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Nihal C. de Lanerolle

Nihal C. de Lanerolle

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
9355
World Ranking
8449
National Ranking
3605

Overview

Nihal C. de Lanerolle is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, focusing particularly on molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cancer research, epidemiology, and neurology.

Their scientific contributions include investigations into nuclear receptors and signaling, RNA regulation and disease, microRNA in disease regulation, traumatic brain injury research, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, as well as mitochondrial function and pathology.

Nihal C. de Lanerolle has coauthored work with several colleagues, including Amedeo Rapuano, Tih-Shih Lee, Alexander Y. Li, John G. Mantis, and Tore Eid.

Key venues for their research publications include:

  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Gene expression in the epileptic (EL) mouse hippocampus, 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
  • Periventricular White Matter Alterations From Explosive Blast in a Large Animal Model: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury or "Subconcussive" Injury?, 2020, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology

Best Publications

  • Erythropoietin crosses the blood-brain barrier to protect against experimental brain injury.

    Michael L. Brines;Pietro Ghezzi;Sonja Keenan;Davide Agnello

  • Hippocampal interneuron loss and plasticity in human temporal lobe epilepsy

    N. C. de Lanerolle;J. H. Kim;Richard J. Robbins;D. D. Spencer

  • Glia and epilepsy: excitability and inflammation

    Orrin Devinsky;Annamaria Vezzani;Souhel Najjar;Nihal C. De Lanerolle

  • Delayed K+ clearance associated with aquaporin-4 mislocalization: Phenotypic defects in brains of α-syntrophin-null mice

    Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam;Anne Williamson;Maria Palomba;Tore Eid

  • Loss of perivascular aquaporin 4 may underlie deficient water and K + homeostasis in the human epileptogenic hippocampus

    Tore Eid;Tih Shih W. Lee;Marion J. Thomas;Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam

  • A retrospective analysis of hippocampal pathology in human temporal lobe epilepsy: evidence for distinctive patient subcategories.

    Nihal C. De Lanerolle;Jung H. Kim;Anne Williamson;Susan S. Spencer

  • A selective loss of somatostatin in the hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Richard J. Robbins;Michael L. Brines;Jung H. Kim;Thomas Adrian

  • Glutamate and astrocytes—Key players in human mesial temporal lobe epilepsy?

    Tore Eid;Anne Williamson;Tih-Shih W Lee;Ognen A Petroff

  • New facets of the neuropathology and molecular profile of human temporal lobe epilepsy

    Nihal C. de Lanerolle;Tih-Shih Lee

  • Aquaporin-4 is increased in the sclerotic hippocampus in human temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Tih Shih Lee;Tore Eid;Shrikant Mane;Jung H. Kim

  • Gene Expression in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is Consistent with Increased Release of Glutamate by Astrocytes

    Tih-Shih Lee;Shrikant Mane;Tore Eid;Hongyu Zhao

  • Astrocytes and epilepsy.

    Nihal C. de Lanerolle;Tih-Shih Lee;Dennis D. Spencer

  • Recurrent seizures and brain pathology after inhibition of glutamine synthetase in the hippocampus in rats.

    Tore Eid;Arko Ghosh;Yue Wang;Henning Beckström

  • Loss of Perivascular Kir4.1 Potassium Channels in the Sclerotic Hippocampus of Patients With Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Kjell Heuser;Tore Eid;Fredrik Lauritzen;Fredrik Lauritzen;Anna E. Thoren

  • Immunohistochemical evidence of indolamine neurons in monkey spinal cord.

    Carole C. Lamotte;Donald R. Johns;Nihal C. de Lanerolle

  • Human spinal neurons: Innervation by both substance p and enkephalin

    Carole C. Lamotte;Nihal C. de Lanerolle

  • Morphology of dentate granule cells in the human epileptogenic hippocampus

    Gord von Campe;Dennis D. Spencer;Nihal C. de Lanerolle

  • Characteristics of an explosive blast-induced brain injury in an experimental model

    Nihal C. de Lanerolle;Faris Bandak;Dewey Kang;Alexander Y. Li

  • Ultrastructure of chemically defined neuron systems in the dorsal horn of the monkey. I. Substance P immunoreactivity.

    Nihal C. de Lanerolle;Carole C. LaMotte

  • Astrocytes from human hippocampal epileptogenic foci exhibit action potential-like responses.

    Edward R. O'Connor;Harald Sontheimer;Dennis D. Spencer;Nihal C. de Lanerolle

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis D. Spencer
Dennis D. Spencer Yale University
Tore Eid
Tore Eid Yale University
Susan S. Spencer
Susan S. Spencer Yale University
Ole Petter Ottersen
Ole Petter Ottersen University of Oslo
Jullie W. Pan
Jullie W. Pan University of Pittsburgh
Anne Williamson
Anne Williamson Yale University
Hitten P. Zaveri
Hitten P. Zaveri Yale University
Erlend A. Nagelhus
Erlend A. Nagelhus University of Oslo
Linda H. Bergersen
Linda H. Bergersen University of Oslo
Mark O. Cunningham
Mark O. Cunningham Trinity College Dublin

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