOG-EAE and MS

    Richard Reynolds;Mary Dawson;Dimitrios Papadopoulos;Annabella Polito

  • Multiple Regions of the NG2 Proteoglycan Inhibit Neurite Growth and Induce Growth Cone Collapse

    Yvonne M. Ughrin;Zhi Jiang Chen;Joel M. Levine

  • Mini-Review NG2-Expressing Cells in the Central Nervous System: Are They Oligodendroglial Progenitors?

    Joel M. Levine;Richard Reynolds

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Reynolds
Richard Reynolds Imperial College London
James W. Fawcett
James W. Fawcett University of Cambridge
Arthur M. Butt
Arthur M. Butt University of Portsmouth
Lorne M. Mendell
Lorne M. Mendell Stony Brook University
Moses V. Chao
Moses V. Chao New York University
Andreas Faissner
Andreas Faissner Ruhr University Bochum
Wei-Yi Ong
Wei-Yi Ong National University of Singapore
Stephen A. Back
Stephen A. Back Oregon Health & Science University
Frank Kirchhoff
Frank Kirchhoff University of Ulm
Lynn W. Enquist
Lynn W. Enquist Princeton University

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