Nicolas Renier

The paper examines how aging affects engram cell distribution, stability, and gene expression in mice, finding altered engram allocation and distinct transcriptional patterns in aged brains.

The paper develops a graph-based classifier to distinguish arteries from veins in whole-brain vascular datasets, achieving high accuracy across imaging modalities.

This study shows that PGE2 induces a sickness-like state in mice, with the insular cortex encoding integrated sickness signals better than the somatosensory cortex.

The paper shows pial collaterals propagate neurovascular signals between cortical territories, synchronizing blood flow responses beyond activated areas.

This study identifies a novel target for obesity treatment by showing that inhibiting GABAergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus reduces body weight in diet-induced obese mice through thermogenesis.

This study shows that KIF7 deletion in mice disrupts cerebral cortex development by altering SHH signaling differently in dorsal and ventral forebrain regions, leading to structural and migratory defects in neurons.

This study shows that adolescent nicotine exposure disrupts dopamine circuit development, leading to adult vulnerability to nicotine, which can be reversed by restoring dopamine pathway balance.

The paper studies individual differences in reward-seeking behavior among isogenic mice in a social environment and links these differences to nicotine response and dopaminergic adaptability.

The paper investigates whether neuroinvasion and anosmia are independent outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection by analyzing clinical, olfactory, and neuroinflammatory responses in infected golden hamsters.

The paper introduces a low-cost device called CryoPup for cryoanesthesia in neonatal rodents, validated for rapid and safe use in mice.

The paper develops a morphometric reconstruction pipeline to analyze cortical VIP/ChAT interneurons and finds insult-driven plasticity in their morphology and gene expression.

The paper introduces mesoSPIM, an open-source light-sheet microscope initiative for imaging large cleared tissue samples with near-isotropic resolution.