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The NMDA receptor subunit GluN2D is a potential target for rapid antidepressant action
Vestring, S., Veleanu, M., Perez, M. C., Schuberth, L. E., Bronnec, M., Li, A., Würz, L. M., Erdogdu, F., Stocker, J., Moos, J., Weigel, D., Theiß, A., Wendler, E., Borger, L. M., Voita, S., Heynicke, F., Brandl, J., Hummel, F., Vivet, C. & Jocher, D. & 24 others, , 1 Dec 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, 10613.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Therapeutic potential of small peptides in Alzheimer's disease: Advances in memory restoration and targeted delivery systems
Verma, P., Khatun, R., Jew, K. A., Prusty, S. K. & Knafo, S., 1 Dec 2025, In: Neuropeptides. 114, 102559.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Interplay between hippocampal TACR3 and systemic testosterone in regulating anxiety-associated synaptic plasticity
Wojtas, M. N., Diaz-González, M., Stavtseva, N., Shoam, Y., Verma, P., Buberman, A., Izhak, I., Geva, A., Basch, R., Ouro, A., Perez-Benitez, L., Levy, U., Borcel, E., Nuñez, Á., Venero, C., Rotem-Dai, N., Veksler-Lublinsky, I. & Knafo, S., 1 Mar 2024, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 29, 3, p. 686-703 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Correction: Targeting the overexpressed mitochondrial protein VDAC1 in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease protects against mitochondrial dysfunction and mitigates brain pathology (Translational Neurodegeneration, (2022), 11, 1, (58), 10.1186/s40035-022-00329-7)
Verma, A., Shteinfer-Kuzmine, A., Kamenetsky, N., Pittala, S., Paul, A., Nahon Crystal, E., Ouro, A., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Pandey, S. K., Monsonego, A., Vardi, N., Knafo, S. & Shoshan-Barmatz, V., 1 Dec 2023, In: Translational Neurodegeneration. 12, 1, 2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
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Striatal synaptic bioenergetic and autophagic decline in premotor experimental parkinsonism
Merino-Galán, L., Jimenez-Urbieta, H., Zamarbide, M., Rodríguez-Chinchilla, T., Belloso-Iguerategui, A., Santamaria, E., Fernández-Irigoyen, J., Aiastui, A., Doudnikoff, E., Bézard, E., Ouro, A., Knafo, S., Gago, B., Quiroga-Varela, A. & Rodríguez-Oroz, M. C., 1 Jun 2022, In: Brain. 145, 6, p. 2092-2107 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Targeting the overexpressed mitochondrial protein VDAC1 in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease protects against mitochondrial dysfunction and mitigates brain pathology
Verma, A., Shteinfer-Kuzmine, A., Kamenetsky, N., Pittala, S., Paul, A., Nahon Crystal, E., Ouro, A., Chalifa-Caspi, V., Pandey, S. K., Monsengo, A., Vardi, N., Knafo, S. & Shoshan-Barmatz, V., 1 Dec 2022, In: Translational Neurodegeneration. 11, 1, 58.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Aberrant Synaptic PTEN in Symptomatic Alzheimer’s Patients May Link Synaptic Depression to Network Failure
Díaz González, M., Buberman, A., Morales, M., Ferrer, I. & Knafo, S., 11 May 2021, In: Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. 13, 683290.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Altered cerebellar response to somatosensory stimuli in the Cntnap2 mouse model of autism
Fernández, M., Sánchez-León, C. A., Llorente, J., Sierra-Arregui, T., Knafo, S., Márquez-Ruiz, J. & Peñagarikano, O., 1 Sep 2021, In: eNeuro. 8, 5, ENEURO.0333-21.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Associative Conditioning Is a Robust Systemic Behavior in Unicellular Organisms: An Interspecies Comparison
Carrasco-Pujante, J., Bringas, C., Malaina, I., Fedetz, M., Martínez, L., Pérez-Yarza, G., Dolores Boyano, M., Berdieva, M., Goodkov, A., López, J. I., Knafo, S. & De la Fuente, I. M., 19 Jul 2021, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 12, 707086.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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FORTIS: a live-cell assay to monitor AMPA receptors using pH-sensitive fluorescence tags
Calleja-Felipe, M., Wojtas, M. N., Diaz-González, M., Ciceri, D., Escribano, R., Ouro, A., Morales, M. & Knafo, S., 1 Jun 2021, In: Translational Psychiatry. 11, 1, 324.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Scopus citations
Thesis
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Morphological Correlates of Olfactory Learning in the Rat Brain
Knafo, S. (Author), Barkai, A. (Supervisor) & Libersat, F. (Supervisor), 2004Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Neurobiological mechanisms of the environment-plasticity-behavior interaction
Normann, C. (PI), Branchi, I. I. (CoPI), Castrén, E. E. (CoPI), Knafo, S. (CoPI), Knapska, E. E. (CoPI) & Neniskyte, U. U. (CoPI)
1/01/24 → …
Project: Research
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Equipment for establishment of the molecular cognition laboratory
Knafo, S. (PI)
1/01/19 → …
Project: Research
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The Role of PTEN-PDZ Interaction in Aß-induced Synaptic Depression
Knafo, S. (PI)
National Alzheimer's Association
1/01/13 → …
Project: Research
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Honolulu-Asia Aging Study Clinical-Neuropathologic Analyses
Knafo, S. (PI)
National Alzheimer's Association
1/01/13 → …
Project: Research
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Enhancing AMPA receptor delivery into synapses of activated neurons as a strategy to enhance cognition in Alzheimer’s models
Knafo, S. (PI)
1/01/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Enhancing AMPA receptor delivery into synapses of activated neurons as a strategy to enhance cognition in Alzheimer’s models
Knafo, S. (PI)
1/01/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Research