Astrocyte and neuron subcompartment proteomes reveal distinct cellular and molecular mechanisms of OCD.

Soto J., Jami-Alahmadi Y., Chacon J., Moye S.L., Díaz-Castro B., Wohlschlegel J., Khakh B.S.

Nature, 2023 Apr 12.

Astrocyte endfeet in brain function and pathology: Open Questions

Díaz-Castro B.#, Robel S.#, Mishra A.#

Annual Review of Neuroscience 2022 Feb 28.

Blood-CNS barrier dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: proposed mechanisms and clinical implications

Steinruecke M.#, Murphy Lonerganc R., Selvaraj B.T., Chandran S., Díaz-Castro B., Stavroud M.

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2023 Jan 26;271678X231153281

Cell-specific RNA purification to study translatomes of mouse central nervous system

Bravo-Ferrer I., Khakh B.S., Díaz-Castro B.

STAR Protocols 2022, Volume 3, Issue 2, 17 June 2022, 101397

Molecular and functional properties of cortical astrocytes during peripherally induced neuroinflammation.

Díaz-Castro B.#, Bernstein A.M., Coppola G., Sofroniew M.V., and Khakh B.S.#.

Cell Reports 2021, Aug 10;36(6):109508. (# Corresponding authors)

Astrocyte Gq GPCR signaling attenuation in vivo.

Nagai J., Bellafard A., Zhe Q., Yu X., Ollivier M., Gangwani M.R., Díaz-Castro B., Coppola G., Schumacher Bass S M., Golshani P., Gradinaru V., Khakh B.S.

Neuron 2021, Jun 10;S0896-6273(21)00376-7.

Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions.

Escartin, C.*, Galea, E.*, Lakatos, A., O'Callaghan, J.P., Petzold, G.C., Serrano-Pozo, A., Steinhauser, C., Volterra, A., Carmignoto, G., Agarwal, A., Allen N.J., Araque A., Barbeito L., Barzilai A., Bergles D.E, Bonvento G., Butt A.M, Chen W.T., ... Díaz-Castro B., ... Sofroniew M.V.*, Verkhratsky A.*.

Nature Neuroscience 2021, Feb 15.

Stress gates an astrocytic energy reservoir to impair synaptic plasticity.

Murphy-Royal C., Johnston A., Boyce A., Díaz-Castro B., Institoris A., Peringod G., Zhang O., Stout R., Spray D., Thompson R., Khakh B., Bains J., and Gordon G.

Nature Communications 2020, Apr 24;11(1):2014.

Astrocyte molecular signatures in Huntington’s disease.

Díaz-Castro B., Gangwani M., Yu X., Coppola G. and Khakh B.S.

Science Translational Medicine 2019 Oct 16;11(514).

Visualizing Astrocyte Morphology Using Lucifer Yellow Iontophoresis.

Moye S.L., Díaz-Castro B., Gangwani M.R. and Khakh B.S.

Journal of Visual Experiments 2019 Sep 14;(151).

Neural circuit-specialized astrocytes: genomic, proteomic, morphological and functional evidence.

Chai H.*, Díaz-Castro B.*, Shigetomi E., Monte E., Octeau J.C., Yu X., Cohn W., Rajendran P.S., Vondriska T.M., Whitelegge J.P., Coppola G. & Khakh B.S.

Neuron 2017 95(3):531-549.e539. *Equally contributing authors.

Reversal of dendritic phenotypes in 16p11.2 microduplication mouse model neurons by pharmacological targeting of a network hub.

Blizinsky K.D., Díaz-Castro B., Forrest M.P., Schürmann B., Bach A.P., Martin-de-Saavedra M.D., Wang L., Csernansky J.G., Duan J., Penzes P.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 113(30):8520-5.

Dysfunctional calcium and glutamate signaling in striatal astrocytes from Huntington’s disease model mice.

Jiang R., Díaz-Castro B., Looger L. L. & Khakh B. S.

Journal of Neuroscience 2016 36(12):3453-70.

Resistance of glia-like central and peripheral neural stem cells to genetically induced mitochondrial dysfunction-differential effects on neurogenesis.

Díaz-Castro B.*, Pardal R.*, Garcia-Flores P., Sobrino V., Duran R., Piruat J.I., Lopez-Barneo J.

EMBO Reports 2015 16(11):1511-9. *Equally contributing authors.

A conditional mouse mutant in the tumor suppressor SdhD gene unveils a link between p21WAF1/Cip1 induction and mitochondrial dysfunction.

Millan-Ucles A., Díaz-Castro B., Garcia-Flores P., Baez A., Perez-Simon J.A., Lopez-Barneo J. and Piruat J.I.

PLoS One 2014 9(1):e85528.

An O2-Sensitive Glomus Cell-Stem Cell Synapse Induces Carotid Body Growth in Chronic Hypoxia.

Platero-Luengo A., Gonzalez-Granero S., Duran R., Díaz-Castro B., Piruat J.I., Garcia-Verdugo J.M., Pardal R., Lopez-Barneo J.

Cell 2014 156(1-2):291-303.

Differential impairment of catecholaminergic cell maturation and survival by genetic mitochondrial complex II dysfunction.

Díaz-Castro B., Pintado C.O., Garcia-Flores P., Lopez-Barneo J., Piruat J.I.

Molecular and Cellular Biology 2012 32(16):3347-57.