Recent publications:

Mehta, N.R., Lopez, P.H.H., Vyas, A.A., and Schnaar R.L. (2007) "Gangliosides and Nogo receptors independently mediate myelin-associated glycoprotein inhibition of neurite outgrowth in different nerve cells," J. Biol. Chem. 282, 27875-27886. View Abstract

Whitmore C.D., Hindsgaul O., Palcic M.M., Schnaar R.L., Dovichi N.J. (2007) "Metabolic cytometry. Glycosphingolipid metabolism in single cells," Anal. Chem. 79, 5139-5142. View Abstract

Heffer-Lauc M., Viljetic B., Vajn K., Schnaar R.L., and Lauc G. (2007) "Effects of detergents on the redistribution of gangliosides and GPI-anchored proteins in brain tissue sections." J Histochem. Cytochem. 55, 805-812. View Abstract

Lopez, P.H., and Schnaar, R.L. (2006) "Determination of glycolipid-protein interaction specificity," Methods Enzymol. 417, 205-220. View Abstract
Yang, L.J.S, Lorenzini, I., Vajn, K., Mountney, A., Schramm, L.P., and Schnaar, R.L. (2006) "Sialidase enhances spinal axon outgrowth in vivo,"  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 11057-62.  View Abstract
Pan, B., Fromholt, S.E., Hess, E.J., Crawford, T.O., Griffin, J.W., Sheikh, K.A., and Schnaar, R.L. (2005) "Myelin-associated glycoprotein and gangliosides mediate axon-myelin stability: Neuropathology and behavioral deficits in single- and double-null mice," Exp. Neurol. 195, 208-17.  View Abstract
Vyas, A.A., Blixt, O., Paulson, J.C., and Schnaar, R.L. (2005) "Potent glycan inhibitors of myelin-associated glycoprotein enhance axon outgrowth in vitro," J. Biol. Chem. 280, 16305-10. View Abstract
Bochner, B.S., Alvarez, R.A., Mehta, P., Bovin, N.V., Blixt, O., White, J.R., and Schnaar, R.L. (2005) "Glycan array screening reveals a candidate ligand for Siglec-8," J. Biol. Chem. 280, 4307-12. View Abstract
Heffer-Lauc, M., Lauc, G., Nimrichter, L., Fromholt, S.E. and Schnaar, R.L. (2005) "Membrane redistribution of gangliosides and glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins in brain tissue sections under conditions of lipid raft isolation,"' Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1686, 200-208.  View Abstract
Schnaar, R.L. (2005) "Brain glycolipids: insights from genetic modifications of biosynthetic enzymes," in Neuroglycobiology (Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology) (Fukuda, M., Rutishauser, U. and Schnaar, R.L., Eds.),  pp. 95-113, Oxford University Press, New York.
Sun, J., Shaper, N.L., Itonori, S., Heffer-Lauc, M., Sheikh, K.A., and Schnaar R.L. (2004) "Myelin-associated glycoprotein (Siglec-4) expression is progressively and selectively decreased in the brains of mice lacking complex gangliosides," Glycobiology 14, 851-857. View Abstract

Schnaar, R.L. (2004) "Glycolipid-mediated cell-cell recognition in inflammation and nerve regeneration," Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 426, 163-72. View Abstract

Nimrichter, L., Gargir, A., Gortler, M., Altstock, R.T., Shtevi, A., Weisshaus, O., Fire, E., Dotan, N., and Schnaar, R.L. (2004) "Intact cell adhesion to glycan microarrays," Glycobiology 14, 197-203. View Abstract

Pleased to have contributed:

Napier, S.L., Healy, Z.R., Schnaar, R.L., and Konstantopoulos, K. (2007) "Selectin ligand expression regulates the initial vascular interactions of colon carcinoma cells: The roles of CD44V and alternative sialofucosylated selectin ligands," J. Biol. Chem. 282, 3433-3441. View Abstract
Larsson E.A., Olsson, U., Whitmore, C., Martins, R., Tettamanti, G., Schnaar, R.L., Dovichi, N.J., Palcic, M.M., and Hindsgaul, O. (2007) "Synthesis of reference standards to enable single cell metabolomic studies of tetramethylrhodamine-labelled ganglioside GM1," Carbohydr. Res. 342, 482-489. View Abstract
Hanley W.D., Napier S.L., Burdick M.M., Schnaar R.L., Sackstein R., and Konstantopoulos K. (2006) "Variant isoforms of CD44 are P- and L-selectin ligands on colon carcinoma cells," FASEB J. 20, 337-339. View Abstract
Sheikh K.A., Zhang, G., Gong, Y., Schnaar, R.L., and Griffin, J.W. (2004) "An anti-ganglioside antibody-secreting hybridoma induces neuropathy in mice," Ann. Neurol. 56, 228-239. View Abstract
Zhang, G., Lopez, P.H., Li, C.Y., Mehta, N.R., Griffin, J.W., Schnaar, R.L., and Sheikh K.A. (2004) "Anti-ganglioside antibody-mediated neuronal cytotoxicity and its protection by intravenous immunoglobulin: implications for immune neuropathies," Brain 127, 1085-1100. View Abstract

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