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D-Index
37
Citations
4364
World Ranking
8863
National Ranking
3752

Best Publications

  • Regional distribution and developmental expression of epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor-alpha mRNA in mouse brain by a quantitative nuclease protection assay.

    Lorraine M. Lazar;Mariann Blum

  • Central nicotinic receptors, neurotrophic factors and neuroprotection.

    Natale Belluardo;Giuseppa Mudò;Mariann Blum;Kjell Fuxe

  • Biologically active corticotropin-releasing hormone in maternal and fetal plasma during pregnancy

    Robin S. Goland;Sharon L. Wardlaw;Mariann Blum;Pamela J. Tropper

  • Transcriptional analysis of tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression in the tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic neurons of the rat arcuate nucleus after estrogen treatment.

    M. Blum;B. S. McEwen;James Roberts

  • EGF enhances the survival of dopamine neurons in rat embryonic mesencephalon primary cell culture

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  • Hormonal regulation of POMC gene expression

    D. J. Autelitano;J. R. Lundblad;M. Blum;James Roberts

  • A null mutation in TGF-alpha leads to a reduction in midbrain dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.

    Mariann Blum

  • Induction of Interleukin-1 Associated with Compensatory Dopaminergic Sprouting in the Denervated Striatum of Young Mice: Model of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease

    Angela Ho;Mariann Blum

  • Estradiol stimulates preoptic area-anterior hypothalamic proGnRH-GAP gene expression in ovariectomized rats.

    James L. Roberts;Clive M. Dutlow;Clive M. Dutlow;Moshe Jakubowski;Mariann Blum

  • Corticotrope Response to Removal of Releasing Factors and Corticosteroids in Vivo

    Mary F. Dallman;Gabor B. Makara;James L. Roberts;Nancy Levin

  • Modulation of basal and corticotropin-releasing factor-stimulated proopiomelanocortin gene expression by vasopressin in rat anterior pituitary.

    Nancy Levin;Mariann Blum;James L. Roberts

  • Postnatal Development of Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone and Cyclophilin Gene Expression in the Female and Male Rat Brain

    Moshe Jakubowski;Mariann Blum;James L. Roberts

  • Differential expression of ErbB3 and ErbB4 neuregulin receptors in dopamine neurons and forebrain areas of the adult rat.

    Heinz Steiner;Mariann Blum;Stephen T. Kitai;Paolo Fedi

  • Prenatal corticosterone increases spontaneous and d-amphetamine induced locomotor activity and brain dopamine metabolism in prepubertal male and female rats

    R. Diaz;S.O. Ögren;M. Blum;K. Fuxe

  • Striatal TGF-α: postnatal developmental expression and evidence for a role in the proliferation of subependymal cells

    Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Mariann Blum

  • Acute intermittent nicotine treatment produces regional increases of basic fibroblast growth factor messenger RNA and protein in the tel- and diencephalon of the rat.

    N Belluardo;M Blum;G Mudo;B Andbjer

  • Epidermal growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor protect dopaminergic neurons from glutamate toxicity in culture.

    Diana Casper;Mariann Blum

  • Corticotropin-releasing factor differentially regulates anterior and intermediate pituitary lobe proopiomelanocortin gene transcription, nuclear precursor RNA and mature mRNA in vivo.

    Dominic J. Autelitano;Mariann Blum;Maria Lopingco;Richard G. Allen

  • Differential Response of Ventral Midbrain and Striatal Progenitor Cells to Lesions of the Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Projection

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  • Glutamate regulation of GDNF gene expression in the striatum and primary striatal astrocytes.

    Angela Ho;Andrea C. Gore;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Mariann Blum

  • Stimulation of pituitary luteinizing hormone secretion by gonadotropin-releasing hormone is not coupled to β-luteinizing hormone gene transcription

    Stephen R. J. Salton;Mariann Blum;Mariann Blum;Julie A. Jonassen;Richard N. Clayton

  • Regulation of Astroglial-Derived Dopaminergic Neurotrophic Factors by Interleukin-1β in the Striatum of Young and Middle-Aged Mice

    Angela Ho;Mariann Blum

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppa Mudò
Giuseppa Mudò University of Palermo
Kjell Fuxe
Kjell Fuxe Karolinska Institute
Natale Belluardo
Natale Belluardo University of Palermo
Andrea C. Gore
Andrea C. Gore The University of Texas at Austin
Börje Bjelke
Börje Bjelke University of Oslo
Michael V. L. Bennett
Michael V. L. Bennett Albert Einstein College of Medicine
R. Suzanne Zukin
R. Suzanne Zukin Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Stephen R.J. Salton
Stephen R.J. Salton Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Heinz Steiner
Heinz Steiner Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Kurt Andersson
Kurt Andersson Karolinska Institute

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