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Ken D. McCarthy is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions also in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The research output of Ken D. McCarthy includes investigations within several subfields such as cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, physiology, cell biology, and cognitive neuroscience. These reflect a broad engagement with biological mechanisms at the cellular level as well as functional aspects related to nervous system processes.

Key topics explored in their work encompass neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, pain mechanisms and treatments, neuropeptides and animal physiology, neuroscience and neural engineering, nerve injury and regeneration, microtubule and mitosis dynamics, along with receptor mechanisms and signaling. These themes point to a multifaceted approach centered on the nervous system and its biochemical and physiological regulation.

McCarthy has published extensively in venues such as UNC Libraries, which accounts for a majority of their publications, as well as Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'22), and Science Signaling.

Frequent collaborators include Alison Xiaoqiao Xie, Kristen B. Casper, Sarah Taves, Jeremy Petravicz, and Todd A. Fiacco, indicating a network of partnerships that spans various expertise within neuroscience and related fields.

Representative recent papers by Ken D. McCarthy include:

  • Hippocampal Astrocytes In Situ Respond to Glutamate Released from Synaptic Terminals, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Conditional Knock-Out of Kir4.1 Leads to Glial Membrane Depolarization, Inhibition of Potassium and Glutamate Uptake, and Enhanced Short-Term Synaptic Potentiation, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Intracellular Astrocyte Calcium Waves In Situ Increase the Frequency of Spontaneous AMPA Receptor Currents in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Sensory satellite glial Gq-GPCR activation alleviates inflammatory pain via peripheral adenosine 1 receptor activation, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Implication of Kir4.1 Channel in Excess Potassium Clearance: An In Vivo Study on Anesthetized Glial-Conditional Kir4.1 Knock-Out Mice, 2021, UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • Preparation of separate astroglial and oligodendroglial cell cultures from rat cerebral tissue.

    K D McCarthy;J de Vellis

  • Astrocytic purinergic signaling coordinates synaptic networks.

    Olivier Pascual;Kristen B. Casper;Cathryn Kubera;Jing Zhang

  • What Is the Role of Astrocyte Calcium in Neurophysiology

    Cendra Agulhon;Jeremy Petravicz;Allison B. McMullen;Elizabeth J. Sweger

  • Hippocampal Astrocytes In Situ Respond to Glutamate Released from Synaptic Terminals

    James T. Porter;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Astrocytic neurotransmitter receptors in situ and in vivo.

    James T Porter;Ken D Mccarthy

  • Conditional Knock-Out of Kir4.1 Leads to Glial Membrane Depolarization, Inhibition of Potassium and Glutamate Uptake, and Enhanced Short-Term Synaptic Potentiation

    Biljana Djukic;Kristen B. Casper;Benjamin D. Philpot;Lih Shen Chin

  • Control of gap-junctional communication in astrocytic networks

    Christian Giaume;Kenny D Mccarthy

  • Hippocampal Short- and Long-Term Plasticity Are Not Modulated by Astrocyte Ca2+ Signaling

    Cendra Agulhon;Todd A. Fiacco;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Hippocampal astrocytes in situ exhibit calcium oscillations that occur independent of neuronal activity.

    Wolfgang J. Nett;Scott H. Oloff;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Intracellular astrocyte calcium waves in situ increase the frequency of spontaneous AMPA receptor currents in CA1 pyramidal neurons.

    Todd A. Fiacco;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Loss of IP3 Receptor-Dependent Ca2+ Increases in Hippocampal Astrocytes Does Not Affect Baseline CA1 Pyramidal Neuron Synaptic Activity

    Jeremy Petravicz;Todd A. Fiacco;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Selective stimulation of astrocyte calcium in situ does not affect neuronal excitatory synaptic activity.

    Todd A. Fiacco;Cendra Agulhon;Sarah R. Taves;Jeremy Petravicz

  • In vivo and in vitro development of serotonergic neurons.

    Jean M. Lauder;James A. Wallace;Helmut Krebs;Peter Petrusz

  • GFAP-positive progenitor cells produce neurons and oligodendrocytes throughout the CNS.

    Kristen B. Casper;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Implication of Kir4.1 Channel in Excess Potassium Clearance: An In Vivo Study on Anesthetized Glial-Conditional Kir4.1 Knock-Out Mice

    Oana Chever;Biljana Djukic;Ken D. McCarthy;Florin Amzica

  • Astroglial Gap Junction Communication Is Increased by Treatment with Either Glutamate or High K+ Concentration

    M. O. Kristian Enkvist;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Engineering GPCR signaling pathways with RASSLs

    Bruce R. Conklin;Edward C. Hsiao;Sylvie Claeysen;Aline Dumuis

  • Astrocyte Calcium Signaling: From Observations to Functions and the Challenges Therein

    Baljit S. Khakh;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Astrocytic Gq-GPCR-Linked IP3R-Dependent Ca2+ Signaling Does Not Mediate Neurovascular Coupling in Mouse Visual Cortex In Vivo

    Daniel E. Bonder;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Astrocyte calcium elevations: Properties, propagation, and effects on brain signaling

    Todd A. Fiacco;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Activation of Protein Kinase C Blocks Astroglial Gap Junction Communication and Inhibits the Spread of Calcium Waves

    M. O. Kristian Enkvist;Ken D. McCarthy

  • Conditional knock-out of K(ir)4.1 leads to glial membrane depolarization, inhibition of potassium and glutamate uptake, and enhanced short-term synaptic Potentiation

    Biljana Djukic;Kristen B. Casper;Benjamin D. Philpot;Lih-Shen Chin

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Popko
Brian Popko Northwestern University
Debra J. Gilbert
Debra J. Gilbert National Institutes of Health
Joël Bockaert
Joël Bockaert University of Montpellier
Benjamin D. Philpot
Benjamin D. Philpot University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sylvie Claeysen
Sylvie Claeysen Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington
Baljit S. Khakh
Baljit S. Khakh University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen J. Moss
Stephen J. Moss Tufts University
David W. Threadgill
David W. Threadgill Texas A&M University
Christian Giaume
Christian Giaume Collège de France

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