Molecular Brain

Papers
(The median citation count of Molecular Brain is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Knockout of AMPA receptor binding protein Neuron-specific gene 2 (NSG2) enhances associative learning and cognitive flexibility79
FMRP binds Per1 mRNA and downregulates its protein expression in mice59
Spatiotemporal Pavlovian head-fixed reversal learning task for mice54
Broad proteomics analysis of seeding-induced aggregation of α-synuclein in M83 neurons reveals remodeling of proteostasis mechanisms that might contribute to Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis52
Correction to: Synaptic potentiation of anterior cingulate cortex contributes to chronic pain of Parkinson’s disease44
Correction to: Roles of Rufy3 in experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage-induced early brain injury via accelerating neuronal axon repair and synaptic plasticity43
Recent developments in peptide vaccines against Glioblastoma, a review and update43
Protocadherin 19 regulates axon guidance in the developing Xenopus retinotectal pathway39
mTORC1-mediated acquisition of reward-related representations by hippocampal somatostatin interneurons35
A novel mouse model for investigating α-synuclein aggregates in oligodendrocytes: implications for the glial cytoplasmic inclusions in multiple system atrophy35
New neurons in old brains: implications of age in the analysis of neurogenesis in post-mortem tissue35
Diurnal variation in declarative memory and the involvement of SCOP in cognitive functions in nonhuman primates33
Chronic corticosterone exposure causes anxiety- and depression-related behaviors with altered gut microbial and brain metabolomic profiles in adult male C57BL/6J mice33
Inhibition of cortical synaptic transmission, behavioral nociceptive, and anxiodepressive-like responses by arecoline in adult mice32
Arginine vasopressin in the medial amygdala causes greater post-stress recruitment of hypothalamic vasopressin neurons30
AKAP6 controls NFATc4 activity for BDNF-mediated neuroprotection30
Role of autophagy in neurotoxic protein’s clearance following post-ischemic stroke: where we are and what we know?28
The brain cytokine orchestra in multiple sclerosis: from neuroinflammation to synaptopathology26
Correction: The deficiency of Maged1 attenuates Parkinson’s disease progression in mice26
Impact of volume and expression time in an AAV-delivered channelrhodopsin26
Loss of Drosophila Coq8 results in impaired survival, locomotor deficits and photoreceptor degeneration24
Correction to: Synergistic actions of corticosterone and BDNF on rat hippocampal LTP24
A simple and reliable method for claustrum localization across age in mice24
Chronic oral administration of ibrutinib prevents long-term memory deficits and reduces AD pathology and neuroinflammatory responses in a mouse model of AD24
Dynamic changes in the hippocampal neuronal circuits activity following acute stress revealed by miniature fluorescence microscopy imaging24
Histamine H3 receptor inverse agonists/antagonists influence intra-regional cortical activity and inter-regional synchronization during resting state: an exploratory cortex-wide imaging study in mice23
Riluzole partially restores RNA polymerase III complex assembly in cells expressing the leukodystrophy-causative variant POLR3B R103H22
Chemogenetic activation of histamine neurons promotes retrieval of apparently lost memories22
Involvement of posterior hypothalamic CaMKII-positive neurons in ADHD-like behaviors in mice22
Sonic hedgehog signalling pathway in CNS tumours: its role and therapeutic implications22
Olfactory receptor 78 is expressed in hypothalamic vasopressin/oxytocin neurons, parenchymal microglia and choroidal macrophages in mice21
Nanoscale organization of Nicastrin, the substrate receptor of the γ-secretase complex, as independent molecular domains20
Novelty-induced memory consolidation is accompanied by increased Agap3 transcription: a cross-species study20
Chronic pain enhances excitability of corticotropin-releasing factor-expressing neurons in the oval part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis20
Post-conditioning sleep deprivation facilitates delay and trace fear memory extinction20
Olfactory marker protein contains a leucine-rich domain in the Ω-loop important for nuclear export19
Electroacupuncture improves repeated social defeat stress-elicited social avoidance and anxiety-like behaviors by reducing Lipocalin-2 in the hippocampus19
Subacute and chronic proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses of a mouse model of traumatic brain injury at two timepoints and comparison with chronic traumatic encephalopathy in human samples18
The terpenes alpha-bisabolol and camphene modulate pruritus via an action on Cav3.2 T-type calcium channels18
Reduced activity of parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the posterior parietal cortex causes visually dominant multisensory decisions in freely navigating mice18
Selective enhancement of fear extinction by inhibiting neuronal adenylyl cyclase 1 (AC1) in aged mice17
MeCP2 deficiency impairs motor cortical circuit flexibility associated with motor learning17
VMAT2 availability in Parkinson’s disease with probable REM sleep behaviour disorder17
Impaired wakefulness and rapid eye movement sleep in dopamine-deficient mice16
A new paradigm of learned cooperation reveals extensive social coordination and specific cortical activation in mice16
Synaptic potentiation of anterior cingulate cortex contributes to chronic pain of Parkinson’s disease15
Increased social interaction in Shank2-deficient mice following acute social isolation14
Moxibustion ameliorates chronic inflammatory visceral pain via spinal circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks: a central mechanism study14
Intravitreal injection of the Galectin-3 inhibitor TD139 provides neuroprotection in a rat model of ocular hypertensive glaucoma14
Neurexin-3 in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus regulates body weight and glucose homeostasis independently of food intake14
The gut microbiota and metabolite profiles are altered in patients with spinal cord injury14
Novelty triggers time-dependent theta oscillatory dynamics in cortical-hippocampal-midbrain circuitry13
Pathophysiology of ion channels in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis13
Region-specific activation in the accumbens nucleus by itch with modified scratch efficacy in mice – a model-free multivariate analysis13
Spermidine treatment: induction of autophagy but also apoptosis?13
A natural marmoset model of genetic generalized epilepsy13
Profiling tyrosine kinase inhibitors as AD therapeutics in a mouse model of AD12
Sonication dissociates the synaptic cleft and allows purification of postsynaptic densities with associated postsynaptic membrane12
Comparative metabolic profiling of posterior parietal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus in conditioned fear memory12
Changes in oligodendroglial subpopulations in Parkinson’s disease12
Toll-like receptors and their role in neuropathic pain and migraine12
Selectively increasing GHS-R1a expression in dCA1 excitatory/inhibitory neurons have opposite effects on memory encoding12
mTORC1 function in hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons: regulation of firing and long-term potentiation of intrinsic excitability but not long-term contextual fear memory and context discrimination11
Repeated naloxone-induced morphine withdrawal alters blood brain barrier and blood spinal cord barrier integrity in mice11
Spinal microglia contribute to sustained inflammatory pain via amplifying neuronal activity11
Genetic deletion of nitric oxide synthase 2 ameliorates Parkinson’s disease pathology and neuroinflammation in a transgenic mouse model of synucleinopathy11
Chronic skin ultraviolet irradiation induces transcriptomic changes associated with microglial dysfunction in the hippocampus11
Elucidation of the mechanisms underlying tumor aggravation by the activation of stress-related neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus11
TREM2 improves microglia function and synaptic development in autism spectrum disorders by regulating P38 MAPK signaling pathway11
Integrated genomic and DNA methylation analysis of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases11
Neuropathological and behavioral features of an APP/PS1/MAPT (6xTg) transgenic model of Alzheimer’s disease11
High glucose and palmitic acid induces neuronal senescence by NRSF/REST elevation and the subsequent mTOR-related autophagy suppression11
Activation of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 produces an antidepressant-like effect via MAS receptors in mice11
NEK7 induces lactylation in Alzheimer’s disease to promote pyroptosis in BV-2 cells11
Long-term inhibition of ODC1 in APP/PS1 mice rescues amyloid pathology and switches astrocytes from a reactive to active state11
Crucial role of TFAP2B in the nervous system for regulating NREM sleep10
Correction: Extinction of contextual fear memory is facilitated in TRPM2 knockout mice10
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor produced long-term synaptic enhancement in the anterior cingulate cortex of adult mice10
The adaptor protein PICK1 targets the sorting receptor SorLA10
Analysis of neurexin-neuroligin complexes supports an isoform-specific role for beta-neurexin-1 dysfunction in a mouse model of autism10
Loss of mitochondrial enzyme GPT2 leads to reprogramming of synaptic glutamate metabolism10
A new AAV tool for highly preferentially targeting hippocampal CA210
Astrocytic activation increases blood flow in the adult olfactory bulb10
Correction: Requirement for hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors in artificial association of memory events stored in CA3 cell ensembles10
Nek6 regulates autophagy through the mTOR signaling pathway to alleviate cerebral ischemia–reperfusion injury10
Limitations of the human iPSC-derived neuron model for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease10
Splice-variant specific effects of a CACNA1H mutation associated with writer’s cramp10
Generation of a new Slc20a2 knockout mouse line as in vivo model for primary brain calcification9
Experience-dependent changes in affective valence of taste in male mice9
The absence of Neuroligin-1 shapes wake/sleep architecture, rhythmic and arrhythmic activities of the electrocorticogram in female mice9
PV-IRES-Cre mouse line targets excitatory granule neurons in the cerebellum9
Behavioral phenotype, intestinal microbiome, and brain neuronal activity of male serotonin transporter knockout mice9
Involvement of Cdk5 activating subunit p35 in synaptic plasticity in excitatory and inhibitory neurons9
Neurexin-1-dependent circuit activity is required for the maintenance of photoreceptor subtype identity in Drosophila9
Hypoxia with inflammation and reperfusion alters membrane resistance by dynamically regulating voltage-gated potassium channels in hippocampal CA1 neurons9
Age-related attenuation of cortical synaptic tagging in the ACC is rescued by BDNF or a TrkB receptor agonist in both sex of mice9
Hypothalamic protein profiling from mice subjected to social defeat stress9
Peripheral-central network analysis of cancer cachexia status accompanied by the polarization of hypothalamic microglia with low expression of inhibitory immune checkpoint receptors9
Synergistic actions of corticosterone and BDNF on rat hippocampal LTP9
Disruption of protein geranylgeranylation in the cerebellum causes cerebellar hypoplasia and ataxia via blocking granule cell progenitor proliferation9
Acute social defeat stress activated neurons project to the claustrum and basolateral amygdala8
Inhibitory insula-ACC projections modulate affective but not sensory aspects of neuropathic pain8
Regulation of dendritic spine length in corticopontine layer V pyramidal neurons by autism risk gene β3 integrin8
Minhee Analysis Package: an integrated software package for detection and management of spontaneous synaptic events8
Changes in the pH value of the human brain in Alzheimer’s disease pathology correlated with CD68-positive microglia: a community-based autopsy study in Beijing, China8
Quercetin carbon quantum dots: dual-target therapy for intracerebral hemorrhage in mice8
The medial prefrontal cortex encodes procedural rules as sequential neuronal activity dynamics8
Outer layer of Vb neurons in medial entorhinal cortex project to hippocampal dentate gyrus in mice8
Targeted NMDA receptor knockdown in recall‐activated neuronal ensembles impairs remote fear extinction8
Effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation on the inflammatory response and cerebral blood flow in promoting neurovascular repair after ischemic stroke8
Astrocyte metabolism of the medium-chain fatty acids octanoic acid and decanoic acid promotes GABA synthesis in neurons via elevated glutamine supply7
Temporal pain processing in the primary somatosensory cortex and anterior cingulate cortex7
Proteasome inhibition suppresses the induction of lipocalin-2 upon systemic lipopolysaccharide challenge in mice7
Hes5+ astrocytes potentiate primary afferent Aδ and C fiber-mediated excitatory synaptic transmission to spinal lamina I neurons7
Mechanisms of glutamate receptors hypofunction dependent synaptic transmission impairment in the hippocampus of schizophrenia susceptibility gene Opcml-deficient mouse model7
Locus specific reduction of L1 expression in the cortices of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis7
Sleep-driven prefrontal cortex coordinates temporal action and multimodal integration7
Deleting IP6K1 stabilizes neuronal sodium–potassium pumps and suppresses excitability7
The phosphorylation status of eukaryotic elongation factor-2 indicates neural activity in the brain7
Circadian cilia transcriptome in mouse brain across physiological and pathological states7
Function of KCNQ2 channels at nodes of Ranvier of lumbar spinal ventral nerves of rats7
Cavβ surface charged residues contribute to the regulation of neuronal calcium channels7
Long non-coding RNA lncC11orf54-1 modulates neuroinflammatory responses by activating NF-κB signaling during meningitic Escherichia coli infection6
Prior episode of colitis impairs contextual fear memory6
Neural stem cell-specific deletion of Atg7 alleviates hippocampal dysfunction and neuronal alterations induced by chronic restraint stress6
The cyclin G-associated kinase (GAK) inhibitor SGC-GAK-1 inhibits neurite outgrowth and synapse formation6
CSF Amyloid-β42 associates with neuropsychiatric and cognitive outcomes via cerebral glucose metabolism6
Correction: The properties of TREM1 and its emerging role in pain-related diseases6
Distribution of five clinically important neuroglial proteins in the human brain6
Decreased in vivo glutamate/GABA ratio correlates with the social behavior deficit in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder6
Rapid generation of conditional knockout mice using the CRISPR-Cas9 system and electroporation for neuroscience research6
Brain region networks for the assimilation of new associative memory into a schema6
Voluntary running improves synaptic degeneration of the anterior cingulate cortex in knee osteoarthritis6
BCAT1 controls embryonic neural stem cells proliferation and differentiation in the upper layer neurons6
Homocysteine enhances the excitability of cultured hippocampal neurons without altering the gene expression of voltage-gated ion channels6
Postmortem gene expression profiles in the habenulae of suicides: implication of endothelial dysfunction in the neurovascular system6
Astrocyte-derived dominance winning reverses chronic stress-induced depressive behaviors6
Knockdown of myorg leads to brain calcification in zebrafish6
Modulating and monitoring the functionality of corticostriatal circuits using an electrostimulable microfluidic device6
Blood–brain barrier: emerging trends on transport models and new-age strategies for therapeutics intervention against neurological disorders6
Spatiotemporal expression patterns of genes coding for plasmalemmal chloride transporters and channels in neurological diseases6
Retina-attached slice recording reveals light-triggered tonic GABA signaling in suprachiasmatic nucleus6
Visualization of the existence of growth hormone secretagogue receptor in the rat nucleus accumbens5
Tyrosine phosphatase STEP61 in human dementia and in animal models with amyloid and tau pathology5
DYRK1A modulates fear memory formation via epigenetic modification5
Hif1α-dependent hypoxia signaling contributes to the survival of deep-layer neurons and cortex formation in a mouse model5
Felodipine attenuates neuroinflammatory responses and tau hyperphosphorylation through JNK/P38 signaling in tau-overexpressing AD mice5
Ameliorative effects of Fingolimod (FTY720) on microglial activation and psychosis-related behavior in short term cuprizone exposed mice5
Association of CaMK2A and MeCP2 signaling pathways with cognitive ability in adolescents5
Olfactory marker protein is unlikely to be cleaved by calpain 55
A large-scale polygenic risk score analysis identified candidate proteins associated with anxiety, depression and neuroticism5
Characterization of exosome-mediated propagation of systemic inflammatory responses into the central nervous system5
14-3-3γ haploinsufficiency leads to altered dopamine pathway and Parkinson’s disease-like motor incoordination in mice5
Distinct neural responses of ventromedial prefrontal cortex-projecting nucleus reuniens neurons during aversive memory extinction5
Maturation of nucleus accumbens synaptic transmission signals a critical period for the rescue of social deficits in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder5
Globus pallidus is not independent from striatal direct pathway neurons: an up-to-date review5
Genome-wide translation control analysis of developing human neurons5
Ultrastructural characterization of hippocampal inhibitory synapses under resting and stimulated conditions5
Development of Cre-dependent retrograde trans-multisynaptic tracer based on pseudorabies virus bartha strain5
Anxiolytic effect of GABAergic neurons in the anterior cingulate cortex in a rat model of chronic inflammatory pain5
Similarities of developmental gene expression changes in the brain between human and experimental animals: rhesus monkey, mouse, Zebrafish, and Drosophila5
Running-induced neurogenesis reduces CA1 perineuronal net density without substantial temporal delay5
Enhanced synchronization between prelimbic and infralimbic cortices during fear extinction learning5
Dihydroartemisinin attenuates hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in neonatal rats by inhibiting oxidative stress5
Divergent disruptive effects of soluble recombinant tau assemblies on synaptic plasticity in vivo4
Burst firing is required for induction of Hebbian LTP at lateral perforant path to hippocampal granule cell synapses4
Paraventricular hypothalamic vasopressin neurons induce self-grooming in mice4
Chemogenetic silencing of the subiculum blocks acute chronic temporal lobe epilepsy4
Correction to: Oxytocin ameliorates impaired social behavior in a mouse model of 3q29 deletion syndrome4
Development of a novel peptide to prevent entry of SARS-CoV-2 into lung and olfactory bulb cells of hACE2 expressing mice4
Epigenetic signature of N-terminal acetyltransferases: a probable mediator of immune and neuropathogenesis in HIV infection4
Antiallodynic effects of KDS2010, a novel MAO-B inhibitor, via ROS-GABA inhibitory transmission in a paclitaxel-induced tactile hypersensitivity model4
Ackr3-Venus knock-in mouse lights up brain vasculature4
Microtubule-associated protein 1 A and tubby act independently in regulating the localization of stereocilin to the tips of inner ear hair cell stereocilia4
Comprehensive behavioral analyses of mice with a glycine receptor alpha 4 deficiency4
Antihyperalgesic effect of joint mobilization requires Cav3.2 calcium channels4
Cerebellar damage with inflammation upregulates oxytocin receptor expression in Bergmann Glia4
Transient inhibition of microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 after status epilepticus blunts brain inflammation and is neuroprotective4
Cortical pain induced by optogenetic cortical spreading depression: from whole brain activity mapping4
Transcriptomic changes in oligodendrocytes and precursor cells associate with clinical outcomes of Parkinson’s disease4
Modifiable risk factors that mediate the effect of educational attainment on the risk of stroke: a network Mendelian randomization study4
Functional characterization of a novel de novo CACNA1C pathogenic variant in a patient with neurodevelopmental disorder4
Cell-line dependency in cerebral organoid induction: cautionary observations in Alzheimer’s disease patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells4
Involvement of muscarinic receptors in psychomotor hyperactivity in dopamine-deficient mice4
Deoxyhypusine synthase deficiency syndrome zebrafish model: aberrant morphology, epileptiform activity, and reduced arborization of inhibitory interneurons4
Roles of mediodorsal thalamus in observational fear-related neural activity in mouse anterior cingulate cortex4
Analgesia by intrathecal delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is dependent on Cav3.2 calcium channels4
A structural analysis of the splice-specific functional impact of the pathogenic familial hemiplegic migraine type 1 S218L mutation on Cav2.1 P/Q-type channel gating4
Virally mediated expression of a biologically active peptide to restrain the nuclear functions of ERK1/2 attenuates learning extinction but not acquisition4
Transcriptome atlases of rat brain regions and their adaptation to diabetes resolution following gastrectomy in the Goto-Kakizaki rat3
Properties of Nav1.8ChR2-positive and Nav1.8ChR2-negative afferent mechanoreceptors in the hindpaw glabrous skin of mice3
Endosomal traffic and glutamate synapse activity are increased in VPS35 D620N mutant knock-in mouse neurons, and resistant to LRRK2 kinase inhibition3
Improving working memory by electrical stimulation and cross-frequency coupling3
Exploration of new space elicits phosphorylation of GluA1(Ser831) and S6K and expression of Arc in the hippocampus in vivo as in long-term potentiation3
Stimulation of protein synthesis by optogenetic and chemical induction of excitatory synaptic plasticity in hippocampal somatostatin interneurons3
Systemic injection of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist mecamylamine affects licking, eyelid size, and locomotor and autonomic activities but not temporal prediction in male mice3
C1ql1-Bai3 signaling is necessary for climbing fiber synapse formation in mature Purkinje cells in coordination with neuronal activity3
Assessing the effect of interaction between C-reactive protein and gut microbiome on the risks of anxiety and depression3
Optogenetic activation of dopamine D1 receptors in island cells of medial entorhinal cortex inhibits temporal association learning3
In vitro modulation of mTOR and mGlur5 influence α-synuclein accumulation3
The deficiency of Maged1 attenuates Parkinson's disease progression in mice3
Ablation of microglia does not alter circadian rhythm of locomotor activity3
Electroacupuncture reduces inflammatory damage following cerebral ischemia–reperfusion by enhancing ABCA1-mediated efferocytosis in M2 microglia3
Reactive astrocytes mediate TSPO overexpression in response to sustained CNTF exposure in the rat striatum3
Object location learning in mice requires hippocampal somatostatin interneuron activity and is facilitated by mTORC1-mediated long-term potentiation of their excitatory synapses3
Expression profile of synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A, B, and C paralogues in temporal neocortex tissue from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)3
Extinction of contextual fear memory is facilitated in TRPM2 knockout mice3
CaVβ-subunit dependence of forward and reverse trafficking of CaV1.2 calcium channels3
Surgery impairs glymphatic activity and cognitive function in aged mice3
GAS reduced inflammatory responses in activated microglia by regulating the Ccr2/Akt/Gsk-3β pathway3
β-hydroxybutyrate and ischemic stroke: roles and mechanisms3
Exploring Piezo1, Piezo2, and TMEM150C in human brain tissues and their correlation with brain biomechanical characteristics3
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