Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center

Muradov J, Hagg T (2013) Intravenous infusion of magnesium chloride improves epicenter blood flow during the acute stage of contusive spinal cord injury in rats.  Journal of Neurotrauma. Jan 9. [Epub ahead of print].

Kang SS, Keasey MP, Arnold SA, Reid R, Geralds JT, Hagg T (2012)  Endogenous CNTF mediates stroke-induced adult CNS neurogenesis in mice. Neurobiology of Disease 49: 68-78.

Arnold SA, Hagg T (2012) Serotonin 1A receptor agonist increases species- and region-selective adult CNS proliferation, but not through CNTF.  Neuropharmacology 63: 1238-1247

Kang SS, Keasey MP, Cai J, Hagg T (2012) Loss of neuron-astrocyte interaction rapidly induces protective CNTF expression after stroke in mice.  Journal of Neuroscience 32:9277-87

Arnold SA, Hagg T (2011) Anti-inflammatory treatments during the chronic phase of spinal cord injury improve locomotor function in adult mice. J Neurotrauma 28:1995-2002

Benton RL, Hagg T (2011) Vascular pathology as potential therapeutic target in SCI. Translational Stroke Research 2: 556-572.

Fassbender JM, Whittemore SR, Hagg T. Targeting microvasculature for neuroprotection after SCI. Neurotherapeutics. 2011 8:240-51.

Han S, Arnold SA, Sithu SD, Mahoney ET, Geralds JT, Phuong V, Benton RL, Maddie MA, D’Sousa SE, Whittemore SR, Hagg T (2010) Rescuing vasculature with intravenous angiopoietin-1 and avb3 integrin peptide is protective after spinal cord injury. Brain 133: 1026-1042

Hagg T. (2009) From neurotransmitters to neurotrophic factors to neurogenesis. The Neuroscientist. 15:20-7.

Mahoney ET, Benton RL, Maddie MA, Whittemore SR, Hagg T. (2009) ADAM8 is selectively up-regulated in endothelial cells and is associated with angiogenesis after spinal cord injury in adult mice. J Comp Neurol. 512:243-55.

Nakashima S., Arnold S.A., Mahoney E.T., Sithu S.D., Zhang Y.P., D'Souza S.E., Shields C.B., Hagg T. (2008) Small molecule protein tyrosine phosphatase inhibition as a neuroprotective treatment following spinal cord injury in adult rats.  Journal of Neuroscience 28: 7293-7303.

Yang P., Arnold S.A., Habas A. Hetman M., Hagg T. (2008) Ciliary neurotrophic factor mediates dopamine D2 receptor-induced neurogenesis in the adult mouse brain. Journal of Neuroscience 28: 2231-2241.