Selected Publications
- Astrocyte Heterogeneity in Multiple Sclerosis: Current Understanding and Technical Challenges.Lo CH, Skarica M, Mansoor M, Bhandarkar S, Toro S, Pitt D. Front Cell Neurosci. 2021; 2021 Aug 11. PMID: 34456686.
- QSM is an imaging biomarker for chronic glial activation in multiple sclerosis lesions.Gillen KM, Mubarak M, Park C, Ponath G, Zhang S, Dimov A, Levine-Ritterman M, Toro S, Huang W, Amici S, Kaunzner UW, Gauthier SA, Guerau-de-Arellano M, Wang Y, Nguyen TD, Pitt D. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2021 Apr; 2021 Mar 11. PMID: 33704933.
- The landscape of myeloid and astrocyte phenotypes in acute multiple sclerosis lesions.Park C, Ponath G, Levine-Ritterman M, Bull E, Swanson EC, De Jager PL, Segal BM, Pitt D. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2019 Aug 12; 2019 Aug 12. PMID: 31405387.
- Multiplexed imaging of immune cells in staged multiple sclerosis lesions by mass cytometry.Ramaglia V, Sheikh-Mohamed S, Legg K, Park C, Rojas OL, Zandee S, Fu F, Ornatsky O, Swanson EC, Pitt D, Prat A, McKee TD, Gommerman JL. Elife. 2019 Aug 1; 2019 Aug 1. PMID: 31368890.
- Quantitative susceptibility mapping identifies inflammation in a subset of chronic multiple sclerosis lesions.Kaunzner UW, Kang Y, Zhang S, Morris E, Yao Y, Pandya S, Hurtado Rua SM, Park C, Gillen KM, Nguyen TD, Wang Y, Pitt D, Gauthier SA. Brain. 2019 Jan 1. PMID: 30561514.
- Enhanced astrocyte responses are driven by a genetic risk allele associated with multiple sclerosis.Ponath G, Lincoln MR, Levine-Ritterman M, Park C, Dahlawi S, Mubarak M, Sumida T, Airas L, Zhang S, Isitan C, Nguyen TD, Raine CS, Hafler DA, Pitt D. Nat Commun. 2018 Dec 17; 2018 Dec 17. PMID: 30559390.
- Myeloid cell plasticity in the evolution of central nervous system autoimmunity.Giles DA, Washnock-Schmid JM, Duncker PC, Dahlawi S, Ponath G, Pitt D, Segal BM. Ann Neurol. 2018 Jan; 2018 Jan 14. PMID: 29283442.
- Podoplanin is a negative regulator of Th17 inflammation.Nylander AN, Ponath GD, Axisa PP, Mubarak M, Tomayko M, Kuchroo VK, Pitt D, Hafler DA. JCI Insight. 2017 Sep 7; 2017 Sep 7. PMID: 28878118.
- Myelin phagocytosis by astrocytes after myelin damage promotes lesion pathology.Ponath G, Ramanan S, Mubarak M, Housley W, Lee S, Sahinkaya FR, Vortmeyer A, Raine CS, Pitt D. Brain. 2017 Feb; 2016 Dec 21. PMID: 28007993.