Francesca Mandino
Associate Research Scientist in Radiology and Biomedical ImagingAbout
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Associate Research Scientist in Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
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Evelyn Lake, PhD
Corey Horien
D. S. Fahmeed Hyder, PhD
Michael Crair, PhD
Todd Constable, PhD
Xilin Shen, PhD
21Publications
460Citations
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2024
Repetitive mild closed-head injury induced synapse loss and increased local BOLD-fMRI signal homogeneity
Markicevic M, Mandino F, Toyonaga T, Cai Z, Fesharaki-Zadeh A, Chen X, Strittmatter S, Lake E. Repetitive mild closed-head injury induced synapse loss and increased local BOLD-fMRI signal homogeneity. Journal Of Neurotrauma 2024, 0 PMID: 39096127, DOI: 10.1089/neu.2024.0095.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic variable stressRegional homogeneityFunctional brain abnormalitiesSynapse densityMild closed-head injuryClosed-head injuryTraumatic brain injuryTreat traumatic brain injuryNeurobiological alterationsMild head injuryVariable stressBrain abnormalitiesPositron emission tomographyMultimodal studiesSynaptic densityMagnetic resonance imagingBrain imagingBrain injuryInduce synapse lossFMRIInjured miceMouse modelEmission tomographyResonance imagingCompensatory mechanismsVentricular-subventricular zone stem cell niche adaptations in a mouse model of post-infectious hydrocephalus
Herman J, Rittenhouse N, Mandino F, Majid M, Wang Y, Mezger A, Kump A, Kadian S, Lake E, Verardi P, Conover J. Ventricular-subventricular zone stem cell niche adaptations in a mouse model of post-infectious hydrocephalus. Frontiers In Neuroscience 2024, 18: 1429829. PMID: 39145299, PMCID: PMC11322059, DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1429829.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPost-infectious hydrocephalusVentricular-subventricular zoneInfluenza virusMouse modelMouse-adapted influenza virusIntact ependymaStem cellsPostnatal day 4Stem cell numbersStem cell nicheCell-to-cell transmissionOlfactory bulbMultiorgan hemorrhageLateral ventricleIntracerebroventricular injectionVentriculomegalyEmbryonic dayVentricular systemDay 4Cell nicheNo significant reductionHydrocephalusSignificant reductionVentricleCell number184 PTEN Mutations Portend Cerebral Ventriculomegaly With Autism-Like Deficits in Cortical Circuitry
DeSpenza T, Kizlitug E, Allington G, Barson D, O'Connor D, Robert S, Mekbib K, Singh A, Phan D, Nanda P, Mandino F, Constable T, Lake E, Carter B, Gunel M, Lifton R, Luikart B, Kahle K. 184 PTEN Mutations Portend Cerebral Ventriculomegaly With Autism-Like Deficits in Cortical Circuitry. Neurosurgery 2024, 70: 46-46. DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000002809_184.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWhole-exome sequencingFetal ventriculomegalyCongenital hydrocephalusExome sequencingChoroid plexus hyperplasiaMutated genesCa2+ imagingMutant mouse modelsPTEN mutantsHuman fetal brainPten mutant miceSporadic CHCerebral ventriculomegalyCSF diversionObstructive hydrocephalusCH patientsCSF secretionPharmacological mTORC1 inhibitionNeurodevelopmental assessmentRadiographic biomarkersFetal brainPTEN mutationsAqueductal stenosisPTEN deletionVentriculomegalyWhat N Is N-ough for MRI-Based Animal Neuroimaging?
Grandjean J, Lake E, Pagani M, Mandino F. What N Is N-ough for MRI-Based Animal Neuroimaging? ENeuro 2024, 11: eneuro.0531-23.2024. PMID: 38499355, PMCID: PMC10950324, DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0531-23.2024.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsMultimodal measures of spontaneous brain activity reveal both common and divergent patterns of cortical functional organization
Vafaii H, Mandino F, Desrosiers-Grégoire G, O’Connor D, Markicevic M, Shen X, Ge X, Herman P, Hyder F, Papademetris X, Chakravarty M, Crair M, Constable R, Lake E, Pessoa L. Multimodal measures of spontaneous brain activity reveal both common and divergent patterns of cortical functional organization. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 229. PMID: 38172111, PMCID: PMC10764905, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44363-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2023
SMC5 Plays Independent Roles in Congenital Heart Disease and Neurodevelopmental Disability
O'Brien M, Pryzhkova M, Lake E, Mandino F, Shen X, Karnik R, Atkins A, Xu M, Ji W, Konstantino M, Brueckner M, Ment L, Khokha M, Jordan P. SMC5 Plays Independent Roles in Congenital Heart Disease and Neurodevelopmental Disability. International Journal Of Molecular Sciences 2023, 25: 430. PMID: 38203602, PMCID: PMC10779392, DOI: 10.3390/ijms25010430.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricWhere do we stand on fMRI in awake mice?
Mandino F, Vujic S, Grandjean J, Lake E. Where do we stand on fMRI in awake mice? Cerebral Cortex 2023, 34: bhad478. PMID: 38100331, PMCID: PMC10793583, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad478.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricLongitudinal simultaneous fMRI and mesoscale calcium imaging in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Mandino F, Shen X, Desrosiers-Gregoire G, O'Connor D, Mukherjee B, DeLuca K, Hamodi A, Owens A, Ha Y, Qu A, Onofrey J, Papademetris X, Chakravarty M, Crair M, Strittmatter S, Lake E. Longitudinal simultaneous fMRI and mesoscale calcium imaging in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Proceedings Of The International Society For Magnetic Resonance In Medicine ... Scientific Meeting And Exhibition. 2023 DOI: 10.58530/2023/3914.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMouse model of Alzheimer's diseaseModel of Alzheimer's diseaseMesoscale calcium imagingAlzheimer's diseaseBehavioral deficitsExcitatory neural activityMultimodal neuroimagingBOLD signalSimultaneous fMRINeuroimaging changesNeural activityBOLD fMRIPreliminary evidenceCalcium imagingClinically accessible biomarkersMesoscopic calcium imagingSpontaneous activityFMRINeuroimagingBOLDDeficitsComplex relationshipAuthor Correction: A consensus protocol for functional connectivity analysis in the rat brain
Grandjean J, Desrosiers-Gregoire G, Anckaerts C, Angeles-Valdez D, Ayad F, Barrière D, Blockx I, Bortel A, Broadwater M, Cardoso B, Célestine M, Chavez-Negrete J, Choi S, Christiaen E, Clavijo P, Colon-Perez L, Cramer S, Daniele T, Dempsey E, Diao Y, Doelemeyer A, Dopfel D, Dvořáková L, Falfán-Melgoza C, Fernandes F, Fowler C, Fuentes-Ibañez A, Garin C, Gelderman E, Golden C, Guo C, Henckens M, Hennessy L, Herman P, Hofwijks N, Horien C, Ionescu T, Jones J, Kaesser J, Kim E, Lambers H, Lazari A, Lee S, Lillywhite A, Liu Y, Liu Y, López -Castro A, López-Gil X, Ma Z, MacNicol E, Madularu D, Mandino F, Marciano S, McAuslan M, McCunn P, McIntosh A, Meng X, Meyer-Baese L, Missault S, Moro F, Naessens D, Nava-Gomez L, Nonaka H, Ortiz J, Paasonen J, Peeters L, Pereira M, Perez P, Pompilus M, Prior M, Rakhmatullin R, Reimann H, Reinwald J, Del Rio R, Rivera-Olvera A, Ruiz-Pérez D, Russo G, Rutten T, Ryoke R, Sack M, Salvan P, Sanganahalli B, Schroeter A, Seewoo B, Selingue E, Seuwen A, Shi B, Sirmpilatze N, Smith J, Smith C, Sobczak F, Stenroos P, Straathof M, Strobelt S, Sumiyoshi A, Takahashi K, Torres-García M, Tudela R, van den Berg M, van der Marel K, van Hout A, Vertullo R, Vidal B, Vrooman R, Wang V, Wank I, Watson D, Yin T, Zhang Y, Zurbruegg S, Achard S, Alcauter S, Auer D, Barbier E, Baudewig J, Beckmann C, Beckmann N, Becq G, Blezer E, Bolbos R, Boretius S, Bouvard S, Budinger E, Buxbaum J, Cash D, Chapman V, Chuang K, Ciobanu L, Coolen B, Dalley J, Dhenain M, Dijkhuizen R, Esteban O, Faber C, Febo M, Feindel K, Forloni G, Fouquet J, Garza-Villarreal E, Gass N, Glennon J, Gozzi A, Gröhn O, Harkin A, Heerschap A, Helluy X, Herfert K, Heuser A, Homberg J, Houwing D, Hyder F, Ielacqua G, Jelescu I, Johansen-Berg H, Kaneko G, Kawashima R, Keilholz S, Keliris G, Kelly C, Kerskens C, Khokhar J, Kind P, Langlois J, Lerch J, López-Hidalgo M, Manahan-Vaughan D, Marchand F, Mars R, Marsella G, Micotti E, Muñoz-Moreno E, Near J, Niendorf T, Otte W, Pais-Roldán P, Pan W, Prado-Alcalá R, Quirarte G, Rodger J, Rosenow T, Sampaio-Baptista C, Sartorius A, Sawiak S, Scheenen T, Shemesh N, Shih Y, Shmuel A, Soria G, Stoop R, Thompson G, Till S, Todd N, Van Der Linden A, van der Toorn A, van Tilborg G, Vanhove C, Veltien A, Verhoye M, Wachsmuth L, Weber-Fahr W, Wenk P, Yu X, Zerbi V, Zhang N, Zhang B, Zimmer L, Devenyi G, Chakravarty M, Hess A. Author Correction: A consensus protocol for functional connectivity analysis in the rat brain. Nature Neuroscience 2023, 26: 1127-1128. PMID: 37072562, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01328-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricA consensus protocol for functional connectivity analysis in the rat brain
Grandjean J, Desrosiers-Gregoire G, Anckaerts C, Angeles-Valdez D, Ayad F, Barrière D, Blockx I, Bortel A, Broadwater M, Cardoso B, Célestine M, Chavez-Negrete J, Choi S, Christiaen E, Clavijo P, Colon-Perez L, Cramer S, Daniele T, Dempsey E, Diao Y, Doelemeyer A, Dopfel D, Dvořáková L, Falfán-Melgoza C, Fernandes F, Fowler C, Fuentes-Ibañez A, Garin C, Gelderman E, Golden C, Guo C, Henckens M, Hennessy L, Herman P, Hofwijks N, Horien C, Ionescu T, Jones J, Kaesser J, Kim E, Lambers H, Lazari A, Lee S, Lillywhite A, Liu Y, Liu Y, López -Castro A, López-Gil X, Ma Z, MacNicol E, Madularu D, Mandino F, Marciano S, McAuslan M, McCunn P, McIntosh A, Meng X, Meyer-Baese L, Missault S, Moro F, Naessens D, Nava-Gomez L, Nonaka H, Ortiz J, Paasonen J, Peeters L, Pereira M, Perez P, Pompilus M, Prior M, Rakhmatullin R, Reimann H, Reinwald J, Del Rio R, Rivera-Olvera A, Ruiz-Pérez D, Russo G, Rutten T, Ryoke R, Sack M, Salvan P, Sanganahalli B, Schroeter A, Seewoo B, Selingue E, Seuwen A, Shi B, Sirmpilatze N, Smith J, Smith C, Sobczak F, Stenroos P, Straathof M, Strobelt S, Sumiyoshi A, Takahashi K, Torres-García M, Tudela R, van den Berg M, van der Marel K, van Hout A, Vertullo R, Vidal B, Vrooman R, Wang V, Wank I, Watson D, Yin T, Zhang Y, Zurbruegg S, Achard S, Alcauter S, Auer D, Barbier E, Baudewig J, Beckmann C, Beckmann N, Becq G, Blezer E, Bolbos R, Boretius S, Bouvard S, Budinger E, Buxbaum J, Cash D, Chapman V, Chuang K, Ciobanu L, Coolen B, Dalley J, Dhenain M, Dijkhuizen R, Esteban O, Faber C, Febo M, Feindel K, Forloni G, Fouquet J, Garza-Villarreal E, Gass N, Glennon J, Gozzi A, Gröhn O, Harkin A, Heerschap A, Helluy X, Herfert K, Heuser A, Homberg J, Houwing D, Hyder F, Ielacqua G, Jelescu I, Johansen-Berg H, Kaneko G, Kawashima R, Keilholz S, Keliris G, Kelly C, Kerskens C, Khokhar J, Kind P, Langlois J, Lerch J, López-Hidalgo M, Manahan-Vaughan D, Marchand F, Mars R, Marsella G, Micotti E, Muñoz-Moreno E, Near J, Niendorf T, Otte W, Pais-Roldán P, Pan W, Prado-Alcalá R, Quirarte G, Rodger J, Rosenow T, Sampaio-Baptista C, Sartorius A, Sawiak S, Scheenen T, Shemesh N, Shih Y, Shmuel A, Soria G, Stoop R, Thompson G, Till S, Todd N, Van Der Linden A, van der Toorn A, van Tilborg G, Vanhove C, Veltien A, Verhoye M, Wachsmuth L, Weber-Fahr W, Wenk P, Yu X, Zerbi V, Zhang N, Zhang B, Zimmer L, Devenyi G, Chakravarty M, Hess A. A consensus protocol for functional connectivity analysis in the rat brain. Nature Neuroscience 2023, 26: 673-681. PMID: 36973511, PMCID: PMC10493189, DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01286-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts