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Ronald S. Petralia is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within the biological and neurosciences, with a focus on molecular and cellular mechanisms. The main fields of study include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 37 publications, and Neuroscience, with 18 publications.

Within these broader fields, Petralia's work is concentrated in several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Physiology, and Epidemiology. Their research touches on specific topics including Cellular transport and secretion, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Ion channel regulation and function, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

Some of the frequent publication venues where Petralia's research appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 4 publications; iScience, with 2 publications; Journal of Clinical Investigation; Neuron; and Journal of Neuroscience.

Frequent collaborators in research include Yaxian Wang, with 18 coauthored works; Dax A. Hoffman, with 6; Kaizheng Duan, with 5; Zheng Li, with 5; and Jonathan G. Murphy, with 5. These coauthorship patterns indicate ongoing collaborative efforts in their research endeavors.

Recent publications by Ronald S. Petralia illustrate their focus and range within neuroscience and cell biology:

  • Exosomes mediate sensory hair cell protection in the inner ear (2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation)
  • Mitophagy in the basolateral amygdala mediates increased anxiety induced by aversive social experience (2021, Neuron)
  • The BAD-BAX-Caspase-3 Cascade Modulates Synaptic Vesicle Pools via Autophagy (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Mitochondrial Protrusions in Neuronal Cells (2020, iScience)
  • NudC regulated Lis1 stability is essential for the maintenance of dynamic microtubule ends in axon terminals (2022, iScience)

Best Publications

  • Rapid Spine Delivery and Redistribution of AMPA Receptors After Synaptic NMDA Receptor Activation

    Song-Hai Shi;Yasunori Hayashi;Ronald S. Petralia;Shahid H. Zaman

  • Light and electron immunocytochemical localization of AMPA-selective glutamate receptors in the rat brain.

    Ronald S. Petralia;Robert J. Wenthold

  • Stargazin regulates synaptic targeting of AMPA receptors by two distinct mechanisms

    Lu Chen;Dane M. Chetkovich;Ronald S. Petralia;Neal T. Sweeney

  • Light and electron microscope distribution of the NMDA receptor subunit NMDAR1 in the rat nervous system using a selective anti-peptide antibody

    RS Petralia;N Yokotani;RJ Wenthold

  • Coupling of mGluR/Homer and PSD-95 Complexes by the Shank Family of Postsynaptic Density Proteins

    Jian Cheng Tu;Bo Xiao;Scott Naisbitt;Scott Naisbitt;Joseph P. Yuan

  • Evidence for multiple AMPA receptor complexes in hippocampal CA1/CA2 neurons.

    RJ Wenthold;RS Petralia;AS Niedzielski

  • Phosphorylation of the AMPA Receptor GluR1 Subunit Is Required for Synaptic Plasticity and Retention of Spatial Memory

    Hey Kyoung Lee;Kogo Takamiya;Jung Soo Han;Hengye Man

  • Arc/Arg3.1 Interacts with the Endocytic Machinery to Regulate AMPA Receptor Trafficking

    Shoaib Chowdhury;Jason D. Shepherd;Hiroyuki Okuno;Gregory Lyford

  • The metabotropic glutamate receptors, mGluR2 and mGluR3, show unique postsynaptic, presynaptic and glial localizations.

    R.S. Petralia;Y.-X. Wang;A.S. Niedzielski;R.J. Wenthold

  • Homer regulates the association of group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors with multivalent complexes of homer-related, synaptic proteins.

    Bo Xiao;Jian Cheng Tu;Ronald S Petralia;Joseph P Yuan

  • A developmental change in NMDA receptor-associated proteins at hippocampal synapses.

    Nathalie Sans;Ronald S. Petralia;Ya Xian Wang;Jaroslav Blahos

  • The NMDA receptor subunits NR2A and NR2B show histological and ultrastructural localization patterns similar to those of NR1

    RS Petralia;YX Wang;RJ Wenthold

  • Functional studies and distribution define a family of transmembrane AMPA receptor regulatory proteins

    Susumu Tomita;Lu Chen;Yoshimi Kawasaki;Ronald S. Petralia

  • Selective acquisition of AMPA receptors over postnatal development suggests a molecular basis for silent synapses

    R. S. Petralia;J. A. Esteban;Y.–X. Wang;J. G. Partridge

  • Synaptic Clustering of AMPA Receptors by the Extracellular Immediate-Early Gene Product Narp

    Richard J O’Brien;Desheng Xu;Ronald S Petralia;Oswald Steward

  • Trafficking of NMDA receptors.

    Robert J Wenthold;Kate Prybylowski;Steve Standley;Nathalie Sans

  • Histological and ultrastructural localization of the kainate receptor subunits, KA2 and GluR6/7, in the rat nervous system using selective antipeptide antibodies

    Ronald S. Petralia;Ya-Xian Wang;Robert J. Wenthold

  • NMDA receptor trafficking through an interaction between PDZ proteins and the exocyst complex

    Nathalie Sans;Kate Prybylowski;Ronald S. Petralia;Kai Chang

  • Activation of the TRPC1 cation channel by metabotropic glutamate receptor mGluR1.

    Sang Jeong Kim;Sang Jeong Kim;Yu Shin Kim;Joseph P. Yuan;Ronald S. Petralia

  • Regulation of dendritic excitability by activity-dependent trafficking of the A-type K+ channel subunit Kv4.2 in hippocampal neurons

    Jinhyun Kim;Sung-Cherl Jung;Ann M. Clemens;Ronald S. Petralia

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark P. Mattson
Mark P. Mattson Johns Hopkins University
Paul F. Worley
Paul F. Worley Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Richard L. Huganir
Richard L. Huganir Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kenneth A. Pelkey
Kenneth A. Pelkey National Institutes of Health
Chris J. McBain
Chris J. McBain National Institutes of Health
Thomas B. Friedman
Thomas B. Friedman National Institutes of Health
Kogo Takamiya
Kogo Takamiya University of Miyazaki
Yuan Xiang Tao
Yuan Xiang Tao Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Heather A. Cameron
Heather A. Cameron National Institutes of Health
David J. Linden
David J. Linden Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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