Blanco-Suárez Research

CONTACT

Name: Elena Blanco-Suárez, PhD
Position: Assistant Professor

900 Walnut Street, JHN 4th floor
Room 466-467 (Office); Room 431-432 (Lab)
Philadelphia , PA 19107

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Publications

Highlighted Publications

Collyer E, Boyle BR, Gomez-Galvez Y, Iacovitti L, Blanco-Suarez E. Absence of chordin-like 1 aids motor recovery in a mouse model of stroke. Exp Neurol. 2023 Dec;370:114548. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2023.114548. Epub 2023 Sep 26. PMID: 37769794.

Blanco-Suarez E, Allen NJ. Astrocyte-secreted chordin-like 1 regulates spine density after ischemic injury. Sci Rep. 2022 Mar 9;12(1):4176. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-08031-4. PMID: 35264691; PMCID: PMC8907233.

Blanco-Suarez E, Liu TF, Kopelevich A, Allen NJ. Astrocyte-Secreted Chordin-like 1 Drives Synapse Maturation and Limits Plasticity by Increasing Synaptic GluA2 AMPA Receptors. Neuron. 2018 Dec 5;100(5):1116-1132.e13. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.09.043. Epub 2018 Oct 18. PMID: 30344043; PMCID: PMC6382071.

Blanco-Suárez E, Fiuza M, Liu X, Chakkarapani E, Hanley JG. Differential Tiam1/Rac1 activation in hippocampal and cortical neurons mediates differential spine shrinkage in response to oxygen/glucose deprivation. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2014 Dec;34(12):1898-906. doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.158. Epub 2014 Sep 24. PMID: 25248834; PMCID: PMC4269742.

Blanco-Suarez E, Hanley JG. Distinct subunit-specific α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor trafficking mechanisms in cultured cortical and hippocampal neurons in response to oxygen and glucose deprivation. J Biol Chem. 2014 Feb 21;289(8):4644-51. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M113.533182. Epub 2014 Jan 8. PMID: 24403083; PMCID: PMC3931026.