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Stevens K. Rehen is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their work spans multiple fields and subfields, including molecular biology, neurology, infectious diseases, clinical psychology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research covers a diverse range of topics, notably focusing on the long-term effects of COVID-19, mosquito-borne diseases and control, psychedelics and drug studies, COVID-19 clinical research, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, epigenetics and DNA methylation, as well as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have published the most, along with Scientific Reports, Glia, Stem Cell Research, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Morphological, cellular, and molecular basis of brain infection in COVID-19 patients" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Zika virus infection leads to mitochondrial failure, oxidative stress and DNA damage in human iPSC-derived astrocytes" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "In vitro antiviral activity of the anti-HCV drugs daclatasvir and sofosbuvir against SARS-CoV-2, the aetiological agent of COVID-19" (2021, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy)
  • "Morphological, cellular and molecular basis of brain infection in COVID-19 patients" (2020, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • "The cyanobacterial saxitoxin exacerbates neural cell death and brain malformations induced by Zika virus" (2020, PLoS neglected tropical diseases)

Stevens K. Rehen collaborates frequently with a network of co-authors. Notable collaborators include Livia Goto-Silva, Gabriela Vitória, Karina Karmirian, Letícia R. Q. Souza, and Marília Zaluar P. Guimarães, each contributing to numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Zika virus impairs growth in human neurospheres and brain organoids

    Patricia P. Garcez;Erick Correia Loiola;Rodrigo Madeiro da Costa;Luiza M. Higa

  • Chromosomal variation in neurons of the developing and adult mammalian nervous system.

    Stevens Kastrup Rehen;Michael J. McConnell;Dhruv Kaushal;Marcy A. Kingsbury

  • Morphological, cellular, and molecular basis of brain infection in COVID-19 patients

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  • Constitutional Aneuploidy in the Normal Human Brain

    Stevens K. Rehen;Yun C. Yung;Matthew P. McCreight;Dhruv Kaushal

  • Non-proliferative effects of lysophosphatidic acid enhance cortical growth and folding

    Marcy A Kingsbury;Marcy A Kingsbury;Stevens K Rehen;Stevens K Rehen;James J A Contos;Christine M Higgins;Christine M Higgins

  • Aneuploid neurons are functionally active and integrated into brain circuitry.

    M. A. Kingsbury;B. Friedman;M. J. McConnell;S. K. Rehen

  • The spectrum of neuropathological changes associated with congenital Zika virus infection

    Leila Chimelli;Adriana S. O. Melo;Elyzabeth Avvad-Portari;Clayton A. Wiley

  • Lysophosphatidic acid influences the morphology and motility of young, postmitotic cortical neurons.

    Nobuyuki Fukushima;Joshua A. Weiner;Dhruv Kaushal;James J.A. Contos

  • Altered Oxygen Metabolism Associated to Neurogenesis of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from a Schizophrenic Patient

    Bruna da Silveira Paulsen;Renata de Moraes Maciel;Antonio Galina;Mariana Souza da Silveira

  • Chromosome segregation defects contribute to aneuploidy in normal neural progenitor cells

    Amy H. Yang;Dhruv Kaushal;Stevens K. Rehen;Kristin Kriedt

  • Genomic mosaicism with increased amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene copy number in single neurons from sporadic Alzheimer's disease brains

    Diane M Bushman;Gwendolyn E Kaeser;Benjamin Siddoway;Jurgen W Westra

  • Short term changes in the proteome of human cerebral organoids induced by 5-MeO-DMT

    Vanja Dakic;Juliana Minardi Nascimento;Rafaela Costa Sartore;Renata de Moraes Maciel

  • Zika virus disrupts molecular fingerprinting of human neurospheres.

    Patricia P. Garcez;Juliana Minardi Nascimento;Janaina Mota de Vasconcelos;Rodrigo Madeiro da Costa

  • Alteration of Gene Expression by Chromosome Loss in the Postnatal Mouse Brain

    Dhruv Kaushal;James J. A. Contos;Kai Treuner;Amy H. Yang

  • Human Dental Pulp Cells: A New Source of Cell Therapy in a Mouse Model of Compressive Spinal Cord Injury

    Fernanda Martins de Almeida;Suelen Adriani Marques;Bruna dos Santos Ramalho;Rafaela Fintelman Rodrigues

  • Harmine stimulates proliferation of human neural progenitors.

    Vanja Dakic;Renata de Moraes Maciel;Hannah Drummond;Juliana M. Nascimento

  • Derivation of Functional Human Astrocytes from Cerebral Organoids

    Rômulo Sperduto Dezonne;Rafaela Costa Sartore;Juliana Minardi Nascimento;Verônica M. Saia-Cereda

  • Lysophosphatidic acid receptor-dependent secondary effects via astrocytes promote neuronal differentiation.

    Tânia Cristina de Sampaio e Spohr;Ji Woong Choi;Shannon E. Gardell;Deron R. Herr

  • Contrasting effects of protein synthesis inhibition and of cyclic AMP on apoptosis in the developing retina

    S.K. Rehen;M.H. Varella;F.G. Freitas;M.O. Moraes

  • Human Cerebral Organoids and Fetal Brain Tissue Share Proteomic Similarities.

    Juliana Minardi Nascimento;Verônica M. Saia-Cereda;Rafaela C. Sartore;Rodrigo Madeiro da Costa

  • Failed Clearance of Aneuploid Embryonic Neural Progenitor Cells Leads to Excess Aneuploidy in the Atm-Deficient But Not the Trp53-Deficient Adult Cerebral Cortex

    Michael J. McConnell;Dhruv Kaushal;Amy H. Yang;Marcy A. Kingsbury

  • SARS-CoV-2 infects brain astrocytes of COVID-19 patients and impairs neuronal viability

    Fernanda Crunfli;Victor Corasolla Carregari;Flavio Protasio Veras;Pedro Henrique Vendramini

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerold Chun
Jerold Chun Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Fernanda Tovar-Moll
Fernanda Tovar-Moll Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Sidarta Ribeiro
Sidarta Ribeiro Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Fabiano L. Thompson
Fabiano L. Thompson Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Flávia Carvalho Alcantara Gomes
Flávia Carvalho Alcantara Gomes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Amilcar Tanuri
Amilcar Tanuri Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Sergio T. Ferreira
Sergio T. Ferreira Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Seishi Ogawa
Seishi Ogawa Kyoto University
Amanda Feilding
Amanda Feilding Beckley Foundation
Luiz E. Mello
Luiz E. Mello Federal University of Sao Paulo

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