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Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño

Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño

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Neuroscience

D-Index
44
Citations
10300
World Ranking
7078
National Ranking
3062

Overview

Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans fields primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Neuroscience. The subfields frequently explored include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses main topics such as Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research.

Frequent publication venues for Martínez-Cerdeño include Cerebral Cortex, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cells, Neuron, and Cell Reports.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño cover various aspects of neuroscience and genetics:

  • Fragile X syndrome and associated disorders: Clinical aspects and pathology (2020), Neurobiology of Disease
  • Characterization and visualization of tandem repeats at genome scale (2024), Nature Biotechnology
  • Cortical Interlaminar Astrocytes Are Generated Prenatally, Mature Postnatally, and Express Unique Markers in Human and Nonhuman Primates (2020), Cerebral Cortex
  • Improvement of sensory deficits in fragile X mice by increasing cortical interneuron activity after the critical period (2023), Neuron
  • Cell-type-specific profiling of human cellular models of fragile X syndrome reveal PI3K-dependent defects in translation and neurogenesis (2021), Cell Reports

Collaborations in research are notable with coauthors such as Randi J. Hagerman, Brett D. Dufour, Carmen Falcone, Pablo Juárez, and María Jimena Salcedo-Arellano.

Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño has also contributed to book publications, including work published by Frontiers Media. Notably, their book chapter "Transcription Regulation - Brain Development and Homeostasis - A Finely Tuned and Orchestrated Scenario in Physiology and Pathology" was published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Cortical neurons arise in symmetric and asymmetric division zones and migrate through specific phases

    Stephen C Noctor;Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Lidija Ivic;Arnold R Kriegstein

  • Microglia regulate the number of neural precursor cells in the developing cerebral cortex

    Christopher L. Cunningham;Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Stephen C. Noctor

  • Patterns of neural stem and progenitor cell division may underlie evolutionary cortical expansion

    Arnold Kriegstein;Stephen C Noctor;Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno

  • Distinct Behaviors of Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells Underlie Cortical Neurogenesis

    Stephen C. Noctor;Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Arnold R. Kriegstein

  • The Number of Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons Is Decreased in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Autism

    Ezzat Hashemi;Jeanelle Ariza;Haille Rogers;Stephen C. Noctor

  • The role of intermediate progenitor cells in the evolutionary expansion of the cerebral cortex.

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Stephen C. Noctor;Arnold R. Kriegstein

  • Dendrite and spine modifications in autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders in patients and animal models

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño

  • Translation of Expanded CGG Repeats into FMRpolyG Is Pathogenic and May Contribute to Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome

    Chantal Sellier;Ronald A.M. Buijsen;Fang He;Fang He;Sam Natla

  • Widespread RNA editing dysregulation in brains from autistic individuals.

    Stephen S. Tran;Hyun Ik Jun;Jae Hoon Bahn;Adel Azghadi

  • Comparative Analysis of the Subventricular Zone in Rat, Ferret and Macaque: Evidence for an Outer Subventricular Zone in Rodents

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Christopher L. Cunningham;Jasmin Camacho;Jared L. Antczak

  • Neural Progenitor Cell Terminology.

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Stephen C. Noctor

  • Extracellular matrix molecules and synaptic plasticity: immunomapping of intracellular and secreted Reelin in the adult rat brain

    Tania Ramos-Moreno;Maria J. Galazo;Cesar Porrero;Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño

  • Contribution of intermediate progenitor cells to cortical histogenesis.

    Stephen C. Noctor;Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Arnold R. Kriegstein

  • Fragile X syndrome and associated disorders: Clinical aspects and pathology.

    Maria Jimena Salcedo-Arellano;Brett Dufour;Yingratana McLennan;Veronica Martinez-Cerdeno

  • Estradiol stimulates progenitor cell division in the ventricular and subventricular zones of the embryonic neocortex.

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Stephen C. Noctor;Arnold R. Kriegstein

  • The Number of Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons Is Decreased in the Prefrontal Cortex in Autism.

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  • Embryonic MGE precursor cells grafted into adult rat striatum integrate and ameliorate motor symptoms in 6-OHDA-lesioned rats

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Stephen C. Noctor;Ana Espinosa;Jeanelle Ariza

  • The valproic acid rat model of autism presents with gut bacterial dysbiosis similar to that in human autism.

    Fang Liu;Kayla Horton-Sparks;Vanessa Hull;Robert W. Li

  • The Number of Chandelier and Basket Cells Are Differentially Decreased in Prefrontal Cortex in Autism.

    Jeanelle Ariza;Haille Rogers;Ezzat Hashemi;Stephen C Noctor

  • Reelin Immunoreactivity in the Adult Primate Brain: Intracellular Localization in Projecting and Local Circuit Neurons of the Cerebral Cortex, Hippocampus and Subcortical Regions

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;María José Galazo;Carmen Cavada;Francisco Clascá

  • Premutation CGG-repeat expansion of the Fmr1 gene impairs mouse neocortical development

    Christopher L. Cunningham;Verónica Martínez Cerdeño;Eliecer Navarro Porras;Anish N. Prakash

  • N-Myc and GCN5 regulate significantly overlapping transcriptional programs in neural stem cells.

    Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño;Jessica M. Lemen;Jessica M. Lemen;Vanessa Chan;Vanessa Chan;Alice Wey;Alice Wey

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen C. Noctor
Stephen C. Noctor University of California, Davis
Randi J Hagerman
Randi J Hagerman University of California, Davis
Arnold R. Kriegstein
Arnold R. Kriegstein University of California, San Francisco
Paul J. Hagerman
Paul J. Hagerman University of California, Davis
Stephen W. Scherer
Stephen W. Scherer University of Toronto
Evdokia Anagnostou
Evdokia Anagnostou Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jacqueline N. Crawley
Jacqueline N. Crawley University of California, Davis
Rami Abou Jamra
Rami Abou Jamra Leipzig University
Megan T. Cho
Megan T. Cho National Human Genome Research Institute

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