This is an example of transplanted human iPSC derived cells.
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Uwe Maskos is a native Bavarian. He studied Physics and Chemistry. A graduate of New College, Oxford, he carried out his doctoral work with Professor Sir Edwin M. Southern (Lasker 2005), inventor of the ‘Southern Blot’, pursuing a highly original project, creating what was then going to become the first ever ‘DNA chips’. Having finished his DPhil at an early age, he went on to work in Neurobiology, a discipline that had started to captivate his interest already for a while. In Ron McKay’s laboratory, working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he developed a method of intra-uterine transplantation of neural stem cells. This was subsequently used to study the integration of cells derived from knock-out (KO) animals, human stem cells, and from differentiated embryonic stem (ES) cells, that he was also able to derive de novo. He was tenured working with Professor Jean-Pierre Changeux developing novel tools to study the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) in vivo. He is heading a Research Unit at the Institut Pasteur. In 2010 he received the Prix Duquesne.
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2025Targeting high-affinity nicotinic receptors protects against the functional consequences of β-amyloid in mouse hippocampus., Mol Psychiatry 2025 Feb; 30(2): 556-566.
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2025Linking altered neuronal and synaptic properties to nicotinic receptor Alpha5 subunit gene dysfunction: a translational investigation in rat mPFC and human cortical layer 6., Transl Psychiatry 2025 Jan; 15(1): 12.
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2024Distinct Chrna5 mutations link excessive alcohol use to types I/II vulnerability profiles and IPN GABAergic neurons., Transl Psychiatry 2024 Nov; 14(1): 461.
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2024B Cell-activating factor (BAFF): A promising trans-nosographic biomarker of inflammation and autoimmunity in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia., Brain Behav Immun 2024 Oct; 121(): 178-188.
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2024The human-specific nicotinic receptor subunit CHRFAM7A reduces α7 receptor function in human induced pluripotent stem cells-derived and transgenic mouse neurons., Eur J Neurosci 2024 Sep; 60(5): 4893-4906.
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2024Serum autoantibodies against α7-nicotinic receptors in subgroups of patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia: clinical features and link with peripheral inflammation., Transl Psychiatry 2024 Mar; 14(1): 146.
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2023An original potentiating mechanism revealed by the cryo-EM structures of the human α7 nicotinic receptor in complex with nanobodies., Nat Commun 2023 Sep; 14(1): 5964.
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2023Prolonged nicotine exposure reduces aversion to the drug in mice by altering nicotinic transmission in the interpeduncular nucleus., Elife 2023 May; 12(): .
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2023Generation of nanobodies acting as silent and positive allosteric modulators of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor., Cell Mol Life Sci 2023 May; 80(6): 164.
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2023Developmental Changes of Human Neural Progenitor Cells Grafted into the Ventricular System and Prefrontal Cortex of Mouse Brain in Utero., Cells 2023 Mar; 12(7): .
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