PUBLICATIONS

• Morris AD & Kucenas S. A novel lysolecithin model for visualizing damage in vivo in the larval zebrafish spinal cord. 2021. (In press - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Molecular Medicine). 

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• PIller M*, Werkman I*, Brown EA, Latimer AJ, Kucenas S. Glutamate signaling via the AMPAR subunit GluR4 regulates oligodendrocyte progenitor cell migration in the developing spinal cord. 2021. (In revision). *-co-first authors.

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• Fontenas L & Kucenas S. Spinal cord precursors utilize neural crest cell mechanisms to generate hybrid peripheral myelinating glia. eLife. 2021 Feb 8;10:e64267. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64267.

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• Raiders S, Han T, Scott-Hewitt N, Kucenas S, Lew D, Logan M, Singhvi A. Engulfed by Glia: Glial pruning in development, function and injury across species. Journal of Neuroscience. 2021 Jan 15;JN-SY-1660-20.

 

• Gibson EM, Bennett FC, Gillepsie SM, Guler AD, Gutmann DH, Halpern CH, Kucenas S, Kushida CA, Lemieux M, Liddelow S, Macauley SL, Li Q, Quinn MA, Roberts LW, Saligrama N, Taylor KR, Venkatesh HS, Yalcin B, Zuchero JB. How Support of Early Career Researchers Can Reset Science in the Post-COVID19 World. Cell. 2020. Jun 9;S0092-8674(20)30678-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.05.045.

 

• Zhu Y, Crowley S, Latimer AJ, Lewis GM, Nash R, Kucenas S. Migratory Neural Crest Cells Phagocytose Dead Cells in the Developing Nervous System. Cell. ​2019 September 19; 179, 1-16.

 

• Fontenas L, Welsh TG, Piller M, Coughenour P, Gandhi AV, Prober DA, Kucenas S. The neuromodulator adenosine regulates OPC migration at motor exit point transition zones. Cell Rep. 2019 Apr 2;27(1):115-128.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.03.013.

 

• Morioka S, Perry JSA, Raymond MH, Medina CB, Zhao L, Zhu Y, Serbulea V, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Leitinger N, Kucenas S, Rathmell JC, Makowski L, and Ravichandran KS. Efferocytosis induces a novel SLC program to promote glucose uptake and lactate release. Nature. 2018 Nov;563(7733):714-718.

 

• 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. Journal of Neurochemistry. 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 Genetics. 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.