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Blechman, Janna
Email: Janna.Blechman@weizmann.ac.il
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Affiliation: Levkowitz Lab
Address: Molecular Cell Biology Department Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, 76100 Israel
Country: Israel
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PUBLICATIONS
Nunes, A.R., Gliksberg, M., Varela, S.A.M., Teles, M., Wircer, E., Blechman, J., Petri, G., Levkowitz, G., Oliveira, R.F. (2021) Developmental effects of oxytocin neurons on social affiliation and processing of social information. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 41(42):8742-8760
Brown, S.J., Boussaad, I., Jarazo, J., Fitzgerald, J.C., Antony, P., Keatinge, M., Blechman, J., Schwamborn, J.C., Krüger, R., Placzek, M., Bandmann, O. (2021) PINK1 deficiency impairs adult neurogenesis of dopaminergic neurons. Scientific Reports. 11:6617
Anbalagan, S., Blechman, J., Gliksberg, M., Gordon, L., Rotkopf, R., Dadosh, T., Shimoni, E., Levkowitz, G. (2020) Correction: Robo2 regulates synaptic oxytocin content by affecting actin dynamics. eLIFE. 9
Ribeiro, D., Nunes, A.R., Teles, M., Anbalagan, S., Blechman, J., Levkowitz, G., Oliveira, R.F. (2020) Genetic variation in the social environment affects behavioral phenotypes of oxytocin receptor mutants in zebrafish. eLIFE. 9:
Nunes, A.R., Carreira, L., Anbalagan, S., Blechman, J., Levkowitz, G., Oliveira, R.F. (2020) Perceptual mechanisms of social affiliation in zebrafish. Scientific Reports. 10:3642
Gordon, L., Blechman, J., Shimoni, E., Gur, D., Anand-Apte, B., Levkowitz, G. (2019) Fenestrae-associated protein Plvap regulates the rate of blood-borne proteins passage into the hypophysis. Development (Cambridge, England). 146(23):
Anbalagan, S., Blechman, J., Gliksberg, M., Gordon, L., Rotkopf, R., Dadosh, T., Shimoni, E., Levkowitz, G. (2019) Robo2 regulates synaptic oxytocin content by affecting actin dynamics. eLIFE. 8
Anbalagan, S., Gordon, L., Blechman, J., Matsuoka, R.L., Rajamannar, P., Wircer, E., Biran, J., Reuveny, A., Leshkowitz, D., Stainier, D.Y.R., Levkowitz, G. (2018) Pituicyte Cues Regulate the Development of Permeable Neuro-Vascular Interfaces. Developmental Cell. 47(6):711-726.e5
Blechman, J., Anbalagan, S., Matthews, G.G., Levkowitz, G. (2018) Genome Editing Reveals Idiosyncrasy of CNGA2 Ion Channel-Directed Antibody Immunoreactivity Toward Oxytocin. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 6:117
Wircer, E., Blechman, J., Borodovsky, N., Tsoory, M., Nunes, A.R., Oliveira, R.F., Levkowitz, G. (2017) Homeodomain protein Otp affects developmental neuropeptide switching in oxytocin neurons associated with a long-term effect on social behavior. eLIFE. 6
Blechman, J., Levkowitz, G., Gothilf, Y. (2017) The not-so-long history of zebrafish research in Israel. The International journal of developmental biology. 61:149-157
Blechman, J., and Levkowitz, G. (2013) Alternative Splicing of the Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide Receptor PAC1: Mechanisms of Fine Tuning of Brain Activity. Frontiers in neuroscience. 4:55
Amir-Zilberstein, L., Blechman, J., Sztainberg, Y., Norton, W.H., Reuveny, A., Borodovsky, N., Tahor, M., Bonkowsky, J.L., Bally-Cuif, L., Chen, A., and Levkowitz, G. (2012) Homeodomain protein otp and activity-dependent splicing modulate neuronal adaptation to stress. Neuron. 72(2):279-291
Blechman, J., Amir-Zilberstein, L., Gutnick, A., Ben-Dor, S., and Levkowitz, G. (2011) The Metabolic Regulator PGC-1α Directly Controls the Expression of the Hypothalamic Neuropeptide Oxytocin. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 31(42):14835-14840
Gutnick, A., Blechman, J., Kaslin, J., Herwig, L., Belting, H.G., Affolter, M., Bonkowsky, J.L., and Levkowitz, G. (2011) The hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin is required for formation of the neurovascular interface of the pituitary. Developmental Cell. 21(4):642-654
Russek-Blum, N., Gutnick, A., Nabel-Rosen, H., Blechman, J., Staudt, N., Dorsky, R.I., Houart, C., and Levkowitz, G. (2008) Dopaminergic neuronal cluster size is determined during early forebrain patterning. Development (Cambridge, England). 135(20):3401-3413

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