Lars Olson

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Ascending Monoamine Neurons to the Telencephalon and Diencephalon

  N.-E. Andén;A. Dahlström;K. Fuxe;K. Larsson

  1848
  Citations

• Protection and repair of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system by GDNF in vivo

  A. Tomac;E. Lindqvist;L.-F. H. Lin;S. O. Ögren

  1658
  Citations

• Marrow stromal cells form guiding strands in the injured spinal cord and promote recovery

  C. P. Hofstetter;E. J. Schwarz;D. Hess;J. Widenfalk

  1491
  Citations

• Brain grafts reduce motor abnormalities produced by destruction of nigrostriatal dopamine system

  Mark J. Perlow;William J. Freed;Barry J. Hoffer;Ake Seiger

  1448
  Citations

• Dopamine neuron agenesis in Nurr1-deficient mice.

  Rolf H. Zetterström;Ludmila Solomin;Ludmila Solomin;Ludmila Solomin;Lottie Jansson;Lottie Jansson;Lottie Jansson;Barry J. Hoffer;Barry J. Hoffer;Barry J. Hoffer

  1335
  Citations

• Spinal Cord Repair in Adult Paraplegic Rats: Partial Restoration of Hind Limb Function

  Henrich Cheng;Yihai Cao;Lars Olson

  1140
  Citations

• Enhanced synthesis of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the lesioned peripheral nerve: different mechanisms are responsible for the regulation of BDNF and NGF mRNA.

  Michael Meyer;Ichiro Matsuoka;Cynthia Wetmore;Lars Olson

  1023
  Citations

• Identification of cells in rat brain and peripheral tissues expressing mRNA for members of the nerve growth factor family.

  Patrik Ernfors;Cynthia Wetmore;Lars Olson;Håkan Persson

  1009
  Citations

• Late prenatal ontogeny of central monoamine neurons in the rat: Fluorescence histochemical observations

  Åke Seiger;Lars Olson

  969
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and neurotrophic activities of a protein with structural similarities to nerve growth factor: developmental and topographical expression in the brain.

  P Ernfors;C F Ibáñez;T Ebendal;L Olson

  873
  Citations

• Transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue to striatum in parkinsonism. First clinical trials.

  Erik-Olof Backlund;Per-Ola Granberg;Bertil Hamberger;Evert Knutsson

  805
  Citations

• Allodynia limits the usefulness of intraspinal neural stem cell grafts; directed differentiation improves outcome

  Christoph P Hofstetter;Niklas A V Holmström;Johan A Lilja;Petra Schweinhardt;Petra Schweinhardt

  796
  Citations

• Extraneuronal binding of catecholamines and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (dopa) in salivary glands.

  Bertil Hamberger;Karl‐Axel Norberg;Lars Olson

  747
  Citations

• Progressive parkinsonism in mice with respiratory-chain-deficient dopamine neurons.

  Mats I. Ekstrand;Mügen Terzioglu;Dagmar Galter;Shunwei Zhu

  710
  Citations

• A new major projection from locus coeruleus: the main source of noradrenergic nerve terminals in the ventral and dorsal columns of the spinal cord.

  Lars-Göran Nygren;Lars Olson

  700
  Citations

• On the projections from the locus coeruleus noradrenaline neurons: The cerebellar innervation

  Lars Olson;Kjell Fuxe

  684
  Citations

• Human fetal dopamine neurons grafted into the striatum in two patients with severe Parkinson's disease. A detailed account of methodology and a 6-month follow-up

  Olle Lindvall;Stig Rehncrona;Patrik Brundin;Björn Gustavii

  646
  Citations

• Transplanted adrenal chromaffin cells in rat brain reduce lesion-induced rotational behaviour

  William J. Freed;John M. Morihisa;Eleanor Spoor;Barry J. Hoffer

  611
  Citations

• Development and regional expression of beta nerve growth factor messenger RNA and protein in the rat central nervous system

  Scott R. Whittemore;Ted Ebendal;Lena Larkfors;Lars Olson

  611
  Citations

• Heterogeneity of striatal and limbic dopamine innervation: Highly fluorescent islands in developing and adult rats

  Lars Olson;Åke Seiger;Kjell Fuxe

  580
  Citations