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Lutgarde Arckens

Lutgarde Arckens

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
7481
World Ranking
6246
National Ranking
78

Overview

Lutgarde Arckens is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and focuses primarily on research in neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant work also contributing to environmental science. The research spans several specialized subfields including nature and landscape conservation, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of study are diverse and include fish biology, ecology, and behavior; retinal development and disorders; neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms; neuroscience and neuropharmacology research; olfactory and sensory function studies; memory and neural mechanisms; and retinal diseases and treatments.

Examples of recent publications illustrate the breadth of research interests:

  • The killifish visual system as an in vivo model to study brain aging and rejuvenation, 2021, npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease
  • Corticostriatal dysfunction and social interaction deficits in mice lacking the cystine/glutamate antiporter, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Aging impairs the essential contributions of non-glial progenitors to neurorepair in the dorsal telencephalon of the Killifish Nothobranchius furzeri, 2021, Aging Cell
  • Endocannabinoids and cortical plasticity: CB1R as a possible regulator of the excitation/inhibition balance in health and disease, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Reconsidering the Border between the Visual and Posterior Parietal Cortex of Mice, 2020, Cerebral Cortex

Frequent collaborators include Jolien Van houcke, Valerie Mariën, Rajagopal Ayana, Caroline Zandecki, and Eve Seuntjens, reflecting a network of sustained research partnerships.

Publications appear in various scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Aging Cell
  • Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

Lutgarde Arckens' research contributes to an extensive range of scientific disciplines, combining molecular and cellular neuroscience methods with ecological and environmental perspectives, particularly through models such as killifish in brain aging and neurorepair studies. The output reflects an interdisciplinary approach to understanding neural mechanisms, sensory functions, and age-related degeneration.

Best Publications

  • Obestatin does not activate orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPR39

    Erwin Lauwers;Bart Landuyt;Lutgarde Arckens;Liliane Schoofs

  • Fluorescent two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis unveils the potential of gel-based proteomics.

    Gert Van den Bergh;Lutgarde Arckens

  • A proteomic approach for the analysis of instantly released wound and immune proteins in Drosophila melanogaster hemolymph

    Evy Vierstraete;Peter Verleyen;Geert Baggerman;Wannes D'Hertog

  • Calcium binding proteins and neuropeptides as molecular markers of GABAergic interneurons in the cat visual cortex.

    Hilde Demeulemeester;Lut Arckens;Frans Vandesande;Guy A. Orban

  • Reorganization in the visual cortex after retinal and cortical damage.

    Ulf T. Eysel;Georg Schweigart;Thomas Mittmann;Dirk Eyding

  • Receptive-field properties of V1 and V2 neurons in mice and macaque monkeys.

    Gert Van den Bergh;Gert Van den Bergh;Bin Zhang;Lutgarde Arckens;Yuzo M. Chino

  • Neurofilament protein: a selective marker for the architectonic parcellation of the visual cortex in adult cat brain.

    Estel Van Der Gucht;Frans Vandesande;Lutgarde Arckens

  • A Tool for Brain-Wide Quantitative Analysis of Molecular Data upon Projection into a Planar View of Choice.

    Samme Vreysen;Isabelle Scheyltjens;Marie-Eve Laramée;Lutgarde Arckens

  • Effect of sensory deafferentation on immunoreactivity of GABAergic cells and on GABA receptors in the adult cat visual cortex.

    Anne-Marie Rosier;Lut Arckens;Hilde Demeulemeester;Guy Orban

  • Functional striatal hypodopaminergic activity in mice lacking adenosine A(2A) receptors.

    Donald Dassesse;Ann Massie;Rosaria Ferrari;Catherine Ledent

  • Cooperative changes in GABA, glutamate and activity levels: the missing link in cortical plasticity

    Lutgarde Arckens;Georg Schweigart;Ying Qu;Griet Wouters

  • Recent advances in 2D electrophoresis: an array of possibilities.

    Gert Van den Bergh;Lutgarde Arckens

  • Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography prefractionation prior to two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry identifies new differentially expressed proteins between striate cortex of kitten and adult cat.

    Gert Van den Bergh;Stefan Clerens;Frans Vandesande;Lutgarde Arckens

  • Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)-induced thyrotropin release is directly mediated through CRH receptor type 2 on thyrotropes.

    Bert De Groef;Nesya Goris;Lutgarde Arckens;Eduard R Kuhn

  • Proteomic approaches in brain research and neuropharmacology.

    Freya G.G. Vercauteren;Freya G.G. Vercauteren;John J.M. Bergeron;Frans Vandesande;Lut Arckens

  • Fluorescent two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry identify age-related protein expression differences for the primary visual cortex of kitten and adult cat

    Gert Van den Bergh;Stefan Clerens;Lieselotte Cnops;Frans Vandesande

  • Neurofilament protein and neuronal activity markers define regional architectonic parcellation in the mouse visual cortex

    Estel Van der Gucht;Estel Van der Gucht;Patrick R. Hof;Leen Van Brussel;Kalina Burnat;Kalina Burnat

  • Neuroanatomical specificity in the expression of the immediate early gene c‐fos following expression of appetitive and consummatory male sexual behaviour in Japanese quail

    Mélanie Taziaux;Charlotte Cornil;Charlotte Cornil;C. Dejace;L. Arckens

  • Homologous involvement of striatum and prefrontal cortex in rodent and human water maze learning

    Daniel G. Woolley;Annelies Laeremans;Ilse Gantois;Dante Mantini

  • Investigation of cortical reorganization in area 17 and nine extrastriate visual areas through the detection of changes in immediate early gene expression as induced by retinal lesions.

    Lutgarde Arckens;Lutgarde Arckens;Estel Van Der Gucht;Ulf T. Eysel;Guy A. Orban

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf T. Eysel
Ulf T. Eysel Ruhr University Bochum
Rudi D'Hooge
Rudi D'Hooge KU Leuven
Ilse Smolders
Ilse Smolders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Bart Nuttin
Bart Nuttin KU Leuven
Guy A. Orban
Guy A. Orban University of Parma
Malgorzata Kossut
Malgorzata Kossut Polish Academy of Sciences
Yvette Michotte
Yvette Michotte Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Charles K. Meshul
Charles K. Meshul Oregon Health & Science University

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