Dr Tara Walker

Research Articles

• Platelets in Neurodegenerative Conditions—Friend or Foe?

  Leiter, Odette and Walker, Tara L. (2020). Platelets in Neurodegenerative Conditions—Friend or Foe?. Frontiers in Immunology, 11 747, 747. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00747

• Impaired adult hippocampal neurogenesis in a mouse model of familial hypercholesterolemia: a role for the LDL receptor and cholesterol metabolism in adult neural precursor cells

  Engel, Daiane F., Grzyb, Anna N., de Oliveira, Jade, Poetzsch, Alexandra, Walker, Tara L., Brocardo, Patricia S., Kempermann, Gerd and de Bem, Andreza F. (2019). Impaired adult hippocampal neurogenesis in a mouse model of familial hypercholesterolemia: a role for the LDL receptor and cholesterol metabolism in adult neural precursor cells. Molecular Metabolism, 30, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2019.09.002

• Platelets: the missing link between the blood and brain?

  Leiter, Odette and Walker, Tara L. (2019). Platelets: the missing link between the blood and brain?. Progress in Neurobiology, 183 101695, 101695. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2019.101695

• The systemic exercise-released chemokine lymphotactin/XCL1 modulates in vitro adult hippocampal precursor cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation

  Leiter, Odette, Bernas, Stefanie N., Seidemann, Suse, Overall, Rupert W., Horenburg, Cindy, Kowal, Susann, Kempermann, Gerd and Walker, Tara L. (2019). The systemic exercise-released chemokine lymphotactin/XCL1 modulates in vitro adult hippocampal precursor cell proliferation and neuronal differentiation. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 11831, 11831. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-48360-5

• MiR-135a1-5p is critical for exercise-induced adult neurogenesis

  Pons-Espinal, Meritxell, Gasperini, Caterina, Marzi, Matteo J., Braccia, Clarissa, Armirotti, Andrea, Poetzsch, Alexandra, Walker, Tara L., Fabel, Klaus, Nicassio, Francesco, Kempermann, Gerd and Tonelli, Davide De Pietri (2019). MiR-135a1-5p is critical for exercise-induced adult neurogenesis. Stem Cell Reports, 12 (6), 1298-1312. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2019.04.020

• Exercise-induced activated platelets increase adult hippocampal precursor proliferation and promote neuronal differentiation

  Leiter, Odette, Seidemann, Suse, Overall, Rupert W., Ramasz, Beáta, Rund, Nicole, Schallenberg, Sonja, Grinenko, Tatyana, Wielockx, Ben, Kempermann, Gerd and Walker, Tara L. (2019). Exercise-induced activated platelets increase adult hippocampal precursor proliferation and promote neuronal differentiation. Stem Cell Reports, 12 (4), 667-679. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2019.02.009

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• Preventing ferroptotic cell death in ageing and neurodegeneration
• Do platelets mediate the exercise-induced reduction in cognitive decline in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease?