Smeyne Research

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Name: Richard Jay Smeyne, PhD
Position:
  • Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience
  • Director, Jefferson Comprehensive Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorder Center
  • Vickie & Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience
Organization: Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience

900 Walnut Street
4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Our Most Cited Papers Related to Parkinson's Disease

  1. Highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus can enter the central nervous system and induce neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration. H Jang, D Boltz, K Sturm-Ramirez, KR Shepherd, Y Jiao, R Webster, RJ Smeyne, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (33), 14063-14068
  2. Glutathione metabolism and Parkinson's disease. M Smeyne, RJ Smeyne. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 62, 13-25
  3. The MPTP model of Parkinson's disease. RJ Smeyne, V Jackson-Lewis. Molecular brain research 134 (1), 57-66
  4. Viral parkinsonism. H Jang, DA Boltz, RG Webster, RJ Smeyne. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis of Disease 1792 (7), 714-721
  5. Extensive enteric nervous system abnormalities in mice transgenic for artificial chromosomes containing Parkinson disease-associated α-synuclein gene mutations precede central nervous system changes. YM Kuo, Z Li, Y Jiao, N Gaborit, AK Pani, BM Orrison, BG Bruneau, BI Giasson, RJ Smeyne, MD Gershon, RL Nussbaum. Human molecular genetics 19 (9), 1633-1650
  6. Environmental enrichment in adulthood eliminates neuronal death in experimental Parkinsonism. CJ Faherty, KR Shepherd, A Herasimtschuk, RJ Smeyne. Molecular brain research 134 (1), 170-179
  7. COVID-19 and possible links with Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism: from bench to bedside. D Sulzer, A Antonini, V Leta, A Nordvig, RJ Smeyne, JE Goldman, O Al-Dalahmah, L Zecca, A Sette, L Bubacco, O Meucci, E Moro, AS Harms, Y Xu, S Fahn, KR Chaudhuri. npj Parkinson's Disease 6 (1), 18
  8. Exercise: is it a neuroprotective and if so, how does it work? MJ Zigmond, RJ Smeyne. Parkinsonism & related disorders 20, S123-S127
  9. A comparison of model-based (2D) and design-based (3D) stereological methods for estimating cell number in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) of the C57BL/6J mouse. ZC Baquet, D Williams, J Brody, RJ Smeyne. Neuroscience 161 (4), 1082-1090
  10. Mutant LRRK2 mediates peripheral and central immune responses leading to neurodegeneration in vivo. E Kozina, S Sadasivan, Y Jiao, Y Dou, Z Ma, H Tan, K Kodali, T Shaw, J Peng, RJ Smeyne Brain 141 (6), 1753-1769

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