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Yousef Tizabi is affiliated with Howard University in the United States and has a significant research footprint in neuroscience and related biomedical sciences. Their work spans multiple interconnected fields, notably Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these areas, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Nutrition and Dietetics, Neurology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research topics focus on diverse areas including Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Trace Elements in Health, Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study, and Gut microbiota and health.

They have authored numerous research articles, with recent publications including:

  • "Neurotoxicity of e-cigarettes" (2020) in Food and Chemical Toxicology
  • "Vitamin D and COVID-19: Role of ACE2, age, gender, and ethnicity" (2021) in Journal of Medical Virology
  • "Nicotine and the nicotinic cholinergic system in COVID-19" (2020) in FEBS Journal
  • "Butyrate Protects Against Salsolinol-Induced Toxicity in SH-SY5Y Cells: Implication for Parkinson's Disease" (2020) in Neurotoxicity Research
  • "Dissecting the role of cadmium, lead, arsenic, and mercury in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis" (2023) in Environmental Research

The academic collaborations of Yousef Tizabi include frequent coauthors such as Michael Aschner, Bruk Getachew, Alexey A. Tinkov, Mzia G. Zhvania, and Abel Santamaría. These collaborations have contributed to a range of publications and interdisciplinary studies.

Tizabi's work has been published in a variety of scientific venues with repeated contributions to:

  • Neurotoxicity Research
  • Preprints.org
  • Neuroscience Letters
  • Neurochemical Research
  • Cells

Best Publications

  • Neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and depression.

    Laura L. Hurley;Yousef Tizabi

  • Antidepressant effects of nicotine in an animal model of depression.

    Y. Tizabi;David H. Overstreet;Amir H. Rezvani;Vely A. Louis

  • Amphetamine-related drugs neurotoxicity in humans and in experimental animals: Main mechanisms.

    Rosario Moratalla;Amit Suresh Khairnar;Nicola Simola;Noelia Granado

  • Effects of combined systemic alcohol and central nicotine administration into ventral tegmental area on dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens.

    Yousef Tizabi;Robert L. Copeland;Vely A. Louis;Robert E. Taylor

  • Antidepressant-like effects of low ketamine dose is associated with increased hippocampal AMPA/NMDA receptor density ratio in female Wistar-Kyoto rats.

    Yousef Tizabi;Babur H Bhatti;Kebreten F Manaye;Jharna R Das

  • Antidepressant effects of AMPA and ketamine combination: role of hippocampal BDNF, synapsin, and mTOR

    Luli Akinfiresoye;Yousef Tizabi

  • Antidepressant effects of resveratrol in an animal model of depression.

    Laura L. Hurley;Luli Akinfiresoye;Olubukola Kalejaiye;Yousef Tizabi

  • Region-selective stress-induced increase of glutamate uptake and release in rat forebrain.

    Gad M. Gilad;Varda H. Gilad;Richard Jed Wyatt;Yousef Tizabi

  • Novel tactics for neuroprotection in Parkinson's disease: Role of antibiotics, polyphenols and neuropeptides

    Dora Reglodi;Justine Renaud;Andrea Tamas;Yousef Tizabi

  • Antidepressant-like effects of curcumin in WKY rat model of depression is associated with an increase in hippocampal BDNF

    Laura L. Hurley;Luli Akinfiresoye;Evaristus Nwulia;Atsushi Kamiya

  • Combined effects of systemic alcohol and nicotine on dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens shell.

    Yousef Tizabi;Li Bai;Robert L. Copeland;Robert E. Taylor

  • Stereological analysis of the hypothalamic hypocretin/orexin neurons in an animal model of depression.

    Joanne S. Allard;Yousef Tizabi;James P. Shaffery;C. Ovid Trouth

  • Hyperactivity in the offspring of nicotine-treated rats: role of the mesolimbic and nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathways.

    Sharon A. Richardson;Yousef Tizabi

  • Ketamine interactions with gut-microbiota in rats: relevance to its antidepressant and anti-inflammatory properties

    Bruk Getachew;Joseph I. Aubee;Richard S. Schottenfeld;Antonei B. Csoka

  • Smoking comorbidity in alcoholism : Neurobiological and neurocognitive consequences

    Dieter J. Meyerhoff;Yousef Tizabi;Julie K. Staley;Timothy C. Durazzo

  • Hyperactivity induced by prenatal nicotine exposure is associated with an increase in cortical nicotinic receptors.

    Yousef Tizabi;E.Jon Popke;Matthew A Rahman;Stephanie M Nespor

  • The effect of isolation on catecholamine concentration and turnover in discrete areas of the rat brain.

    Nguyen B. Thoa;Yousef Tizabi;David M. Jacobowitz

  • Selective neuron loss in the paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus in patients suffering from major depression and bipolar disorder.

    Kebreten F. Manaye;D-Liang Lei;Yousef Tizabi;Martha I. Dávila-García

  • Depressive Characteristics of FSL Rats ☆: Involvement of Central Nicotinic Receptors

    Yousef Tizabi;Amir H. Rezvani;Lemuel T. Russell;Khandra Y. Tyler

  • Neurotoxicity of e-cigarettes.

    Joanna A. Ruszkiewicz;Ziyan Zhang;Filipe Marques Gonçalves;Yousef Tizabi

  • Desensitization of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis following prolonged administration of corticotropin-releasing hormone or vasopressin.

    Yousef Tizabi;Greti Aguilera

  • Catecholaminergic neuronal loss in locus coeruleus of aged female dtg APP/PS1 mice.

    Jahn N. O’Neil;Peter R. Mouton;Yousef Tizabi;Mary Ann Ottinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosario Moratalla
Rosario Moratalla Spanish National Research Council
Andrea Tamas
Andrea Tamas University of Pecs
Patricia Muñoz
Patricia Muñoz Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
David S. Janowsky
David S. Janowsky University of California, San Diego
Rita Raisman-Vozari
Rita Raisman-Vozari Université Paris Cité
Jennifer M. Glass
Jennifer M. Glass University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sara Jo Nixon
Sara Jo Nixon University of Florida
David M. Lovinger
David M. Lovinger National Institutes of Health
Richard M. Kostrzewa
Richard M. Kostrzewa East Tennessee State University
Gilles J. Guillemin
Gilles J. Guillemin Bionyeri Pty Ltd

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