Barbara L. Apostol

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

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Barbara L. Apostol is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara L. Apostol has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Barbara L. Apostol's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (9 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Barbara L. Apostol is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (9 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (5 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Barbara L. Apostol collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Uganda. Barbara L. Apostol's co-authors include Leslie M. Thompson, Judit Pallos, László Bodai, Barry R. Miller, David E. Housman, John Abelson, Alexander McCampbell, George R. Jackson, Riki Kurokawa and J. Lawrence Marsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Barbara L. Apostol

19 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Histone deacetylase inhibitors arrest polyglutamine-dependent neurodegeneration in Drosophila

2001 964 citations Joan S. Steffan, László Bodai et al. Nature profile →

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19 of 19 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Blood level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA is progressively reduced in rodent models of Huntington's disease: Restoration by the neuroprotective compound CEP-1347 2008 ·Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience ·Paola Conforti, (unknown), Barbara L. Apostol, Danielle A. Simmons, Huu Phuc Nguyen, Olaf Rieß, Leslie M. Thompson, Chiara Zuccato, Elena Cattaneo	36
2	CEP-1347 reduces mutant huntingtin-associated neurotoxicity and restores BDNF levels in R6/2 mice 2008 ·Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience ·Barbara L. Apostol, Danielle A. Simmons, Chiara Zuccato, Katalin Illes, Judit Pallos, Malcolm Casale, Paola Conforti, (unknown), (unknown), Satish Kathuria, Elena Cattaneo, Joan Marsh, Leslie M. Thompson	67
3	Sustained ERK1/2 but not STAT1 or 3 activation is required for thanatophoric dysplasia phenotypes in PC12 cells 2005 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·(unknown), Simona Raffioni, Tracy Wang, Barbara L. Apostol, Ralph Bradshaw, Leslie M. Thompson	26
4	Mutant huntingtin alters MAPK signaling pathways in PC12 and striatal cells: ERK1/2 protects against mutant huntingtin-associated toxicity 2005 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Barbara L. Apostol, Katalin Illes, Judit Pallos, László Bodai, Jun Wu, Andrew D. Strand, Erik S. Schweitzer, James M. Olson, Aleksey Kazantsev, Joan Marsh, Leslie M. Thompson	117
5	Identification of combinatorial drug regimens for treatment of Huntington's disease using Drosophila 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Namita Agrawal, Judit Pallos, Natalia Slepko, Barbara L. Apostol, László Bodai, (unknown), Ann‐Shyn Chiang, Leslie M. Thompson, Joan Marsh	124
6	Complex alteration of NMDA receptors in transgenic Huntington's disease mouse brain: analysis of mRNA and protein expression, plasma membrane association, interacting proteins, and phosphorylation 2003 ·Neurobiology of Disease ·Ruth Luthi‐Carter, Barbara L. Apostol, Anthone W. Dunah, (unknown), Laurie Farrell, Gillian P. Bates, Anne B. Young, David G. Standaert, Leslie M. Thompson, J. Jang-Ho	86
7	A cell-based assay for aggregation inhibitors as therapeutics of polyglutamine-repeat disease and validation in Drosophila 2003 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Barbara L. Apostol, (unknown), Simona Raffioni, Katalin Illes, Judit Pallos, László Bodai, Natalia Slepko, James E. Bear, Frank B. Gertler, Steven M. Hersch, David E. Housman, Joan Marsh, Leslie M. Thompson	141
8	Histone deacetylase inhibitors arrest polyglutamine-dependent neurodegeneration in Drosophila breakdown → 2001 ·Nature ·Joan S. Steffan, László Bodai, Judit Pallos, (unknown), Alexander McCampbell, Barbara L. Apostol, (unknown), Emily M. Schmidt, (unknown), (unknown), Riki Kurokawa, David E. Housman, George R. Jackson, J. Lawrence Marsh, Leslie M. Thompson	964
9	Antisense-Mediated Down-Regulation of the Human Huntingtin Gene 2000 ·Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics ·Rubén J. Boado, Aleksey Kazantsev, Barbara L. Apostol, Leslie M. Thompson, William M. Pardridge	35
10	Population genetics with RAPD-PCR markers: the breeding structure of Aedes aegypti in Puerto Rico 1996 ·Heredity ·Barbara L. Apostol, (unknown), Paul L. Reiter, Barry R. Miller	154
11	Regional Assignment and Tissue Expression of Twenty-Three Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from Human Chromosome 5 1996 ·Genomics ·Tamara V. Feldblyum, Donna Maglott, John D. McPherson, Mark J. Adams, Barbara L. Apostol, A. Scott Durkin, (unknown), William C. Nierman	6
12	Characterization of δ-Sarcoglycan, a Novel Component of the Oligomeric Sarcoglycan Complex Involved in Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 1996 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Daniel Jung, Franck Duclos, Barbara L. Apostol, Volker Straub, Jane C. Lee, Valérie Allamand, David Venzke, Yoshihide Sunada, Carolyn R. Moomaw, (unknown), Clive A. Slaughter, Thomas O. Crawford, John D. McPherson, Kevin P. Campbell	76
13	Use of Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Amplified by Polymerase Chain Reaction Markers to Estimate the Number of Aedes Aegypti Families at Oviposition Sites in San Juan, Puerto Rico 1994 ·American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ·Barbara L. Apostol, William C. Black, Paul Reiter, Barry R. Miller	85
14	Estimation of the number of full sibling families at an oviposition site using RAPD-PCR markers: applications to the mosquito Aedes aegypti 1993 ·Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Barbara L. Apostol, William C. Black, Barry R. Miller, Paul Reiter, Barry J. Beaty	112
15	Novel activity of a yeast ligase deletion polypeptide. Evidence for GTP-dependent tRNA splicing. 1993 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Shawn K. Westaway, (unknown), Barbara L. Apostol, John Abelson, Chris L. Greer	33
16	Preferential binding of yeast tRNA ligase to pre-tRNA substrates 1991 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Barbara L. Apostol, Chris L. Greer	12
17	Deletion analysis of a multifunctional yeast tRNA ligase polypeptide. Identification of essential and dispensable functional domains. 1991 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Barbara L. Apostol, Shawn K. Westaway, John Abelson, Chris L. Greer	41
18	Copy number and stability of yeast 2μ-based plasmids carrying a transcription-conditional centromere 1988 ·Gene ·Barbara L. Apostol, Chris L. Greer	8
19	Lariat structures are in vivo intermediates in yeast pre-mRNA splicing 1984 ·Cell ·Horst Domdey, Barbara L. Apostol, Ren-Jang Lin, Andrew J. Newman, Edward N. Brody, John Abelson	341

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