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76
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1938
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926

Overview

Tsung-Ping Su is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Neuroscience. Subfields of particular focus include Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Genetics, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Tryptophan and brain disorders, and Ion channel regulation and function.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Tsung-Ping Su include Yuko Yasui, Hsiang-En Wu, Shao-Ming Wang, Simon Couly, and Nino Goguadze.

Tsung-Ping Su's work has been published in multiple scientific journals. The venues with the highest frequency of publication are Molecular Neurobiology, The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, The EMBO Journal, Science Translational Medicine, and Autophagy.

Significant recent papers by Tsung-Ping Su include:

  • "Nox4 regulates InsP 3 receptor-dependent Ca 2+ release into mitochondria to promote cell survival" (2020), The EMBO Journal
  • "Activation of the sigma-1 receptor chaperone alleviates symptoms of Wolfram syndrome in preclinical models" (2022), Science Translational Medicine
  • "Nucleoporin POM121 signals TFEB-mediated autophagy via activation of SIGMAR1/sigma-1 receptor chaperone by pridopidine" (2022), Autophagy
  • "Knocking Out Sigma-1 Receptors Reveals Diverse Health Problems" (2020), Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
  • "Sigma-1 receptor chaperones rescue nucleocytoplasmic transport deficit seen in cellular and Drosophila ALS/FTD models" (2020), Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Sigma-1 Receptor Chaperones at the ER- Mitochondrion Interface Regulate Ca2+ Signaling and Cell Survival

    Teruo Hayashi;Tsung-Ping Su

  • MAM: more than just a housekeeper

    Teruo Hayashi;Rosario Rizzuto;Gyorgy Hajnoczky;Tsung-Ping Su

  • The Pharmacology of Sigma-1 Receptors

    Tangui Maurice;Tsung-Ping Su

  • Steroid Binding at σ Receptors Suggests a Link between Endocrine, Nervous, and Immune Systems

    Tsung-Ping Su;Edythe D. London;Jerome H. Jaffe

  • The sigma-1 receptor chaperone as an inter-organelle signaling modulator.

    Tsung Ping Su;Teruo Hayashi;Tangui Maurice;Shilpa Buch

  • Time-Dependent Increases in Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Protein Levels within the Mesolimbic Dopamine System after Withdrawal from Cocaine: Implications for Incubation of Cocaine Craving

    Jeffrey W. Grimm;Lin Lu;Teruo Hayashi;Bruce T. Hope

  • Evidence for sigma opioid receptor: binding of [3H]SKF-10047 to etorphine-inaccessible sites in guinea-pig brain.

    T P Su

  • Regulating ankyrin dynamics: Roles of sigma-1 receptors

    Teruo Hayashi;Tsung-Ping Su

  • Sigma1 (σ1) receptor agonists and neurosteroids attenuate β25–35-amyloid peptide-induced amnesia in mice through a common mechanism

    T Maurice;T.-P Su;A Privat

  • Ca(2+) signaling via sigma(1)-receptors: novel regulatory mechanism affecting intracellular Ca(2+) concentration.

    Teruo Hayashi;Tangui Maurice;Tsung-Ping Su

  • Sigma-1 receptor chaperone at the ER-mitochondrion interface mediates the mitochondrion-ER-nucleus signaling for cellular survival.

    Tomohisa Mori;Teruo Hayashi;Eri Hayashi;Tsung-Ping Su

  • The Sigma-1 Receptor as a Pluripotent Modulator in Living Systems

    Tsung-Ping Su;Tzu-Chieh Su;Yoki Nakamura;Shang-Yi Tsai

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  • Vitamin D3 attenuates cortical infarction induced by middle cerebral arterial ligation in rats

    Y Wang;Y.-H Chiang;T.-P Su;T Hayashi

  • The sigma-1 receptor: roles in neuronal plasticity and disease

    Saïd Kourrich;Tsung Ping Su;Michiko Fujimoto;Antonello Bonci;Antonello Bonci;Antonello Bonci

  • σ-1 Receptors (σ<sub>1</sub>Binding Sites) Form Raft-Like Microdomains and Target Lipid Droplets on the Endoplasmic Reticulum: Roles in Endoplasmic Reticulum Lipid Compartmentalization and Export

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  • Understanding the molecular mechanism of sigma-1 receptors: towards a hypothesis that sigma-1 receptors are intracellular amplifiers for signal transduction.

    Tsung-Ping Su;Teruo Hayashi

  • The antidepressant-like effect induced by sigma(1)-receptor agonists and neuroactive steroids in mice submitted to the forced swimming test.

    Alexandre Urani;François J. Roman;Vân-Ly Phan;Tsung-Ping Su

  • Intracellular Dynamics of σ-1 Receptors (σ1 Binding Sites) in NG108-15 Cells

    Teruo Hayashi;Tsung-Ping Su

  • Targeting ligand-operated chaperone sigma-1 receptors in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders

    Teruo Hayashi;Shang-Yi Tsai;Tomohisa Mori;Michiko Fujimoto

  • Dynamic Interaction between Sigma-1 Receptor and Kv1.2 Shapes Neuronal and Behavioral Responses to Cocaine

    Saïd Kourrich;Teruo Hayashi;Jian Ying Chuang;Shang Yi Tsai

  • Sigma receptors in post-mortem human brains.

    A. D. Weissman;Tsung-Ping Su;J. C. Hedreen;E. D. London

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse
Yun Wang
Yun Wang National Health Research Institutes
Tangui Maurice
Tangui Maurice University of Montpellier
Alain Privat
Alain Privat Grenoble Alpes University
Edythe D. London
Edythe D. London University of California, Los Angeles
Sachin Patel
Sachin Patel Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Yun Wang
Yun Wang Peking University
John Q. Wang
John Q. Wang University of Missouri–Kansas City
Jonathan L. Katz
Jonathan L. Katz National Institute on Drug Abuse
Brandon K. Harvey
Brandon K. Harvey National Institute on Drug Abuse

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