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List of works by Steven W. Levison

17beta-estradiol protects the neonatal brain from hypoxia-ischemia.

scientific article

A role for ciliary neurotrophic factor as an inducer of reactive gliosis, the glial response to central nervous system injury

scientific article published on June 20, 1995

Activation of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is essential for oligodendrocyte differentiation

scientific journal article

Acute exposure to CNTF in vivo induces multiple components of reactive gliosis

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Age-Dependent Effects of ALK5 Inhibition and Mechanism of Neuroprotection in Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury.

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

An improved method for propagating oligodendrocyte progenitors in vitro

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Anti-ganglioside antibodies reveal subsets of cultured rat dorsal root ganglion neurons

scientific article

Astrocyte-produced leukemia inhibitory factor expands the neural stem/progenitor pool following perinatal hypoxia-ischemia

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

Astrocytes and developmental white matter disorders.

scientific article published on January 2006

Astrocytes produce CNTF during the remyelination phase of viral-induced spinal cord demyelination to stimulate FGF-2 production.

scientific article

Astrocytic ceruloplasmin expression, which is induced by IL-1beta and by traumatic brain injury, increases in the absence of the IL-1 type 1 receptor

scientific article published on October 2003

Astrogliosis is delayed in type 1 interleukin-1 receptor-null mice following a penetrating brain injury

scientific article

Brain injury expands the numbers of neural stem cells and progenitors in the SVZ by enhancing their responsiveness to EGF

scientific article published on 20 May 2009

CNTF-activated astrocytes release a soluble trophic activity for oligodendrocyte progenitors

scientific article published on 27 September 2006

Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) plus soluble CNTF receptor alpha increases cyclooxygenase-2 expression, PGE2 release and interferon-gamma-induced CD40 in murine microglia.

scientific article published on 06 March 2009

Ciliary neurotrophic factor and interleukin-6 differentially activate microglia

scientific article published on May 2008

Ciliary neurotrophic factor induces expression of the IGF type I receptor and FGF receptor 1 mRNAs in adult rat brain oligodendrocytes

scientific article

Ciliary neurotrophic factor stimulates astroglial hypertrophy in vivo and in vitro.

scientific article

Ciliary neurotrophic factor stimulates nuclear hypertrophy and increases the GFAP content of cultured astrocytes

scientific article published in August 1998

Comparison and quantitation of Ia antigen expression on cultured macroglia and ameboid microglia from Lewis rat cerebral cortex: analyses and implications

scientific article published on 01 November 1989

Context-dependent IL-6 potentiation of interferon- gamma-induced IL-12 secretion and CD40 expression in murine microglia.

scientific article published on 27 August 2009

Cycling cells in the adult rat neocortex preferentially generate oligodendroglia

scientific article

Damage to the choroid plexus, ependyma and subependyma as a consequence of perinatal hypoxia/ischemia

scientific article published in January 2002

Death effector activation in the subventricular zone subsequent to perinatal hypoxia/ischemia

article by Michael J. Romanko et al published November 2007 in Journal of Neurochemistry

Defining the critical period for neocortical neurogenesis after pediatric brain injury

scientific article published on 14 December 2010

Delayed ALK5 inhibition improves functional recovery in neonatal brain injury

scientific article published on 16 March 2016

Delayed IGF-1 administration rescues oligodendrocyte progenitors from glutamate-induced cell death and hypoxic-ischemic brain damage.

scientific article published in January 2007

Diabetic retinopathy: more than meets the eye.

scientific article

Differential expression of protein tyrosine kinase genes during microglial activation

scientific article published in October 2002

Differential suppression of interferon-gamma-induced Ia antigen expression on cultured rat astroglia and microglia by second messengers.

scientific article

Divergent glial fibrillary acidic protein and its mRNA in the activated supraoptic nucleus.

scientific article

Egr-1 is a critical regulator of EGF-receptor-mediated expansion of subventricular zone neural stem cells and progenitors during recovery from hypoxia-hypoglycemia.

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Enhanced neurogenesis following stroke.

scientific article

Essays on Citation Classics inDevelopmental Neuroscience

scientific article published on May 24, 2012

Expression of the anaphylatoxin C5a receptor in the oligodendrocyte lineage

scientific article published in March 2001

Heparin crosslinked chitosan microspheres for the delivery of neural stem cells and growth factors for central nervous system repair

scientific article published on March 5, 2013

Hypoxia/ischemia depletes the rat perinatal subventricular zone of oligodendrocyte progenitors and neural stem cells

scientific article published in January 2001

Hypoxia/ischemia expands the regenerative capacity of progenitors in the perinatal subventricular zone

scientific article published on 24 February 2006

IGF-II promotes stemness of neural restricted precursors.

scientific article published on June 2012

IL-6-type cytokines enhance epidermal growth factor-stimulated astrocyte proliferation

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Identification of Bax-interacting proteins in oligodendrocyte progenitors during glutamate excitotoxicity and perinatal hypoxia-ischemia

scientific journal article

Insulin and IGF receptor signalling in neural-stem-cell homeostasis.

scientific article

Insulin-Like Growth Factor Receptor Signaling is Necessary for Epidermal Growth Factor Mediated Proliferation of SVZ Neural Precursors in vitro Following Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia

scientific article published on 26 May 2014

Insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) and IGF-II analogs with enhanced insulin receptor-a binding affinity promote neural stem cell expansion

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

Interleukin-1 and the interleukin-1 type 1 receptor are essential for the progressive neurodegeneration that ensues subsequent to a mild hypoxic/ischemic injury

scientific article

Interleukin-1: a master regulator of neuroinflammation

scientific article published in October 2004

Ionizing Radiation Perturbs Cell Cycle Progression of Neural Precursors in the Subventricular Zone Without Affecting Their Long-Term Self-Renewal

scientific article published on May 2015

Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Haplodeficiency Desynchronizes Glial Reactivity and Exacerbates Damage and Functional Deficits after a Concussive Brain Injury

scientific article

Leukemia inhibitory factor is essential for subventricular zone neural stem cell and progenitor homeostasis as revealed by a novel flow cytometric analysis.

scientific article published on 14 December 2012

Leukemia inhibitory factor participates in the expansion of neural stem/progenitors after perinatal hypoxia/ischemia

scientific article

Mechanisms of mouse neural precursor expansion after neonatal hypoxia-ischemia

scientific article published on June 2015

Minocycline reduces proinflammatory cytokine expression, microglial activation, and caspase-3 activation in a rodent model of diabetic retinopathy

scientific article published in May 2005

Molecular features of neural stem cells enable their enrichment using pharmacological inhibitors of survival-promoting kinases

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

Neonatal hypoxic/ischemic brain injury induces production of calretinin-expressing interneurons in the striatum

scientific article

Neural stem cells in the immature, but not the mature, subventricular zone respond robustly to traumatic brain injury.

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Neural stem cells in the subventricular zone are a source of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, but not microglia

scientific article published in March 2003

Neural stem/progenitor cells participate in the regenerative response to perinatal hypoxia/ischemia.

scientific article

Neuroinflammation and both cytotoxic and vasogenic edema are reduced in interleukin-1 type 1 receptor-deficient mice conferring neuroprotection

scientific article published on 22 September 2005

Olig1 is required for noggin-induced neonatal myelin repair

scientific article published on 2 March 2017

Opposite effect of inflammation on subventricular zone versus hippocampal precursors in brain injury

scientific article

Optimizing a multifunctional microsphere scaffold to improve neural precursor cell transplantation for traumatic brain injury repair

scientific article

PDGF-responsive progenitors persist in the subventricular zone across the lifespan

scientific article published on 07 February 2014

Perinatal hypoxia/ischemia damages and depletes progenitors from the mouse subventricular zone.

scientific article

Perinatal hypoxic/ischemic brain injury induces persistent production of striatal neurons from subventricular zone progenitors

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Pitfalls in the quest of neuroprotectants for the perinatal brain

scientific article published on 30 September 2011

Pre-conditioning induces the precocious differentiation of neonatal astrocytes to enhance their neuroprotective properties.

scientific article

Pro-regenerative properties of cytokine-activated astrocytes.

scientific article published on June 2004

Schwann cells influence the expression of ganglioside GD3 by rat dorsal root ganglion neurons

scientific article published on 01 October 1989

Stem cell therapies for perinatal brain injuries.

scientific article published on 5 June 2007

Sustained neocortical neurogenesis after neonatal hypoxic/ischemic injury

scientific article published in March 2007

TGFbeta1 stimulates the over-production of white matter astrocytes from precursors of the "brain marrow" in a rodent model of neonatal encephalopathy

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

The FLT3 tyrosine kinase receptor inhibits neural stem/progenitor cell proliferation and collaborates with NGF to promote neuronal survival.

scientific article

The Ins2Akita mouse as a model of early retinal complications in diabetes

scientific article published in June 2005

The role of inflammation in perinatal brain injury

scientific article published on 17 February 2015

Transforming growth factor beta1 prevents IL-1beta-induced microglial activation, whereas TNFalpha- and IL-6-stimulated activation are not antagonized

scientific article

Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) signaling and cell death in the immature central nervous system after hypoxia-ischemia and inflammation.

scientific article published on 07 February 2014

Unmasking the responses of the stem cells and progenitors in the subventricular zone after neonatal and pediatric brain injuries

scientific article

Vascular endothelial growth factors A and C are induced in the SVZ following neonatal hypoxia-ischemia and exert different effects on neonatal glial progenitors.

scientific article published on April 2013