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Matthew N. Rasband is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine. The scientist's work includes notable subfields such as molecular biology, cell biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, and physiology.

The main topics addressed in Rasband's research cover:

  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Erythrocyte function and pathophysiology
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms
  • Biotin and related studies

Rasband's body of recent publications reflects their focus on neuroscience and molecular biology. Notable papers include:

  • "Mechanisms of node of Ranvier assembly" (2020), published in Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • "Remyelination alters the pattern of myelin in the cerebral cortex" (2020), published in eLife
  • "Mapping axon initial segment structure and function by multiplexed proximity biotinylation" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Mature myelin maintenance requires Qki to coactivate PPARβ-RXRα-mediated lipid metabolism" (2020), published in Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • "Ankyrin-R regulates fast-spiking interneuron excitability through perineuronal nets and Kv3.1b K+ channels" (2021), published in eLife

The scientist has frequently published in venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Nature Communications
  • Current Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Rasband's work include:

  • Yuki Ogawa
  • Elior Peles
  • Juan A. Osés-Prieto
  • Xiaoyun Ding
  • Alma L. Burlingame

Best Publications

  • Compact myelin dictates the differential targeting of two sodium channel isoforms in the same axon.

    Tatiana Boiko;Matthew N. Rasband;S.Rock Levinson;John H. Caldwell

  • Neurofascin as a novel target for autoantibody-mediated axonal injury

    Emily K. Mathey;Tobias Derfuss;Maria K. Storch;Kieran R. Williams

  • The axon initial segment and the maintenance of neuronal polarity.

    Matthew N. Rasband

  • Distinct potassium channels on pain-sensing neurons

    Matthew N. Rasband;Eunice W. Park;Todd W. Vanderah;Josephine Lai

  • AnkyrinG is required for maintenance of the axon initial segment and neuronal polarity

    Kristian L. Hedstrom;Yasuhiro Ogawa;Yasuhiro Ogawa;Matthew N. Rasband;Matthew N. Rasband

  • Anti-GM1 antibodies cause complement-mediated disruption of sodium channel clusters in peripheral motor nerve fibers.

    Keiichiro Susuki;Matthew N. Rasband;Koujiro Tohyama;Katsura Koibuchi

  • Neonatal Chimerization with Human Glial Progenitor Cells Can Both Remyelinate and Rescue the Otherwise Lethally Hypomyelinated Shiverer Mouse

    Martha S. Windrem;Steven J. Schanz;Min Guo;Guo-Feng Tian

  • Dependence of Nodal Sodium Channel Clustering on Paranodal Axoglial Contact in the Developing CNS

    Matthew N. Rasband;Elior Peles;James S. Trimmer;S. Rock Levinson

  • Potassium Channel Distribution, Clustering, and Function in Remyelinating Rat Axons

    Matthew N. Rasband;James S. Trimmer;Thomas L. Schwarz;S. Rock Levinson

  • Mice deficient for tenascin-R display alterations of the extracellular matrix and decreased axonal conduction velocities in the CNS.

    P Weber;U Bartsch;U Bartsch;M N Rasband;R Czaniera

  • Neurofascin assembles a specialized extracellular matrix at the axon initial segment

    Kristian L. Hedstrom;Xiaorong Xu;Yasuhiro Ogawa;Renato Frischknecht

  • A βIV-spectrin/CaMKII signaling complex is essential for membrane excitability in mice

    Thomas J. Hund;Olha M. Koval;Jingdong Li;Patrick J. Wright

  • Neurofascin as a target for autoantibodies in peripheral neuropathies

    Judy King Man Ng;Joachim Malotka;Naoto Kawakami;Tobias Derfuss

  • A distal axonal cytoskeleton forms an intra-axonal boundary that controls axon initial segment assembly.

    Mauricio R. Galiano;Smita Jha;Tammy Szu-Yu Ho;Chuansheng Zhang

  • Disruption of the Axon Initial Segment Cytoskeleton Is a New Mechanism for Neuronal Injury

    Dorothy P. Schafer;Smita Jha;Fudong Liu;Trupti Akella

  • Gangliosides contribute to stability of paranodal junctions and ion channel clusters in myelinated nerve fibers.

    Keiichiro Susuki;Keiichiro Susuki;Hiroko Baba;Koujiro Tohyama;Kazuaki Kanai

  • A central role for Necl4 (SynCAM4) in Schwann cell–axon interaction and myelination

    Ivo Spiegel;Konstantin Adamsky;Yael Eshed;Ron Milo

  • Axon initial segments: structure, function, and disease

    Claire Yu-Mei Huang;Matthew N. Rasband

  • The Nodes of Ranvier: Molecular Assembly and Maintenance

    Matthew N. Rasband;Elior Peles

  • βIV spectrin is recruited to axon initial segments and nodes of Ranvier by ankyrinG

    Yang Yang;Yasuhiro Ogawa;Kristian L. Hedstrom;Matthew N. Rasband

  • Integrin-linked kinase is required for laminin-2–induced oligodendrocyte cell spreading and CNS myelination

    Soo Jin Chun;Matthew N. Rasband;Richard L. Sidman;Amyn A. Habib

  • βIV Spectrins Are Essential for Membrane Stability and the Molecular Organization of Nodes of Ranvier

    Yang Yang;Sandra Lacas-Gervais;D. Kent Morest;Michele Solimena

  • Where is the spike generator of the cochlear nerve? Voltage-gated sodium channels in the mouse cochlea.

    Waheeda A. Hossain;Srdjan D. Antic;Yang Yang;Matthew N. Rasband

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Shrager
Peter Shrager University of Rochester Medical Center
Peter J. Brophy
Peter J. Brophy University of Edinburgh
Dorothy P. Schafer
Dorothy P. Schafer University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Rashmi Bansal
Rashmi Bansal University of Connecticut
Hugo J. Bellen
Hugo J. Bellen Baylor College of Medicine
Jeffrey L. Dupree
Jeffrey L. Dupree Virginia Commonwealth University
Dwight E. Bergles
Dwight E. Bergles Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey L. Noebels
Jeffrey L. Noebels Baylor College of Medicine
Constanze I. Seidenbecher
Constanze I. Seidenbecher Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Brett H. Graham
Brett H. Graham Baylor College of Medicine

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