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Hollis ER, Jamshidi P, Low K, Blesch A, Tuszynski MH. Induction of corticospinal regeneration by lentiviral trkB-Induced Erk activation, Proc Nat Acad Sci, 2009, 106:7215-7220. PMCID 2678459.
Kadoya K, Tsukada S, Lu P, Coppola G, Geschwind D, Flibin M, Blesch A, Tuszynski MH. Combined intrinsic and extrinsic neuronal mechanisms facilitate bridging axonal regeneration one year after spinal cord injury. Neuron, 2009; 29:165-172. PMCID 2773653.
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Yoon SO, Park DJ, Ryu JC, Ozer HG, Tep C, Shin YJ, Lim TH, Pastorino L, Kunwar AJ, Walton JC, Nagahara AH, Lu KP, Nelson RJ, Tuszynski MH, Huang K. JNK3 perpetuates metabolic stress induced by Aβ peptides. Neuron 2012; 75:824-37.
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Lu P, Woodruff G, Wang Y, Graham L, Hunt M, Wu D, Boehle E, Ahmad R, Poplawski G, Brock J, Goldstein LSB, Tuszynski MH. Long-distance axonal growth from human induced pluripotent stem cells after spinal cord injury. Neuron, 2014; 83:789-96.
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Tuszynski MH, Yang JH, Barba D, U HS, Bakay R, Pay MM, Masliah E, Conner JM, Kobalka P, Roy S, Nagahara AH. Neuronal responses to nerve growth factor gene therapy in Alzheimer’s disease. JAMA Neurology 2015; in press.
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