Publications
Selected publications
2022
Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, De Jager PL, Menon V, Tosto G, Kizil C. (2022) Single Cell/Nucleus Transcriptomics Comparison in Zebrafish and Humans Reveals Common and Distinct Molecular Responses to Alzheimer's Disease. Cells. 11(11):1807. doi: 10.3390/cells11111807.
Lee AJ, Raghavan NS, Bhattarai P, Siddiqui T, Sariya S, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Flowers XE, Cardoso SAL, De Jager PL, Bennett DA, Schneider JA, Menon V, Wang Y,Lantigua RA, Medrano M, Rivera D, Jiménez-Velázquez IZ, Kukull WA, Brickman AM, Manly JJ, Tosto G, Kizil C, Vardarajan BN, Mayeux R. (2022) FMNL2 regulates gliovascular interactions and is associated with vascular risk factors and cerebrovascular pathology in Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neuropathol. 144(1):59-79. doi: 10.1007/s00401-022-02431-6.
Kizil C, Sariya S, Kim YA, Rajabli F, Martin E, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Vardarajan B, Maldonado A, Haines JL, Mayeux R, Jiménez-Velázquez IZ, Santa-Maria I, Tosto G. (2022) Admixture Mapping of Alzheimer's disease in Caribbean Hispanics identifies a new locus on 22q13.1. Mol Psychiatry. 27(6):2813-2820. doi:10.1038/s41380-022-01526-6.
2020
Bhattarai P, Cosacak MI, Mashkaryan V, Demir S, Popova SD, Govindarajan N, Brandt K, Zhang Y, Chang W, Ampatzis K, Kizil C. (2020) Neuron-glia interaction through Serotonin-BDNF-NGFR axis enables regenerative neurogenesis in Alzheimer's model of adult zebrafish brain. PLoS Biol. 18(1):e3000585. doi:
10.1371/journal.pbio.3000585
2019
Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Reinhardt S, Petzold A, Dahl A, Zhang Y, Kizil C. (2019) Single-Cell Transcriptomics Analyses of Neural Stem Cell Heterogeneity andContextual Plasticity in a Zebrafish Brain Model of Amyloid Toxicity. Cell Rep. 27(4):1307-1318.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.03.090.
2018
Kizil C, Bhattarai P. (2018) Is Alzheimer's Also a Stem Cell Disease? - The Zebrafish Perspective. Front Cell Dev Biol. 6:159.
Papadimitriou C, Celikkaya H, Cosacak MI, Mashkaryan V, Bray L, Bhattarai P, Brandt K, Hollak H, Chen X, He S, Antos CL, Lin W, Thomas AK, Dahl A, Kurth T, Friedrichs J, Zhang Y, Freudenberg U, Werner C, Kizil C. (2018) 3D Culture Method for Alzheimer's Disease Modeling Reveals Interleukin-4 Rescues Aβ42-Induced Loss of Human Neural Stem Cell Plasticity. Developmental Cell. 46(1):85-101.e8.
2017
Cosacak MI, Bhattarai P, Bocova L, Dzewas T, Mashkaryan V, Papadimitriou C, Brandt K, Hollak H, Antos CL, Kizil C. (2017) Human TAU(P301L) overexpression results in TAU hyperphosphorylation without neurofibrillary tangles in adult zebrafish brain. Scientific Reports. 7(1):12959.
2016
Bhattarai P, Thomas AK, Cosacak MI, Papadimitriou C, Mashkaryan V, Froc C, Reinhardt S, Kurth T, Dahl A, Zhang Y, Kizil C. (2016) IL4/STAT6 Signaling Activates Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Neurogenesis upon Amyloid-β42 Aggregation in Adult Zebrafish Brain. Cell Reports. 17(4):941-948.
2012
Kyritsis N, Kizil C, Zocher S, Kroehne V, Kaslin J, Freudenreich D, Iltzsche A, Brand M. (2012) Acute inflammation initiates the regenerative response in the adult zebrafish brain. Science. 338(6112):1353-6.