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Marya Shanabrough

Marya Shanabrough

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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
9854
World Ranking
7765
National Ranking
3334

Overview

Marya Shanabrough is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Within these areas, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Oncology.

Their work mainly addresses topics like Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies.

Several recent papers co-authored or led by Shanabrough include:

  • AgRP neurons control compulsive exercise and survival in an activity-based anorexia model, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • LINE-1 activation in the cerebellum drives ataxia, 2022, Neuron
  • Nesfatin-1 decreases the motivational and rewarding value of food, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • TET3 epigenetically controls feeding and stress response behaviors via AGRP neurons, 2022, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • microRNA-33 controls hunger signaling in hypothalamic AgRP neurons, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors working alongside Shanabrough include Tamas L. Horváth, Matija Šestan-Peša, Maria Consolata Miletta, Xiao-Bing Gao, and Ashley Kristant.

The primary venues where Shanabrough's research is published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Metabolism, Neuron, Nature Communications, and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Best Publications

  • Ghrelin modulates the activity and synaptic input organization of midbrain dopamine neurons while promoting appetite

    Alfonso Abizaid;Zhong-Wu Liu;Zane Bruce Andrews;Marya Shanabrough

  • Rapid Rewiring of Arcuate Nucleus Feeding Circuits by Leptin

    Shirly Pinto;Aaron G. Roseberry;Hongyan Liu;Sabrina Diano

  • Agouti-related peptide-expressing neurons are mandatory for feeding.

    Eva Gropp;Marya Shanabrough;Erzsebet Borok;Allison W Xu

  • UCP2 mediates ghrelin’s action on NPY/AgRP neurons by lowering free radicals

    Zane B. Andrews;Zhong-Wu Liu;Nicholas Walllingford;Derek M. Erion

  • Synaptic input organization of the melanocortin system predicts diet-induced hypothalamic reactive gliosis and obesity

    Tamas L. Horvath;Beatrix Sarman;Cristina García-Cáceres;Pablo J. Enriori

  • Enhanced PIP3 signaling in POMC neurons causes KATP channel activation and leads to diet-sensitive obesity

    Leona Plum;Xiaosong Ma;Brigitte Hampel;Nina Balthasar

  • Glutamic acid decarboxylase-containing axons synapse on LHRH neurons in the rat medial preoptic area.

    Csaba Leranth;Neil J. MacLusky;Hideki Sakamoto;Marya Shanabrough

  • Peroxisome proliferation-associated control of reactive oxygen species sets melanocortin tone and feeding in diet-induced obesity

    Sabrina Diano;Zhong Wu Liu;Jin Kwon Jeong;Marcelo O. Dietrich;Marcelo O. Dietrich

  • Immunohistochemical evidence for synaptic connections between pro-opiomelanocortin-immunoreactive axons and LH-RH neurons in the preoptic area of the rat.

    C. Leranth;N.J. MacLusky;M. Shanabrough;F. Naftolin

  • Cholinergic Excitation of Septohippocampal GABA But Not Cholinergic Neurons: Implications for Learning and Memory

    Min Wu;Marya Shanabrough;Csaba Leranth;Meenakshi Alreja

  • The LH-RH-containing neuronal network in the preoptic area of the rat: demonstration of LH-RH-containing nerve terminals in synaptic contact with LH-RH neurons.

    Cs. Leranth;Cs. Leranth;L.M.G. Segura;M. Palkovitz;M. Palkovitz;N.J. MacLusky

  • Catecholaminergic innervation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone and glutamic acid decarboxylase immunopositive neurons in the rat medial preoptic area. An electron-microscopic double immunostaining and degeneration study.

    C. Leranth;N.J. MacLusky;M. Shanabrough;F. Naftolin

  • Early-life experience reduces excitation to stress-responsive hypothalamic neurons and reprograms the expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone.

    Aniko Korosi;Marya Shanabrough;Shawn McClelland;Zhong-Wu Liu

  • Hormonal regulation of hippocampal spine synapse density involves subcortical mediation.

    C Leranth;M Shanabrough;T.L Horvath

  • Muscarinic Tone Sustains Impulse Flow in the Septohippocampal GABA But Not Cholinergic Pathway: Implications for Learning and Memory

    Meenakshi Alreja;Min Wu;Weimin Liu;Joshua B. Atkins

  • Gonadal hormones are responsible for maintaining the integrity of spine synapses in the CA1 hippocampal subfield of female nonhuman primates.

    Csaba Leranth;Marya Shanabrough;D. Eugene Redmond

  • Divergent Regulation of Energy Expenditure and Hepatic Glucose Production by Insulin Receptor in Agouti-Related Protein and POMC Neurons

    Hua V. Lin;Leona Plum;Hiraku Ono;Roger Gutiérrez-Juárez

  • N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine, a Gut- Derived Circulating Factor Induced by Fat Ingestion, Inhibits Food Intake

    Matthew P. Gillum;Dongyan Zhang;Xian-Man Zhang;Derek M. Erion

  • Enhanced leptin-stimulated Pi3k activation in the CNS promotes white adipose tissue transdifferentiation.

    Leona Plum;Eva Rother;Heike Münzberg;F. Thomas Wunderlich

  • Coenzyme Q induces nigral mitochondrial uncoupling and prevents dopamine cell loss in a primate model of Parkinson's disease

    Tamas L. Horvath;Tamas L. Horvath;Sabrina Diano;Csaba Leranth;Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura

Frequent Co-Authors

Csaba Leranth
Csaba Leranth Yale University
Neil J. MacLusky
Neil J. MacLusky University of Guelph
Sabrina Diano
Sabrina Diano Columbia University
Marcelo O. Dietrich
Marcelo O. Dietrich Yale University
Bruce S. McEwen
Bruce S. McEwen Rockefeller University
John D. Elsworth
John D. Elsworth Yale University
Dick F. Swaab
Dick F. Swaab Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
James W. Simpkins
James W. Simpkins West Virginia University
Victor D. Ramirez
Victor D. Ramirez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Henryk F. Urbanski
Henryk F. Urbanski Oregon National Primate Research Center

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