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Vidar Jensen

Vidar Jensen

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
7677
World Ranking
8486
National Ranking
42

Overview

Vidar Jensen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway, focusing primarily on the field of Chemistry, with significant contributions to Organic Chemistry as well as interdisciplinary areas involving Molecular Biology and Neuroscience.

Jensen has produced a diverse body of work spanning synthetic organic chemistry, catalysis, and neuropharmacology. Their research reflects a broad engagement with topics such as Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research. Additional topics of interest include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, and Machine Learning applications in Materials Science.

The scientist's published research frequently appears in journals including:

  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Communications Biology
  • Glia
  • Organometallics

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • "Automated in Silico Design of Homogeneous Catalysts" (2020, ACS Catalysis)
  • "Bimolecular Coupling in Olefin Metathesis: Correlating Structure and Decomposition for Leading and Emerging Ruthenium−Carbene Catalysts" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Challenging Metathesis Catalysts with Nucleophiles and Brønsted Base: Examining the Stability of State-of-the-Art Ruthenium Carbene Catalysts to Attack by Amines" (2020, ACS Catalysis)
  • "Impaired astrocytic Ca2+ signaling in awake-behaving Alzheimer's disease transgenic mice" (2022, eLife)
  • "Voltage-independent GluN2A-type NMDA receptor Ca2+ signaling promotes audiogenic seizures, attentional and cognitive deficits in mice" (2021, Communications Biology)

The scientific collaboration network of Vidar Jensen includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Marco Foscato
  • Giovanni Occhipinti
  • Deryn E. Fogg
  • Karl W. Törnroos
  • Erlend A. Nagelhus

Jensen's work integrates several subfields, combining Organic Chemistry with aspects of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected both in their publication venues and in the topics covered by their research.

Best Publications

  • Importance of AMPA receptors for hippocampal synaptic plasticity but not for spatial learning.

    Daniel Zamanillo;Rolf Sprengel;Øivind Hvalby;Vidar Jensen

  • Importance of the Intracellular Domain of NR2 Subunits for NMDA Receptor Function In Vivo

    Rolf Sprengel;Bettina Suchanek;Carla Amico;Rossella Brusa

  • Impairment of synaptic vesicle clustering and of synaptic transmission, and increased seizure propensity, in synapsin I-deficient mice.

    L Li;L S Chin;O Shupliakov;L Brodin

  • Impaired long-term memory and NR2A-type NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in mice lacking c-Fos in the CNS

    Alexander Fleischmann;Oivind Hvalby;Vidar Jensen;Tatyana Strekalova

  • Lack of NMDA Receptor Subtype Selectivity for Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation

    Sven Berberich;Pradeep Punnakkal;Vidar Jensen;Verena Pawlak

  • Neurological dysfunctions in mice expressing different levels of the Q/R site-unedited AMPAR subunit GluR-B.

    Dirk Feldmeyer;Kalev Kask;Rossella Brusa;Hans–Christian Kornau

  • Contribution of Hippocampal and Extra-Hippocampal NR2B-Containing NMDA Receptors to Performance on Spatial Learning Tasks

    Jakob von Engelhardt;Beril Doganci;Beril Doganci;Vidar Jensen;Øivind Hvalby

  • The Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat model of ADHD – the importance of selecting the appropriate reference strain

    Terje Sagvolden;Espen Borgå Johansen;Grete Wøien;S. Ivar Walaas

  • Impaired spatial working memory but spared spatial reference memory following functional loss of NMDA receptors in the dentate gyrus

    B. Niewoehner;F. N. Single;Ø. Hvalby;V. Jensen

  • Intracellular Domains of NMDA Receptor Subtypes Are Determinants for Long-Term Potentiation Induction

    Georg Köhr;Vidar Jensen;Helmut J. Koester;Andre L. A. Mihaljevic

  • Dynamics of Ionic Shifts in Cortical Spreading Depression

    Rune Enger;Wannan Tang;Gry Fluge Vindedal;Vidar Jensen

  • A Pathway-Specific Function for Different AMPA Receptor Subunits in Amygdala Long-Term Potentiation and Fear Conditioning

    Yann Humeau;Daniel Reisel;Alexander W. Johnson;Thilo Borchardt

  • Dissecting spatial knowledge from spatial choice by hippocampal NMDA receptor deletion

    David M Bannerman;Thorsten Bus;Amy Taylor;David J Sanderson

  • Evidence that compromised K+ spatial buffering contributes to the epileptogenic effect of mutations in the human kir4.1 gene (KCNJ10)

    Nadia Nabil Haj-Yasein;Vidar Jensen;Gry Fluge Vindedal;Georg Andreas Gundersen

  • Phosphorylation of the Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor by Cyclic Nucleotide-dependent Kinases in Vitroand in Rat Cerebellar Slices in Situ

    Lise Sofie Haug;Vidar Jensen;Øivind Hvalby;S. Ivar Walaas

  • IκB Kinase/Nuclear Factor κB-Dependent Insulin-Like Growth Factor 2 (Igf2) Expression Regulates Synapse Formation and Spine Maturation via Igf2 Receptor Signaling

    Michael J. Schmeisser;Bernd Baumann;Svenja Johannsen;Gry F. Vindedal

  • Analysis of dendritic spines in rat CA1 pyramidal cells intracellularly filled with a fluorescent dye.

    Mart Trommald;Vidar Jensen;Per Andersen

  • A Juvenile form of Postsynaptic Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation in Mice Deficient for the AMPA Receptor Subunit GluR-A

    Vidar Jensen;Katharina M. M. Kaiser;Thilo Borchardt;Giselind Adelmann

  • Conditional restoration of hippocampal synaptic potentiation in Glur-A-deficient mice.

    Volker Mack;Nail Burnashev;Katharina M. M. Kaiser;Andrei Rozov

  • Aquaporin-4 regulates extracellular space volume dynamics during high-frequency synaptic stimulation: a gene deletion study in mouse hippocampus.

    Nadia Nabil Haj-Yasein;Vidar Jensen;Ivar Østby;Stig W. Omholt

Frequent Co-Authors

Erlend A. Nagelhus
Erlend A. Nagelhus University of Oslo
Nail Burnashev
Nail Burnashev Aix-Marseille University
Georg Köhr
Georg Köhr Heidelberg University
Per Andersen
Per Andersen University of Copenhagen
David M. Bannerman
David M. Bannerman University of Oxford
Ole Petter Ottersen
Ole Petter Ottersen University of Oslo
Peter Gass
Peter Gass Heidelberg University
Linda H. Bergersen
Linda H. Bergersen University of Oslo
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Erik Taubøll
Erik Taubøll Oslo University Hospital

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