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2025
Schaer, R., Wenger, N., Herrero, F. M., Notter, T., & Meyer, U. (2025).
Ontogeny and plasticity of resilience and susceptibility in a mouse model of maternal immune activation
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 129, 666–680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.06.040
Krzyzaniak, O., Steiner, S., Nilsson, F. A. M., Dietrich, M., Kämpfen, L., Johansen, P., Jirkof, P., & Meyer, U. (2025).
Applicability of the micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) method for assessing reward-related behaviors in mice
Physiology and Behavior, 299, 114967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.114967
Gruchot, J., Reiche, L., Werner, L., Herrero, F., Schira-Heinen, J., Meyer, U., & Küry, P. (2025).
Molecular dissection of HERV-W dependent microglial- and astroglial cell polarization
Microbes and Infection, 27, 105382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105382
Steiner, S., Krzyzaniak, O., Nilsson, F. A. M., Dietrich, M., Kämpfen, L., Johansen, P., Jirkof, P., & Meyer, U. (2025).
Sex and strain differences in the micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) method in mice
Laboratory Animals, 59, 578–587. https://doi.org/10.1177/00236772251320843
Herrero, F., Heeb, C., Meier, M., Lin, H.-Y., Mueller, F. S., Schalbetter, S. M., Gruchot, J., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Notter, T., Perron, H., Küry, P., & Meyer, U. (2025).
Recapitulation and reversal of neuropsychiatric phenotypes in a mouse model of human endogenous retrovirus type W expression
Molecular Psychiatry, 30, 3325–3337. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-02955-9
Hikosaka, M., Parvez, M. S. A., Yamawaki, Y., Oe, S., Liang, Y., Wada, Y., Hirahara, Y., Koike, T., Imai, H., Oishi, N., Schalbetter, S. M., Kumagai, A., Yoshida, M., Sakurai, T., Kitada, M., Meyer, U., Narumiya, S., & Ohtsuki, G. (2025).
Maternal immune activation followed by peripubertal stress combinedly produce reactive microglia and confine cerebellar cognition
Communications Biology, 8, 296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07566-2
Biaggi, A., Zonca, V., Anacker, C., Begni, V., Benedetti, F., Bramante, A., Braniecka, A., Brenna, V., Bulgheroni, M., Buss, C., Cavaliere, L., Cecil, C. A. M., Couch, A. C., de Barra, D., El Marroun, H., Entringer, S., Grassi-Oliveira, R., Jackowska, M., Korosi, A., … et al. (2025).
Understanding, predicting, and treating depression in pregnancy to improve mothers’ and offspring’s mental health outcomes: The HappyMums study. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 47, 100961.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2025.100961
2024
Mattei, D., Ivanov, A., Hammer, J., Ugursu, B., Schalbetter, S. M., Richetto, J., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Mueller, F., Scarborough, J., Wolf, S. A., Kettenmann, H., Wollscheid, B., Beule, D., & Meyer, U. (2024).
Microglia undergo molecular and functional adaptations to dark and light phases in male laboratory mice
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 120, 571–583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.07.007
Schaer, R., Mueller, F. S., Notter, T., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., & Meyer, U. (2024).
Intrauterine position effects in a mouse model of maternal immune activation
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 120, 391–402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2024.06.015
Jaric, I., Voelkl, B., Amrein, I., Wolfer, D. P., Novak, J., Detotto, C., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Meyer, U., Manuella, F., Mansuy, I. M., & Würbel, H. (2024).
Using mice from different breeding sites fails to improve replicability of results from single-laboratory studies
Lab Animal, 53, 18–22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-023-01307-w
2023
Gruchot, J., Lewen, I., Dietrich, M., Reiche, L., Sindi, M., Hecker, C., Herrero, F., Charvet, B., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Hartung, H.-P., Albrecht, P., Perron, H., Meyer, U., & Küry, P. (2023).
Transgenic expression of the HERV-W envelope protein leads to polarized glial cell populations and a neurodegenerative environment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, e2308187120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2308187120
Tamouza, R., Meyer, U., Lucas, A., Richard, J. R., Nkam, I., Pinot, A., Djonouma, N., Boukouaci, W., Charvet, B., Pierquin, J., Brunel, J., Fourati, S., Rodriguez, C., Barau, C., Le Corvoisier, P., El Abdellati, K., De Picker, L., Perron, H., & Leboyer, M. (2023).
Patients with psychosis spectrum disorders hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic unravel overlooked SARS-CoV-2 past infection clustering with HERV-W ENV expression and chronic inflammation
Translational Psychiatry, 13, 272. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02575-3
von Arx, A. S., Dawson, K., Lin, H.-Y., Mattei, D., Notter, T., Meyer, U., & Schalbetter, S. M. (2023).
Prefrontal microglia deficiency during adolescence disrupts adult cognitive functions and synaptic structure: A follow-up study in female mice
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 111, 230–246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2023.04.007
Gruchot, J., Herrero, F., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Meyer, U., & Küry, P. (2023).
Interplay between activation of endogenous retroviruses and inflammation as common pathogenic mechanism in neurological and psychiatric disorders
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 107, 242–252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.10.007
Herrero, F., Mueller, F. S., Gruchot, J., Küry, P., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., & Meyer, U. (2023).
Susceptibility and resilience to maternal immune activation are associated with differential expression of endogenous retroviral elements
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 107, 201–214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.10.006
2022
Ivanov, A., Mattei, D., Radscheit, K., Compagnion, A.-C., Pett, J. P., Herzel, H., Paolicelli, R. C., Piwecka, M., Meyer, U., & Beule, D. (2022).
Analyses of circRNA Expression throughout the Light-Dark Cycle Reveal a Strong Regulation of Cdr1as, Associated with Light Entrainment in the SCN
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 12347. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012347
Raymann, S., Schalbetter, S. M., Schaer, R., Bernhardt, A. C., Mueller, F. S., Meyer, U., & Weber-Stadlbauer, U. (2022).
Late prenatal immune activation in mice induces transgenerational effects via the maternal and paternal lineages
Cerebral Cortex, bhac207. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac207
Murlanova, K., Begmatova, D., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Meyer, U., Pletnikov, M., & Pinhasov, A. (2022).
Double trouble: Prenatal immune activation in stress sensitive offspring
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 99, 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2021.09.004
2021
Tamouza, R., Meyer, U., Foiselle, M., Richard, J.-R., Wu, C.-L., Boukouaci, W., Le Corvoisier, P., Barrau, C., Lucas, A., Perron, H., & Leboyer, M. (2021).
Correction: Identification of inflammatory subgroups of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients with HERV-W ENV antigenemia by unsupervised cluster analysis
Translational Psychiatry, 11, 447. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01572-8
Tamouza, R., Meyer, U., Foiselle, M., Richard, J.-R., Wu, C.-L., Boukouaci, W., Le Corvoisier, P., Barrau, C., Lucas, A., Perron, H., & Leboyer, M. (2021).
Identification of inflammatory subgroups of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients with HERV-W ENV antigenemia by unsupervised cluster analysis
Translational Psychiatry, 11, 377. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01499-0
Scarborough, J., Mattei, D., Dorner-Ciossek, C., Sand, M., Arban, R., Rosenbrock, H., Richetto, J., & Meyer, U. (2021).
Symptomatic and preventive effects of the novel phosphodiesterase-9 inhibitor BI 409306 in an immune-mediated model of neurodevelopmental disorders
Neuropsychopharmacology, 46, 1526–1534. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01016-3
Notter, T., Schalbetter, S. M., Clifton, N. E., Mattei, D., Richetto, J., Thomas, K., Meyer, U., & Hall, J. (2021).
Neuronal activity increases translocator protein (TSPO) levels
Molecular Psychiatry, 26, 2025–2037. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-0745-1
Purves-Tyson, T. D., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Richetto, J., Rothmond, D. A., Labouesse, M. A., Polesel, M., Robinson, K., Shannon Weickert, C., & Meyer, U. (2021).
Increased levels of midbrain immune-related transcripts in schizophrenia and in murine offspring after maternal immune activation
Molecular Psychiatry, 26, 849–863. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-019-0434-0
Schalbetter, S. M., Mueller, F. S., Scarborough, J., Richetto, J., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Meyer, U., & Notter, T. (2021).
Oral application of clozapine-N-oxide using the micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) method in mouse DREADD systems
Lab Animal, 50, 69–75. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41684-021-00723-0
Mueller, F. S., Scarborough, J., Schalbetter, S. M., Richetto, J., Kim, E., Couch, A., Yee, Y., Lerch, J. P., Vernon, A. C., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., & Meyer, U. (2021).
Behavioral, neuroanatomical, and molecular correlates of resilience and susceptibility to maternal immune activation
Molecular Psychiatry, 26, 396–410. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-00952-8
Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Richetto, J., Zwamborn, R. A. J., Slieker, R. C., & Meyer, U. (2021).
Transgenerational modification of dopaminergic dysfunctions induced by maternal immune activation
Neuropsychopharmacology, 46, 404–412. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-020-00855-w
2020
Mattei, D., Ivanov, A., van Oostrum, M., Pantelyushin, S., Richetto, J., Mueller, F., Beffinger, M., Schellhammer, L., vom Berg, J., Wollscheid, B., Beule, D., Paolicelli, R. C., & Meyer, U. (2020).
Enzymatic Dissociation Induces Transcriptional and Proteotype Bias in Brain Cell Populations
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21, 7944. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21217944
Scarborough, J., Mueller, F., Arban, R., Dorner-Ciossek, C., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Rosenbrock, H., Meyer, U., & Richetto, J. (2020).
Preclinical validation of the micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) method in the maternal immune activation model of neurodevelopmental disorders
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 88, 461–470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2020.04.015
2019
Mueller, F. S., Richetto, J., Hayes, L. N., Zambon, A., Pollak, D. D., Sawa, A., Meyer, U., & Weber-Stadlbauer, U. (2019).
Influence of poly(I:C) variability on thermoregulation, immune responses and pregnancy outcomes in mouse models of maternal immune activation
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 80, 406–418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2019.04.019
Klarer, M., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Arnold, M., Langhans, W., & Meyer, U. (2019).
Abdominal vagal deafferentation alters affective behaviors in rats
Journal of Affective Disorders, 252, 404–412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.015
Giovanoli, S., Werge, T. M., Mortensen, P. B., Didriksen, M., & Meyer, U. (2019).
Interactive effects between hemizygous 15q13.3 microdeletion and peripubertal stress on adult behavioral functions
Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, 703–710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-018-0189-3
Kentner, A. C., Bilbo, S. D., Brown, A. S., Hsiao, E. Y., McAllister, A. K., Meyer, U., Pearce, B. D., Pletnikov, M. V., Yolken, R. H., & Bauman, M. D. (2019).
Maternal immune activation: reporting guidelines to improve the rigor, reproducibility, and transparency of the model
Neuropsychopharmacology, 44, 245–258. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-018-0185-7
2018
Notter, T., Aengenheister, L., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Naegeli, H., Wick, P., Meyer, U., & Buerki-Thurnherr, T. (2018).
Prenatal exposure to TiO2 nanoparticles in mice causes behavioral deficits with relevance to autism spectrum disorder and beyond
Translational Psychiatry, 8, 193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-018-0251-2
Luan, W., Hammond, L. A., Vuillermot, S., Meyer, U., & Eyles, D. W. (2018).
Maternal Vitamin D prevents abnormal dopaminergic development and function in a mouse model of prenatal immune activation
Scientific Reports, 8, 9741. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-28090-w
Scarborough, J., Mueller, F., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Richetto, J., & Meyer, U. (2018).
Dependency of prepulse inhibition deficits on baseline startle reactivity in a mouse model of the human 22q11.2 microdeletion syndrome
Genes, Brain and Behavior, e12523. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12523
Mueller, F. S., Polesel, M., Richetto, J., Meyer, U., & Weber-Stadlbauer, U. (2018).
Mouse models of maternal immune activation: mind your caging system!
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 73, 643–660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2018.07.014
Fedele, S., Arnold, M., Krieger, J., Wolfstädter, B., Meyer, U., Langhans, W., & Mansouri, A. (2018).
Oleoylethanolamide‐induced anorexia in rats is associated with locomotor impairment
Physiological Reports, 6, e13517. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.13517
Notter, T., Coughlin, J. M., Gschwind, T., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Wang, Y., Kassiou, M., Vernon, A. C., Benke, D., Pomper, M. G., Sawa, A., & Meyer, U. (2018).
Translational evaluation of translocator protein as a marker of neuroinflammation in schizophrenia
Molecular Psychiatry, 23, 323–334. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.248
2017
Richetto, J., Chesters, R., Cattaneo, A., Labouesse, M. A., Gutierrez, A. M. C., Wood, T. C., Luoni, A., Meyer, U., Vernon, A., & Riva, M. A. (2017).
Genome-wide transcriptional profiling and structural magnetic resonance imaging in the maternal immune activation model of neurodevelopmental disorders
Cerebral Cortex, 27, 3397–3413. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw320
Klarer, M., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Arnold, M., Langhans, W., & Meyer, U. (2017).
Cognitive effects of subdiaphragmatic vagal deafferentation in rats
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 142, 190–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.05.006
Steullet, P., Cabungcal, J. H., Coyle, J., Didriksen, M., Gill, K., Grace, A. A., Hensch, T. K., LaMantia, A. S., Lindemann, L., Maynard, T. M., Meyer, U., Morishita, H., O’Donnell, P., Puhl, M., Cuenod, M., & Do, K. Q. (2017).
Oxidative stress-driven parvalbumin interneuron impairment as a common mechanism in models of schizophrenia
Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 936–943. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2017.47
Labouesse, M. A., Lassalle, O., Richetto, J., Iafrati, J., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Notter, T., Gschwind, T., Pujadas, L., Soriano, E., Reichelt, A. C., Labouesse, C., Langhans, W., Chavis, P., & Meyer, U. (2017).
Hypervulnerability of the adolescent prefrontal cortex to nutritional stress via reelin deficiency
Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 961–971. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.193
Engler, H., Brendt, P., Wischermann, J., Wegner, A., Röhling, R., Schoemberg, T., Meyer, U., Gold, R., Peters, J., Benson, S., & Schedlowski, M. (2017).
Selective increase of cerebrospinal fluid IL-6 during experimental systemic inflammation in humans: association with depressive symptoms
Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 1448–1454. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.264
Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Richetto, J., Labouesse, M. A., Bohacek, J., Mansuy, I. M., & Meyer, U. (2017).
Transgenerational transmission and modification of pathological traits induced by prenatal immune activation
Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 102–112. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.41
2016
Debost, J.-C. P. G., Larsen, J. T., Munk-Olsen, T., Mortensen, P. B., Meyer, U., & Petersen, L. (2016).
Joint effects of exposure to prenatal infection and peripubertal psychological trauma in schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, 171–179. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbw083
Giovanoli, S., Engler, H., Engler, A., Richetto, J., Feldon, J., Riva, M. A., Schedlowski, M., & Meyer, U. (2016).
Preventive effects of minocycline in a neurodevelopmental two-hit model with relevance to schizophrenia
Translational Psychiatry, 6, e772. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2016.38
Giovanoli, S., Weber-Stadlbauer, U., Schedlowski, M., Meyer, U., & Engler, H. (2016).
Prenatal immune activation causes hippocampal synaptic deficits in the absence of overt microglia anomalies
Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 55, 25–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2015.09.015
2015
Durieux, A. M. S., Fernandes, C., Murphy, D., Labouesse, M. A., Giovanoli, S., Meyer, U., Li, Q., So, P.-W., & McAlonan, G. (2015).
Targeting glia with N-Acetylcysteine modulates brain glutamate and behaviors relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders in C57BL/6J mice
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9:343. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00343
Richetto, J., Labouesse, M. A., Poe, M. M., Cook, J. M., Grace, A. A., Riva, M. A., & Meyer, U. (2015).
Behavioral effects of the benzodiazepine-positive allosteric modulator SH-053-2’F-S-CH3 in an immune-mediated neurodevelopmental disruption model. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 18, pyu055.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyu055
Nielsen, P. R., Agerbo, E., Skogstrand, K., Hougaard, D. M., Meyer, U., & Mortensen, P. B. (2015).
Neonatal levels of inflammatory markers and later risk of schizophrenia
Biological Psychiatry, 77, 548–555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.07.013
Giovanoli, S., Notter, T., Richetto, J., Labouesse, M. A., Vuillermot, S., Riva, M. A., & Meyer, U. (2015).
Late prenatal immune activation causes hippocampal deficits in the absence of persistent inflammation across aging
Journal of Neuroinflammation, 12, online. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-015-0437-y
Stadlbauer, U., Woods, S. C., Langhans, W., & Meyer, U. (2015).
PYY3–36: Beyond food intake
Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 38, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2014.12.003