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Margot Mayer-Pröschel

Margot Mayer-Pröschel

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
43
Citations
8473
World Ranking
19375
National Ranking
7908

Overview

Margot Mayer-Pröschel is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work intersects several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics, Hematology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research focuses on topics related to heavy metal exposure and toxicity, trace elements in health, iron metabolism and disorders, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and mechanisms of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity.

Recent published papers by Margot Mayer-Pröschel include:

  • Maternal Iron Deficiency and Environmental Lead (Pb) Exposure Alter the Predictive Value of Blood Pb Levels on Brain Pb Burden in the Offspring in a Dietary Mouse Model: An Important Consideration for Cumulative Risk in Development (2023, Nutrients)
  • Gestational iron deficiency affects the ratio between interneuron subtypes in the postnatal cerebral cortex in mice (2023, Development)
  • Role of B-1a B cells and T cell recruitment in the modulation and progression of Alzheimer's disease pathology in an amyloid mouse model 4017 (2025, The Journal of Immunology)

Their coauthors include Janine Cubello, Derick R. Peterson, Lu Wang, Michael J. Rudy, and Garrick Salois, with Janine Cubello being a frequent collaborator on multiple projects.

Margot Mayer-Pröschel's research is often published in journals such as Nutrients, Development, and The Journal of Immunology, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their investigations.

Best Publications

  • CNS progenitor cells and oligodendrocytes are targets of chemotherapeutic agents in vitro and in vivo

    Joerg Dietrich;Ruolan Han;Yin-Yin Yang;Margot Mayer-Pröschel

  • Isolation of Lineage-Restricted Neuronal Precursors from Multipotent Neuroepithelial Stem Cells

    Margot Mayer-Proschel;Anjali J Kalyani;Tahmina Mujtaba;Mahendra S Rao

  • Redox state is a central modulator of the balance between self-renewal and differentiation in a dividing glial precursor cell

    Joel Smith;Ena Ladi;Margot Mayer-Pröschel;Mark Noble

  • Astrocytes Secrete Exosomes Enriched with Proapoptotic Ceramide and Prostate Apoptosis Response 4 (PAR-4) POTENTIAL MECHANISM OF APOPTOSIS INDUCTION IN ALZHEIMER DISEASE (AD)

    Guanghu Wang;Michael Dinkins;Qian He;Gu Zhu

  • A tripotential glial precursor cell is present in the developing spinal cord

    Mahendra S. Rao;Mark Noble;Margot Mayer-Pröschel

  • Systemic 5-fluorouracil treatment causes a syndrome of delayed myelin destruction in the central nervous system

    Ruolan Han;Yin Miranda Yang;Jorg Dietrich;Anne Luebke

  • Glial-restricted precursors are derived from multipotent neuroepithelial stem cells.

    M.S. Rao;Margot Mayer-Proschel

  • Astrocytes derived from glial-restricted precursors promote spinal cord repair.

    Jeannette E Davies;Carol Huang;Christoph Proschel;Mark Noble

  • Gliogenesis in the central nervous system.

    J.C. Lee;M. Mayer-Proschel;M.S. Rao

  • Common neural progenitor for the CNS and PNS

    Mahendra S. Rao;Tahmina Mujtaba

  • Developmental neurotoxicity of inhaled ambient ultrafine particle air pollution: Parallels with neuropathological and behavioral features of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

    J.L. Allen;G. Oberdorster;K. Morris-Schaffer;C. Wong

  • Early postnatal exposure to ultrafine particulate matter air pollution: persistent ventriculomegaly, neurochemical disruption, and glial activation preferentially in male mice.

    Joshua L. Allen;Xiufang Liu;Sean Pelkowski;Brian Palmer

  • Transplanted astrocytes derived from BMP- or CNTF-treated glial-restricted precursors have opposite effects on recovery and allodynia after spinal cord injury

    Jeannette E Davies;Christoph Pröschel;Ningzhe Zhang;Mark Noble

  • Transplantation of specific human astrocytes promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury.

    Stephen J.A. Davies;Chung Hsuan Shih;Mark Noble;Margot Mayer-Proschel

  • The Tripotential Glial-Restricted Precursor (GRP) Cell and Glial Development in the Spinal Cord: Generation of Bipotential Oligodendrocyte-Type-2 Astrocyte Progenitor Cells and Dorsal–Ventral Differences in GRP Cell Function

    Ninel Gregori;Christoph Pröschel;Mark Noble;Margot Mayer-Pröschel

  • Acute transplantation of glial-restricted precursor cells into spinal cord contusion injuries: survival, differentiation, and effects on lesion environment and axonal regeneration

    Caitlin E. Hill;Christoph Proschel;Mark Noble;Margot Mayer-Proschel

  • EIF2B5 mutations compromise GFAP + astrocyte generation in vanishing white matter leukodystrophy

    Jörg Dietrich;Michelle Lacagnina;David Gass;Eric Richfield;Eric Richfield

  • Redox state as a central modulator of precursor cell function

    Mark Noble;Joel Smith;Jennifer Power;Margot Mayer-Pröschel

  • Evidence for the existence of at least two timing mechanisms that contribute to oligodendrocyte generation in vitro.

    Nieves Ibarrola;Margot Mayer-Pröschel;Margot Mayer-Pröschel;Angeles Rodriguez-Peña;Mark Noble;Mark Noble;Mark Noble

  • Characterization of A2B5+ glial precursor cells from cryopreserved human fetal brain progenitor cells.

    Joerg Dietrich;Mark Noble;Margot Mayer-Proschel

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Noble
Mark Noble University of Rochester
Mahendra S. Rao
Mahendra S. Rao National Institutes of Health
Günter Oberdörster
Günter Oberdörster University of Rochester
Ying Liu
Ying Liu The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Michael S. Beattie
Michael S. Beattie University of California, San Francisco
Eric K. Richfield
Eric K. Richfield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan University of California, San Francisco
Peter Shrager
Peter Shrager University of Rochester Medical Center
John C. Gensel
John C. Gensel University of Kentucky
Joseph P. Walton
Joseph P. Walton University of South Florida

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