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Schueller E, Grgurina I, Cosquer B, Panzer E, Penaud N, Pereira de Vasconcelos A, Stéphan A, Merienne K, Cassel JC, Mathis C, Blanc F, Bousiges O, Boutillier AL. A novel mouse model reproducing frontal alterations related to the prodromal stage of dementia with LEWY bodies. Neurobiol Dis. 2024 Oct 15;201:106676. doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106676. Epub 2024 Sep 20. PMID: 39307398.
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Alcala Vida, R, Lotz C, Seguin J, Decraene C, Brulé B, Awada A, Bombardier A, Cosquer B, Pereira de Vasconcelos A, Brouillet E, Cassel JC, Boutillier AL, Merienne, K. Altered-activity-regulated H3K9 acetylation at TGF-beta signaling genes during egocentric spatial memory processing in Huntington’s disease mice. Prog. Neurobiol. 2022 Dec;219:102363. doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio. 2022.102363.
Borcuk C, Héraud C, Herbeaux K, Diringer M, Panzer É, Scuto J, Hashimoto S, Saido TC, Saito T, Goutagny R, Battaglia D, Mathis C. Early memory deficits and extensive brain network disorganization in the AppNL-F/MAPT double knock-in mouse model of familial Alzheimer's disease. Aging Brain. 2022 Jun 2;2:100042. doi: 10.1016/j.nbas.2022.100042. eCollection 2022
Linard M, Ravier A, Mougué L, Grgurina I, Boutillier AL, Foubert-Samier A, Blanc F, Helmer C. Infectious Agents as Potential Drivers of α-Synucleinopathies. Mov Disord. 2022 Mar;37(3):464-477.
Paiva I, Cellai L, Meriaux C, Poncelet L, Nebie O, Saliou JM, Lacoste AS, Papegaey A, Drobecq H, Le Gras S, Schneider M, Malik EM, Müller CE, Faivre E, Carvalho K, Gomez-Murcia V, Vieau D, Thiroux B, Eddarkaoui S, Lebouvier T, Schueller E, Tzeplaeff L, Grgurina I, Seguin J, Stauber J, Lopes LV, Buée L, Buée-Scherrer V, Cunha RA, Ait-Belkacem R, Sergeant N, Annicotte JS, Boutillier AL*, Blum D*. Caffeine intake exerts dual genome-wide effects on hippocampal metabolism and learning-dependent transcription. J Clin Invest. 2022 Jun 15;132(12):e149371. *joint last authors
Alcala Vida, R., Seguin J, Lotz C,Molitor AM, Irastorza-Azcarate I, AwadaA, Karasu N, Bombardier A, Cosquer B, Skarmeta JLG, Cassel JC, Boutillier AL, Sexton T, Merienne, K. Age-related and disease locus-specific mechanisms contribute to early remodelling of chromatin structure in Huntington's disease mice. Nature Commun. 2021 Jan 13;12(1):364. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20605-2.
Pistono C, Zimmermann A, Morel C, Herbeaux K, Héraud C, Dumont-Kientzy S, Pevet P, Felder-Schmittbuhl MP, Mathis C. Major role of MT2 receptors in the beneficial effect of melatonin on long-term recognition memory in C57BL/6J male mice. Horm Behav. 2021 Nov;136:105076. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105076. Epub 2021 Oct 9.
Wang XL, Kooijman S, Gao Y, Tzeplaeff L, Cosquer B, Milanova I, Wolff SEC, Korpel N, Champy MF, Petit-Demoulière B, Goncalves Da Cruz I, Sorg-Guss T, Rensen PCN, Cassel JC, Kalsbeek A, Boutillier AL*, Yi CX*. Microglia-specific knock-down of Bmal1 improves memory and protects mice from high fat diet-induced obesity. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 May 28. doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01169-z *joint last authors
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Cès A, Burg T, Herbeaux K, Héraud C, Bott JB, Mensah-Nyagan AG, Mathis C. Age-related vulnerability of pattern separation in C57BL/6J mice. Neurobiol Aging. 2018 Feb;62:120-129. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.10.013. Epub 2017 Oct 25.
Douchamps V, Mathis C. A second wind for the cholinergic system in Alzheimer's therapy. Behav Pharmacol. 2017 Apr;28(2 and 3-Spec Issue):112-123.
Le Gras S, Keime C, Anthony A, Lotz C, De Longprez L, Brouillet E, Cassel JC, Boutillier AL, Merienne K. Altered enhancer transcription underlies Huntington's disease striatal transcriptional signature. Sci Rep. 2017 Feb 22;7:42875. doi: 10.1038/srep42875.
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