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Oliver Bracko

Assistant Professor of Research Physiology and Neuroscience

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Publications

  • Progranulin haploinsufficiency remodels the cerebral microvasculature and neurovascular unit. bioRxiv. 2026 Jul 22.. View in PubMed
  • Shared and disease-specific human brain vascular signatures in Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and Huntington’s disease. bioRxiv. 2026 Jul 03.. View in PubMed
  • Systemic Piezo1 activation improves cerebrovascular function in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 12; 21(12):e71016.. View in PubMed
  • Toxoplasma gondii impairs CX3CL1/fractalkine shedding from mouse cortical neurons, leading to microglia activation. Microbiol Spectr. 2025 Oct 07; 13(10):e0107425.. View in PubMed
  • Cerebrovascular p16INK4A expression induces cerebral small vessel disease-related phenotypes. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2025 08 12; 13(1):171.. View in PubMed
  • One immune cell to bind them all: platelet contribution to neurodegenerative disease. Mol Neurodegener. 2024 Sep 27; 19(1):65.. View in PubMed
  • Resveratrol Mitigates Cognitive Impairments and Cholinergic Cell Loss in the Medial Septum in a Mouse Model of Gradual Cerebral Hypoperfusion. Antioxidants (Basel). 2024 Aug 14; 13(8).. View in PubMed
  • Revealing inconsistencies between Epworth scores and apnea-hypopnea index when evaluating obstructive sleep apnea severity: a clinical retrospective chart review. Front Neurol. 2024; 15:1387924.. View in PubMed
  • Circumscribing Laser Cuts Attenuate Seizure Propagation in a Mouse Model of Focal Epilepsy. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2024 08; 11(29):e2300747.. View in PubMed
  • A Brief Overview of Neutrophils in Neurological Diseases. Biomolecules. 2023 04 25; 13(5).. View in PubMed
  • Vascular oxidative stress causes neutrophil arrest in brain capillaries, leading to decreased cerebral blood flow and contributing to memory impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 15.. View in PubMed
  • Editorial: Small and mighty: Brain capillaries in health and disease. Front Mol Neurosci. 2022; 15:1108978.. View in PubMed
  • VEGF Paradoxically Reduces Cerebral Blood Flow in Alzheimer’s Disease Mice. Neurosci Insights. 2022; 17:26331055221109254.. View in PubMed
  • VEGF signalling causes stalls in brain capillaries and reduces cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer’s mice. Brain. 2022 05 24; 145(4):1449-1463.. View in PubMed
  • Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia: An early career researcher perspective. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2022; 14(1):e12310.. View in PubMed
  • Causes and consequences of baseline cerebral blood flow reductions in Alzheimer’s disease. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2021 07; 41(7):1501-1516.. View in PubMed
  • A pilot study investigating the effects of voluntary exercise on capillary stalling and cerebral blood flow in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. PLoS One. 2020; 15(8):e0235691.. View in PubMed
  • High fat diet worsens Alzheimer’s disease-related behavioral abnormalities and neuropathology in APP/PS1 mice, but not by synergistically decreasing cerebral blood flow. Sci Rep. 2020 06 18; 10(1):9884.. View in PubMed
  • Increasing cerebral blood flow improves cognition into late stages in Alzheimer’s disease mice. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2020 07; 40(7):1441-1452.. View in PubMed
  • Neutrophil adhesion in brain capillaries reduces cortical blood flow and impairs memory function in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models. Nat Neurosci. 2019 03; 22(3):413-420.. View in PubMed
  • Sensorimotor stroke alters hippocampo-thalamic network activity. Sci Rep. 2018 10 25; 8(1):15770.. View in PubMed
  • Impaired prosaposin lysosomal trafficking in frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to progranulin mutations. Nat Commun. 2017 05 25; 8:15277.. View in PubMed
  • Task-Specific Motor Rehabilitation Therapy After Stroke Improves Performance in a Different Motor Task: Translational Evidence. Transl Stroke Res. 2017 08; 8(4):347-350.. View in PubMed
  • 3-Nitropropionic acid-induced ischemia tolerance in the rat brain is mediated by reduced metabolic activity and cerebral blood flow. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2014 Sep; 34(9):1522-30.. View in PubMed
  • Imaging neurite development of adult-born granule cells. Development. 2013 Jul; 140(13):2823-7.. View in PubMed
  • Gene expression profiling of neural stem cells and their neuronal progeny reveals IGF2 as a regulator of adult hippocampal neurogenesis. J Neurosci. 2012 Mar 07; 32(10):3376-87.. View in PubMed
  • Control of lateral organ development and flowering time by the Arabidopsis thaliana MADS-box Gene AGAMOUS-LIKE6. Plant J. 2010 Jun 01; 62(5):807-16.. View in PubMed
  • Molecular dissection of the photoreceptor ribbon synapse: physical interaction of Bassoon and RIBEYE is essential for the assembly of the ribbon complex. J Cell Biol. 2005 Feb 28; 168(5):825-36.. View in PubMed

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