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Overview

Luc Maroteaux is a researcher affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their primary areas of study include Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. More specifically, their work spans several subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Biological Psychiatry, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their research focuses on several key topics within neuroscience and molecular biology, including:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Ion Channel Regulation and Function
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Maroteaux has published extensively, with frequent appearance in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE, Pharmacological Reviews, Circulation, and The Journal of Immunology.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function, 2020, Pharmacological Reviews
  • Targeting 5-HT 2B Receptor Signaling Prevents Border Zone Expansion and Improves Microstructural Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction, 2021, Circulation
  • Serotonin (5-HT) Shapes the Macrophage Gene Profile through the 5-HT2B-Dependent Activation of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor, 2020, The Journal of Immunology
  • The serotonin 2B receptor is required in neonatal microglia to limit neuroinflammation and sickness behavior in adulthood, 2020, Glia
  • Serotonin sensing by microglia conditions the proper development of neuronal circuits and of social and adaptive skills, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry

They have frequently collaborated with researchers including Anne Roumier, Katharine Herrick-Davis, Trevor Sharp, Daniël Hoyer, and Catherine Béchade.

Luc Maroteaux has also contributed to academic literature through book publication. Notably, they authored a book titled 5-HT2B Receptors published by Humana Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Synuclein: a neuron-specific protein localized to the nucleus and presynaptic nerve terminal

    L Maroteaux;JT Campanelli;RH Scheller

  • The developmental role of serotonin: news from mouse molecular genetics

    Patricia Gaspar;Olivier Cases;Luc Maroteaux

  • Function of the serotonin 5-hydroxytryptamine 2B receptor in pulmonary hypertension

    J.-M. Launay;P. Hervé;K. Peoc'h;C. Tournois

  • The rat brain synucleins; family of proteins transiently associated with neuronal membrane.

    L. Maroteaux;R.H. Scheller

  • Serotonin 2B receptor is required for heart development.

    Canan G. Nebigil;Doo Sup Choi;Andrée Dierich;Pierre Hickel

  • A POPULATION-SPECIFIC HTR2B STOP CODON PREDISPOSES TO SEVERE IMPULSIVITY

    Laura Bevilacqua;Stephane Doly;Jaakko Kaprio;Jaakko Kaprio;Qiaoping Yuan

  • Platelet-derived serotonin links vascular disease and tissue fibrosis

    Clara Dees;Alfiya Akhmetshina;Pawel Zerr;Nicole Reich

  • Dinoflagellates in evolution. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of large subunit ribosomal RNA.

    G. Lenaers;L. Maroteaux;B. Michot;M. Herzog

  • Mouse 5HT1B serotonin receptor: cloning, functional expression, and localization in motor control centers.

    L Maroteaux;F Saudou;N Amlaiky;U Boschert

  • Cloning and characterization of a Drosophila serotonin receptor that activates adenylate cyclase.

    P Witz;N Amlaiky;J L Plassat;L Maroteaux

  • Organisation and sequence studies of the 17-piece chicken conalbumin gene

    M. Cochet;F. Gannon;R. Hen;L. Maroteaux

  • 5-HT2B receptor-mediated serotonin morphogenetic functions in mouse cranial neural crest and myocardiac cells

    Doo Sup Choi;Simon J. Ward;Nadia Messaddeq;Jean Marie Launay

  • International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. CX. Classification of Receptors for 5-hydroxytryptamine; Pharmacology and Function

    Nicholas M. Barnes;Gerard P. Ahern;Carine Becamel;Joël Bockaert

  • 5-hydroxytryptamine 2B receptor regulates cell-cycle progression: cross-talk with tyrosine kinase pathways.

    Canan G. Nebigil;Jean-Marie Launay;Pierre Hickel;Claire Tournois

  • Stimulating healthy tissue regeneration by targeting the 5-HT₂B receptor in chronic liver disease.

    Mohammad R Ebrahimkhani;Fiona Oakley;Lindsay B Murphy;Jelena Mann

  • 5-HT 2B receptors are required for serotonin-selective antidepressant actions

    Silviana Laura Diaz;Stéphane Doly;Stéphane Doly;Nicolas Narboux-Nême;Nicolas Narboux-Nême;Sébasatien Fernández;Sébasatien Fernández

  • NKD, a developmentally regulated tachykinin receptor in Drosophila

    D Monnier;J F Colas;P Rosay;R Hen

  • Serotonin and the 5-HT(2B) receptor in the development of enteric neurons.

    Elena Fiorica-Howells;Luc Maroteaux;Michael D. Gershon

  • Immunohistochemical localisation of the serotonin 5-HT2B receptor in mouse gut, cardiovascular system, and brain

    Doo Sup Choi;Luc Maroteaux

  • Drosophila 5-HT2 serotonin receptor: coexpression with fushi-tarazu during segmentation

    Jean-Francois Colas;Jean-Marie Launay;Odile Kellermann;Philippe Rosay

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Marie Launay
Jean-Marie Launay Grenoble Alpes University
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Nadia Messaddeq
Nadia Messaddeq Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Michael D. Gershon
Michael D. Gershon Columbia University
Matti Virkkunen
Matti Virkkunen University of Helsinki
Michel Revel
Michel Revel Weizmann Institute of Science
David Goldman
David Goldman National Institutes of Health
Richard J. Rose
Richard J. Rose Indiana University
Emil F. Coccaro
Emil F. Coccaro The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Qiaoping Yuan
Qiaoping Yuan National Institutes of Health

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