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Dimitris Placantonakis

Neurosurgery, NYU School of Medicine
Verified email at nyumc.org
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Cerebrospinal fluid in COVID-19: a systematic review of the literature

A Lewis, J Frontera, DG Placantonakis, J Lighter… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective We sought to review the literature on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) testing in patients
with COVID-19 for evidence of viral neuroinvasion by SARS-CoV-2. Methods We performed a …

[HTML][HTML] Mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase inhibitors as targeted cancer therapeutics

…, K Tang, AS Modrek, DG Placantonakis - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The identification of heterozygous neomorphic isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations
across multiple cancer types including both solid and hematologic malignancies has …

[HTML][HTML] Traumatic brain injury: Mechanisms, manifestations, and visual sequelae

…, A Pinkhasov, DG Placantonakis… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results when external physical forces impact the head with
sufficient intensity to cause damage to the brain. TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe and may …

[PDF][PDF] Why do Purkinje cells die so easily after global brain ischemia? Aldolase C, EAAT4 and the cerebellar contribution to posthypoxic myoclonus

JP Welsh, GS Yuen, DG Placantonakis… - … -NEW YORK-RAVEN …, 2002 - researchgate.net
In 1995, C. David Marsden published an important paper entitled “Progressive myoclonic
ataxia associated with coeliac disease-The myoclonus is of cortical origin but the pathology is …

[HTML][HTML] Sox2 antagonizes the Hippo pathway to maintain stemness in cancer cells

…, K Rattanakorn, E Han, DG Placantonakis… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The repressive Hippo pathway has a profound tumour suppressive role in cancer by
restraining the growth-promoting function of the transcriptional coactivator, YAP. We previously …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput screening assay for the identification of compounds regulating self-renewal and differentiation in human embryonic stem cells

SC Desbordes, DG Placantonakis, A Ciro, ND Socci… - Cell stem cell, 2008 - cell.com
High-throughput screening (HTS) of chemical libraries has become a critical tool in basic
biology and drug discovery. However, its implementation and the adaptation of high-content …

[HTML][HTML] Direct RNA sequencing on nanopore arrays redefines the transcriptional complexity of a viral pathogen

…, D Bready, Y Mori, DG Placantonakis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Characterizing complex viral transcriptomes by conventional RNA sequencing approaches
is complicated by high gene density, overlapping reading frames, and complex splicing …

Safety of low-dose intrathecal fluorescein in endoscopic cranial base surgery

DG Placantonakis, A Tabaee, VK Anand… - Operative …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… Therefore, I share the interest of Placantonakis et al. in this research. I hope that the present
retrospective study is a prelude to a prospective study that will help us to identify the safest …

Dissecting the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments in Glioblastoma-on-a-Chip for optimized PD-1 immunotherapy

…, R Jain, SC Kurz, EP Sulman, DG Placantonakis… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) checkpoint immunotherapy efficacy remains
unpredictable in glioblastoma (GBM) patients due to the genetic heterogeneity and …

Multiple modes of PRC2 inhibition elicit global chromatin alterations in H3K27M pediatric glioma

…, F Suarez, AS Modrek, NS Bayin, DG Placantonakis… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
A methionine substitution at lysine-27 on histone H3 variants (H3K27M) characterizes ~80%
of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) and inhibits polycomb repressive complex 2 (…