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Maarten H.P. Kole

Maarten H.P. Kole

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Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
6559
World Ranking
8955
National Ranking
242

Overview

Maarten H.P. Kole is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and molecular biology. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and neurology.

Kole's work centers on topics such as neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neural dynamics and brain function, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, neuroscience and neural engineering, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, olfactory and sensory function studies, and lipid membrane structure and behavior.

Frequent publication venues for Kole include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Science Advances
  • Brain

Among Maarten H.P. Kole's recent papers are:

  • "A role of oligodendrocytes in information processing," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Sensory input drives rapid homeostatic scaling of the axon initial segment in mouse barrel cortex," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Metachromatic leukodystrophy and transplantation: remyelination, no cross-correction," 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • "Complement-associated loss of CA2 inhibitory synapses in the demyelinated hippocampus impairs memory," 2021, Acta Neuropathologica
  • "Robust adaptive optics for localization microscopy deep in complex tissue," 2021, Nature Communications

Kole has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field, including:

  • Nora Jamann
  • Naomi Petersen
  • Inge Huitinga
  • Sharon I. de Vries
  • Mohit Dubey

Best Publications

  • Action potential generation requires a high sodium channel density in the axon initial segment.

    Maarten H P Kole;Susanne U Ilschner;Björn M Kampa;Björn M Kampa;Stephen R Williams;Stephen R Williams

  • Signal processing in the axon initial segment.

    Maarten H.P. Kole;Greg J. Stuart

  • Axon initial segment Kv1 channels control axonal action potential waveform and synaptic efficacy.

    Maarten H.P. Kole;Johannes J. Letzkus;Greg J. Stuart

  • Alterations of neuroplasticity in depression: the hippocampus and beyond.

    Eberhard Fuchs;Eberhard Fuchs;Boldizsár Czéh;Maarten H.P. Kole;Thomas Michaelis

  • Long-term effects of social stress on brain and behavior: a focus on hippocampal functioning

    Bauke Buwalda;Maarten H.P. Kole;Alexa H. Veenema;Mark Huininga

  • Single Ih channels in pyramidal neuron dendrites: properties, distribution, and impact on action potential output.

    Maarten H P Kole;Stefan Hallermann;Greg J Stuart

  • The antidepressant tianeptine persistently modulates glutamate receptor currents of the hippocampal CA3 commissural associational synapse in chronically stressed rats

    Maarten H. P. Kole;Laura Swan;Eberhard Fuchs

  • Inherited cortical HCN1 channel loss amplifies dendritic calcium electrogenesis and burst firing in a rat absence epilepsy model.

    Maarten H.P. Kole;Anja U. Bräuer;Greg J. Stuart

  • An impaired neocortical Ih is associated with enhanced excitability and absence epilepsy.

    Ulf Strauss;Maarten H. P. Kole;Anja U. Bräuer;Jens Pahnke

  • Is action potential threshold lowest in the axon

    Maarten H P Kole;Greg J Stuart

  • State and location dependence of action potential metabolic cost in cortical pyramidal neurons

    Stefan Hallermann;Christiaan P J de Kock;Greg J Stuart;Maarten H P Kole;Maarten H P Kole

  • Heteromeric Kv7.2/7.3 Channels Differentially Regulate Action Potential Initiation and Conduction in Neocortical Myelinated Axons

    Arne Battefeld;Baouyen T. Tran;Jason Gavrilis;Jason Gavrilis;Edward C. Cooper

  • Dendritic patch−clamp recording

    Jenny T Davie;Maarten H P Kole;Johannes J Letzkus;Ede A Rancz

  • Saltatory Conduction along Myelinated Axons Involves a Periaxonal Nanocircuit

    Charles C.H. Cohen;Charles C.H. Cohen;Marko A. Popovic;Jan Klooster;Marie-Theres Weil;Marie-Theres Weil

  • Myelin Loss and Axonal Ion Channel Adaptations Associated with Gray Matter Neuronal Hyperexcitability

    Mustafa S Hamada;Maarten H P Kole

  • Changes in 5-HT1A and NMDA binding sites by a single rapid transcranial magnetic stimulation procedure in rats

    Maarten H.P. Kole;Eberhard Fuchs;Ulf Ziemann;Walter Paulus

  • Bidirectional shift in the cornu ammonis 3 pyramidal dendritic organization following brief stress

    M.H.P. Kole;M.H.P. Kole;T. Costoli;J.M. Koolhaas;E. Fuchs

  • First Node of Ranvier Facilitates High-Frequency Burst Encoding

    Maarten H.P. Kole

  • A role of oligodendrocytes in information processing

    Sharlen Moore;Martin Meschkat;Martin Meschkat;Torben Ruhwedel;Andrea Trevisiol;Andrea Trevisiol

  • Myelinating satellite oligodendrocytes are integrated in a glial syncytium constraining neuronal high-frequency activity.

    Arne Battefeld;Jan Klooster;Maarten H. P. Kole;Maarten H. P. Kole

  • Covariation of axon initial segment location and dendritic tree normalizes the somatic action potential.

    Mustafa S Hamada;Mustafa S Hamada;Sarah Goethals;Sharon I de Vries;Romain Brette

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg J. Stuart
Greg J. Stuart Australian National University
Eberhard Fuchs
Eberhard Fuchs German Primate Center
Jaap M. Koolhaas
Jaap M. Koolhaas University of Groningen
Klaus-Armin Nave
Klaus-Armin Nave Max Planck Society
Inge Huitinga
Inge Huitinga Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Robert Nitsch
Robert Nitsch University of Münster
Ryuichi Shigemoto
Ryuichi Shigemoto Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Christian Schultz
Christian Schultz Heidelberg University
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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