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  • Johnson, K. M., Milner, R., Crocker, S. J. Extracellular matrix composition determines astrocyte responses to mechanical and inflammatory stimuli Neuroscience Letters  2015 600:104-109  DOI:10.1016/j.neulet.2015.06.013  PMID:26067407  PMCID:PMC4530625
  • Welser-Alves, J. V., Crocker, S. J., Milner, R. A dual role for microglia in promoting tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (timp) expression in glial cells in response to neuroinflammatory stimuli Journal of Neuroinflammation  2011 8:61  DOI:10.1186/1742-2094-8-61  PMID:21631912  PMCID:PMC3120696
  • Moore, C. S., Milner, R., Nishiyama, A., Frausto, R. F., Serwanski, D. R., Pagarigan, R. R., Whitton, J. L., Miller, R. H., Crocker, S. J. Astrocytic tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (timp-1) promotes oligodendrocyte differentiation and enhances cns myelination Journal of Neuroscience  2011 31:6247-6254  DOI:10.1523/jneurosci.5474-10.2011  PMID:21508247  PMCID:PMC3090636
  • Tsueng, G., Tabor-Godwin, J. M., Gopal, A., Ruller, C. M., Deline, S., An, N., Frausto, R. F., Milner, R., Crocker, S. J., Whitton, J. L., Feuer, R. Coxsackievirus preferentially replicates and induces cytopathic effects in undifferentiated neural progenitor cells Journal of Virology  2011 85:5718-5732  DOI:10.1128/jvi.02261-10  PMID:21471247  PMCID:PMC3126326
  • Crocker, S. J., Bajpai, R., Moore, C. S., Frausto, R. F., Brown, G. D., Pagarigan, R. R., Whitton, J. L., Terskikh, A. V. Intravenous administration of human embryonic stem cell-derived neural precursor cells attenuates cuprizone-induced central nervous system (cns) demyelination Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology  2011 37:643-653  DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2990.2011.01165.x  PMID:21276029  PMCID:PMC3252213
  • Alirezaei, M., Fox, H. S., Flynn, C. T., Moore, C. S., Hebb, A. L. O., Frausto, R. F., Bhan, V., Kiosses, W. B., Whitton, J. L., Robertson, G. S., Crocker, S. J. Elevated ATG5 expression in autoimmune demyelination and multiple sclerosis Autophagy  2009 5:152-158  DOI:10.4161/auto.5.2.7348  PMID:19066443  PMCID:PMC2779564
  • Feuer, R., Ruller, C. M., An, N., Tabor-Godwin, J. M., Rhoades, R. E., Maciejewski, S., Pagarigan, R. R., Cornell, C. T., Crocker, S. J., Kiosses, W. B., Pham-Mitchell, N., Campbell, I. L., et al. Viral persistence and chronic immunopathology in the adult central nervous system following coxsackievirus infection during the neonatal period Journal of Virology  2009 83:9356-9369  DOI:10.1128/jvi.02382-07  PMID:19570873  PMCID:PMC2738251
  • Crocker, S. J., Frausto, R. F., Whitton, J. L., Milner, R. A novel method to establish microglia-free astrocyte cultures: Comparison of matrix metalloproteinase expression profiles in pure cultures of astrocytes and microglia Glia  2008 56:1187-1198  DOI:10.1002/glia.20689  PMID:18449943  PMCID:PMC2776034
  • Crocker, S. J., Frausto, R. F., Whitmire, J. K., Benning, N., Milner, R., Whitton, J. L. Amelioration of coxsackievirus b3-mediated myocarditis by inhibition of tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinase-1 American Journal of Pathology  2007 171:1762-1773  DOI:10.2353/ajpath.2007.070179  PMID:18055551  PMCID:PMC2111101
  • Milner, R., Crocker, S. J., Hung, S., Wang, X. Y., Frausto, R. F., del Zoppo, G. J. Fibronectin- and vitronectin-induced microglial activation and matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression is mediated by integrins alpha(5)beta(1) and alpha(v)beta(5) Journal of Immunology  2007 178:8158-8167  PMID:17548654
  • Frausto, R. F., Crocker, S. J., Earn, B., Whitmire, J. K., Whitton, J. L. Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein peptide-induced experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and t cell responses are unaffected by immunoproteasome deficiency Journal of Neuroimmunology  2007 192:124-133  DOI:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2007.09.024  PMID:17964666  PMCID:PMC2175388
  • Crocker, S. J., Milner, R., Pham-Mitchell, N., Campbell, I. L. Cell and agonist-specific regulation of genes for matrix metalloproteinases and their tissue inhibitors by primary glial cells Journal of Neurochemistry  2006 98:812-823  DOI:10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03927.x  PMID:16893421
  • Crocker, S. J., Whitmire, J. K., Frausto, R. F., Chertboonmuang, P., Soloway, P. D., Whitton, J. L., Campbell, I. L. Persistent macrophage/microglial activation and myelin disruption after experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1-deficient mice American Journal of Pathology  2006 169:2104-2116  DOI:10.2353/ajpath.2006.060626  PMID:17148673  PMCID:PMC1762490