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Mehrdad Shamloo is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with particular attention to cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, molecular biology, biological psychiatry, and physiology. Their work covers significant topics including tryptophan and brain disorders, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, stress responses and cortisol, nerve injury and regeneration, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Shamloo has contributed to several recent publications in notable journals. These include:

  • Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids, 2022, Nature
  • Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation via clusterin, 2021, Nature
  • Beta-adrenergic receptor antagonism is proinflammatory and exacerbates neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
  • Impact of high-fat diet on cognitive behavior and central and systemic inflammation with aging and sex differences in mice, 2024, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Upregulating Human Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 Expression May Prevent Severe COVID-19 Inflammatory Responses and Reduce Microthrombosis, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology

Their frequent co-authors include Nay L. Saw, Andrew K. Evans, Laura Vidano, Rachel Lam, and Erwin B. Defensor. Shamloo's research has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Neurobiology of Disease, Brain Behavior and Immunity, and Frontiers in Immunology.

Best Publications

  • Uncoupling protein-2 prevents neuronal death and diminishes brain dysfunction after stroke and brain trauma.

    Gustav Mattiasson;Mehrdad Shamloo;Gunilla Gido;Kavitha Mathi

  • Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids

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  • Critical role of acetylation in tau-mediated neurodegeneration and cognitive deficits

    Sang-Won Min;Xu Chen;Tara E Tracy;Yaqiao Li

  • A dramatic increase of C1q protein in the CNS during normal aging.

    Alexander H. Stephan;Daniel V. Madison;José María Mateos;Deborah A. Fraser

  • Inhibition of mitochondrial fragmentation diminishes Huntington’s disease–associated neurodegeneration

    Xing Guo;Marie Helene Disatnik;Marie Monbureau;Mehrdad Shamloo

  • Autism-linked neuroligin-3 R451C mutation differentially alters hippocampal and cortical synaptic function.

    Mark Etherton;Csaba Földy;Manu Sharma;Katsuhiko Tabuchi

  • Transplanted stem cell-secreted vascular endothelial growth factor effects poststroke recovery, inflammation, and vascular repair

    Nobutaka Horie;Marta P. Pereira;Kuniyasu Niizuma;Guohua Sun

  • Behavioral Abnormalities and Circuit Defects in the Basal Ganglia of a Mouse Model of 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome

    Thomas Portmann;Mu Yang;Rong Mao;Georgia Panagiotakos

  • Alzheimer's Therapeutics Targeting Amyloid Beta 1–42 Oligomers I: Abeta 42 Oligomer Binding to Specific Neuronal Receptors Is Displaced by Drug Candidates That Improve Cognitive Deficits

    Nicholas J. Izzo;Agnes Staniszewski;Lillian To;Mauro Fa

  • Classical MHCI Molecules Regulate Retinogeniculate Refinement and Limit Ocular Dominance Plasticity

    Akash Datwani;Michael J. McConnell;Patrick O. Kanold;Kristina D. Micheva

  • Mouse model of Timothy syndrome recapitulates triad of autistic traits

    Patrick L. Bader;Mehrdad Faizi;Leo H. Kim;Scott F. Owen

  • LRRK2 modifies α-syn pathology and spread in mouse models and human neurons.

    Gregor Bieri;Michel Brahic;Luc Bousset;Julien Couthouis

  • Regional Selective Neuronal Degeneration after Protein Phosphatase Inhibition in Hippocampal Slice Cultures: Evidence for a MAP Kinase-Dependent Mechanism

    Elise Rundén;Per Ottar Seglen;Finn Mogens Haug;Ole Petter Ottersen

  • Inhibition of Drp1/Fis1 interaction slows progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

    Amit U Joshi;Nay L Saw;Hannes Vogel;Anna D Cunnigham

  • Deficits in Cognition and Synaptic Plasticity in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome Ameliorated by GABAB Receptor Antagonists

    Alexander M. Kleschevnikov;Pavel V. Belichenko;Mehrdad Faizi;Lucia F. Jacobs

  • Activation of the extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase cascade in the hippocampal CA1 region in a rat model of global cerebral ischemic preconditioning

    M. Shamloo;A. Rytter;T. Wieloch

  • Restoration of Norepinephrine-Modulated Contextual Memory in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome

    A. Salehi;M. Faizi;D. Colas;J. Valletta

  • The sigma-1 receptor enhances brain plasticity and functional recovery after experimental stroke

    Karsten Ruscher;Mehrdad Shamloo;Mattias Rickhag;Istvan Ladunga

  • Long-term behavioral assessment of function in an experimental model for ischemic stroke.

    Angelo Encarnacion;Nobutaka Horie;Hadar Keren-Gill;Tonya M Bliss

  • Death-associated protein kinase is activated by dephosphorylation in response to cerebral ischemia

    Mehrdad Shamloo;Liza Soriano;Tadeusz Wieloch;Karoly Nikolich

  • Comprehensive behavioral phenotyping of Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome: activation of β1-adrenergic receptor by xamoterol as a potential cognitive enhancer.

    Mehrdad Faizi;Patrick L. Bader;Christine Tun;Angelo Encarnacion

  • A Small Molecule TrkB Ligand Reduces Motor Impairment and Neuropathology in R6/2 and BACHD Mouse Models of Huntington's Disease

    Danielle A. Simmons;Nadia P. Belichenko;Tao Yang;Christina Condon

  • FoxO6 regulates memory consolidation and synaptic function

    Dervis A. M. Salih;Asim J. Rashid;Damien Colas;Luis de la Torre-Ubieta

Frequent Co-Authors

Daria Mochly-Rosen
Daria Mochly-Rosen Stanford University
William C. Mobley
William C. Mobley University of California, San Diego
Liqun Luo
Liqun Luo Stanford University
Bo K. Siesjö
Bo K. Siesjö Lund University
Daniel V. Madison
Daniel V. Madison Stanford University
Pavel V. Belichenko
Pavel V. Belichenko University of California, San Diego
Tibor Kristian
Tibor Kristian University of Maryland, Baltimore
Katrin Andreasson
Katrin Andreasson Stanford University
Michel Brahic
Michel Brahic Stanford University
Aaron D. Gitler
Aaron D. Gitler Stanford University

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