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Overview

Lee A. Shapiro is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields, including neurology, developmental neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their work often focuses on several key scientific topics:

  • Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms
  • Vagus nerve stimulation research
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Sleep and wakefulness research
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research
  • Traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances

Frequent publication venues for Shapiro include:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • Neuroscience Insights
  • NeuroToxicology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Shapiro illustrate the scope and focus of their investigations:

  • Distinct astrocytic modulatory roles in sensory transmission during sleep, wakefulness, and arousal states in freely moving mice, 2023, published in Nature Communications
  • Inflammation increases the development of depression behaviors in male rats after spinal cord injury, 2021, published in Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • Vagus nerve stimulation ameliorates cognitive impairment and increased hippocampal astrocytes in a mouse model of Gulf War illness, 2021, published in Neuroscience Insights
  • Neurogenesis and chronic neurobehavioral outcomes are partially improved by vagus nerve stimulation in a mouse model of Gulf War illness, 2022, published in NeuroToxicology
  • Sex-specific and traumatic brain injury effects on dopamine receptor expression in the hippocampus, 2023, published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Shapiro collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors including Jaclyn Iannucci, Richard P. Tobin, Lavanya Venkatasamy, Damir Nizamutdinov, and Katherine O'Neill. Jaclyn Iannucci appears as the most frequent collaborator, with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Neuroinflammation and blood-brain barrier disruption following traumatic brain injury: Pathophysiology and potential therapeutic targets

    Suraj Sulhan;Suraj Sulhan;Kristopher A. Lyon;Kristopher A. Lyon;Lee A. Shapiro;Jason H. Huang;Jason H. Huang

  • Rapid astrocyte and microglial activation following pilocarpine‐induced seizures in rats

    Lee A. Shapiro;Lulu Wang;Charles E. Ribak

  • Newly born dentate granule neurons after pilocarpine-induced epilepsy have hilar basal dendrites with immature synapses

    Lee A. Shapiro;Charles E. Ribak

  • Chemokine CCL2 and its receptor CCR2 are increased in the hippocampus following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus

    Maira L Foresti;Maira L Foresti;Gabriel M Arisi;Gabriel M Arisi;Khurshed Katki;Khurshed Katki;Andres Montañez;Andres Montañez

  • Newly generated dentate granule cells from epileptic rats exhibit elongated hilar basal dendrites that align along GFAP-immunolabeled processes

    L.A. Shapiro;M.J. Korn;C.E. Ribak

  • Integration of newly born dentate granule cells into adult brains: hypotheses based on normal and epileptic rodents

    Lee A. Shapiro;Charles E. Ribak

  • Overview of Traumatic Brain Injury: An Immunological Context

    Damir Nizamutdinov;Lee A. Shapiro;Lee A. Shapiro

  • Increased CCL2, CCL3, CCL5, and IL-1β cytokine concentration in piriform cortex, hippocampus, and neocortex after pilocarpine-induced seizures.

    Gabriel M. Arisi;Maira L. Foresti;Khurshed Katki;Khurshed Katki;Khurshed Katki;Lee A. Shapiro;Lee A. Shapiro;Lee A. Shapiro

  • Origin, migration and fate of newly generated neurons in the adult rodent piriform cortex

    Lee A. Shapiro;Kwan L. Ng;Richard Kinyamu;Patricia Whitaker-Azmitia

  • GFAP-expressing radial glia-like cell bodies are involved in a one-to-one relationship with doublecortin-immunolabeled newborn neurons in the adult dentate gyrus.

    Lee A. Shapiro;Matthew J. Korn;Zhiyin Shan;Charles E. Ribak

  • Behavioral and magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies in the rat hyperserotonemic model of autism.

    David Kahne;Alina Tudorica;Alice Borella;Lee Shapiro

  • Traumatic brain injury enhances neuroinflammation and lesion volume in caveolin deficient mice.

    Ingrid R Niesman;Ingrid R Niesman;Jan M Schilling;Jan M Schilling;Lee A Shapiro;Lee A Shapiro;Sarah E Kellerhals;Sarah E Kellerhals

  • Morphological and ultrastructural features of Iba1-immunolabeled microglial cells in the hippocampal dentate gyrus.

    Lee A. Shapiro;Zachary D. Perez;Maira L. Foresti;Gabriel M. Arisi

  • Subventricular zone-derived, newly generated neurons populate several olfactory and limbic forebrain regions

    Lee A. Shapiro;Lee A. Shapiro;Lee A. Shapiro;Kwan Ng;Qun Yong Zhou;Charles E. Ribak

  • Innovative developments for long-term mammalian pest control

    Helen M Blackie;Jamie W.B MacKay;Jamie W.B MacKay;Will J Allen;Des H. V Smith

  • Neuroinflammatory mechanisms of post-traumatic epilepsy.

    Sanjib Mukherjee;Gabriel M. Arisi;Kaley Mims;Gabriela Hollingsworth

  • Structural changes for adult-born dentate granule cells after status epilepticus.

    Lee A. Shapiro;Charles E. Ribak;Sebastian Jessberger

  • NKCC1 up-regulation contributes to early post-traumatic seizures and increased post-traumatic seizure susceptibility

    Fushun Wang;Xiaowei Wang;Lee A. Shapiro;Maria L. Cotrina

  • Traumatic brain injury causes selective, CD74-dependent peripheral lymphocyte activation that exacerbates neurodegeneration.

    Richard P Tobin;Sanjib Mukherjee;Sanjib Mukherjee;Jessica M Kain;Jessica M Kain;Susannah K Rogers

  • Astrocyte Hypertrophy Contributes to Aberrant Neurogenesis after Traumatic Brain Injury.

    Clark Robinson;Christopher Apgar;Lee A. Shapiro

  • Newly generated granule cells show rapid neuroplastic changes in the adult rat dentate gyrus during the first five days following pilocarpine-induced seizures

    Lee A. Shapiro;Sergio Figueroa‐Aragon;Charles E. Ribak

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles E. Ribak
Charles E. Ribak University of California, Irvine
Ashok K. Shetty
Ashok K. Shetty Texas A&M University
Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia
Patricia M. Whitaker-Azmitia Stony Brook University
J. Victor Nadler
J. Victor Nadler Duke University
Paul S. Buckmaster
Paul S. Buckmaster Stanford University
Igor Spigelman
Igor Spigelman University of California, Los Angeles
Xiao-Xin Yan
Xiao-Xin Yan Central South University
Zhou-Feng Chen
Zhou-Feng Chen Washington University in St. Louis
Sebastian Jessberger
Sebastian Jessberger University of Zurich
Mathew Blurton-Jones
Mathew Blurton-Jones University of California, Irvine

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