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Patrizia Casaccia is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Neuroscience. The subfields to which they have notably contributed include Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Developmental Neuroscience, Neurology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The primary topics explored in their body of work reflect key themes in modern molecular neuroscience and disease mechanisms. These topics comprise:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Casaccia has coauthored multiple studies with several frequent collaborators. These include David K. Dansu, Dennis Huang, Sami Sauma, Jia Liu, and Peter Canoll.

The researcher's frequent venues of publication are diverse, spanning major journals and repositories:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Glia
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports

Notable recent publications include:

  • Bacterial neurotoxic metabolites in multiple sclerosis cerebrospinal fluid and plasma, 2021, Brain
  • TET1-mediated DNA hydroxymethylation regulates adult remyelination in mice, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Beyond the neuron: Role of non-neuronal cells in stress disorders, 2022, Neuron
  • Huntington disease oligodendrocyte maturation deficits revealed by single-nucleus RNAseq are rescued by thiamine-biotin supplementation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Astrocytes deliver CK1 to neurons via extracellular vesicles in response to inflammation promoting the translation and amyloidogenic processing of APP, 2020, Journal of Extracellular Vesicles

Best Publications

  • Gut bacteria from multiple sclerosis patients modulate human T cells and exacerbate symptoms in mouse models.

    Egle Cekanaviciute;Bryan B. Yoo;Tessel F. Runia;Justine W. Debelius

  • Impaired adult myelination in the prefrontal cortex of socially isolated mice.

    Jia Liu;Karen Dietz;Jacqueline M DeLoyht;Xiomara Pedre

  • Brain Cell Type Specific Gene Expression and Co-expression Network Architectures

    Andrew T. McKenzie;Minghui Wang;Mads E. Hauberg;John F. Fullard

  • Integrative network analysis of nineteen brain regions identifies molecular signatures and networks underlying selective regional vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease

    Minghui Wang;Panos Roussos;Andrew McKenzie;Xianxiao Zhou

  • Microbiota-driven transcriptional changes in prefrontal cortex override genetic differences in social behavior

    Mar Gacias;Sevasti Gaspari;Patricia-Mae G Santos;Sabrina Tamburini

  • Epigenome-wide differences in pathology-free regions of multiple sclerosis-affected brains

    Jimmy L Huynh;Paras Garg;Tin Htwe Thin;Seungyeul Yoo

  • Maternal Cannabis Use Alters Ventral Striatal Dopamine D2 Gene Regulation in the Offspring

    Jennifer A. DiNieri;Xinyu Wang;Henrietta Szutorisz;Sabrina M. Spano

  • Astrocyte-shed extracellular vesicles regulate the peripheral leukocyte response to inflammatory brain lesions

    Alex M. Dickens;Luis B. Tovar-Y-Romo;Seung Wan Yoo;Amanda L. Trout

  • Clemastine Enhances Myelination in the Prefrontal Cortex and Rescues Behavioral Changes in Socially Isolated Mice.

    Jia Liu;Jeffrey L. Dupree;Mar Gacias;Rebecca Frawley

  • HDAC1 nuclear export induced by pathological conditions is essential for the onset of axonal damage.

    Jin Young Kim;Siming Shen;Karen Dietz;Ye He

  • Common dysregulation network in the human prefrontal cortex underlies two neurodegenerative diseases

    Manikandan Narayanan;Jimmy L Huynh;Kai Wang;Xia Yang

  • Role of Tet1 and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in cocaine action

    Jian Feng;Ningyi Shao;Keith E. Szulwach;Vincent Vialou;Vincent Vialou

  • Changed Histone Acetylation Patterns in Normal-Appearing White Matter and Early Multiple Sclerosis Lesions

    Xiomara Pedre;Fabrizio Mastronardi;Wolfgang Bruck;Gerardo López-Rodas

  • Epigenetic mechanisms in multiple sclerosis: implications for pathogenesis and treatment

    Jimmy L Huynh;Patrizia Casaccia

  • Axonal Damage in Multiple Sclerosis

    Jeffery D. Haines;Matilde Inglese;Patrizia Casaccia

  • Cerebrospinal fluid ceramides from patients with multiple sclerosis impair neuronal bioenergetics

    Oscar G. Vidaurre;Jeffery D. Haines;Ilana Katz Sand;Kadidia P. Adula

  • HDAC inhibitors and neurodegeneration: At the edge between protection and damage

    Karen C. Dietz;Patrizia Casaccia

  • Epigenetic regulation of oligodendrocyte identity

    Jia Liu;Patrizia Casaccia

  • Multiscale network modeling of oligodendrocytes reveals molecular components of myelin dysregulation in Alzheimer's disease

    Andrew T. McKenzie;Sarah Moyon;Sarah Moyon;Minghui Wang;Igor Katsyv

  • Selective chemical modulation of gene transcription favors oligodendrocyte lineage progression.

    Mar Gacias;Guillermo Gerona-Navarro;Alexander N. Plotnikov;Guangtao Zhang

  • Yy1 as a molecular link between neuregulin and transcriptional modulation of peripheral myelination.

    Ye He;Jin Young Kim;Jeffrey Dupree;Ambika Tewari

  • Identification of a gene regulatory network necessary for the initiation of oligodendrocyte differentiation.

    Victoria A. Swiss;Tung Nguyen;Jason Dugas;Adiljan Ibrahim

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarkis K. Mazmanian
Sarkis K. Mazmanian California Institute of Technology
Jeffrey L. Dupree
Jeffrey L. Dupree Virginia Commonwealth University
Matilde Inglese
Matilde Inglese University of Genoa
Fan Zhang
Fan Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bin Zhang
Bin Zhang Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Vahram Haroutunian
Vahram Haroutunian Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Eric E. Schadt
Eric E. Schadt Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Norman J. Haughey
Norman J. Haughey Tulane University
Vincent Vialou
Vincent Vialou Sorbonne University
Manel Esteller
Manel Esteller Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute

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