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62
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10916
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3583
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Best Publications

  • Impaired glymphatic function and clearance of tau in an Alzheimer's disease model.

    Ian F. Harrison;Ozama Ismail;Asif Machhada;Niall Colgan;Niall Colgan

  • A novel in vivo model of tau propagation with rapid and progressive neurofibrillary tangle pathology: the pattern of spread is determined by connectivity, not proximity

    Zeshan Ahmed;Jane Cooper;Tracey K. Murray;Katya Garn

  • 6-Hydroxydopamine-induced Apoptosis Is Mediated via Extracellular Auto-oxidation and Caspase 3-dependent Activation of Protein Kinase Cδ

    Katharine Hanrott;Louise Gudmunsen;Michael J. O’Neill;Susan Wonnacott

  • Fluoxetine-induced change in rat brain expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor varies depending on length of treatment.

    G. de Foubert;S.L. Carney;C.S. Robinson;E.J. Destexhe

  • The role of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in acute and chronic neurodegeneration.

    M J O'Neill;T K Murray;V Lakics;N P Visanji

  • AMPA Receptor Potentiators for the Treatment of CNS Disorders

    Michael J O'Neill;David Bleakman;Dennis M Zimmerman;Eric S Nisenbaum

  • Conformation Determines the Seeding Potencies of Native and Recombinant Tau Aggregates

    Benjamin Falcon;Annalisa Cavallini;Rachel Angers;Sarah Glover

  • Application of neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) to a tau pathology model of Alzheimer's disease

    Niall Colgan;Niall Colgan;Bernard Siow;James M. O'Callaghan;Ian F. Harrison

  • The IMPROVE Guidelines (Ischaemia Models: Procedural Refinements Of in Vivo Experiments):

    Nathalie Percie du Sert;Alessio Alfieri;Stuard M. Allan;Hilary V. O. Carswell

  • Neuroprotective activity of the potent and selective mGlu1a metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist, (+)-2-methyl-4 carboxyphenylglycine (LY367385): comparison with LY357366, a broader spectrum antagonist with equal affinity for mGlu1a and mGlu5 receptors.

    V Bruno;G Battaglia;A Kingston;M.J O’Neill

  • Antagonists of GLU K5 -containing kainate receptors prevent pilocarpine-induced limbic seizures

    Ilse Smolders;Zuner A. Bortolotto;Vernon R. J. Clarke;Ruth Warre

  • LY503430, a Novel α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic Acid Receptor Potentiator with Functional, Neuroprotective and Neurotrophic Effects in Rodent Models of Parkinson's Disease

    Tracey K. Murray;Katherine Whalley;Christine S. Robinson;Mark A. Ward

  • An AMPA receptor potentiator modulates hippocampal expression of BDNF: an in vivo study

    Marzena Mackowiak;Michael J O’Neill;Caroline A Hicks;David Bleakman

  • Short Fibrils Constitute the Major Species of Seed-Competent Tau in the Brains of Mice Transgenic for Human P301S Tau.

    Samuel J. Jackson;Caroline Kerridge;Jane Cooper;Annalisa Cavallini

  • Glucocerebrosidase 1 deficient Danio rerio mirror key pathological aspects of human Gaucher disease and provide evidence of early microglial activation preceding alpha-synuclein-independent neuronal cell death

    Marcus Keatinge;Hai Bui;Aswin Menke;Yu-Chia Chen

  • Loss of MicroRNA-7 Regulation Leads to α-Synuclein Accumulation and Dopaminergic Neuronal Loss In Vivo.

    Kirsty J McMillan;Tracey K Murray;Nora Bengoa-Vergniory;Oscar Cordero-Llana

  • Decahydroisoquinolines: novel competitive AMPA/kainate antagonists with neuroprotective effects in global cerebral ischaemia.

    Michael J O'Neill;Ann Bond;Paul L Ornstein;Mark A Ward

  • The adenosine A2A antagonist KF17837 reverses the locomotor suppression and tremulous jaw movements induced by haloperidol in rats: possible relevance to parkinsonism.

    M Correa;A Wisniecki;A Betz;D.R Dobson

  • Mapping the central effects of ketamine in the rat using pharmacological MRI

    Clare L. Littlewood;Nicholas Jones;Michael J. O’Neill;Stephen N. Mitchell

  • Upregulation of calpain activity precedes tau phosphorylation and loss of synaptic proteins in Alzheimer's disease brain

    Ksenia Kurbatskaya;Emma Claire Phillips;Cara Louise Croft;Giacomo Dentoni

  • Evaluation of the mGluR2/3 agonist LY379268 in rodent models of Parkinson's disease.

    Tracey K Murray;Marcus J Messenger;Mark A Ward;Sandra Woodhouse

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Elizabeth M. C. Fisher
Elizabeth M. C. Fisher University College London
Mike Hutton
Mike Hutton Eli Lilly (United States)
Andrew D. Randall
Andrew D. Randall University of Exeter
Claudia Balducci
Claudia Balducci Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Jill C. Richardson
Jill C. Richardson MSD (United Kingdom)
Yvette Michotte
Yvette Michotte Vrije Universiteit Brussel
John T.R. Isaac
John T.R. Isaac Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Ilse Smolders
Ilse Smolders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva

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