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Nail Burnashev is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has contributed to multiple fields including Neuroscience, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research focuses on various specialized domains such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, and Epidemiology.

Their work spans key topics including Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Ion channel regulation and function, Neural dynamics and brain function, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research, Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection.

Burnashev has collaborated frequently with coauthors such as Louison Pineau, Emmanuelle Buhler, Sarah Tarhini, Š. Bauer, and Pierre Szepetowski, each with multiple joint publications.

They have published in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Communications Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Epilepsia
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroinflammation

Selected recent publications by Nail Burnashev include:

  • Voltage-independent GluN2A-type NMDA receptor Ca2+ signaling promotes audiogenic seizures, attentional and cognitive deficits in mice, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Pathogenic MTOR somatic variant causing focal cortical dysplasia drives hyperexcitability via overactivation of neuronal GluN2C N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors, 2024, Epilepsia
  • Development of a Dihydroquinoline-Pyrazoline GluN2C/2D-Selective Negative Allosteric Modulator of the N-Methyl-d-aspartate Receptor, 2023, ACS Chemical Neuroscience
  • Cytomegalovirus infection of the fetal brain: intake of aspirin during pregnancy blunts neurodevelopmental pathogenesis in the offspring, 2024, Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Author Correction: Voltage-independent GluN2A-type NMDA receptor Ca2+ signaling promotes audiogenic seizures, attentional and cognitive deficits in mice, 2021, Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • Developmental and regional expression in the rat brain and functional properties of four NMDA receptors.

    Hannah Monyer;Nail Burnashev;David J. Laurie;Bert Sakmann

  • Heteromeric NMDA receptors: Molecular and functional distinction of subtypes

    Hannah Monyer;Rolf Sprengel;Ralf Schoepfer;Anne Herb

  • Flip and flop: a cell-specific functional switch in glutamate-operated channels of the CNS

    Bernd Sommer;Kari Keinänen;Todd A. Verdoorn;William Wisden

  • Divalent ion permeability of AMPA receptor channels is dominated by the edited form of a single subunit

    Nail Burnashev;Hannah Monyer;Peter H. Seeburg;Bert Sakmann

  • Structural determinants of ion flow through recombinant glutamate receptor channels.

    Todd A. Verdoorn;Nail Burnashev;Hannah Monyer;Peter H. Seeburg

  • Point mutation in an AMPA receptor gene rescues lethality in mice deficient in the RNA-editing enzyme ADAR2

    Miyoko Higuchi;Stefan Maas;Frank Nicolai Single;Jochen C. Hartner

  • Importance of AMPA receptors for hippocampal synaptic plasticity but not for spatial learning.

    Daniel Zamanillo;Rolf Sprengel;Øivind Hvalby;Vidar Jensen

  • Target-cell-specific facilitation and depression in neocortical circuits.

    Alex Reyes;Rafael Lujan;Rafael Lujan;Andrej Rozov;Nail Burnashev

  • A molecular determinant for submillisecond desensitization in glutamate receptors

    J. Mosbacher;R. Schoepfer;Hannah Monyer;N. Burnashev

  • The KA-2 subunit of excitatory amino acid receptors shows widespread expression in brain and forms ion channels with distantly related subunits

    Anne Herb;Nail Burnashev;Pia Werner;Bert Sakmann

  • Oxytocin-mediated GABA inhibition during delivery attenuates autism pathogenesis in rodent offspring.

    Roman Tyzio;Roman Tyzio;Romain Nardou;Diana C. Ferrari;Timur Tsintsadze;Timur Tsintsadze

  • Fractional calcium currents through recombinant GluR channels of the NMDA, AMPA and kainate receptor subtypes.

    Nail Burnashev;Z. Zhou;Erwin Neher;Bert Sakmann

  • Determinants of Ca2+ permeability in both TM1 and TM2 of high affinity kainate receptor channels: diversity by RNA editing.

    Martin Köhler;Nail Burnashev;Bert Sakmann;Peter H. Seeburg

  • Control by asparagine residues of calcium permeability and magnesium blockade in the NMDA receptor

    N Burnashev;R Schoepfer;H Monyer;JP Ruppersberg

  • Transmitter release modulation by intracellular Ca2+ buffers in facilitating and depressing nerve terminals of pyramidal cells in layer 2/3 of the rat neocortex indicates a target cell-specific difference in presynaptic calcium dynamics

    Andrej Rozov;Nail Burnashev;Bert Sakmann;Erwin Neher

  • Importance of the Intracellular Domain of NR2 Subunits for NMDA Receptor Function In Vivo

    Rolf Sprengel;Bettina Suchanek;Carla Amico;Rossella Brusa

  • Calcium-permeable AMPA-kainate receptors in fusiform cerebellar glial cells

    Nail Burnashev;A. Khodorova;Peter Jonas;Paul Johannes Helm

  • GRIN2A mutations in acquired epileptic aphasia and related childhood focal epilepsies and encephalopathies with speech and language dysfunction.

    Gaetan Lesca;Gabrielle Rudolf;Nadine Bruneau;Natalia Lozovaya

  • Molecular mechanisms controlling calcium entry through AMPA-type glutamate receptor channels

    Peter Jonas;Nail Burnashev

  • A glutamate receptor channel with high affinity for domoate and kainate.

    Bernd Sommer;Nail Burnashev;Todd A. Verdoorn;Kari Keinänen

Frequent Co-Authors

Hannah Monyer
Hannah Monyer German Cancer Research Center
Yehezkel Ben-Ari
Yehezkel Ben-Ari Neurochlore (France)
Vidar Jensen
Vidar Jensen University of Oslo
Rashid Giniatullin
Rashid Giniatullin University of Eastern Finland
Peter Jonas
Peter Jonas Institute of Science and Technology Austria
William Wisden
William Wisden Imperial College London
Georg Köhr
Georg Köhr Heidelberg University
Ilgam Khalilov
Ilgam Khalilov Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Gaetan Lesca
Gaetan Lesca Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Huibert D. Mansvelder
Huibert D. Mansvelder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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