Rhona Mirsky

Research.com Recognitions

• Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
• Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Best Publications

• The origin and development of glial cells in peripheral nerves

  Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  1871
  Citations

• The repair Schwann cell and its function in regenerating nerves

  K. R. Jessen;R. Mirsky

  1288
  Citations

• Galactocerebroside is a specific cell-surface antigenic marker for oligodendrocytes in culture

  Martin C. Raff;Rhona Mirsky;K. L. Fields;Robert P. Lisak

  943
  Citations

• Cell-type-specific markers for distinguishing and studying neurons and the major classes of glial cells in culture

  Martin C. Raff;Martin C. Raff;Kay L. Fields;Kay L. Fields;Sen-Itiroh Hakomori;Sen-Itiroh Hakomori;Rhona Mirsky;Rhona Mirsky

  918
  Citations

• c-Jun Reprograms Schwann Cells of Injured Nerves to Generate a Repair Cell Essential for Regeneration

  Peter J. Arthur-Farraj;Morwena Latouche;Daniel K. Wilton;Susanne Quintes

  902
  Citations

• Schwann Cells: Development and Role in Nerve Repair

  Kristján R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky;Alison C. Lloyd

  843
  Citations

• All classes of intermediate filaments share a common antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody

  Rebecca M. Pruss;Rhona Mirsky;Martin C. Raff;Robin Thorpe

  831
  Citations

• Negative regulation of myelination: relevance for development, injury, and demyelinating disease.

  Kristján R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  665
  Citations

• Neu differentiation factor is a neuron-glia signal and regulates survival, proliferation, and maturation of rat Schwann cell precursors.

  Z. Dong;A. Brennan;N. Liu;Y. Yarden

  572
  Citations

• Glial cells in the enteric nervous system contain glial fibrillary acidic protein

  Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  563
  Citations

• The effects of cAMP on differentiation of cultured Schwann cells: progression from an early phenotype (04+) to a myelin phenotype (P0+, GFAP-, N-CAM-, NGF-receptor-) depends on growth inhibition.

  L Morgan;K R Jessen;R Mirsky

  516
  Citations

• Denervated Schwann cells attract macrophages by secretion of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in a process regulated by interleukin-6 and LIF

  George K. Tofaris;Paul H. Patterson;Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  512
  Citations

• Myelin-specific proteins and glycolipids in rat Schwann cells and oligodendrocytes in culture.

  R Mirsky;J Winter;E R Abney;R M Pruss

  510
  Citations

• The Success and Failure of the Schwann Cell Response to Nerve Injury.

  Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  493
  Citations

• Schwann cell autophagy, myelinophagy, initiates myelin clearance from injured nerves

  Jose A. Gomez-Sanchez;Lucy Carty;Marta Iruarrizaga-Lejarreta;Marta Palomo-Irigoyen

  469
  Citations

• c-Jun is a negative regulator of myelination

  DB Parkinson;A Bhaskaran;P Arthur-Farraj;LA Noon

  458
  Citations

• Schwann cells and their precursors emerge as major regulators of nerve development.

  Kristjan R Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  405
  Citations

• GABA may be a neurotransmitter in the vertebrate peripheral nervous system

  Kristján R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky;Marion E. Dennison;Geoffrey Burnstock

  378
  Citations

• Schwann cell-derived Desert hedgehog controls the development of peripheral nerve sheaths.

  Eric Parmantier;Bruce Lynn;Durward Lawson;Mark Turmaine

  370
  Citations

• Notch controls embryonic Schwann cell differentiation, postnatal myelination and adult plasticity

  Ashwin Woodhoo;Maria B Duran Alonso;Anna Droggiti;Mark Turmaine

  369
  Citations

• The Schwann cell precursor and its fate: a study of cell death and differentiation during gliogenesis in rat embryonic nerves.

  K.R. Jessen;A. Brennan;L. Morgan;R. Mirsky

  365
  Citations

• Schwann cell precursors and their development.

  Kristjan R. Jessen;Rhona Mirsky

  364
  Citations