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Overview

Susanna Rosi is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on neurology, molecular biology, physiology, immunology, and aging as subfields of study.

The main topics addressed in Rosi's work include:

  • Neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms
  • Traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances
  • S100 proteins and annexins
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study
  • Genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms
  • Immune cells in cancer

They have published extensively, with frequent contributions to various scholarly venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Nature Cancer
  • eLife
  • Molecular Neurodegeneration

Selected recent papers include:

  • A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets, 2022, Nature Cancer
  • Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related memory decline in mice, 2020, eLife
  • Novel microglia-mediated mechanisms underlying synaptic loss and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury, 2021, Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • The impact of deep space radiation on cognitive performance: From biological sex to biomarkers to countermeasures, 2021, Science Advances
  • Roadmap for Advancing Pre-Clinical Science in Traumatic Brain Injury, 2021, Journal of Neurotrauma

Rosi frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Karen Krukowski
  • Elma S. Frias
  • Maria Serena Paladini
  • Amber Nolan
  • Katherine Grue

Best Publications

  • Spatial Exploration-Induced Arc mRNA and Protein Expression: Evidence for Selective, Network-Specific Reactivation

    Victor Ramírez-Amaya;Almira Vazdarjanova;Dalia Mikhael;Susanna Rosi

  • Spatial exploration induces ARC, a plasticity-related immediate-early gene, only in calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II-positive principal excitatory and inhibitory neurons of the rat forebrain.

    Almira Vazdarjanova;Victor Ramirez-Amaya;Victor Ramirez-Amaya;Nathan Insel;Thane K. Plummer

  • TNF-α protein synthesis inhibitor restores neuronal function and reverses cognitive deficits induced by chronic neuroinflammation

    Karim Belarbi;Timothy Jopson;David Tweedie;Carla Arellano

  • Beta-amyloid-induced inflammation and cholinergic hypofunction in the rat brain in vivo: involvement of the p38MAPK pathway

    Maria Grazia Giovannini;Carla Scali;Costanza Prosperi;Arianna Bellucci

  • Tumor necrosis factor-α synthesis inhibitor 3,6′-dithiothalidomide attenuates markers of inflammation, Alzheimer pathology and behavioral deficits in animal models of neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s disease

    David Tweedie;Ryan A Ferguson;Kelly Fishman;Kathryn A Frankola

  • CCR2 Antagonism Alters Brain Macrophage Polarization and Ameliorates Cognitive Dysfunction Induced by Traumatic Brain Injury

    Josh M. Morganti;Timothy D. Jopson;Sharon Liu;Lara-Kirstie Riparip

  • Inhibition of the integrated stress response reverses cognitive deficits after traumatic brain injury

    Austin Chou;Karen Krukowski;Timothy Jopson;Ping Jun Zhu

  • Call Off the Dog(ma): M1/M2 Polarization Is Concurrent following Traumatic Brain Injury

    Josh M. Morganti;Lara-Kirstie Riparip;Susanna Rosi

  • Memantine protects against LPS-induced neuroinflammation, restores behaviorally-induced gene expression and spatial learning in the rat.

    S. Rosi;A. Vazdarjanova;V. Ramirez-Amaya;V. Ramirez-Amaya;P. F. Worley

  • Small molecule cognitive enhancer reverses age-related memory decline in mice.

    Karen Krukowski;Amber Nolan;Elma S Frias;Morgane Boone

  • Neuroinflammation Alters the Hippocampal Pattern of Behaviorally Induced Arc Expression

    Susanna Rosi;Victor Ramirez-Amaya;Almira Vazdarjanova;Paul F. Worley

  • Neural precursor cells and central nervous system radiation sensitivity.

    John R. Fike;Susanna Rosi;Charles L. Limoli

  • Human Neural Stem Cell Transplantation Ameliorates Radiation-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction

    Munjal M. Acharya;Lori-Ann Christie;Mary L. Lan;Erich Giedzinski

  • Traumatic Brain Injury in Aged Mice Induces Chronic Microglia Activation, Synapse Loss, and Complement-Dependent Memory Deficits.

    Karen Krukowski;Austin Chou;Xi Feng;Brice Tiret

  • CCR2 deficiency prevents neuronal dysfunction and cognitive impairments induced by cranial irradiation

    Karim Belarbi;Timothy Jopson;Carla Arellano;John R. Fike

  • Cranial Irradiation Alters Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in the Hippocampus

    Ayanabha Chakraborti;Antino Allen;Barrett Allen;Susanna Rosi

  • Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Neuroinflammation after Cranial Irradiation with 56Fe Particles

    Radoslaw Rola;Kelly Fishman;Jennifer Baure;Susanna Rosi

  • Lack of extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD) in the microenvironment impacts radiation-induced changes in neurogenesis.

    Radoslaw Rola;Yani Zou;Ting-Ting Huang;Ting-Ting Huang;Kelly Fishman

  • Cranial irradiation alters the brain's microenvironment and permits CCR2+ macrophage infiltration.

    Josh M. Morganti;Timothy D. Jopson;Sharon Liu;Nalin Gupta

  • Female mice are protected from space radiation-induced maladaptive responses

    Karen Krukowski;Katherine Grue;Elma S. Frias;John Pietrykowski

  • Epidemiology of social phobia: a clinical approach.

    C. Faravelli;T. Zucchi;B. Viviani;R. Salmoria

  • Cranial Irradiation Alters the Behaviorally Induced Immediate-Early Gene Arc (Activity-Regulated Cytoskeleton-Associated Protein)

    Susanna Rosi;Marta Andres-Mach;Kelly M. Fishman;William Levy

  • Chronic brain inflammation leads to a decline in hippocampal NMDA-R1 receptors

    Susanna Rosi;Victor Ramirez-Amaya;Beatrice Hauss-Wegrzyniak;Gary L Wenk

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary L. Wenk
Gary L. Wenk The Ohio State University
Jacob Raber
Jacob Raber Oregon Health & Science University
Carol A. Barnes
Carol A. Barnes University of Arizona
Paul F. Worley
Paul F. Worley Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan
Jacqueline C. Bresnahan University of California, San Francisco
Adam R. Ferguson
Adam R. Ferguson University of California, San Francisco
Michael S. Beattie
Michael S. Beattie University of California, San Francisco
Giancarlo Pepeu
Giancarlo Pepeu University of Florence
Vikaas S. Sohal
Vikaas S. Sohal University of California, San Francisco
Catharine A. Winstanley
Catharine A. Winstanley University of British Columbia

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