Publications

Publications from the lab 

1. Chandran D, Agrawal U, Damayanthi D, Nair DT, Mandagini G, Nair SS, Narasimhaiah D, Fernandez FB, Thakur P, Raghavan CT, Krishnan S, Gopala S & Urulangodi M. (2026). Cofilin 1 Is an Extracellular Vesicle-Associated Plasma Biomarker of Parkinson's Disease in Humans. Annals of Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.78348

2. Rajan A, Prakash S, Singh D & Thakur, P. (2026). Chlorogenic acid fails to confer neuroprotection in a chronic mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Molecular Neurobiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-026-06157-4

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3. Kumar, D.B., Subramanya, S.K. & Thakur, P. (2026). Comparative in silico evaluation of c-Abl inhibitors for Parkinson's disease therapy. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.153175. 

4. Subramanya, S. K., Singh, D., & Thakur, P. (2025). A One-Step Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease Combining rAAV-α-Synuclein and Preformed Fibrils of α-Synuclein. Bioprotocol.  10.21769/BioProtoc.5525

5. Kovacheva L, Shin J, Zaldivar-Diez J, Mankel J, Farassat N, Machado Costa KM, Thakur P, Obeso JA & Roeper J (2025). Recovery of the full in vivo firing range in post-lesion surviving DA SN neurons associated with Kv4.3-mediated pacemaker plasticity. eLife 14:e104037. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.104037

6. Agrawal, U., Nataraj, P., Chandramouli, A., Krishnan, S., Kamat, S. S., Urulangodi, M., & Thakur, P. (2025). Integrative Lipidomics of Brain and Plasma Uncovers Sex-Specific Metabolic Signatures in Parkinson′s Disease. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.02.679990

7. Rajan, A., Varghese, A., Hashardeen, S. P., Babu, A. N., Vijayan, V., & Thakur, P. (2025). Glycated alpha-synuclein assemblies cause distinct Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis in mice. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.5c00428

Preprint version   Author interview in Biopatrika  

8. Subramanya, S. K., Shekhar, S., Kumar, D. B., Senthil, S., Allimuthu, D., Luk, K., & Thakur, P. (2025). A novel mouse model of Parkinson’s disease for investigating progressive pathology and neuroprotection. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.13.638053
   
   

9. Hosseini, S., Thakur, P., Cedeno, D., Fereidoni, M., & Elahdadi Salmani, M. (2025). Glial cells in health and disease: Impacts on neural circuits and plasticity. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 19. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2025.1569725
   
   

10. Thakur, P. (2022). Mitochondrial calcium homeostasis in synaptic functions. In Mitochondria in Neurological Disorders. Academic Press. ISBN: 9780128217313
    
    

11. Kachappilly, N., Srivastava, J., Swain, B. P., & Thakur, P. (2022). Interaction of alpha-synuclein with lipids. Methods in Cell Biology. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2021.12.002
    
    

12. Daniel, N. H., Aravind, A., & Thakur, P. (2021). Are ion channels potential therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s disease? Neurotoxicology, 87, 243–257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2021.10.008
    
    

Key Publications of PI 

1. Thakur, P.*, Luk, K., & Roeper, J. (2019). Selective K-ATP channel-dependent loss of pacemaking in vulnerable nigrostriatal dopamine neurons by α-synuclein aggregates. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/842344
   *Corresponding author. Highlighted by preLights
   
   

2. Thakur, P., Chiu, W. H., Roeper, J., & Goldberg, J. A. (2019). α-Synuclein 2.0 – Moving towards cell-type specific pathophysiology. Neuroscience, 412, 248–256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.06.005
   
   

3. Thakur, P*., Breger, L*., Lundblad, M., Wan, O. W., Mattsson, B., Luk, K., Lee, V. M., Trojanowski, J., & Björklund, A. (2017). Modeling Parkinson’s disease pathology by combination of fibril seeds and α-synuclein overexpression in the rat brain. PNAS, 114(39), E8284–E8293. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710442114
   *Equal contribution
   
   

4. Thakur, P., & Nehru, B. (2015). Inhibition of neuroinflammation and mitochondrial dysfunctions by carbenoxolone in the rotenone model of Parkinson’s disease. Molecular Neurobiology, 51(1), 209–219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12035-014-8769-7
   
   

5. Thakur, P., & Nehru, B. (2014). Long-term heat shock protein (HSP) induction by carbenoxolone improves hallmark features of Parkinson’s disease in a rotenone-based model. Neuropharmacology, 79, 190–200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.11.016
   
   

6. Thakur, P., & Nehru, B. (2014). Modulatory effects of sodium salicylate on the factors affecting protein aggregation during rotenone-induced Parkinson’s disease pathology. Neurochemistry International, 75, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuint.2014.05.002
   
   

7. Thakur, P., & Nehru, B. (2013). Anti-inflammatory properties rather than anti-oxidant capability is the major mechanism of neuroprotection by sodium salicylate in a chronic rotenone model of Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience, 231, 420–431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.11.006

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