Publications
Most important
2026
Focal astrocyte loss reveals nuclear translocation during lesion repopulation
Herwerth M – Nature Neuroscience
Mitochondrial lactate venting limits oxidative stress
Rauseo D – Cell Metabolism
Astroglial Disinhibition of Cortical Circuits Disrupts Cognition via Kynurenic Acid in Mice
Beilmann V – Nature Communications
Intrinsic Endothelial Remodeling Drives Brain Capillary Repair
Condrau J – Neuron
ECgo: All-Optical Induction of Single Endothelial Cell Injury and Capillary Occlusion in the Brain
Condrau J – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Needle beam two-photon microscopy for simultaneous multiplane neural and vascular imaging in awake mice
Zhou Q – PhotoniX
Next-generation multicolor indicators for in vivo imaging of norepinephrine
Rohner V – Nature Methods
Maternal immune activation in mice recapitulates features of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in susceptible offspring
Shaer R – Neuropsychopharmacology
Cardiovascular exercise mitigates reperfusion failure and persistent hypoperfusion in the thrombin model of stroke and thrombolysis
Middleham W – Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
2025
Scale-spanning crosstalk between metabolism and information processing
Barros LF – Cell Metabolism
Abundance-biased codon diversification prevents recombination in AAV production and ensures robust in vivo expression of functional FRET sensors
Dernic J – Communications Biology
Ontogeny and plasticity of resilience and susceptibility in a mouse model of maternal immune activation
Shaer R – Brain Behavior and Immunity
A low-cost FPGA-based approach for pile-up corrected high-speed in vivo FLIM imaging
Velasquez Moros F – Neurophotonics
Interleukin-34-dependent perivascular macrophages promote vascular function in the brain
Van Hove H – Immunity
Astrocytic GLUT1 deletion in adult mice enhances glucose metabolism and resilience to stroke
Thieren L – Nature Communications
Deletion of microsomal epoxide hydrolase gene leads to increased density in cerebral vasculature and enhances cerebral blood flow in mice
Marowsky A – Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
Recapitulation and reversal of neuropsychiatric phenotypes in a mouse model of human endogenous retrovirus type W expression
Herrero F – Molecular Psychiatry
Transcranial Cortex-Wide Imaging of Murine Ischemic Perfusion With Large-Field Multifocal Illumination Microscopy
Chen Z – Stroke
2024
Intrauterine position effects in a mouse model of maternal immune activation
Shaer R – Brain Behavior and Immunity
Pia-FLOW: Deciphering hemodynamic maps of the pial vascular connectome and its response to arterial occlusion
Glueck C – PNAS
Astrocytes adopt a progenitor-like migratory strategy for regeneration in adult brain
Herwerth M, Wyss MT – bioRXiv
The Astrocyte: Metabolic Hub of the Brain
Barros LF – Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
Leptomeningeal collaterals regulate reperfusion in ischemic stroke
Binder NF, El Amki M – Neuron
Oligodendrocyte–axon metabolic coupling is mediated by extracellular K+ and maintains axonal health
Looser ZJ – Nature Neuroscience
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