Chakraborty, S.; Tabrizi, Z.; Bhatt, N.N.; Franciosa, S.A.; Bracko, O. A Brief Overview of Neutrophils in Neurological Diseases. Biomolecules 2023, 13, 743. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom13050743 (2023).Click here
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Vascular oxidative stress causes neutrophil arrest in brain capillaries, leading to decreased cerebral blood flow and contributing to memory impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. bioRxiv (2023).Click here
Bracko O, Harraz OF. Editorial: Small and mighty: Brain capillaries in health and disease. Front Mol Neurosci. 2022 Dec 13;15:1108978. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.1108978. PMID: 36583082; PMCID: PMC9792964. Click here
Cruz Hernandez et al., 2019
Nature Neuroscience
Falkenhain et al., 2020
PLOS One
Baumgartner et al., 2018
Scientific Reports
Ali M, Bracko O. VEGF Paradoxically Reduces Cerebral Blood Flow in Alzheimer’s Disease Mice. Neurosci Insights. 2022 Jul 4;17:26331055221109254. doi: 10.1177/26331055221109254. PMID: 35873789; PMCID: PMC9298729.Click here
Ali M, Falkenhain K, Njiru BN, Murtaza-Ali M, Ruiz-Uribe NE, Haft-Javaherian M, Nishimura N Schaffer CB, and Bracko O. VEGF signalling causes stalls in brain capillaries and reduces cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer’s mice. Brain (2022).Click here
Silva NCBS, Bracko O, Nelson AR, de Oliveira FF, Robison LS, Shaaban CE, Hainsworth AH, Price BR. Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia: An early career researcher perspective. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2022 Apr 27;14(1):e12310. doi: 10.1002/dad2.12310. PMID: 35496373; PMCID: PMC9043906.Click here
Falkenhain K, Ruiz-Uribe NE, Haft-Javaherian M, Ali M, StallCatchers contributors, Michelucci PE, Schaffer CB, and Bracko O. Voluntary running does not increase capillary blood flow but promotes neurogenesis and short-term memory in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. PLoS ONE 15(8): e0235691. Click here
Bracko O, Njiru BN, Swallow M, Ali M, Haft-Javaherian M, and Schaffer CB. Increasing cerebral blood flow improves cognition into late stages in Alzheimer’s disease mice. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 40(7), 1441–1452 (2019). Click here
Cruz Hernandez JC*, Bracko O*, Kersbergen C, Muse V, Haft-Javaherian M, Berg M, Park L, Vinarcsik LK, Ivasyk I, Rivera DA, Kang Y, Cortes Canteli M, Peyrounette M, Doyeux V, Smith A, Zhou J, Otte G, Beverly JD, Davenport E, Davit Y, Lin C, Strickland S, Iadecola C, Lorthois S, Nishimura N and Schaffer CB. Neutrophil adhesion in brain capillaries contributes to cortical blood flow decreases and impaired memory function in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Nat Neurosci 22, 413–420 (2019). *Denotes equal contribution. Click here
Baumgartner P, El Amki M, Bracko O, Wegener S. Sensorimotor stroke alters hippocampo-thalamic network activity as a source of post-stroke cognitive impairment. Sci Rep 8, 15770 (2018). Click here
El Amki M, Baumgartner P, Bracko O, Luft AR and Wegener S. Motor Rehabilitation Therapy after Stroke Improves performance in a different motor task: first translational evidence. Transl. Stroke Res. 8, 347–350 (2017). Click here
Zhou X, Sun L, Bracko O, Choi JW, Jia Y, Nana AL, Brady OA, Cruz Hernandez JC, Nishimura N, Seeley W, Hu F. Lysosomal prosaposin trafficking impairment is a novel disease mechanism in frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to progranulin mutation. Nat Commun 8, 15277 (2017).https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15277
Bracko O, Pietro V, Lazzarino G, Amorini AM, Tavazzi B, Artmann J, Wong EC, Buxton RB, Weller M, Luft AR, Wegener S. 3- nitropropionic acid-induced ischemia tolerance in the rat brain is mediated by reduced metabolic activity and cerebral blood. 2014 Sep;34(9):1522-30.Click here
Kleine Borgmann FB, Bracko O, Jessberger S. Imaging neurite outgrowth of adult-born granule cells. Development 140: 2823-2827 (2013). Click here
Bracko, O*, Singer, T*; Aigner, S, Knobloch M, Winner, B, Ray, J, Clemenson, GD, Suh, H, Couillard-Despres, S, Aigner, L, Gage, H. F, and Jessberger, S. Gene expression profiling of neural stem cells and their neuronal progeny reveals IGF2 as a regulator of adult hippocampal neurogenesis. Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (10) 3376-3387 (2012). *Denotes equal contribution. Click here
Koo SC*, Bracko O*, Park MS, Schwab R, Chun HJ, Park KM, Seo JS, Grbic V, Balasubramanian S, Schmid M, Godard F, Yun DJ, Lee SY, Cho MJ, Weigel D and Kim MC. Control of lateral organ development and flowering time by the Arabidopsis thaliana MADS-box Gene AGAMOUS-LIKE6. The Plant Journal, 62: 807-816 (2010). *Denotes equal contribution. Click here
Dieck T, Altrock WD, Kessels MM, Qualmann B, Regus H, Brauner D, Fejtová A, Bracko O, Gundelfinger ED, Brandstätter JH. Molecular dissection of the photoreceptor ribbon synapse: physical interaction of Bassoon and RIBEYE is essential for the assembly of the ribbon complex. Journal of Cell Biology, 168(5), 825-836 (2005). Click here