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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Moses V. Chao is affiliated with New York University in the United States, specializing in neuroscience with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, social psychology, neurology, and behavioral neuroscience. Their research emphasizes neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, nerve injury and regeneration, stress responses and cortisol, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, tryptophan and brain disorders, and the neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Recent publications by Moses V. Chao include:

  • Voluntary Exercise Boosts Striatal Dopamine Release: Evidence for the Necessary and Sufficient Role of BDNF, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Oxytocin attenuates microglial activation and restores social and non-social memory in APP/PS1 Alzheimer model mice, 2023, iScience
  • Single-cell transcriptomics identifies Gadd45b as a regulator of herpesvirus-reactivating neurons, 2021, EMBO Reports
  • Transactivation of TrkB Receptors by Oxytocin and Its G Protein-Coupled Receptor, 2022, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • Defining the molecular identity and morphology of glia limitans superficialis astrocytes in mouse and human, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Their frequent co-authors include Robert C. Froemke, Latika Khatri, María Clara Sellés, Shane A. Liddelow, and Melissa Cooper.

Moses V. Chao has published multiple papers in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), followed by contributions to Cell Reports, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of Neuroscience.

Their work also extends to book publication, with a title named Periphery published by Harvard University Press in 2023.

The scientist's awards include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Neurotrophins and their receptors: a convergence point for many signalling pathways.

    Moses V. Chao

  • The trk proto-oncogene product: a signal transducing receptor for nerve growth factor

    David R. Kaplan;Barbara L. Hempstead;Dionisio Martin-Zanca;Moses V. Chao

  • Bradykinin and nerve growth factor release the capsaicin receptor from PtdIns(4,5)P2-mediated inhibition.

    Huai-hu Chuang;Elizabeth D. Prescott;Haeyoung Kong;Shannon Shields

  • High-affinity NGF binding requires coexpression of the trk proto-oncogene and the low-affinity NGF receptor.

    Barbara L. Hempstead;Dionisio Martin-Zanca;David R. Kaplan;Luis F. Parada

  • TRANCE Is a Novel Ligand of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor Family That Activates c-Jun N-terminal Kinase in T Cells*

    Brian R. Wong;Jaerang Rho;Joseph Arron;Elizabeth Robinson

  • Expression and structure of the human NGF receptor

    Dan Johnson;Anthony Lanahan;C.Randy Buck;Amita Sehgal

  • Neuroprotective effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in rodent and primate models of Alzheimer's disease

    Alan H Nagahara;David A Merrill;Giovanni Coppola;Shingo Tsukada

  • p75 and Trk: A two-receptor system

    Moses V. Chao;Barbara L. Hempstead

  • Targeted mutation of the gene encoding the low affinity NGF receptor p75 leads to deficits in the peripheral sensory nervous system.

    Kuo-Fen Lee;En Li;L.Julie Huber;Story C. Landis

  • Death of oligodendrocytes mediated by the interaction of nerve growth factor with its receptor p75

    Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil;Bruce D. Carter;Rick T. Dobrowsky;Moses V. Chao

  • Akt Phosphorylates and Negatively Regulates Apoptosis Signal-Regulating Kinase 1

    Albert H. Kim;Gus Khursigara;Xuan Sun;Thomas F. Franke

  • Neurotrophin receptors: a window into neuronal differentiation.

    Moses V. Chao

  • Neuregulin-1 type III determines the ensheathment fate of axons.

    Carla Taveggia;George Zanazzi;Ashley Petrylak;Hiroko Yano

  • Oxytocin enables maternal behaviour by balancing cortical inhibition

    Bianca J. Marlin;Mariela Mitre;James A. D’amour;Moses V. Chao

  • Exercise promotes the expression of brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) through the action of the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate

    Sama F Sleiman;Jeffrey Henry;Rami Al-Haddad;Lauretta El Hayek

  • Neurotrophin signalling in health and disease.

    Moses V. Chao;Rithwick Rajagopal;Francis S. Lee

  • Activation of the sphingomyelin cycle through the low-affinity neurotrophin receptor.

    Rick T. Dobrowsky;Mark H. Werner;Alexander M. Castellino;Moses V. Chao

  • Competitive Signaling Between TrkA and p75 Nerve Growth Factor Receptors Determines Cell Survival

    Sung Ok Yoon;Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil;Bruce Carter;Moses V. Chao

  • Gene transfer and molecular cloning of the human NGF receptor

    MV Chao;MA Bothwell;AH Ross;H Koprowski

  • Activation of Trk neurotrophin receptors in the absence of neurotrophins

    Francis S. Lee;Moses V. Chao

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis S. Lee
Francis S. Lee Cornell University
Robert C. Froemke
Robert C. Froemke New York University
Nancy Y. Ip
Nancy Y. Ip Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Stephen D. Ginsberg
Stephen D. Ginsberg Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Kevin G. Bath
Kevin G. Bath Brown University
Jack Rosenbluth
Jack Rosenbluth New York University
Mark Bothwell
Mark Bothwell University of Washington
Eric Klann
Eric Klann New York University
Amita Sehgal
Amita Sehgal University of Pennsylvania
Chenghua Gu
Chenghua Gu Harvard University

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