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D-Index
52
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8058
World Ranking
5396
National Ranking
2399

Best Publications

  • Activation of the caspase-3 apoptotic cascade in traumatic spinal cord injury.

    Joe E. Springer;Robert D. Azbill;Pamela E. Knapp

  • Synergistic increases in intracellular Ca2+, and the release of MCP-1, RANTES, and IL-6 by astrocytes treated with opiates and HIV-1 Tat.

    Nazira El-Hage;Julie A. Gurwell;Indrapal N. Singh;Pamela E. Knapp

  • Active, phosphorylated fingolimod inhibits histone deacetylases and facilitates fear extinction memory

    Nitai C Hait;Laura E Wise;Jeremy C Allegood;Megan O'Brien

  • Oligodendroglial cell death in jimpy mice: an explanation for the myelin deficit

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  • Exposure to cell phone radiation up-regulates apoptosis genes in primary cultures of neurons and astrocytes.

    Tian-Yong Zhao;Shi-Ping Zou;Pamela E. Knapp

  • Synaptic Dysfunction in the Hippocampus Accompanies Learning and Memory Deficits in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Tat Transgenic Mice

    Sylvia Fitting;Bogna M. Ignatowska-Jankowska;Cecilia Bull;Robert P. Skoff

  • Cultured oligodendrocytes mimic in vivo phenotypic characteristics: Cell shape, expression of myelin-specific antigens, and membrane production☆

    P.E. Knapp;W.P. Bartlett;R.P. Skoff

  • Morphine causes rapid increases in glial activation and neuronal injury in the striatum of inducible HIV‐1 tat transgenic mice

    Annadora J. Bruce-Keller;Jadwiga Turchan-Cholewo;Eric J. Smart;Theresa Geurin

  • Division of astroblasts and oligodendroblasts in postnatal rodent brain: evidence for separate astrocyte and oligodendrocyte lineages.

    Robert P. Skoff;Pamela E. Knapp

  • HIV-1 Tat and opiate-induced changes in astrocytes promote chemotaxis of microglia through the expression of MCP-1 and alternative chemokines.

    Nazira El-Hage;Guanghan Wu;Juan Wang;Jayakrishna Ambati

  • Rat Nucleus Accumbens Core Astrocytes Modulate Reward and the Motivation to Self-Administer Ethanol after Abstinence

    Cecilia Bull;Kelen C C Freitas;Shiping Zou;Ryan S Poland

  • Interactive comorbidity between opioid drug abuse and HIV-1 Tat: chronic exposure augments spine loss and sublethal dendritic pathology in striatal neurons.

    Sylvia Fitting;Ruqiang Xu;Cecilia Bull;Shreya K. Buch

  • Anti-death properties of TNF against metabolic poisoning: mitochondrial stabilization by MnSOD.

    Annadora J Bruce-Keller;James W Geddes;Pamela E Knapp;Robert W McFall

  • Opioid System Diversity in Developing Neurons, Astroglia and Oligodendroglia in the Subventricular Zone and Striatum: Impact on Gliogenesis In Vivo

    Anne Stiene-Martin;Pamela E. Knapp;Kenneth Martin;Julie A. Gurwell

  • Prodynorphin Mutations Cause the Neurodegenerative Disorder Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 23

    Georgy Bakalkin;Hiroyuki Watanabe;Justyna Jezierska;Cloë Depoorter

  • Morphine Exacerbates HIV-1 Tat-Induced Cytokine Production in Astrocytes through Convergent Effects on [Ca2+]i, NF-κB Trafficking and Transcription

    Nazira El-Hage;Annadora J. Bruce-Keller;Tatiana Yakovleva;Igor Bazov

  • Morphine and HIV-Tat increase microglial-free radical production and oxidative stress: possible role in cytokine regulation.

    Jadwiga Turchan-Cholewo;Filomena O. Dimayuga;Sunita Gupta;Jeffrey N. Keller

  • Apoptotic death of striatal neurons induced by human immunodeficiency virus-1 Tat and gp120: Differential involvement of caspase-3 and endonuclease G.

    Indrapal N Singh;Robin J Goody;Celeste Dean;Nael M Ahmad

  • Endogenous opioid system in developing normal and jimpy oligodendrocytes: mu and kappa opioid receptors mediate differential mitogenic and growth responses.

    Pamela E. Knapp;Katalin Maderspach;Kurt F. Hauser

  • Morphine potentiates neurodegenerative effects of HIV-1 Tat through actions at µ-opioid receptor-expressing glia

    Shiping Zou;Sylvia Fitting;Yun-Kyung Hahn;Sandra P. Welch

  • HIV-1 neuropathogenesis: glial mechanisms revealed through substance abuse.

    Kurt F. Hauser;Nazira El-Hage;Anne Stiene-Martin;William F. Maragos

  • Opiate Drug Use and the Pathophysiology of NeuroAIDS

    Kurt F Hauser;Sylvia Fitting;Seth M Dever;Elizabeth M Podhaizer

  • Pathobiology of dynorphins in trauma and disease

    Kurt F. Hauser;Jane V. Aldrich;Kevin J. Anderson;Georgy Bakalkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Georgy Bakalkin
Georgy Bakalkin Uppsala University
Jeffrey N. Keller
Jeffrey N. Keller Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Marina Mata
Marina Mata University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard J. Sinke
Richard J. Sinke University Medical Center Groningen
Andreas Faissner
Andreas Faissner Ruhr University Bochum
Stephen W. Scheff
Stephen W. Scheff University of Kentucky
Robert P. Skoff
Robert P. Skoff Wayne State University
Cisca Wijmenga
Cisca Wijmenga University Medical Center Groningen
Joe E. Springer
Joe E. Springer University of Kentucky

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