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  • 1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Larry I. Benowitz is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States, contributing to research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience, Neurology, and Physiology.

Their research focuses on topics such as Nerve injury and regeneration, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Retinal Development and Disorders, Signaling Pathways in Disease, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Nuclear Receptors and Signaling.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Solving neurodegeneration: common mechanisms and strategies for new treatments (2022, Molecular Neurodegeneration)
  • Axon Regeneration in the Mammalian Optic Nerve (2020, Annual Review of Vision Science)
  • Chemokine CCL5 promotes robust optic nerve regeneration and mediates many of the effects of CNTF gene therapy (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Retinal ganglion cell repopulation for vision restoration in optic neuropathy: a roadmap from the RReSTORe Consortium (2023, Molecular Neurodegeneration)
  • Transcription factor network analysis identifies REST/NRSF as an intrinsic regulator of CNS regeneration in mice (2022, Nature Communications)

Main publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Larry I. Benowitz are:

  • Yuqin Yin
  • Jeffrey L. Goldberg
  • Lili Xie
  • Riki Kawaguchi
  • Daniel H. Geschwind

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1978.

Best Publications

  • GAP-43: an intrinsic determinant of neuronal development and plasticity.

    Larry I Benowitz;Aryeh Routtenberg

  • Lens Injury Stimulates Axon Regeneration in the Mature Rat Optic Nerve

    Steven Leon;Yuqin Yin;Jennifer Nguyen;Nina Irwin

  • A membrane phosphoprotein associated with neural development, axonal regeneration, phospholipid metabolism, and synaptic plasticity

    Larry I. Benowitz;Aryeh Routtenberg

  • Oncomodulin is a macrophage-derived signal for axon regeneration in retinal ganglion cells

    Yuqin Yin;Michael T Henzl;Barbara Lorber;Barbara Lorber;Toru Nakazawa;Toru Nakazawa

  • Macrophage-Derived Factors Stimulate Optic Nerve Regeneration

    Yuqin Yin;Qi Cui;Yiming Li;Nina Irwin

  • Anatomical distribution of the growth-associated protein GAP-43/B-50 in the adult rat brain

    LI Benowitz;PJ Apostolides;N Perrone-Bizzozero;SP Finklestein

  • Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Mediates Oligodendrocyte Death and Delayed Retinal Ganglion Cell Loss in a Mouse Model of Glaucoma

    Toru Nakazawa;Chifuyu Nakazawa;Akihisa Matsubara;Kousuke Noda

  • NgR1 and NgR3 are receptors for chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans

    Travis L. Dickendesher;Katherine T. Baldwin;Yevgeniya A. Mironova;Yoshiki Koriyama

  • The growth-associated protein GAP-43 appears in dorsal root ganglion cells and in the dorsal horn of the rat spinal cord following peripheral nerve injury

    C.J. Woolf;M.L. Reynolds;C. Molander;C. O'Brien

  • A Systems-Level Analysis of the Peripheral Nerve Intrinsic Axonal Growth Program.

    Vijayendran Chandran;Giovanni Coppola;Giovanni Coppola;Homaira Nawabi;Takao Omura

  • Switching Mature Retinal Ganglion Cells to a Robust Growth State In Vivo: Gene Expression and Synergy with RhoA Inactivation

    Dietmar Fischer;Victoria Petkova;Solon Thanos;Larry I. Benowitz

  • Full-length axon regeneration in the adult mouse optic nerve and partial recovery of simple visual behaviors.

    Silmara de Lima;Yoshiki Koriyama;Takuji Kurimoto;Julia Teixeira Oliveira

  • Organization of the tectofugal visual pathway in the pigeon: a retrograde transport study.

    Larry I. Benowitz;Harvey J. Karten

  • Long-Distance Axon Regeneration in the Mature Optic Nerve: Contributions of Oncomodulin, cAMP, and pten Gene Deletion

    Takuji Kurimoto;Yuqin Yin;Kumiko Omura;Hui-ya Gilbert

  • Counteracting the Nogo Receptor Enhances Optic Nerve Regeneration If Retinal Ganglion Cells Are in an Active Growth State

    Dietmar Fischer;Zhigang He;Larry I Benowitz

  • Solving neurodegeneration: common mechanisms and strategies for new treatments

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  • Intracisternal basic fibroblast growth factor enhances functional recovery and up-regulates the expression of a molecular marker of neuronal sprouting following focal cerebral infarction

    Takakazu Kawamata;W. Dalton Dietrich;Timothy J Schallert;Jeffrey E. Gotts

  • Inosine induces axonal rewiring and improves behavioral outcome after stroke

    Peng Chen;David E. Goldberg;Bryan Kolb;Marc Lanser

  • Promoting axonal rewiring to improve outcome after stroke

    Larry I. Benowitz;S. Thomas Carmichael

  • Increased transport of 44,000- to 49,000-dalton acidic proteins during regeneration of the goldfish optic nerve: a two-dimensional gel analysis

    LI Benowitz;ER Lewis

  • The neuronal growth-associated protein GAP-43 (B-50, F1): neuronal specificity, developmental regulation and regional distribution of the human and rat mRNAs.

    Neve Rl;Perrone-Bizzozero Ni;Finklestein S;Zwiers H

Frequent Co-Authors

Seth P. Finklestein
Seth P. Finklestein Harvard University
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Clifford J. Woolf
Clifford J. Woolf Boston Children's Hospital
Daniel H. Geschwind
Daniel H. Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles
Zhigang He
Zhigang He Boston Children's Hospital
Jeffrey L. Goldberg
Jeffrey L. Goldberg Stanford University
Edward D. Bird
Edward D. Bird Harvard University
Joseph R. Madsen
Joseph R. Madsen Boston Children's Hospital
S. Thomas Carmichael
S. Thomas Carmichael University of California, Los Angeles

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