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• Vaccarino, F.M., Ganat Y., Zhang Y., Zheng W.: Stem cells in neurodevelopment and plasticity. Neuropsychopharmacology, (2001) 25:805-815.
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• Ganat Y, Soni S, Chacon M, Schwartz ML, Vaccarino FM. Chronic hypoxia up-regulates Fibroblast Growth Factor ligands in the perinatal brain and induces Fibroblast Growth Factor -responsive radial glial cells in the sub-ependymal zone. Neuroscience 2002;112(4):977-991.
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• Shin DM, Korada S, Raballo R, Shashikant CS, Simeone A, Taylor JR, et al. Loss of glutamatergic pyramidal neurons in frontal and temporal cortex resulting from attenuation of FGFR1 signaling is associated with spontaneous hyperactivity in mice. J Neurosci 2004;24(9):2247-58.
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• Zheng W, Nowakowski RS, Vaccarino FM. Fibroblast growth factor 2 is required for maintaining the neural stem cell pool in the mouse brain subventricular zone. Dev Neurosci 2004;26(2-4):181-96.
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• Ohkubo Y, Uchida AO, Shin D, Partanen J, Vaccarino FM. Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 is required for the proliferation of hippocampal progenitor cells and for hippocampal growth in mouse. J Neurosci 2004;24(27):6057-69.
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• Vaccarino FM, Ment LR. Injury and repair in developing brain. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2004;89(3):F190-2.
• Kalanithi PS, Zheng W, Kataoka Y, DiFiglia M, Grantz H, Saper CB, et al. Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005;102(37):13307-12.
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• Smith KM, Ohkubo Y, Maragnoli ME, Rasin MR, Schwartz ML, Sestan N, et al. Midline radial glia translocation and corpus callosum formation require FGF signaling. Nat Neurosci 2006;9(6):787-97.
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• Fagel DM, Ganat Y, Silbereis J, Ebbitt T, Stewart W, Zhang H, et al. Cortical neurogenesis enhanced by chronic perinatal hypoxia. Exp Neurol 2006;199(1):77-91.
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• Ganat YM, Silbereis J, Cave C, Ngu H, Anderson GM, Ohkubo Y, et al. Early postnatal astroglial cells produce multilineage precursors and neural stem cells in vivo. J Neurosci 2006;26(33):8609-21.
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• Vaccarino, F.M., Fagel, D,F., Ganat, Y., Maragnoli, M.E., Ment, L.R., Ohkubo, Y., Schwartz, M.L., Silbereis, J., Smith, K. Astroglial cells in Development, Regeneration and Repair. Neuroscientist, vol 13 (2):173-185, 2007.
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• Smith, KM, Fagel, DM, Stevens, HE, Rabenstein, RL, Maragnoli, ME, Ohkubo, Y, Picciotto, MR, Schwartz, ML, Vaccarino, FM: Deficiency in inhibitory cortical interneurons associates with hyperactivity in Fgfr1 mutant mice. Biol. Psychiatry, 2008, 63:953-962 [Epub ahead of print: 2007 Nov 5].
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• Pittenger, C, Vaccarino, FM, and Krystal, JH: Prefrontal GABA deficits in schizophrenia: Interneuron pathology and network dysfunction. Cell Science Reviews, vol 5 (1) ISSN 1742-8130, 2008.
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• Chen, K, Ohkubo, Y, Shin, D, Doetschman, T, Sanford, PL, Li, H, and Vaccarino, FM: Decrease in excitatory neurons, astrocytes and proliferating glial progenitors in the cerebral cortex of mice lacking exon 3 from the Fgf2 gene. BMC Neuroscience, in press.
• Vaccarino, F. M., Smith, K.M., Stevens, H.: Regulation of cerebral cortical size and neuron number by Fibroblast Growth Factors: Implication for autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Special Issue on Cortical Modularity, in press.
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