Highlighted Publications

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• Heithoff, B. P., George, K. K., Shandra, O., & Robel, S (bioRxiv preprint). Mild traumatic brain injury/ concussion initiates an atypical astrocyte response caused by blood-brain barrier dysfunction. 

• Muñoz-Ballester, C., Umans, R. A., & Robel, S. (2021). Leveraging zebrafish to study bona fide astrocytes. Trends in Neurosciences, 44(2), 77-79. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2020.10.013

• Heithoff, B. P., George, K. K., Phares, A. N., Zuidhoek, I. A., Munoz-Ballester, C., & Robel, S. (2021). Astrocytes are necessary for blood–brain barrier maintenance in the adult mouse brain. Glia, 69(2), 436-472. doi:10.1002/glia.23908

• Shandra, O., & Robel, S. (2020). Inducing post-traumatic epilepsy in a mouse model of repetitive diffuse traumatic brain injury. Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2020(156) doi:10.3791/60360

• Campbell, S. C.*, Muñoz-Ballester, C.*, Chaunsali, L., Mills, W. A.,III, Yang, J. H., Sontheimer, H., & Robel, S. (2020). Potassium and glutamate transport is impaired in scar-forming tumor-associated astrocytes. Neurochemistry International, 133 doi:10.1016/j.neuint.2019.104628

• Oleksii Shandra*, Alexander R. Winemiller*, Benjamin P. Heithoff, Carmen Munoz-Ballester, Kijana K. George, Michael J. Benko, Ivan A. Zuidhoek, Michelle N. Besser, Dallece E. Curley, G. Franklin Edwards, Anroux Mey, Alexys N. Harrington, Jeremy P. Kitchen and Stefanie Robel (2019). Repetitive Diffuse Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Causes an Atypical Astrocyte Response and Spontaneous Recurrent Seizures. Journal of Neuroscience 39 (10) 1944-1963.

• Robel S, Buckingham SC, Boni JL, Campbell SL, Danbolt NC, Riedmann T, Sutor B, Sontheimer H. (2015). Reactive astrogliosis causes the development of spontaneous seizures. Journal of Neuroscience 35(8), 3330-45.

• Kimbrough IF*, Robel S*, Roberson E, Sontheimer H. (2015). Vascular amyloidosis impairs the gliovascular unit in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease. Brain, Dec;138(Pt 12):3716-33.

• Watkins S.*, Robel S.*, Kimbrough IF., Robert, SM., and Sontheimer H. (2014) “Disruption of astrocyte-vascular coupling and the blood-brain barrier by invading glioma cells.” Nature Communications, Jun 19;5:4196.

• Robel S, Tetsuji M, Zoubaa S, Schlegel J, Sirko S, Faissner A, Goebbels S, Dimou L, Gotz M. (2009). Conditional deletion of β1-Integrin in astroglia causes partial reactive gliosis. GLIA 57(15), 1630-47.

 

Suggested Literature for Students

• Robel S (2016). Astroglial Scarring and Seizures - A Cell Biological Perspective on Epilepsy. The Neuroscientist, DOI: 10.1177/1073858416645498

• Robel S, Sontheimer H. (2015). Glia as drivers of abnormal neuronal activity. Nature Neuroscience Dec 29;19(1):28-33.

• Buckingham SC, Robel S. (2013). Glutamate and tumor-associated epilepsy: glial cell dysfunction in the peritumoral environment. Neurochemistry International 63(7).

• Robel S, Berninger B, Gotz M. (2011). The stem cell potential of glia: lessons from reactive gliosis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 12(2), 88-104.

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