Forkhead box protein p1 is a transcriptional repressor of immune signaling in the CNS: implications for transcriptional dysregulation in Huntington disease. Tang B, Becanovic K, Desplats PA, Spencer B, Hill AM, Connolly C, Masliah E, Leavitt BR, Thomas EA. Hum Mol Genet. 2012 Jul 15;21(14):3097-111. PMID: 22492998

Cell-to-cell transmission of a-synuclein aggregates. Lee SJ, Desplats P, Lee HJ, Spencer B, Masliah E. Methods Mol Biol. 2012;849:347-59. PMID: 22528101

a-Synuclein induces alterations in adult neurogenesis in Parkinson disease models via p53-mediated repression of Notch1. Desplats P, Spencer B, Crews L, Pathel P, Morvinski-Friedmann D, Kosberg K, Roberts S, Patrick C, Winner B, Winkler J, Masliah E. J Biol Chem. 2012 Sep 14;287(38):31691-702. PMID: 22833673

Antibody-aided clearance of extracellular a-synuclein prevents cell-to-cell aggregate transmission. Bae EJ, Lee HJ, Rockenstein E, Ho DH, Park EB, Yang NY, Desplats P, Masliah E, Lee SJ. J Neurosci. 2012 Sep 26;32(39):13454-69. PMID: 23015436

Combined exposure to Maneb and Paraquat alters transcriptional regulation of neurogenesis-related genes in mice models of Parkinson’s disease. Desplats P, Patel P, Kosberg K, Mante M, Patrick C, Rockenstein E, Fujita M, Hashimoto M, Masliah E. Mol Neurodegener. 2012 Sep 28;7:49. PMID: 23017109