PUBLICATIONS

• Fontenas L & Kucenas S. Motor Exit Point (MEP) Glia: Novel Myelinating Glia That Bridge CNS and PNS Myelin. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 02 October 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00333.

• ​Welsh TG & Kucenas S. Purinergic signaling in oligodendrocyte development and function. J Neurochem. 2018 Jan 28. doi: 10.1111/jnc.14315.​​

 

• Yong Y, Heckle LA, Arena KA, Goertz JE, Kucenas S, Deppmann CD. Glia Signaling during Neurological Damage and Disease. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. 2017. eLS © 2017, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. www.els.net.

 

• Fontenas L & Kucenas S. Livin’ On The Edge: Glia Shape Nervous System Transition Zones. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2017 Sep 25;47:44-51.

 

• Morris AD, Erisir A, Criswell SJ, Kucenas S. ​Transmission Electron Microscopy of Zebrafish Spinal Motor Nerve Roots. Developmental Dynamics. 2017. Nov;246(11):956-962.


• Morris AD, Lewis GM, Kucenas S. Perineurial Glial Plasticity and the Role of TGF-β in the Development of the Blood-Nerve-Barrier. Journal of Neuroscience. 2017. May 3;37(18):4790-4807. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2875-16.2017.


• Smith CJ, Wheeler MA, Marjoram L, Bagnat M, Deppmann CD, Kucenas S. TNFa/TNFR2 signaling controls the precise timing of glial ensheathment at the dorsal root entry zone. PLoS Genet. 2017. Apr 5;13(4):e1006712. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006712. PMID: 28379965.

 

• Laura Fontenas and Sarah Kucenas, Glial Cell Development. In Reference Module in Life Sciences, Elsevier. 2017. ISBN: 978-0-12-809633-8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.12149-1


• Johnson K, Barragan J, Bashiruddin S, Smith CJ, Tyrrell C, Parsons MJ, Doris R, Kucenas S, Downes GB, Velez C, Sakai C, Pathak N, Anderson K, Stein R, Devoto SH, Mumm JH, Barresi MJF. Gfap-positive radial glial cells are an essential progenitor population for later born neurons and glia in the zebrafish spinal cord. Glia. 2016 Jul;64(7):1170-89. doi: 10.1002/glia.22990.

 

• Smith CJ, Johnson K, Welsh TG, Barresi MJF, Kucenas S. Radial glia inhibit peripheral glial infiltration into the spinal cord at motor exit point transition zones. Glia. 2016 Jul;64(7):1138-53. doi: 10.1002/glia.22987.

 

• Michael A. Wheeler, Cody J. Smith, Matteo Ottolini, Bryan S. Barker, Aarti M. Purohit, Ryan M. Grippo, Ronald P. Gaykema, Anthony J. Spano, Mark P. Beenhakker, Sarah Kucenas, Manoj K. Patel, Christopher D. Deppmann, Ali D. Güler. Genetically targeted magnetic control of the nervous system. Nature Neuroscience. 2016; May;19(5):756-61.

 

• Kucenas S. Adventures in Wonderland. PLoS Genetics. 2015 Apr 16;11(4):e1005086. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005086. eCollection 2015 Apr.

 

• Kucenas S. Perineurial Glia. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2015 Mar 27. pii: a020511. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a020511.

 

• Smith CJ, Morris AD, Welsh TG, Kucenas S. Contact-Mediated Inhibition Between Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells and Motor Exit Point Glia Establish the Spinal Cord Transition Zone. PLoS Biology. 2014. Sep 30;12(9):e1001961. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001961. eCollection 2014.

 

• Lewis GM, Kucenas S. Perineurial glia are essential for motor axon regrowth following nerve injury. Journal of Neuroscience. 2014; 34(38):12762-12777. PMID: 25232113.

 

• Clark JK, O’Keefe A, Mastracci TL, Sussel L, Matise MP, Kucenas S. Mammalian Nkx2.2+ perineurial glia are essential for motor nerve development. Developmental Dynamics. 2014. Sep;243(9):1116-29. 10.1002/dvdy.24158. PMID: 24979729.

 

• Lewis GM, Kucenas S. Motor nerve transection and time-lapse imaging of glial cell behaviors in live zebrafish. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2013. 2013 Jun 20;(76). doi: 10.3791/50621. PMID: 23852039.

 

• Binari LA, Lewis GM, Kucenas S. Perineurial glia require Notch signaling during motor nerve development but not regeneration. Journal of Neuroscience. 2013; 33(10):4241-4252. PMCID: PMC3668856.

 

• Takada N, Kucenas S, Appel B. Sox10 is necessary for oligodendrocyte survival following axon wrapping. Glia. 2010; 58(8):996-1006. PMCID: PMC3639140 .

 

• Watanabe M, Kucenas S, Bowman T, Ruhlman M, Knuepfer M. Angiotensin II and CRF Receptors in the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala Mediate Hemodynamic Response Variability to Cocaine in Conscious Rats. Brain Research. 2010; 1309:53-65. PMCID: PMC2821715.

 

• Kucenas S, Wang W, Knapik E, Appel B. A Selective Glial Barrier at Motor Axon Exit Points Prevents Oligodendrocyte Migration from the Spinal Cord. Journal of Neuroscience. 2009; 29(48):151887-15194. PMCID: PMC2837368.