Alejandro F. De Nicola

Research interests

Publications

• Importance of the brain corticosteroid receptor balance in metaplasticity, cognitive performance and neuro-inflammation

  Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology · 2018 · 10.1016/j.yfrne.2018.02.003

• Progesterone and allopregnanolone in the central nervous system: Response to injury and implication for neuroprotection

  The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2014 · 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2014.09.001

• Revisiting the roles of progesterone and allopregnanolone in the nervous system: Resurgence of the progesterone receptors

  Progress in Neurobiology · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2013.09.004

• Progesterone Receptors: A Key for Neuroprotection in Experimental Stroke

  Endocrinology · 2012 · 10.1210/en.2012-1138

• Distribution of membrane progesterone receptor alpha in the male mouse and rat brain and its regulation after traumatic brain injury

  Neuroscience · 2012 · 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.11.039

• Neuroprotective actions of estradiol revisited

  Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism · 2011 · 10.1016/j.tem.2011.08.002

• Progesterone attenuates astro- and microgliosis and enhances oligodendrocyte differentiation following spinal cord injury

  Experimental Neurology · 2011 · 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.06.001

• Short-Term Environmental Enrichment Enhances Adult Neurogenesis, Vascular Network and Dendritic Complexity in the Hippocampus of Type 1 Diabetic Mice

  PLoS ONE · 2010 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0013993

• Progesterone neuroprotection in traumatic CNS injury and motoneuron degeneration

  Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology · 2009 · 10.1016/j.yfrne.2009.03.001

• Cognitive dysfunction and hippocampal changes in experimental type 1 diabetes

  Behavioural Brain Research · 2008 · 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.11.001

• Regulation of Glucocorticoid Receptors in Brain by Corticosterone Treatment of Adrenalectomized Rats

  Neuroendocrinology · 2008 · 10.1159/000123429

• Aldosterone Effects on Salt Appetite in Adrenalectomized Rats

  Neuroendocrinology · 2008 · 10.1159/000124506

• Glucocorticoid Receptor Blockade Normalizes Hippocampal Alterations and Cognitive Impairment in Streptozotocin-Induced Type 1 Diabetes Mice

  Neuropsychopharmacology · 2008 · 10.1038/npp.2008.136

• Effects of progesterone on oligodendrocyte progenitors, oligodendrocyte transcription factors, and myelin proteins following spinal cord injury

  Glia · 2008 · 10.1002/glia.20814

• Progesterone: Therapeutic opportunities for neuroprotection and myelin repair

  Pharmacology & Therapeutics · 2007 · 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2007.06.001

• Effects of progesterone in the spinal cord of a mouse model of multiple sclerosis

  The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2007 · 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2007.03.040

• Neuronal and astroglial alterations in the hippocampus of a mouse model for type 1 diabetes

  Brain Research · 2005 · 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.12.032

• Progesterone neuroprotection in spinal cord trauma involves up-regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in motoneurons

  The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology · 2005 · 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2005.01.016

• Progesterone up-regulates neuronal brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in the injured spinal cord

  Neuroscience · 2004 · 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.02.024

• Local synthesis and dual actions of progesterone in the nervous system: neuroprotection and myelination

  Growth Hormone & IGF Research · 2004 · 10.1016/j.ghir.2004.03.007

• Effects of injury and progesterone treatment on progesterone receptor and progesterone binding protein 25‐Dx expression in the rat spinal cord

  Journal of Neurochemistry · 2003 · 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.02055.x

• Cellular Basis for Progesterone Neuroprotection in the Injured Spinal Cord

  Journal of Neurotrauma · 2002 · 10.1089/089771502753594918

• Increased astrocyte reactivity in the hippocampus of murine models of type 1 diabetes: the nonobese diabetic (NOD) and streptozotocin-treated mice

  Brain Research · 2002 · 10.1016/s0006-8993(02)03675-2

• Steroid synthesis and metabolism in the nervous system: Trophic and protective effects

  Journal of Neurocytology · 2000 · 10.1023/a:1007152904926

• Further studies of brain aldosterone binding sites employing new mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor markers in vitro

  Brain Research · 1985 · 10.1016/0006-8993(85)91291-0

Current projects

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