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Olivier Raineteau is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and molecular biology, with a focus on mechanisms underlying neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of cellular and molecular processes in neurological conditions, including neurogenesis and the functional transformation of brain cells in disease models.

Recent publications include:

  • Reprogramming reactive glia into interneurons reduces chronic seizure activity in a mouse model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, 2021, Cell stem cell
  • Neural processing of the reward value of pleasant odorants, 2021, Current Biology
  • Accelerated Dystrophy and Decay of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells in the APP/PS1 Model of Alzheimer's-Like Pathology, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Low biological fluctuation of mitochondrial CpG and non-CpG methylation at the single-molecule level, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Apoptosis, G1 Phase Stall, and Premature Differentiation Account for Low Chimeric Competence of Human and Rhesus Monkey Naive Pluripotent Stem Cells, 2020, Stem Cell Reports

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Louis Foucault
  • Guillaume Marcy
  • Carlos Parras
  • Rihab Azmani
  • Christophe Heinrich

Olivier Raineteau's work is predominantly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cell stem cell
  • Current Biology

Their main fields of study are:

  • Neuroscience
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, the scientist focuses on subfields including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cancer Research
  • Neurology

The key research topics they cover include:

  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Best Publications

  • The injured spinal cord spontaneously forms a new intraspinal circuit in adult rats.

    Florence M Bareyre;Florence M Bareyre;Martin Kerschensteiner;Martin Kerschensteiner;Olivier Raineteau;Thomas C Mettenleiter

  • Plasticity of motor systems after incomplete spinal cord injury

    Olivier Raineteau;Martin E. Schwab

  • Neurite growth inhibitors restrict plasticity and functional recovery following corticospinal tract lesions.

    Michaela Thallmair;Gerlinde A. S. Metz;Werner J. Z'Graggen;Olivier Raineteau

  • Locomotor Recovery in Spinal Cord-Injured Rats Treated with an Antibody Neutralizing the Myelin-Associated Neurite Growth Inhibitor Nogo-A

    Doron Merkler;Gerlinde A. S. Metz;Olivier Raineteau;Volker Dietz

  • Adult generation of glutamatergic olfactory bulb interneurons

    Monika S Brill;Jovica Ninkovic;Eleanor Winpenny;Rebecca D Hodge

  • Anatomical correlates of locomotor recovery following dorsal and ventral lesions of the rat spinal cord.

    P. Schucht;O. Raineteau;O. Raineteau;M.E. Schwab;M.E. Schwab;K. Fouad;K. Fouad

  • Reorganization of descending motor tracts in the rat spinal cord.

    Olivier Raineteau;Karim Fouad;Florence M. Bareyre;Martin E. Schwab

  • Functional switch between motor tracts in the presence of the mAb IN-1 in the adult rat

    Olivier Raineteau;Karim Fouad;Pascal Noth;Michaela Thallmair

  • Perisynaptic Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans Restrict Structural Plasticity in an Integrin-Dependent Manner

    Clara Orlando;Jeanne Ster;Urs Gerber;James W. Fawcett

  • Red nucleus projections to distinct motor neuron pools in the rat spinal cord.

    Martin Küchler;Karim Fouad;Oliver Weinmann;Martin E. Schwab

  • Neurogenesis in hippocampal slice cultures.

    Olivier Raineteau;Lotty Rietschin;Gérard Gradwohl;François Guillemot

  • Molecular diversity subdivides the adult forebrain neural stem cell population.

    Claudio Giachino;Onur Basak;Sebastian Lugert;Philip Knuckles

  • Adding a spatial dimension to postnatal ventricular-subventricular zone neurogenesis

    Roberto Fiorelli;Kasum Azim;Bruno Fischer;Olivier Raineteau

  • Reaching beyond the midline: why are human brains cross wired?

    Serge Vulliemoz;Olivier Raineteau;Denis Jabaudon

  • Compensatory Sprouting and Impulse Rerouting after Unilateral Pyramidal Tract Lesion in Neonatal Rats

    Werner J. Z'Graggen;Karim Fouad;Olivier Raineteau;Gerlinde A. S. Metz

  • p27Kip1 Is a Microtubule-Associated Protein that Promotes Microtubule Polymerization during Neuron Migration

    Juliette D. Godin;Noémie Thomas;Sophie Laguesse;Lina Malinouskaya

  • Reprogramming reactive glia into interneurons reduces chronic seizure activity in a mouse model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Célia Lentini;Marie d’Orange;Nicolás Marichal;Marie-Madeleine Trottmann

  • NMDA receptors and the differential ischemic vulnerability of hippocampal neurons

    Christine E. Gee;Pascal Benquet;Olivier Raineteau;Lotty Rietschin

  • Persistent Wnt/β-catenin signaling determines dorsalization of the postnatal subventricular zone and neural Stem cell specification into oligodendrocytes and glutamatergic neurons

    Kasum Azim;Bruno Fischer;Anahi Hurtado-Chong;Kalina Draganova

  • Environmental signals regulate lineage choice and temporal maturation of neural stem cells from human embryonic stem cells.

    Alexis J Joannides;Daniel J Webber;Olivier Raineteau;Claire Kelly

  • Proliferating neuronal progenitors in the postnatal hippocampus transiently express the proneural gene Ngn2

    Ilknur Ozen;Christophe Galichet;Colin Watts;Carlos Parras

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. Schwab
Martin E. Schwab University of Zurich
Arthur M. Butt
Arthur M. Butt University of Portsmouth
Karim Fouad
Karim Fouad University of Alberta
François Guillemot
François Guillemot The Francis Crick Institute
Benedikt Berninger
Benedikt Berninger King's College London
Magdalena Götz
Magdalena Götz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Brigitte Malgrange
Brigitte Malgrange University of Liège
Gerlinde A. S. Metz
Gerlinde A. S. Metz University of Lethbridge
Kenneth Campbell
Kenneth Campbell Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Peter Heutink
Peter Heutink German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

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