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Marco Sassoè-Pognetto

Marco Sassoè-Pognetto

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Overview

Marco Sassoè-Pognetto is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. The scientist's work encompasses multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Cell Biology.

The scientific topics covered in their publications include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases, Cerebrospinal Fluid and Hydrocephalus, Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies.

Marco Sassoè-Pognetto has authored and co-authored papers published in various academic venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Biomedicines
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Archives of Toxicology
  • Cancer Research
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Notable recent papers include:

  • Pre- and postnatal exposure to glyphosate-based herbicide causes behavioral and cognitive impairments in adult mice: evidence of cortical ad hippocampal dysfunction, 2020, Archives of Toxicology
  • FAM46C and FNDC3A Are Multiple Myeloma Tumor Suppressors That Act in Concert to Impair Clearing of Protein Aggregates and Autophagy, 2020, Cancer Research
  • Dystroglycan Mediates Clustering of Essential GABAergic Components in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells, 2020, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • Morphological and mitochondrial changes in murine choroid plexus epithelial cells during healthy aging, 2023, Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
  • Anxiety and Gene Expression Enhancement in Mice Exposed to Glyphosate-Based Herbicide, 2022, Toxics

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Annarita Patrizi, Chiara Salio, Yassine Ait-Bali, Sâadia Ba-M'hamed, and Maurizio Giustetto.

Best Publications

  • Synaptic inhibition of Purkinje cells mediates consolidation of vestibulo-cerebellar motor learning

    Peer Wulff;Martijn Schonewille;Massimiliano Renzi;Laura Viltono

  • The γ2 Subunit of GABAA Receptors Is a Substrate for Palmitoylation by GODZ

    Cheryl A. Keller;Xu Yuan;Patrizia Panzanelli;Michelle L. Martin

  • Learning, AMPA receptor mobility and synaptic plasticity depend on n-cofilin-mediated actin dynamics

    Marco B Rust;Marco B Rust;Christine B Gurniak;Christine B Gurniak;Marianne Renner;Marianne Renner;Hugo Vara

  • Expression of NMDA and High‐affinity Kainate Receptor Subunit mRNAs in the Adult Rat Retina

    J H Brandstätter;E Hartveit;M Sassoè-Pognetto;H Wässle

  • Neuroligin-4 is localized to glycinergic postsynapses and regulates inhibition in the retina

    Mrinalini Hoon;Tolga Soykan;Björn Falkenburger;Matthieu Hammer

  • Glycinergic synapses in the rod pathway of the rat retina: cone bipolar cells express the alpha 1 subunit of the glycine receptor

    M Sassoe-Pognetto;H Wassle;U Grunert

  • Colocalization of gephyrin and GABAA‐receptor subunits in the rat retina

    M. Sassoè-Pognetto;M. Sassoè-Pognetto;J. Kirsch;U. Grünert;U. Greferath

  • Colocalization of multiple GABAA receptor subtypes with gephyrin at postsynaptic sites

    Marco Sassoè‐Pognetto;Patrizia Panzanelli;Werner Sieghart;Jean‐Marc Fritschy

  • Localization and developmental expression of the NMDA receptor subunit NR2A in the mammalian retina.

    E. Hartveit;J. H. Brandstätter;M. Sassoè-Pognetto;D. J. Laurie

  • Mini-review: gephyrin, a major postsynaptic protein of GABAergic synapses.

    Marco Sassoè-Pognetto;Jean-Marc Fritschy

  • Complex Role of Collybistin and Gephyrin in GABAA Receptor Clustering

    Leila Saiepour;Celine Fuchs;Annarita Patrizi;Marco Sassoè-Pognetto

  • Profilin2 contributes to synaptic vesicle exocytosis, neuronal excitability, and novelty-seeking behavior

    Pietro Pilo Boyl;Alessia Di Nardo;Christophe Mulle;Marco Sassoè-Pognetto

  • Immunofluorescence in brain sections: simultaneous detection of presynaptic and postsynaptic proteins in identified neurons

    Edith M Schneider Gasser;Carolin J Straub;Patrizia Panzanelli;Oliver Weinmann

  • Selective clustering of GABA(A) and glycine receptors in the mammalian retina

    P Koulen;M Sassoe-Pognetto;U Grunert;H Wassle

  • Synapse formation and clustering of neuroligin-2 in the absence of GABAA receptors.

    Annarita Patrizi;Bibiana Scelfo;Laura Viltono;Federica Briatore

  • Synaptogenesis in the rat retina: subcellular localization of glycine receptors, GABA(A) receptors, and the anchoring protein gephyrin.

    Marco Sassoè-Pognetto;Heinz Wässle

  • GABAergic inhibition at dendrodendritic synapses tunes gamma oscillations in the olfactory bulb.

    Samuel Lagier;Patrizia Panzanelli;Raúl E. Russo;Antoine Nissant

  • GABAergic phenotype of periglomerular cells in the rodent olfactory bulb.

    P. Panzanelli;J.M. Fritschy;Y. Yanagawa;K. Obata

  • Presynaptic co-localization of carnosine and glutamate in olfactory neurones

    Marco Sassoè-Pognetto;Dario Cantino;Patrizia Panzanelli;Ludovica Verdun di Cantogno

  • The actin-binding protein profilin I is localized at synaptic sites in an activity-regulated manner.

    Henrike Neuhoff;Marco Sassoè-Pognetto;Patrizia Panzanelli;Christoph Maas

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Giustetto
Maurizio Giustetto University of Turin
Jean-Marc Fritschy
Jean-Marc Fritschy University of Zurich
Heinz Wässle
Heinz Wässle Max Planck Society
Eckhard Friauf
Eckhard Friauf Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Aldo Fasolo
Aldo Fasolo University of Turin
William Wisden
William Wisden Imperial College London
Pierre-Marie Lledo
Pierre-Marie Lledo Institut Pasteur
Tommaso Pizzorusso
Tommaso Pizzorusso University of Florence
Ole Petter Ottersen
Ole Petter Ottersen University of Oslo
Cornelius Gross
Cornelius Gross European Bioinformatics Institute

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