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Klas Wictorin

Klas Wictorin

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Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
8756
World Ranking
8904
National Ranking
170

Overview

Klas Wictorin is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their research primarily centers on Medicine with particular focus on Neurology, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Genetics. The main topics of their work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology.

Their publication record includes papers in several peer-reviewed venues, including Movement Disorders, BMC Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Brain and Behavior, and Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska.

  • A Phase 2a Trial Investigating the Safety and Tolerability of the Novel Cortical Enhancer IRL752 in Parkinson's Disease Dementia, 2020, Movement Disorders
  • Novel insights regarding the measurement properties of the SCOPA-AUT, 2022, BMC Neurology
  • Clinical and genetic analyses of a Swedish patient series diagnosed with ataxia, 2023, Journal of Neurology
  • The Orthostatic Hypotension Questionnaire in Swedish tested in patients with parkinsonism, 2020, Brain and Behavior
  • Myoclonus-dystonia (DYT11, DYT-SGCE) - a channelopathy?, 2020, Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska

Their frequent collaborators include Peter Hagell, Andreas Puschmann, Per Svenningsson, Per Odin, and Nil Dizdar.

Best Publications

  • Continuous infusion of nerve growth factor prevents basal forebrain neuronal death after fimbria fornix transection

    Lawrence R. Williams;Silvio Varon;Gary M. Peterson;Klas Wictorin

  • Amelioration of cholinergic neuron atrophy and spatial memory impairment in aged rats by nerve growth factor.

    W. Fischer;K. Wictorin;A. Björklund;L. R. Williams

  • Reformation of long axon pathways in adult rat central nervous system by human forebrain neuroblasts.

    Klas Wictorin;Patrik Brundin;Björn Gustavii;Olle Lindvall

  • Mechanisms of action of intracerebral neural implants: studies on nigral and striatal grafts to the lesioned striatum

    Anders Björklund;Olle Lindvall;Ole Isacson;Patrik Brundin

  • Retrograde cell changes in medial septum and diagonal band following fimbria-fornix transection: Quantitative temporal analysis

    F.H. Gage;K. Wictorin;W. Fischer;L.R. Williams

  • Grafted neural stem cells develop into functional pyramidal neurons and integrate into host cortical circuitry

    Ulrica Englund;Anders Björklund;Klas Wictorin;Olle Lindvall

  • Long distance directed axonal growth from human dopaminergic mesencephalic neuroblasts implanted along the nigrostriatal pathway in 6‐hydroxydopamine lesioned adult rats

    K. Wictorin;P. Brundin;H. Sauer;O. Lindvall

  • Transplantation of human neural progenitor cells into the neonatal rat brain: extensive migration and differentiation with long-distance axonal projections.

    Ulrica Englund;Rosemary A. Fricker-Gates;Cecilia Lundberg;Anders Björklund

  • Anatomy and connectivity of intrastriatal striatal transplants.

    Klas Wictorin

  • Migration patterns and phenotypic differentiation of long-term expanded human neural progenitor cells after transplantation into the adult rat brain.

    Ulrica Englund;Anders Björklund;Klas Wictorin

  • Connectivity of striatal grafts implanted into the ibotenic acid-lesioned striatum--I. Subcortical afferents.

    K. Wictorin;O. Isacson;W. Fischer;F. Nothias

  • Projection neurons in fetal striatal transplants are predominantly derived from the lateral ganglionic eminence

    M. Olsson;K. Campbell;K. Wictorin;A. Björklund

  • Connectivity of striatal grafts implanted into the ibotenic acid-lesioned striatum--III. Efferent projecting graft neurons and their relation to host afferents within the grafts.

    K. Wictorin;R.B. Simerly;O. Isacson;L.W. Swanson

  • Eltoprazine counteracts l-DOPA-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease: a dose-finding study.

    Per Svenningsson;Carl Rosenblad;Karolina af Edholm Arvidsson;Klas Wictorin

  • Striatal c-fos Induction by Cocaine or Apomorphine Occurs Preferentially in Output Neurons Projecting to the Substantia Nigra in the Rat

    M. Angela Cenci;Kenneth Campbell;Klas Wictorin;Anders Björklund

  • Intrinsic Organization and Connectivity of Intrastriatal Striatal Transplants in Rats as Revealed by DARPP-32 Immunohistochemistry: Specificity of Connections with the Lesioned Host Brain.

    K. Wictorin;C. C. Ouimet;A. Björklund

  • Astroglial response in the excitotoxically lesioned neostriatum and its projection areas in the rat

    O. Isacson;W. Fischer;K. Wictorin;D. Dawbarn

  • Dopaminergic transplants normalize amphetamine- and apomorphine-induced Fos expression in the 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned striatum.

    M.A. Cenci;P. Kalén;R.J. Mandel;R.J. Mandel;K. Wictorin

  • Development of intrastriatal striatal grafts and their afferent innervation from the host.

    J.L. Labandeira-Garcia;K. Wictorin;E.T. Cunningham;A. Björklund

  • Efferent Projections to the Host Brain from Intrastriatal Striatal Mouse-to-rat Grafts: Time Course and Tissue-type Specificity as Revealed by a Mouse Specific Neuronal Marker.

    K. Wictorin;C. F. Lagenaur;R. D. Lund;A. Björklund

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund Lund University
Ole Isacson
Ole Isacson Harvard University
Kenneth Campbell
Kenneth Campbell Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cecilia Lundberg
Cecilia Lundberg Lund University
Ronald J. Mandel
Ronald J. Mandel University of Florida
J. P. Bolam
J. P. Bolam University of Oxford
Marc Peschanski
Marc Peschanski Grenoble Alpes University
Fred H. Gage
Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Per Odin
Per Odin Lund University
Anders Johansson
Anders Johansson Umeå University

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