NCAM ablation in mice causes hippocampal dysplasia and loss of septal cholinergic neurons.
Tereshchenko Y, Morellini F, Dityatev A, Schachner M, Irintchev A.
J Comp Neurol. 2011 Mar 31. doi: 10.1002/cne.22636.

The extracellular matrix glycoprotein tenascin-C promotes locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury in adult zebrafish.
Yu YM, Cristofanilli M, Valiveti A, Ma L, Yoo M, Morellini F, Schachner M.
Neuroscience. 2011 Apr 1.

Geometric information is required for allothetic navigation in mice.
Fellini L, Morellini F.
Behav Brain Res. 2011 Mar 30.

Improved Reversal Learning and Working Memory and Enhanced Reactivity to Novelty in Mice with Enhanced GABAergic Innervation in the Dentate Gyrus.
Morellini F, Sivukhina E, Stoenica L, Oulianova E, Bukalo O, Jakovcevski I, Dityatev A, Irintchev A, Schachner M.
Cereb Cortex. 2010

Expression of the snoRNA host gene gas5 in the hippocampus is upregulated by age and psychogenic stress and correlates with reduced novelty-induced behavior in C57BL/6 mice.
Meier I, Fellini L, Jakovcevski M, Schachner M, Morellini F.
Hippocampus. 2009

The insulin receptor substrate of 53 kDa (IRSp53) limits hippocampal synaptic plasticity.
Sawallisch C, Berhörster K, Disanza A, Mantoani S, Kintscher M, Stoenica L, Dityatev A, Sieber S, Kindler S, Morellini F, Schweizer M, Boeckers TM, Korte M, Scita G, Kreienkamp HJ.
J Biol Chem. 2009 Apr 3;284(14):9225-36.

Novelty-induced behavioral traits correlate with numbers of brainstem noradrenergic neurons and septal cholinergic neurons in C57BL/6J mice.
Tereshchenko Y, Brandewiede J, Schachner M, Irintchev A, Morellini F.
Behav Brain Res. 2008 Aug 22;191(2):280-4.

Stress downregulates hippocampal expression of the adhesion molecules NCAM and CHL1 in mice by mechanisms independent of DNA methylation of their promoters.
Desarnaud F, Jakovcevski M, Morellini F, Schachner M.
Cell Adh Migr. 2008 Jan;2(1):38-44.
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Individual variability in the stress response of C57BL/6J male mice correlates with trait anxiety.
Jakovcevski M, Schachner M, Morellini F.
Genes Brain Behav. 2008 Mar;7(2):235-43.

Reduced reactivity to novelty, impaired social behavior, and enhanced basal synaptic excitatory activity in perforant path projections to the dentate gyrus in young adult mice deficient in the neural cell adhesion molecule CHL1.
Morellini F, Lepsveridze E, Kähler B, Dityatev A, Schachner M.
Mol Cell Neurosci. 2007 Feb;34(2):121-36.

Adult but not aged C57BL/6 male mice are capable of using geometry for orientation.
Fellini L, Schachner M, Morellini F.
Learn Mem. 2006 Jul-Aug;13(4):473-81.
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Enhanced novelty-induced activity, reduced anxiety, delayed resynchronization to daylight reversal and weaker muscle strength in tenascin-C-deficient mice.
Morellini F, Schachner M.
Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Mar;23(5):1255-68.

Opposite impacts of tenascin-C and tenascin-R deficiency in mice on the functional outcome of facial nerve repair.
Guntinas-Lichius O, Angelov DN, Morellini F, Lenzen M, Skouras E, Schachner M, Irintchev A.
Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Nov;22(9):2171-9.

Impacts of lesion severity and tyrosine kinase receptor B deficiency on functional outcome of femoral nerve injury assessed by a novel single-frame motion analysis in mice.
Irintchev A, Simova O, Eberhardt KA, Morellini F, Schachner M.
Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Aug;22(4):802-8. Erratum in: Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Feb;23(4):1087.

Ethological analysis of the senescence-accelerated P/8 mouse.
Brandewiede J, Schachner M, Morellini F.
Behav Brain Res. 2005 Mar 7;158(1):109-21.

L1.1 is involved in spinal cord regeneration in adult zebrafish.
Becker CG, Lieberoth BC, Morellini F, Feldner J, Becker T, Schachner M.
J Neurosci. 2004 Sep 8;24(36):7837-42.
PMID: 15356195 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Decreased anxiety, altered place learning, and increased CA1 basal excitatory synaptic transmission in mice with conditional ablation of the neural cell adhesion molecule L1.
Law JW, Lee AY, Sun M, Nikonenko AG, Chung SK, Dityatev A, Schachner M, Morellini F.
J Neurosci. 2003 Nov 12;23(32):10419-32.

Behavioral alterations in mice deficient for the extracellular matrix glycoprotein tenascin-R.
Freitag S, Schachner M, Morellini F.
Behav Brain Res. 2003 Oct 17;145(1-2):189-207.

Mice deficient for the HNK-1 sulfotransferase show alterations in synaptic efficacy and spatial learning and memory.
Senn C, Kutsche M, Saghatelyan A, Bösl MR, Löhler J, Bartsch U, Morellini F, Schachner M.
Mol Cell Neurosci. 2002 Aug;20(4):712-29.

Impairment of L-type Ca2+ channel-dependent forms of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in mice deficient in the extracellular matrix glycoprotein tenascin-C.
Evers MR, Salmen B, Bukalo O, Rollenhagen A, Bösl MR, Morellini F, Bartsch U, Dityatev A, Schachner M.
J Neurosci. 2002 Aug 15;22(16):7177-94.

Ethological methods to study the effects of maternal exposure to estrogenic endocrine disrupters: a study with methoxychlor.
Palanza P, Morellini F, Parmigiani S, vom Saal FS.
Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2002 Jan-Feb;24(1):55-69. Review.

Prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals: effects on behavioral development.
Palanza P, Morellini F, Parmigiani S, vom Saal FS.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 1999 Nov;23(7):1011-27.