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List of Publications:

Kocaturk, S., Guven, E.B., Shah, F., Tepper, J.M. & Assous, M. (2022) Cholinergic control of striatal GABAergic microcircuits. Cell Rep, 41, 111531.

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01387-0

Khdour, H.Y., Kondabolu, K., Khadka, A., Assous, M., Tepper, J.M., Tran, T.S. & Polack, P.O. (2022) Neuropilin 2/Plexin-A3 Receptors Regulate the Functional Connectivity and the Excitability in the Layers 4 and 5 of the Cerebral Cortex. J Neurosci, 42, 4828–4840.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/42/24/4828.long

Assous, M. (2021) Striatal cholinergic transmission. focus on nicotinic receptors' influence in striatal circuits. Eur J Neurosci. Trailblazers in Neurosciences series.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.15135

Assous, M. (2020) Emergence of novel functions in striatal low-threshold spike interneurons. Eur J Neurosci, 52, 3490–3492

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.14663

Assous, M., Martinez, E., Eisenberg, C., Shah, F., Kosc, A., Varghese, K., Espinoza, D., Bhimani, S., Tepper, J.M., Shiflett, M.W. & Tran, T.S. (2019) Neuropilin 2 signaling mediates corticostriatal transmission, spine maintenance, and goal-directed learning in mice. J Neurosci.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/45/8845.long

Assous, M. & Tepper, J.M. (2019) Cortical and thalamic inputs exert cell type-specific feedforward inhibition on striatal GABAergic interneurons. J Neurosci Res.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jnr.24444

Assous, M., Dautan, D., Tepper, J.M. & Mena-Segovia, J. (2019) Pedunculopontine Glutamatergic Neurons Provide a Novel Source of Feedforward Inhibition in the Striatum by Selectively Targeting Interneurons. J Neurosci, 39, 4727–4737.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/24/4727.long

Assous, M. & Tepper, J.M. (2019) Excitatory extrinsic afferents to striatal interneurons and interactions with striatal microcircuitry. Eur J Neurosci, 49, 593–603.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.13881

Tepper, J.M., Koos, T., Ibanez-Sandoval, O., Tecuapetla, F., Faust, T.W. & Assous, M. (2018) Heterogeneity and Diversity of Striatal GABAergic Interneurons: Update 2018. Front Neuroanat, 12, 91.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroanatomy/articles/10.3389/fnana.2018.00091/full

Assous, M., Faust, T.W., Assini, R., Shah, F., Sidibe, Y. & Tepper, J.M. (2018) Identification and Characterization of a Novel Spontaneously Active Bursty GABAergic Interneuron in the Mouse Striatum. J Neurosci, 38, 5688–5699.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/25/5688.long

Assous, M., Kaminer, J., Shah, F., Garg, A., Koos, T. & Tepper, J.M. (2017) Differential processing of thalamic information via distinct striatal interneuron circuits. Nat Commun, 8, 15860.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15860

Faust, T.W., Assous, M., Tepper, J.M. & Koos, T. (2016) Neostriatal GABAergic Interneurons Mediate Cholinergic Inhibition of Spiny Projection Neurons. J Neurosci, 36, 9505-9511. 

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/36/36/9505.long

Dautan, D., Souza, A.S., Huerta-Ocampo, I., Valencia, M., Assous, M., Witten, I.B., Deisseroth, K., Tepper, J.M., Bolam, J.P., Gerdjikov, T.V. & Mena-Segovia, J. (2016) Segregated cholinergic transmission modulates dopamine neurons integrated in distinct functional circuits. Nat Neurosci, 19, 1025–1033.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4335

Faust, T.W., Assous, M., Shah, F., Tepper, J.M. & Koos, T. (2015) Novel fast adapting interneurons mediate cholinergic-induced fast GABAA inhibitory postsynaptic currents in striatal spiny neurons. Eur J Neurosci, 42, 1764–1774.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.12915

Assous, M., Had-Aissouni, L., Gubellini, P., Melon, C., Nafia, I., Salin, P., Kerkerian-Le-Goff, L. & Kachidian, P. (2014) Progressive Parkinsonism by acute dysfunction of excitatory amino acid transporters in the rat substantia nigra. Neurobiol Dis, 65, 69–81.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996114000254?via%3Dihub

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