Investigating the Role of Glia and Inflammation in Epilepsy Development

Selected Publications

Microglial P2Y6 calcium signaling promotes phagocytosis and shapes neuroimmune responses in epileptogenesis

Anthony D. Umpierre, Bohan Li, Katayoun Ayafsoufi, Whitney L. Simon, Shunyi Zhao, Manling Xie , Grace Thyen, Benjamin Hur, Jiaying Zheng, Yue Liang, Dale B. Bosco  Mark A. Maynes, Zhaofa Wu, Xinzhu Yu, Jaeyun Sung, Aaron J. Johnson, Yulong Li, Long-Jun Wu 

Neuron, 2024, PMID: 38614103

Tuning neural circuits and behaviors by microglia in the adult brain

Shunyi Zhao, Anthony D. Umpierre, Long-Jun Wu

Trends in Neurosciences, 2024, PMID: 38245380

Microglia enhance post-anesthesia neuronal activity by shielding inhibitory synapses

Koichiro Haruwaka, Yanlu Ying, Yue Liang, Anthony D. Umpierre, Min Hee Yi, Vaclav Kremen, Tingjun Chen, Tao Xie, Fangfang Qi, Shunyi Zhao, Jiaying Zheng, Yong U. Liu, Hailong Dong, Gregory A. Worrell, Long Jun Wu

Nature Neuroscience, 2024, PMID: 38177340

How microglia sense and regulate neuronal activity

Anthony D. Umpierre, Long-Jun Wu

Glia, 2021, PMID: 33369790

Microglial calcium signaling is attuned to neuronal activity in awake mice

Anthony D. Umpierre, Lauren L. Bystrom, Yanlu Ying, Yong U. Liu, Gregory Worrell, Long-Jun Wu

eLife, 2020, PMID: 32716294

Neuronal network activity controls microglial process surveillance in awake mice via norepinephrine signaling

Yong U. Liu, Yanlu Ying, Yujiao Li, Ukpong B. Eyo, Tingjun Chen, Jiaying Zheng, Anthony D. Umpierre, Jia Zhu, Dale B. Bosco, Hailong Dong, Long Jun Wu

Nature Neuroscience, 2019, PMID: 31636449

Conditional Knock-out of mGluR5 from Astrocytes during Epilepsy Development Impairs High-Frequency Glutamate Uptake

Anthony D. Umpierre, Peter J. West, John A. White, Karen S. Wilcox

Journal of Neuroscience, 2019, PMID: 30504280

Repeated low-dose kainate administration in C57BL/6J mice produces temporal lobe epilepsy pathology but infrequent spontaneous seizures

Anthony D. Umpierre, Isaiah V. Bennett, Lismore D. Nebeker, Thomas G. Newell, Bruce B. Tian, Kyle E. Thomson, H Steve White, John A. White, Karen S. Wilcox

Experimental Neurology, 2016, PMID: 26896834

Impaired cognitive ability and anxiety-like behavior following acute seizures in the Theiler’s virus model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Anthony D. Umpierre, Gregory J. Remigio, E Jill Dahle, Kate Bradford, Anitha B. Alex, Misty D. Smith, Peter J. West, H Steve White, Karen S. Wilcox

Neurobiology of Disease, 2014, PMID: 24412221

For a list of all PI and lab publications, please see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/anthony.umpierre.1/bibliography/public/