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Klas Kullander

Klas Kullander

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Neuroscience

D-Index
46
Citations
9674
World Ranking
6636
National Ranking
134

Overview

Klas Kullander is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, cell biology, and developmental neuroscience. Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas such as neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, zebrafish biomedical research applications, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, receptor mechanisms and signaling, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Klas Kullander include:

  • A prefrontal-paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Cortical somatostatin interneuron subtypes form cell-type-specific circuits (2023, Neuron)
  • Cortical disinhibitory circuits: cell types, connectivity and function (2021, Trends in Neurosciences)
  • Functional specialization of hippocampal somatostatin-expressing interneurons (2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Behavioral Characterization of dmrt3a Mutant Zebrafish Reveals Crucial Aspects of Vertebrate Locomotion through Phenotypes Related to Acceleration (2020, eNeuro)

Klas Kullander has frequently published in various academic venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eNeuro
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Neuron
  • Trends in Neurosciences

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include T Malfatti, Richardson N. Leão, Barbara Ciralli, Katarina E. Leão, and Markus M. Hilscher.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms and functions of eph and ephrin signalling

    Klas Kullander;Rüdiger Klein

  • Mutations in DMRT3 affect locomotion in horses and spinal circuit function in mice

    Lisa S. Andersson;Martin Larhammar;Fatima Memic;Hanna Wootz

  • OLM interneurons differentially modulate CA3 and entorhinal inputs to hippocampal CA1 neurons

    Richardson N Leão;Sanja Mikulovic;Katarina E Leão;Katarina E Leão;Hermany Munguba

  • Role of EphA4 and EphrinB3 in local neuronal circuits that control walking.

    Klas Kullander;Simon J. B. Butt;James M. Lebret;Line Lundfald

  • Neuron-glia communication via EphA4/ephrin-A3 modulates LTP through glial glutamate transport.

    Alessandro Filosa;Sonia Paixao;Silke D. Honsek;Maria A. Carmona

  • Ephrin-B3 is the midline barrier that prevents corticospinal tract axons from recrossing, allowing for unilateral motor control

    Klas Kullander;Susan D. Croll;Manuel Zimmer;Li Pan

  • Kinase-dependent and kinase-independent functions of EphA4 receptors in major axon tract formation in vivo.

    Klas Kullander;Nicole K. Mather;Francesca Diella;Mirella Dottori

  • Hippocampal plasticity requires postsynaptic ephrinBs.

    Ilona C Grunwald;Martin Korte;Giselind Adelmann;Anne Plueck

  • Area specificity and topography of thalamocortical projections are controlled by ephrin/Eph genes.

    Audrey Dufour;Julie Seibt;Lara Passante;Vanessa Depaepe

  • VGLUT2-dependent sensory neurons in the TRPV1 population regulate pain and itch.

    Malin C. Lagerström;Katarzyna Rogoz;Bjarke Abrahamsen;Emma Persson

  • Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 2 Is Required for Central Respiratory Rhythm Generation But Not for Locomotor Central Pattern Generation

    Åsa Wallén-Mackenzie;Henrik Gezelius;Muriel Thoby-Brisson;Anna Nygård

  • ZBED6, a novel transcription factor derived from a domesticated DNA transposon regulates IGF2 expression and muscle growth.

    Ellen Markljung;Lin Jiang;Jacob D Jaffe;Tarjei S. Mikkelsen

  • Epha4-dependent axon guidance is mediated by the racgap α2-chimaerin

    Heike Wegmeyer;Joaquim Egea;Nadine Rabe;Henrik Gezelius

  • Distinct cellular patterns of upregulated chemokine expression supporting a prominent inflammatory role in traumatic brain injury.

    Charlotte Israelsson;Henrik Bengtsson;Annika Kylberg;Klas Kullander

  • Expression of neurotrophins and trk receptors in the avian retina.

    Finn Hallböök;Anders Bäckström;Klas Kullander;Ted Ebendal

  • A prefrontal-paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice

    Kazuhiko Yamamuro;Lucy K. Bicks;Michael B. Leventhal;Daisuke Kato

  • Regulation of EphA4 Kinase Activity Is Required for a Subset of Axon Guidance Decisions Suggesting a Key Role for Receptor Clustering in Eph Function

    Joaquim Egea;Ulla Vig Nissen;Audrey Dufour;Mustafa Sahin

  • VGLUT2 in dopamine neurons is required for psychostimulant-induced behavioral activation

    Carolina Birgner;Karin Nordenankar;Martin Lundblad;José Alfredo Mendez

  • Identification of novel spinal cholinergic genetic subtypes disclose Chodl and Pitx2 as markers for fast motor neurons and partition cells.

    Anders Enjin;Nadine Rabe;Stan T. Nakanishi;Anna Vallstedt

  • Central Pattern Generators Deciphered by Molecular Genetics

    Ole Kiehn;Klas Kullander

Frequent Co-Authors

Leif Andersson
Leif Andersson Texas A&M University
Rüdiger Klein
Rüdiger Klein Max Planck Society
Adriano B. L. Tort
Adriano B. L. Tort Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Uppsala University
Lars Olson
Lars Olson Karolinska Institute
John Wood
John Wood University College London
John H. Martin
John H. Martin City University of New York
Ole Kiehn
Ole Kiehn University of Copenhagen
Louis-Eric Trudeau
Louis-Eric Trudeau University of Montreal

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