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Michael J Ferns, PhD

Professor

  • 1536 Citations
  • 20 h-Index
1989 …2019
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Agrin Medicine & Life Sciences
Cholinergic Receptors Medicine & Life Sciences
Muscles Medicine & Life Sciences
Cluster Analysis Medicine & Life Sciences
Synapses Medicine & Life Sciences
Phosphorylation Medicine & Life Sciences
Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes Medicine & Life Sciences
Neuromuscular Junction Medicine & Life Sciences

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Projects 2004 2009

Regulation of the Synaptic Localization of the nAChR

Ferns, M. J.

National Institutes of Health

7/1/04 → 6/30/09

Project: Research project

Agrin
Muscle Weakness
Phosphorylation
Synapses
Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes

Research Output 1989 2019

  • 1536 Citations
  • 20 h-Index
  • 36 Article
1 Citation (Scopus)

Pathogenic effects of agrin V1727F mutation are isoform specific and decrease its expression and affinity for HSPGs and LRP4

Rudell, J. B., Maselli, R. A., Yarov-Yarovoy, V. & Ferns, M. J., Aug 15 2019, In : Human molecular genetics. 28, 16, p. 2648-2658 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
Agrin
Lipoprotein Receptors
Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans
Protein Isoforms
Mutation

Presynaptic congenital myasthenic syndrome with altered synaptic vesicle homeostasis linked to compound heterozygous sequence variants in RPH3A

Maselli, R. A., Vázquez, J., Schrumpf, L., Arredondo, J., Lara, M., Strober, J. B., Pytel, P., Wollmann, R. L. & Ferns, M. J., Jan 1 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : Molecular Genetics and Genomic Medicine.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes
Synaptic Vesicles
Homeostasis
Nervous System Diseases
Synaptic Transmission
5 Citations (Scopus)

Determinants in the β and δ subunit cytoplasmic loop regulate Golgi trafficking and surface expression of the muscle acetylcholine receptor

Rudell, J. C., Borges, L. S., Rudell, J. B., Beck, K. A. & Ferns, M. J., Jan 3 2014, In : Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289, 1, p. 203-214 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Cholinergic Receptors
Muscle
Cell Membrane
Cell membranes
Muscles
4 Citations (Scopus)

Regulation of muscle acetylcholine receptor turnover by β subunit tyrosine phosphorylation

Rudell, J. B. & Ferns, M. J., May 2013, In : Developmental Neurobiology. 73, 5, p. 399-410 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Cholinergic Receptors
Tyrosine
Phosphorylation
Muscles
Agrin
37 Citations (Scopus)

Acute severe animal model of anti-muscle-specific kinase myasthenia: Combined postsynaptic and presynaptic changes

Richman, D. P., Nishi, K., Morell, S. W., Mi Chang, J., Ferns, M. J., Wollmann, R. L., Maselli, R. A., Schnier, J. & Agius, M. A., Apr 2012, In : Archives of Neurology. 69, 4, p. 453-460 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Phosphotransferases
Animal Models
Muscles
Neuromuscular Junction
Antibodies