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Overview

Michael Koch is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany and has contributed to research predominantly in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans a range of subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Molecular Biology, Hepatology, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their research covers a variety of main topics such as Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, Liver Physiology and Pathology, Sleep and Related Disorders, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Cancer Cells and Metastasis, and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research.

Notable recent publications by Michael Koch include:

  • Label-Free Imaging Analysis of Patient-Derived Cholangiocarcinoma Organoids after Sorafenib Treatment, 2022, Cells
  • Long-term live imaging and multiscale analysis identify heterogeneity and core principles of epithelial organoid morphogenesis, 2021, BMC Biology
  • Human extrahepatic and intrahepatic cholangiocyte organoids show region-specific differentiation potential and model cystic fibrosis-related bile duct disease, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Advanced paternal age as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: a translational study, 2020, Molecular Autism
  • Orexin deficiency affects sociability and the acquisition, expression, and extinction of conditioned social fear, 2020, Brain Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Michael Koch include:

  • Francesco Pampaloni
  • Nadine Faesel
  • Markus Fendt
  • Lotta Hof
  • Till Moreth

Michael Koch has published articles in several key venues including:

  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Neurotoxicity Research
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • The neurobiology of startle.

    M Koch

  • The acoustic startle response in rats--circuits mediating evocation, inhibition and potentiation.

    Michael Koch;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

  • Chronic pubertal, but not adult chronic cannabinoid treatment impairs sensorimotor gating, recognition memory, and the performance in a progressive ratio task in adult rats.

    Miriam Schneider;Michael Koch

  • Cholinergic neurons in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus are involved in the mediation of prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in the rat

    Michael Koch;Martin Kungel;Horst Herbert

  • Crystal structure of protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase: a key enzyme in haem and chlorophyll biosynthesis

    Michael Koch;Constanze Breithaupt;Reiner Kiefersauer;Jörg Freigang

  • Structural and functional insights into RAGE activation by multimeric S100B

    Thorsten Ostendorp;Estelle Leclerc;Arnaud Galichet;Michael Koch

  • Structural Basis for Ligand Recognition and Activation of RAGE

    Michael Koch;Seth Chitayat;Brian M. Dattilo;Andre Schiefner

  • Leptin activates PI-3 kinase in C2C12 myotubes via janus kinase-2 (JAK-2) and insulin receptor substrate-2 (IRS-2) dependent pathways

    M. Kellerer;M. Koch;E. Metzinger;J. Mushack

  • The Mattis Dementia Rating Scale: Normative data from 1,001 healthy volunteers.

    Reinhold Schmidt;W. Freidl;F. Fazekas;B. Reinhart

  • Prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response of rats is reduced by 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex.

    Michael Bubser;Michael Koch

  • Role of nucleus accumbens dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in instrumental and Pavlovian paradigms of conditioned reward

    Michael Koch;Annette Schmid;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

  • Deficient social and play behavior in juvenile and adult rats after neonatal cortical lesion: effects of chronic pubertal cannabinoid treatment.

    Miriam Schneider;Michael Koch

  • Sensorimotor gating changes across the estrous cycle in female rats

    Michael Koch

  • Prenatal LPS-exposure - a neurodevelopmental rat model of schizophrenia - differentially affects cognitive functions, myelination and parvalbumin expression in male and female offspring

    Lena Wischhof;Ellen Irrsack;Carmen Osorio;Michael Koch

  • The metabotropic glutamate receptor antagonist 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)-pyridine (MPEP) blocks fear conditioning in rats

    Brigitte Schulz;Markus Fendt;Fabrizio Gasparini;Kurt Lingenhöhl

  • Neurodevelopmental animal models of schizophrenia: effects on prepulse inhibition.

    M. Van den Buuse;B. Garner;M. Koch

  • Deficient sensorimotor gating after 6-hydroxydopamine lesion of the rat medial prefrontal cortex is reversed by haloperidol.

    Michael Koch;Michael Bubser

  • Loss of the acoustic startle response following neurotoxic lesions of the caudal pontine reticular formation: Possible role of giant neurons

    M. Koch;K. Lingenhöhl;P.K.D. Pilz

  • Immunocytochemical localization and quantitation of estrogen-binding cells in the male and female (virgin, pregnant, lactating) mouse brain

    Michael Koch;Gu¨nter Ehret

  • The cannabinoid agonist WIN 55,212-2 reduces sensorimotor gating and recognition memory in rats.

    M. Schneider;M. Koch

  • Pleasure-attenuation of startle is disrupted by lesions of the nucleus accumbens.

    Michael Koch;Annette Schmid;Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Fendt
Markus Fendt Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Wolfgang Hauber
Wolfgang Hauber University of Stuttgart
Günter Ehret
Günter Ehret University of Ulm
Ulrich Ebert
Ulrich Ebert University of Tübingen
Michael Bubser
Michael Bubser Vanderbilt University
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Canan Basar-Eroglu
Canan Basar-Eroglu University of Bremen
Michael S. Fanselow
Michael S. Fanselow University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Egelhaaf
Martin Egelhaaf Bielefeld University
Markus Wöhr
Markus Wöhr Philipp University of Marburg

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