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Overview

Steven Petrou is affiliated with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia. Their research primarily spans fields such as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Within these broader categories, their work focuses on subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientific topics that Steve Petrou covers include:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Steven Petrou has contributed to multiple recent papers, including the following:

  • Therapeutic Inhibition of Acid-Sensing Ion Channel 1a Recovers Heart Function After Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, 2021, Circulation
  • Antisense oligonucleotide therapy for KCNT1 encephalopathy, 2022, JCI Insight
  • GABA-mediated tonic inhibition differentially modulates gain in functional subtypes of cortical interneurons, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cation leak underlies neuronal excitability in an HCN1 developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, 2021, Brain
  • Fundamental Neurochemistry Review: GABAA receptor neurotransmission and epilepsy: Principles, disease mechanisms and pharmacotherapy, 2023, Journal of Neurochemistry

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • Epilepsia
  • Stem Cell Research

Steven Petrou's work shows collaborative efforts with frequent co-authors:

  • Snezana Maljevic
  • Christopher A. Reid
  • Géza Berecki
  • Kay Richards
  • Nikola Jancovski

Best Publications

  • Mutant GABA A receptor γ2-subunit in childhood absence epilepsy and febrile seizures

    Robyn H. Wallace;Carla Marini;Steven Petrou;Louise A. Harkin;Louise A. Harkin

  • Truncation of the GABAA-Receptor γ2 Subunit in a Family with Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus

    Louise A Harkin;Louise A Harkin;David Nicholas Bowser;Leanne M Dibbens;Leanne M Dibbens;Rita Singh

  • SCN1A mutations and epilepsy.

    John C. Mulley;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Steven Petrou;Leanne M. Dibbens;Leanne M. Dibbens

  • Missense mutations in the sodium-gated potassium channel gene KCNT1 cause severe autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

    Sarah E Heron;Katherine R Smith;Katherine R Smith;Melanie Bahlo;Melanie Bahlo;Lino Nobili

  • GABRD encoding a protein for extra- or peri-synaptic GABAA receptors is a susceptibility locus for generalized epilepsies

    Leanne M. Dibbens;Hua-Jun Feng;Michaella C. Richards;Louise A. Harkin

  • A GLU (496) TO ALA POLYMORPHISM LEADS TO LOSS OF FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN P2X7 RECEPTOR

    Ben J. Gu;Weiyi Zhang;Rebecca A. Worthington;Ronald Sluyter

  • Temporal lobe epilepsy and GEFS+ phenotypes associated with SCN1B mutations

    Ingrid E. Scheffer;Louise A. Harkin;Bronwyn E. Grinton;Leanne M. Dibbens

  • A recurrent de novo mutation in KCNC1 causes progressive myoclonus epilepsy

    Mikko Muona;Samuel F. Berkovic;Leanne M. Dibbens;Karen L. Oliver

  • Progress in Understanding and Treating SCN2A-Mediated Disorders

    Stephan J. Sanders;Arthur J. Campbell;Jeffrey R. Cottrell;Rikke S. Moller

  • Ion Channels in Genetic Epilepsy: From Genes and Mechanisms to Disease-Targeted Therapies.

    Julia Oyrer;Snezana Maljevic;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Samuel F. Berkovic

  • GABRA1 and STXBP1: Novel genetic causes of Dravet syndrome

    Gemma L Carvill;Sarah Weckhuysen;Sarah Weckhuysen;Jacinta M McMahon;Corinna Hartmann;Corinna Hartmann

  • Sequencing studies in human genetics: design and interpretation

    David B. Goldstein;Andrew Allen;Jonathan Keebler;Elliott H. Margulies

  • KCNT1 gain of function in 2 epilepsy phenotypes is reversed by quinidine.

    Carol J. Milligan;Melody Li;Elena V. Gazina;Sarah E. Heron

  • Channelopathies as a genetic cause of epilepsy.

    John C. Mulley;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Steven Petrou;Samuel F. Berkovic

  • De Novo Mutations in SLC1A2 and CACNA1A Are Important Causes of Epileptic Encephalopathies

    Candace T. Myers;Jacinta M. McMahon;Amy L. Schneider;Slavé Petrovski;Slavé Petrovski

  • Human epilepsies: interaction of genetic and acquired factors

    Samuel F. Berkovic;John C. Mulley;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Steven Petrou

  • Mechanisms of human inherited epilepsies

    Christopher A. Reid;Samuel F. Berkovic;Steven Petrou

  • A roadmap for precision medicine in the epilepsies

    S. F. Berkovic;I. E. Scheffer;S. Petrou;N. Delanty

  • P2X7 Receptor Cell Surface Expression and Cytolytic Pore Formation Are Regulated by a Distal C-terminal Region

    Megan L. Smart;Ben Gu;Rekha G. Panchal;James Wiley

  • Mutations in the GABA Transporter SLC6A1 Cause Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures

    Gemma L. Carvill;Jacinta M. McMahon;Amy Schneider;Matthew Zemel

  • An Ile-568 to Asn Polymorphism Prevents Normal Trafficking and Function of the Human P2X7 Receptor

    James S. Wiley;Lan-Phuong Dao-Ung;Changping Li;Anne N. Shemon

  • Erratum: De Novo Mutations in Synaptic Transmission Genes Including DNM1 Cause Epileptic Encephalopathies (American Journal of Human Genetics (2014) 95(4) (360–370)(S0002929714003838)(10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.08.013))

    Silke Appenzeller;Rudi Balling;Nina Barisic;Stéphanie Baulac

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher A. Reid
Christopher A. Reid Monash University
Samuel F. Berkovic
Samuel F. Berkovic University of Melbourne
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Snezana Maljevic
Snezana Maljevic Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
David A. Williams
David A. Williams Boston Children's Hospital
Leanne M. Dibbens
Leanne M. Dibbens University of South Australia
John C. Mulley
John C. Mulley Bangor University
James S. Wiley
James S. Wiley University of Melbourne
Slavé Petrovski
Slavé Petrovski AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
George Paxinos
George Paxinos Neuroscience Research Australia

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