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  1. Shared inflammatory glial cell signature after stab wound injury, revealed by spatial, temporal, and cell-type-specific profiling of the murine cerebral cortex

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  2. Injury-specific factors in the cerebrospinal fluid regulate astrocyte plasticity in the human brain

    Article • Nature Medicine, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  3. Injury-specific signals elicit plasticity in glial cells from patients with brain injury

    Article • Nature Medicine, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  4. TDP-43 condensates and lipid droplets regulate the reactivity of microglia and regeneration after traumatic brain injury

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  5. Molecular diversity of diencephalic astrocytes reveals adult astrogenesis regulated by Smad4

    Article • The EMBO Journal, September 2021, EMBO

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  6. Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  7. Repetitive injury and absence of monocytes promote astrocyte self-renewal and neurological recovery

    Article • Glia, August 2020, Wiley

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  8. Lipoprotein receptor loss in forebrain radial glia results in neurological deficits and severe seizures

    Article • Glia, June 2020, Wiley

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  9. Investigating Age-Related Changes in Proliferation and the Cell Division Repertoire of Parenchymal Reactive Astrocytes

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  10. Re-evaluation of neuronal P2X7 expression using novel mouse models and a P2X7-specific nanobody

    Article • eLife, August 2018, eLife

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  11. Cross‐talk between monocyte invasion and astrocyte proliferation regulates scarring in brain injury

    Article • EMBO Reports, April 2018, EMBO

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko, Dr Ricardo Martin Gomez

  12. Traumatic Brain Injury: At the Crossroads of Neuropathology and Common Metabolic Endocrinopathies

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, March 2018, MDPI AG

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  13. Changes in the Proliferative Program Limit Astrocyte Homeostasis in the Aged Post-Traumatic Murine Cerebral Cortex

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, May 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  14. Astrocyte reactivity after brain injury

    Article • Glia, August 2015, Wiley

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  15. Reactive astrocytes as neural stem or progenitor cells

    Article • Glia, May 2015, Wiley

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  16. SHH Mediates Stem Cell Response of Reactive Glia

    Article • Cell Stem Cell, May 2013, Elsevier

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  17. SHH Mediates Stem Cell Response of Reactive Glia

    Article • Cell Stem Cell, April 2013, Elsevier

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  18. Potential of Glial Cells

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  19. An Emerging Role of Sonic Hedgehog Shedding as a Modulator of Heparan Sulfate Interactions

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, November 2012, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  20. Chondroitin Sulfates Are Required for Fibroblast Growth Factor-2-Dependent Proliferation and Maintenance in Neural Stem Cells and for Epidermal Growth Factor-Dependent Migration of Their Progeny

    Article • Stem Cells, January 2010, Wiley

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  21. Structural and Functional Analysis of Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans in the Neural Stem Cell Niche

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Andreas Faissner, PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  22. Conditional deletion of β1-integrin in astroglia causes partial reactive gliosis

    Article • Glia, November 2009, Wiley

    Professor Andreas Faissner, PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  23. Endogenous population of neural stem/progenitor cells in the adult visual cortex

    Article • Brain, March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  24. Evidence for distinct leptomeningeal cell-dependent paracrine and EGF-linked autocrine regulatory pathways for suppression of fibrillar collagens in astrocytes

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, September 2007, Elsevier

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  25. Chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans control proliferation, radial glia cell differentiation and neurogenesis in neural stem/progenitor cells

    Article • Development, June 2007, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Andreas Faissner, PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  26. The Unique 473HD-Chondroitinsulfate Epitope Is Expressed by Radial Glia and Involved in Neural Precursor Cell Proliferation

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, April 2006, Society for Neuroscience

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko

  27. Structural characterization of the epitopes of the monoclonal antibodies 473HD, CS-56, and MO-225 specific for chondroitin sulfate D-type using the oligosaccharide library

    Article • Glycobiology, December 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    PD Dr Swetlana Sirko