Publications

Selected publications of the TSPO Forschungsgruppe

• Ammer LM, Vollmann-Zwerenz A, Ruf V, Wetzel CH, Riemenschneider MJ, Albert NL, Beckhove P, Hau P (2020) The role of translocator protein TSPO in hallmarks of glioblastoma. Cancers 12: 2973
• Bader S, Wolf L, Milenkovic VM, Gruber M, Nothdurfter C, Rupprecht R, Wetzel CH (2019) Differential effects of TSPO ligands on mitochondrial function in mouse microglia cells. Psychoneuroendocrinology 106: 65-76
• Bahr LM, Maurer F, Weigl J, Weber K, Melchner D, Dörfelt A, Wechsler TF, Bauer O, Reinders J, Milenkovic VM, Wetzel CH, Wetter TC, Rupprecht R, Mühlberger A, Nothdurfter C (2021) Dissociation of endocrine responses to the Trier social stress test in virtual reality (VR-TSST) by the benzodiazepine alprazolam and the translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) ligand etifoxine. Psychoneuroendocrinology 124:105100
• Kaiser L, Holzgreve A, Quach S, Ingrisch M, Unterrainer M, Dekorsy FJ, Lindner S, Ruf V, Brosch-Lenz J, Delker A, Böning G, Suchorska B, Niyazi M, Wetzel CH, Riemenschneider MJ, Stöcklein S, Brendel M, Rupprecht R, Thon N, von Baumgarten L, Tonn JC, Bartenstein P, Ziegler S, Albert NL (2021) Differential spatial distribution of TSPO or amino acid PET signal and MRI contrast enhancement in gliomas. Cancers 14: 53
• Mages K, Grassmann F, Jägle H, Rupprecht R, Weber BHF, Hauck SM, Grosche A (2019) The agonistic TSPO ligand XBD173 attenuates the glial response thereby protecting inner retinal neurons in a murine model of retinal ischemia. J Neuroinflammation 16: 43
• Meyer M, Jurek B, Alfonso-Prieto M, Ribeiro R, Milenkovic VM, Winter J, Hoffmann P, Wetzel CH, Giorgetti A, Carloni P, Neumann ID (2022) Structure-function relationships of the disease-linked A218T oxytocin receptor variant. Mol Psychiatry doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01241-8
• Rivière G, Jaipuria G, Andreas LB, Leonov A, Giller K, Becker S, Zweckstetter M (2021) Membrane-embedded TSPO: an NMR view. Eur Biophys J 50: 173-180
• Rupprecht R, Wetzel CH, Dorostkar M, Herms J, Albert NL, Schwarzbach J, Schumacher M, Neumann ID (2022) Translocator protein (18kDa) TSPO: A new diagnostic or therapeutic target for stress-related disorders? Mol Psychiatry doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01561-3
• Shi Y, Cui M, Ochs K, Brendel M, Strübing FL, Briel N, Eckenweber F, Zou C, Banati RB, Liu GJ, Middleton RJ, Rupprecht R, Rudolph U, Zeilhofer HU, Rammes G, Herms J, Dorostkar MM (2022) Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO). Nat Neurosci 25: 317-329
• Unterrainer M, Fleischmann DF, Vettermann F, Ruf V, Kaiser L, Nelwan D, Lindner S, Brendel M, Wenter V, Stöcklein S, Herms J, Milenkovic VM, Rupprecht R, Tonn JC, Belka C, Bartenstein P, Niyazi M, Albert NL (2020) TSPO PET, tumour grading and molecular genetics in histologically verified glioma: a correlative 18F-GE-180 PET study. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 47:1368-1380