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AKSHATA ALMAD, PhD

PUBLICATIONS

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Further delineation of the clinical and pathologic features of HIKESHI-related leukodystrophy

Helman G, Zerem A, Almad A, Hacker J, Stutterd C, Woidill S, Sase S, LeFevre A, Cottrell J, Ekstein J, Hirsch Y, Taft R, Simons C,,Grinspan J, Pizzino A, Schmidt J, Harding B, Viaene A, Fattal-Valevski A, Vanderver A. Pediatric Neurology., In Press

Connexin 43 hemichannels mediate spatial and temporal disease spread in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Almad A, Taga A, Joseph J*, Connor W, Patankar A, Gross S, Richard JP, Pokharel A, Lillo M, Dastgheyb R, Eggan K, Haughey N, Contreras J, and Maragakis N. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119 (13) e2107391119

Glial cells in the driver seat of Leukodystrophies

Garcia L, Hacker J, SaseS, and Almad A^* (2020) Neurobiology of Disease, Special Issue: The roles of glia in neurodegenerative disease 142, 105087.

^corresponding author

A novel mouse for modeling of the Classical H-ABC TUBB4AD249N mutation

Sase S, Almad A,Boecker A, Li J, Takanohashi A, Patel A, McCaffrey T, Patel H, Sirdeshpande D, Padiath Q, Dias P, Holzbaur E, Scherer S and Vanderver A. (2020) eLife, 2020;9: e52986 *co-first authors

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Perfluorocarbon labeling of human glial-restricted progenitors for 19F MRI

Richard JP, Hussain U, Gross S, Taga A, Kouser M, Almad A, Campanelli J, Bulte JWM and Maragakis NJ (2019) Stem Cells Translational Medicine 00: -1-11

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A Stocked Toolbox for Understanding the Role of Astrocytes in Disease

Almad A and Maragakis N (2018). Nature Reviews Neurology14 (6):351-362

Astrocytes, an active player in Aicardi- Goutières syndrome

Sase S, Takanohashi A, Vanderver A and Almad A^ (2018) Brain Pathology 28 (3) 399-407 ^corresponding author

Serial in vivo imaging of transplanted allogeneic neural stem cell survival in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Srivastava A, Gross S, Almad A, Bulte C, Maragakis N, Bulte J. (2017) Experimental Neurology289: 96-102

Connexin 43 in astrocytes contributes to motor neuron toxicity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Almad A, Doreswamy A, Gross S, Richard JP, Huo Y, Haughey N and Maragakis N. (2016) Glia 64 (7) 1154-1169

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Serum exosomes mediate pregnancy-associated suppression of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis through immunomodulatory and neuroprotective mechanisms

Williams J, Gatson N, Smith K, Cox G, Shawler T, Almad A, McTigue D, Whitacre C. (2013) Clinical Immunology 149 (2)

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Glia: an emerging target for neurological disease therapy

Almad A and Maragakis N. (2012) Stem Cell Research and Therapy 3:37

The PPAR alpha agonist gemfibrozil is an ineffective treatment for spinal cord injured mice

Almad A, Lash AT, Wei P, Lovett-Racke AE, McTigue DM. (2011) Experimental Neurology 232 (2): 309-17

Oligodendrocyte fate after spinal cord injury

Almad A, Sahinkaya FR and McTigue D (2011) Neurotherapeutics 8 (2): 262-73

Chronic expression of PPAR-delta by oligodendrocyte lineage cells in the injured rat spinal cord

Almad A and McTigue D (2010) Journal of Comparative Neurology 518 (6); 785-99

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Does chronic remyelination occur for all spared axons after spinal cord injury in mouse?

Gensel JC, Almad A, Alexander JK, Schonberg DL, Tripathi RB. (2008) Journal of Neuroscience28 (34): 8385-6

Protein kinase C modulates the phase-delaying effects of light in the mammalian circadian clock

Lee B, Almad A, Butcher GQ, Obrietan K. (2007) European Journal of Neuroscience 26(2): 451-62

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