Publications

Our scientific output and findings

From groundbreaking discoveries in basic science to innovative clinical insights, our publications showcase the breadth and depth of research taking place at the UK DRI. 

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Cytokines released by T cells after encountering cancer cells

A balancing act: preventing an overactive immune system

Research into an immune kill switch holds potential for controlling infections or preventing autoimmunity. The study, led by Prof Jernej Ule (UK DRI at King's)...

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International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society
Published

Global burden of cerebral small vessel disease determined from large MRI studies - a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors
Bonnie Yk Lam, Yuan Cai, Huijing Zheng, Jize Wei, Rufus Akinyemi, Geert Jan Biessels, Hilde van den Brink, Christopher Lh Chen, Marco Duering, Deborah Gustafson, Saima Hilal, Vincent Hui, Raj Kalaria, SangYun Kim, Maggie Li Man Lam, Frank-Erik de Leeuw, Ami Sm Li, Hugh Stephen Markus, Anna Marseglia, John O'brien, Leonardo Pantoni, Perminder S Sachdev, Eric Edward Smith, Joanna Wardlaw, Adrian Wong, Ho Ko, Vincent Ct Mok
Global burden of cerebral small vessel disease determined from large MRI studies - a systematic review and meta-analysis
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
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Non-microglial downregulation of <em>PLCG2</em> impairs synaptic function and elicits Alzheimer disease-related hallmarks

Authors
Audrey Coulon, Florian Rabiller, Mari Takalo, Avishek Roy, Alexandre Pelletier, Henna Martiskainen, Dolores Siedlecki-Wullich, Nina Lannette-Weimann, Nad'a Majerníková, Arthur Grenon, Vance Gao, Anaël Erhardt, Anne Pernodet, Morgane Lemaire, Floriane Limoge, Pauline Walle, Tiago Mendes, Karine Guyot, Célia Lemeu, Lukas-Iohan Carvalho, Ana Raquel Melo de Farias, Marc Hulsman, Chloé Najdek, Alejandra Freire-Regatillo, Orthis Saha, Philippe Amouyel, Camille Charbonnier, Jean-François Deleuze, Orio Dols-Icardo, Heli Jeskanen, Roosa-Maria Willman, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Mitja Kurki, John Hardy, Sami Heikkinen, Henne Holstege, Petra Mäkinen, Gaël Nicolas, Simon Mead, Michael Wagner, Alfredo Ramirez, Tuomas Rauramaa, Aarno Palotie, Rebecca Sims, Hilkka Soininen, John van Swieten, Julie Williams, Céline Bellenguez, Carla Gelle, Erwan Lambert, Marcos R Costa, Julia Tcw, Enrico Glaab, Anne-Marie Ayral, Florie Demiautte, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Manon Muntaner, Delphine Eberlé, Séverine Deforges, Joel Haas, Devrim Kilinc, Christophe Mulle, Julien Chapuis, Mikko Hiltunen, Julie Dumont, Jean-Charles Lambert
Non-microglial downregulation of <em>PLCG2</em> impairs synaptic function and elicits Alzheimer disease-related hallmarks
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Published

Plasma pTau217 as a Prognostic, Monitoring, and Risk-Stratification Biomarker of Clinical Progression in Lewy Body Disease

Authors
S A Lorkiewicz, C Abdelnour, M Bolen, A M Smith, M Shahid-Besanti, D Hemachandra, E M Müller-Oehring, N Siddiqui, L Montoliu-Gaya, B Arslan, N J Ashton, E N Wilson, L Tian, K I Andreasson, E C Mormino, V W Henderson, H Zetterberg, K L Poston
Plasma pTau217 as a Prognostic, Monitoring, and Risk-Stratification Biomarker of Clinical Progression in Lewy Body Disease
JAMA network open
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Apolipoprotein E Mimetic Peptide CN-105 and Postoperative Delirium in Older Patients: The Phase 2 MARBLE Randomized Clinical Trial

Authors
Noah J Timko, Mary Cooter Wright, Melody R Smith, Piper C Boykin, Jacqueline M Emerson, Marty G Woldorff, Sarada Eleswarpu, J Taylor Herbert, Eugene W Moretti, Michael J Devinney, Chakib M Ayoub, Frank W Rockhold, David Ryu, Ayesha Syed, Keith W VanDusen, Thomas Bunning, Bethany J Hsia, Michael P Bolognesi, William A Jiranek, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Janet L Huebner, Zhong Li, Tyler H Reekes, Jeffrey N Browndyke, Daniel T Laskowitz, Miles Berger, MARBLE Study Investigators
Apolipoprotein E Mimetic Peptide CN-105 and Postoperative Delirium in Older Patients: The Phase 2 MARBLE Randomized Clinical Trial
EBioMedicine
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Transcranial temporal interference stimulation targeting the subthalamic region for motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease: a pilot, randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled crossover study

Authors
Chenhao Yang, Yongxin Xu, Yichao Du, Xiaonan Shen, Tingting Li, Nan Chen, Yulian Zhu, Lingyan Huang, Jiaojiao Lü, Lu Li, Zhenyu Qian, Zhen Wang, Ulf Ziemann, Nir Grossman, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Brad Manor, Chencheng Zhang, Junhong Zhou, Yu Liu
Transcranial temporal interference stimulation targeting the subthalamic region for motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease: a pilot, randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled crossover study
Neurology
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Characterizing Heterogeneity in Brain Morphology in Traumatic Brain Injury Using Normative Modeling

Authors
Jake Mitchell, Stuart J McDonald, Meng Law, Terence J O'Brien, Lars T Westlye, Karen Caeyenberghs, Virginia Newcombe, David J Sharp, Abdalla Z Mohamed, Erin D Bigler, Houshang Amiri, Andrei Irimia, Stefania Mondello, Sophia I Thomopoulos, John Darrell Van Horn, David F Tate, Elisabeth A Wilde, Asta K Håberg, Martin M Monti, Rachel Edelstein, Maheen M Adamson, William C Walker, Kristen Dams-O'Connor, Evelyn M Deutscher, Ekaterina Dobryakova, Torgeir Hellstrøm, Emily L Dennis, Paul M Thompson, Frank G Hillary, Alexander Olsen, Jennie L Ponsford, Sandy R Shultz, Gershon Spitz
Characterizing Heterogeneity in Brain Morphology in Traumatic Brain Injury Using Normative Modeling
Nature
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DNA damage burden causes selective CUX2 neuron loss in neuroinflammation

Authors
Laura Morcom, Wenlong Xia, Zhaoyang Xu, Yashika Awasthi, Celine Geywitz, Matthew O Ellis, Tomas Noli, Amel Zulji, Daniel Yamamoto, Gemma C Girdler, Li Kai, Keying Zhu, Mingming Wei, Xiao-Yan Tang, Kimberly K Hoi, Julio Gonzalez-Maya, Greg J Duncan, Adrien M Vaquie, Diana Gold Diaz, Riki Kawaguchi, Erdong Liu, Yu Sun, Denny Yang, Gregory D Jordan, I-Ling Lu, Staffan Holmqvist, Theresa Bartels, Katherine Ridley, Jennifer Ja-Yoon Choi, Santos J Franco, Eric J Huang, Ben Emery, Daniel Geschwind, Lucas Schirmer, Gabriel Balmus, Brian Popko, Stephen P J Fancy, David H Rowitch
DNA damage burden causes selective CUX2 neuron loss in neuroinflammation
Neuron
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Alzheimer's disease pathology degrades an NMDA receptor-dependent spontaneous activity pattern in cortico-hippocampal circuits

Authors
Robert Ellingford, Samuel S Harris, Marten Kehring, Rikesh M Rajani, Francesca Kar Wey Lam, David Graykowski, Dorothea Bӧken, Lindsay A Welikovitch, Anita Khasnavis, Rhiannon Laban, Amanda Heslegrave, Umran Yaman, Anastasie Mate de Gerando, Suraya A Bond, Selina Wray, Dervis A Salih, David Dupret, Raymond J Dolan, David Klenerman, Henrik Zetterberg, Bradley T Hyman, Marc Aurel Busche
Alzheimer's disease pathology degrades an NMDA receptor-dependent spontaneous activity pattern in cortico-hippocampal circuits
BMC biology
Published

Correction: Widespread 3'UTR capped RNAs derive from G-rich regions in proximity to AGO2 binding sites

Authors
Nejc Haberman, Holly Digby, Rupert Faraway, Rebecca Cheung, Anob M Chakrabarti, Andrew M Jobbins, Callum Parr, Kayoko Yasuzawa, Takeya Kasukawa, Chi Wai Yip, Masaki Kato, Hazuki Takahashi, Piero Carninci, Santiago Vernia, Jernej Ule, Christopher R Sibley, Aida Martinez-Sanchez, Boris Lenhard
Correction: Widespread 3'UTR capped RNAs derive from G-rich regions in proximity to AGO2 binding sites
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
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Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates and Exposes Selective Neuronal Vulnerability

Authors
Valentina Davi, Pierre Parutto, Yuyi Zhang, Tasuku Konno, Cecile Crapart, Raquel Pereira, John P Franklin, Mosab Ali Awadelkareem, Daniel C Maddison, Michael J Devine, Edgar R Gomes, Joseph Chambers, Elena Koslover, Edward Avezov
Endoplasmic Reticulum Geometry Dictates Neuronal Bursting via Calcium Store Refill Rates and Exposes Selective Neuronal Vulnerability
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
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Multimodal Ageing Biomarkers and Plasma Proteomic Signatures Associated with All-Cause Mortality

Authors
Maira Pyrgioti, Ines Mesa Eguiagaray, Paul Redmond, Janie Corley, Mark E Bastin, Maria Valdés Hernández, Tom C Russ, Joanna M Wardlaw, Eilis Hannon, Ian J Deary, Keenan A Walker, Elliot M Tucker-Drob, Simon R Cox, Riccardo E Marioni, Sarah E Harris
Multimodal Ageing Biomarkers and Plasma Proteomic Signatures Associated with All-Cause Mortality
Alzheimer's research & therapy
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Independent and interactive contributions of white matter hyperintensities and Alzheimer's disease imaging and plasma biomarkers to cognitive decline in older adults without dementia

Authors
Dario Bachmann, Christoph Gericke, Maha Wybitul, Antje Saake, Sandro Studer, Katrin Rauen, Esmeralda Gruber, Andreas Buchmann, Martin Hüllner, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Roger M Nitsch, Christoph Hock, Valerie Treyer, Anton Gietl
Independent and interactive contributions of white matter hyperintensities and Alzheimer's disease imaging and plasma biomarkers to cognitive decline in older adults without dementia
The European journal of neuroscience
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Astrocyte Proximity Protects Synapses From Human Amyloid-Beta Induced Degeneration in a Mouse Ex Vivo Model of Early Alzheimer's Disease

Authors
Francesco Gobbo, Declan King, Jane Tulloch, Davide Gobbo, Calum Bonthron, Soraya Meftah, Caleb Stoddart-Campbelton, Arisa Tamura, Jamie Rose, Colin Smith, Claire Durrant, Tara L Spires-Jones
Astrocyte Proximity Protects Synapses From Human Amyloid-Beta Induced Degeneration in a Mouse Ex Vivo Model of Early Alzheimer's Disease