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John A. Wolf is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields with a primary focus on Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader disciplines, their research interests extend to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell stem cell
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
  • Science Translational Medicine

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by John A. Wolf are:

  • "Sliced Human Cortical Organoids for Modeling Distinct Cortical Layer Formation" (2020, Cell stem cell)
  • "MXene-infused bioelectronic interfaces for multiscale electrophysiology and stimulation" (2021, Science Translational Medicine)
  • "Structural and functional integration of human forebrain organoids with the injured adult rat visual system" (2023, Cell stem cell)
  • "Emerging regenerative medicine and tissue engineering strategies for Parkinson's disease" (2020, npj Parkinson s Disease)
  • "Development of optically controlled "living electrodes" with long-projecting axon tracts for a synaptic brain-machine interface" (2021, Science Advances)

John A. Wolf collaborates with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • D. Kacy Cullen
  • H. Isaac Chen
  • Victoria E. Johnson
  • Alexandra V. Ulyanova
  • Christopher D. Adam

This body of work positions John A. Wolf at the intersection of neuroengineering, regenerative medicine, and molecular neuroscience, focusing on innovative experimental models and interfaces to study brain function, injury, and repair mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Traumatic axonal injury induces calcium influx modulated by tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium channels.

    John A. Wolf;Peter K. Stys;Theresa Lusardi;David Meaney

  • Progressive Atrophy and Neuron Death for One Year Following Brain Trauma in the Rat

    Douglas H. Smith;Xiao-Han Chen;Jean E. S. Pierce;John A. Wolf

  • Sliced Human Cortical Organoids for Modeling Distinct Cortical Layer Formation.

    Xuyu Qian;Xuyu Qian;Yijing Su;Christopher D. Adam;Andre U. Deutschmann

  • A new strategy to produce sustained growth of central nervous system axons: continuous mechanical tension.

    Douglas H. Smith;John A. Wolf;David F. Meaney

  • High Tolerance and Delayed Elastic Response of Cultured Axons to Dynamic Stretch Injury

    Douglas H. Smith;John A. Wolf;Theresa A. Lusardi;Virginia M.-Y. Lee

  • Accumulation of amyloid beta and tau and the formation of neurofilament inclusions following diffuse brain injury in the pig.

    D H Smith;X H Chen;M Nonaka;J Q Trojanowski

  • Transcriptome in vivo analysis (TIVA) of spatially defined single cells in live tissue.

    Ditte Lovatt;Brittani K. Ruble;Jaehee Lee;Hannah Dueck

  • Traumatic Axonal Injury Induces Proteolytic Cleavage of the Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Modulated by Tetrodotoxin and Protease Inhibitors

    Akira Iwata;Peter K. Stys;John A. Wolf;Xiao-Han Chen

  • Prolonged Activation of NF-κB Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats

    Masahiro Nonaka;Xiao-Han Chen;Jean E.S. Pierce;Matthew J. Leoni

  • NMDA/AMPA ratio impacts state transitions and entrainment to oscillations in a computational model of the nucleus accumbens medium spiny projection neuron

    John A Wolf;Jason T Moyer;Maciej T Lazarewicz;Diego Contreras

  • Deep brain stimulation in the treatment of obesity.

    Casey H Halpern;John A Wolf;Tracy L Bale;Albert J Stunkard

  • Amelioration of Binge Eating by Nucleus Accumbens Shell Deep Brain Stimulation in Mice Involves D2 Receptor Modulation

    Casey H. Halpern;Anand Tekriwal;Jessica Santollo;Jeffrey G. Keating

  • MXene-infused bioelectronic interfaces for multiscale electrophysiology and stimulation.

    Nicolette Driscoll;Nicolette Driscoll;Brian Erickson;Brendan B. Murphy;Brendan B. Murphy;Andrew G. Richardson

  • Evolution of neurofilament subtype accumulation in axons following diffuse brain injury in the pig.

    Xiao-Han Chen;David F. Meaney;Bai-Nan Xu;Masahiro Nonaka

  • A Porcine Model of Traumatic Brain Injury via Head Rotational Acceleration.

    D. Kacy Cullen;D. Kacy Cullen;James P. Harris;James P. Harris;Kevin D. Browne;Kevin D. Browne;John A. Wolf;John A. Wolf

  • Structural and functional integration of human forebrain organoids with the injured adult rat visual system.

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  • Homeostatic synapse-driven membrane plasticity in nucleus accumbens neurons.

    Masago Ishikawa;Ping Mu;Jason T. Moyer;John A. Wolf

  • Effects of Dopaminergic Modulation on the Integrative Properties of the Ventral Striatal Medium Spiny Neuron

    Jason T. Moyer;John A. Wolf;Leif H. Finkel

  • Neural Substrate Expansion for the Restoration of Brain Function.

    H. Isaac Chen;H. Isaac Chen;Dennis Jgamadze;Mijail D. Serruya;D. Kacy Cullen;D. Kacy Cullen

  • Effect of acute calcium influx after mechanical stretch injury in vitro on the viability of hippocampal neurons.

    Theresa A. Lusardi;John A. Wolf;Mary E. Putt;Douglas H. Smith

  • Development of transplantable nervous tissue constructs comprised of stretch-grown axons.

    Bryan J. Pfister;Akira Iwata;Andrew G. Taylor;John A. Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon H. Baltuch
Gordon H. Baltuch University of Pennsylvania
Casey H. Halpern
Casey H. Halpern University of Pennsylvania
Timothy H. Lucas
Timothy H. Lucas University of Pennsylvania
Hongjun Song
Hongjun Song University of Pennsylvania
Guo Li Ming
Guo Li Ming University of Pennsylvania
Diego Contreras
Diego Contreras University of Pennsylvania
Ethan M. Goldberg
Ethan M. Goldberg Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
John Q. Trojanowski
John Q. Trojanowski University of Pennsylvania
Virginia M.-Y. Lee
Virginia M.-Y. Lee University of Pennsylvania
Yury Gogotsi
Yury Gogotsi Drexel University

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