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Peter W. Baas is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States and has a research focus primarily spanning the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Neuroscience. Their work covers various subfields, including Cell Biology, Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

Their contributions to scientific literature frequently address topics such as microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, mitochondrial function and pathology, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, cellular transport and secretion, and nerve injury and regeneration.

Peter W. Baas has published research in several scientific journals, with notable venues including:

  • Cytoskeleton
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Neurosciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Life Sciences

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter W. Baas include:

  • Resurrecting the Mysteries of Big Tau, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • Chronic neuronal activation increases dynamic microtubules to enhance functional axon regeneration after dorsal root crush injury, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mini-review: Microtubule sliding in neurons, 2021, Neuroscience Letters
  • A cellular approach to understanding and treating Gulf War Illness, 2021, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • Boston biorepository, recruitment and integrative network (BBRAIN): A resource for the Gulf War Illness scientific community, 2021, Life Sciences

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Liang Qiang
  • Xiaohuan Sun
  • Kimberly Sullivan
  • Ankita Patil
  • Philip L. Yates

Best Publications

  • Polarity orientation of microtubules in hippocampal neurons: uniformity in the axon and nonuniformity in the dendrite

    Peter W. Baas;Jeffrey S. Deitch;Mark M. Black;Gary A. Banker

  • Individual microtubules in the axon consist of domains that differ in both composition and stability.

    P W Baas;M M Black

  • Partial interruption of axonal transport due to microtubule breakage accounts for the formation of periodic varicosities after traumatic axonal injury

    Min D. Tang-Schomer;Victoria E. Johnson;Peter W. Baas;William Stewart;William Stewart

  • Changes in microtubule polarity orientation during the development of hippocampal neurons in culture.

    Peter W. Baas;Mark M. Black;Gary A. Banker

  • The Microtubule-severing Proteins Spastin and Katanin Participate Differently in the Formation of Axonal Branches

    Wenqian Yu;Liang Qiang;Joanna M. Solowska;Arzu Karabay;Arzu Karabay

  • Reorganization and movement of microtubules in axonal growth cones and developing interstitial branches.

    Erik W. Dent;John L. Callaway;Györgyi Szebenyi;Peter W. Baas

  • An essential role for katanin in severing microtubules in the neuron.

    Fridoon J. Ahmad;Wenqian Yu;Francis J. McNally;Peter W. Baas

  • Stability properties of neuronal microtubules.

    Peter W. Baas;Anand N. Rao;Andrew J. Matamoros;Lanfranco Leo

  • Tau protects microtubules in the axon from severing by katanin.

    Liang Qiang;Wenqian Yu;Athena Andreadis;Minhua Luo

  • Tau-dependent microtubule disassembly initiated by prefibrillar β-amyloid

    Michelle E. King;Ho-Man Kan;Peter W. Baas;Alev Erisir

  • Hooks and comets: The story of microtubule polarity orientation in the neuron.

    Peter W. Baas;Shen Lin

  • Changes in microtubule number and length during axon differentiation

    Wenqian Yu;Peter W. Baas

  • Role of cytoplasmic dynein in the axonal transport of microtubules and neurofilaments

    Yan He;Franto Francis;Kenneth A. Myers;Wenqian Yu

  • Microtubules and neuronal polarity: lessons from mitosis.

    Peter W Baas

  • Acetylation of Microtubules Influences Their Sensitivity to Severing by Katanin in Neurons and Fibroblasts

    Haruka Sudo;Peter W. Baas

  • Kinesin-5 regulates the growth of the axon by acting as a brake on its microtubule array

    Kenneth A. Myers;Peter W. Baas

  • Microtubule fragmentation and partitioning in the axon during collateral branch formation

    Wenqian Yu;F. J. Ahmad;P. W. Baas

  • Microtubule dynamics in axons and dendrites.

    P. W. Baas;T. Slaughter;A. Brown;M. M. Black

  • Tau Does Not Stabilize Axonal Microtubules but Rather Enables Them to Have Long Labile Domains

    Liang Qiang;Liang Qiang;Xiaohuan Sun;Xiaohuan Sun;Timothy O. Austin;Hemalatha Muralidharan

  • Hereditary spastic paraplegia SPG4: what is known and not known about the disease.

    Joanna M. Solowska;Peter W. Baas

  • The basis of polarity in neurons

    Mark M. Black;Peter W. Baas

  • Neuronal microtubules: when the MAP is the roadblock

    Peter W. Baas;Liang Qiang

  • Microtubules released from the neuronal centrosome are transported into the axon

    Fridoon J. Ahmad;Peter W. Baas

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard T. Conant
Richard T. Conant Colorado State University
Shubha Tole
Shubha Tole Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
George M. Smith
George M. Smith Temple University
Rodrigo A. España
Rodrigo A. España Drexel University
Liqun Luo
Liqun Luo Stanford University

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