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Thomas J. Feuerstein

Thomas J. Feuerstein

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Neuroscience

D-Index
45
Citations
6123
World Ranking
7007
National Ranking
589

Overview

Thomas J. Feuerstein is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Materials Science, with a strong focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions, Magnetism in coordination complexes, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling.

Publication venues frequently featuring their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nanoscale
  • Epilepsia

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas J. Feuerstein include:

  • Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development (2023), Nature Genetics
  • Molecular gold strings: aurophilicity, luminescence and structure-property correlations (2020), Nanoscale
  • Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Phosphorescence Quenching in Iminophosphonamide Copper and Zinc Complexes (2021), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Efficient Blue Phosphorescence in Gold(I)-Acetylide Functionalized Coinage Metal Bis(amidinate) Complexes (2020), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Enantiopure Calcium Iminophosphonamide Complexes: Synthesis, Photoluminescence, and Catalysis (2020), Chemistry - A European Journal

Frequent collaborators in their scientific endeavors include:

  • Peter W. Roesky
  • Sergei Lebedkin
  • Manfred M. Kappes
  • Bhupendra Goswami
  • Michael T. Gamer

Best Publications

  • Novel anticonvulsant drugs.

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  • Memantine is neuroprotective in a rat model of pressure-induced retinal ischemia.

    W A Lagrèze;R Knörle;M Bach;T J Feuerstein

  • Gabapentin (Neurontin) as Add‐on Therapy in Patients with Partial Seizures: A Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Study

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  • Gabapentin increases the hyperpolarization-activated cation current Ih in rat CA1 pyramidal cells

    Rainer Surges;Thomas M Freiman;Thomas J Feuerstein

  • Expression of NMDA receptor subunit mRNAs in neurochemically identified projection and interneurons in the human striatum.

    Küppenbender Kd;Standaert Dg;Feuerstein Tj;Penney Jb

  • Serotonin (5-HT) enhances hippocampal noradrenaline (NA) release: evidence for facilitatory 5-HT receptors within the CNS.

    Thomas J. Feuerstein;Georg Hertting

  • Impaired Autofeedback Regulation of Hypothalamic Norepinephrine Release in Experimental Uremia

    Katrin Klein;Markus Daschner;Marcel Vogel;Jun Oh

  • Islet-activating protein (pertussis toxin) diminishes alpha 2-adrenoceptor mediated effects on noradrenaline release.

    Clemens Allgaier;Thomas J. Feuerstein;Rolf Jackisch;Georg Hertting

  • Receptor-independent depression of DA and 5-HT uptake by cannabinoids in rat neocortex--involvement of Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase.

    Marc Steffens;Thomas J Feuerstein

  • Epilepsy surgery for glioneuronal tumors in childhood: avoid loss of time

    Georgia Ramantani;Navah Ester Kadish;Constantin Anastasopoulos;Armin Brandt

  • Effects of riluzole on electrically evoked neurotransmitter release

    T Jehle;J Bauer;E Blauth;A Hummel

  • The Endocannabinoid Anandamide Is a Substrate for the Human Polymorphic Cytochrome P450 2D6

    Natasha T. Snider;Matthew J. Sikora;Chitra Sridar;Thomas J. Feuerstein

  • Myoclonus in Epilepsy Patients with Anticonvulsive Add‐On Therapy with Pregabalin

    Hans-Jürgen Huppertz;Thomas J. Feuerstein;Andreas Schulze-Bonhage

  • Binding affinity and agonist activity of putative endogenous cannabinoids at the human neocortical CB1 receptor

    Marc Steffens;Josef Zentner;Jürgen Honegger;Thomas J. Feuerstein

  • Regulated expression of HCN channels and cAMP levels shape the properties of the h current in developing rat hippocampus

    Rainer Surges;Amy L. Brewster;Roland A. Bender;Heinz Beck

  • Endogenous noradrenaline as modulator of hippocampal serotonin (5-HT)-release. Dual effects of yohimbine, rauwolscine and corynanthine as alpha-adrenoceptor antagonists and 5-HT-receptor agonists.

    Thomas J. Feuerstein;Georg Hertting;Rolf Jackisch

  • Inhibitory effects of the antiparkinsonian drugs memantine and amantadine on N-methyl-D-aspartate-evoked acetylcholine release in the rabbit caudate nucleus in vitro.

    A Lupp;C H Lücking;R Koch;R Jackisch

  • Modulation of hippocampal serotonin (5-HT) release by endogenous adenosine.

    Thomas J. Feuerstein;Georg Hertting;Rolf Jackisch

  • Input resistance is voltage dependent due to activation of Ih channels in rat CA1 pyramidal cells.

    Rainer Surges;Thomas M. Freiman;Thomas J. Feuerstein

  • The autoinhibitory feedback control of acetylcholine release in human neocortex tissue.

    Thomas J. Feuerstein;Jürgen Lehmann;Willi Sauermann;Vera van Velthoven

  • Effects of antiepileptic drugs on glutamate release from rat and human neocortical synaptosomes

    M. Kammerer;B. Brawek;T. M. Freiman;R. Jackisch

  • Mice transgenic for exon 1 of Huntington's disease: properties of cholinergic and dopaminergic pre-synaptic function in the striatum.

    J. M. Vetter;T. Jehle;J. Heinemeyer;P. Franz

  • The serotonin (5-HT) autoreceptor in the hippocampus of the rabbit: Role of 5-HT biophase concentration

    T.J. Feuerstein;A. Lupp;G. Hertting

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Zentner
Josef Zentner University of Freiburg
Rainer Surges
Rainer Surges University Hospital Bonn
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage University of Freiburg
Hans-Jürgen Huppertz
Hans-Jürgen Huppertz Swiss Epilepsy Center
Tallie Z. Baram
Tallie Z. Baram University of California, Irvine
Heidrun Potschka
Heidrun Potschka Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Armin Brandt
Armin Brandt University of Freiburg
Roland A. Bender
Roland A. Bender Universität Hamburg
Bernd Heimrich
Bernd Heimrich University of Freiburg
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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