List of Publications

Selected recent publications: 

• Torres-Espín A, Almeida CA, Chou A, Huie JR, Chiu M, Vavrek R, Sacramento J, Orr MB, Gensel JC, Grethe JS, Martone ME, Fouad K, Ferguson AR; STREET-FAIR Workshop Participants.Promoting.  FAIR Data Through Community-driven Agile Design: the Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury (odc-sci.org). Neuroinformatics. 2021 Aug 4. doi: 10.1007/s12021-021-09533-8. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34347243

• Emma K. A. Schmidt, Pamela J. F. Raposo, Abel Torres-Espin, Keith K. Fenrich & Karim Fouad. Beyond the lesion site: minocycline augments inflammation and anxiety-like behavior following SCI in rats through action on the gut microbiota. Journal of Neuroinflammation volume 18, Article number: 144 (2021)

• Mah, K.M., Torres-Espín, A., Hallworth, B.W., ...Fouad, K., Fenrich, K.K. Automation of training and testing motor and related tasks in pre-clinical behavioural and rehabilitative neuroscience. Experimental Neurology, 2021, 340, 113647
• Fenrich, K.K., Hallworth, B.W., Vavrek, R., ...Fouad, K., Torres-Espin, A. Self-directed rehabilitation training intensity thresholds for efficient recovery of skilled forelimb function in rats with cervical spinal cord injury. Experimental Neurology, 2021, 339, 113543
• Schmidt, E.K.A., Raposo, P.J.F., Madsen, K.L., ...Kabarchuk, G., Fouad, K. What makes a successful donor? Fecal transplant from anxious-like rats does not prevent spinal cord injury-induced dysbiosis Biology, 2021, 10(4), 254
• Boltze, J., Aronowski, J.A., Badaut, J., ...Xiong, Y., Zille, M. New Mechanistic Insights, Novel Treatment Paradigms, and Clinical Progress in Cerebrovascular Diseases Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2021, 13, 623751

• E Schmidt, P Raposo, R Vavrek, K Fouad Inducing inflammation following subacute spinal cord injury in female rats: a double-edged sword to promote motor recovery (2021) Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

• K Fouad, PG Popovich, MA Kopp, JM Schwab The neuroanatomical–functional paradox in spinal cord injury (2021) Nature Reviews Neurology, 1-10

• K Fouad, C Ng, DM Basso. Behavioral testing in animal models of spinal cord injury (2020) Experimental Neurology

• Andrew S Jack, Caitlin Hurd, John Martin, Karim Fouad. Electrical stimulation as a tool to promote plasticity of the injured spinal cord. Journal of Neurotrauma (2020)
• Karim Fouad, John L Bixby, Alison Callahan, Jeffrey S Grethe, Lyn B Jakeman, Vance P Lemmon, David SK Magnuson, Maryann E Martone, Jessica L Nielson, Jan M Schwab, Carol Taylor-Burds, Wolfram Tetzlaff, Abel Torres-Espin, Adam R Ferguson, FAIR-SCI Ahead Workshop Participants. FAIR SCI ahead: the evolution of the open data commons for pre-clinical spinal cord injury research (2020). Journal of Neurotrauma.
• Schmidt EKA, Torres-Espín A, Raposo P, Madsen KL, Kigerl KA, Popovich PG, Fenrich KK, Fouad K.  Fecal transplant prevents gut dysbiosis and anxiety-like behaviour after spinal cord injury in rats (2020) PloS One 15;15(1):e0226128. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226128.
• Batty NJ, Torres-Espin A, Vavrek R, Raposo P, Fouad K. Sinlge-session cortical electrical stimulation enhances the efficacy of rehabilitative motor training after spinal cord injury in rats (2019)  Exp Neurol 28;324:113136.
• Fouad K, Bixby JL, Callahan A, Grethe JS, Jakeman LB, Lemmon VP, Magnuson DSK, Martone ME, Nielson JL, Schwab JM, Taylor-Burds C, Tetzlaff W, Torres-Espin A, Ferguson AR and the FAIR-SCI Ahead Workshop Participants. SCI Ahead: The evolution of the Open Data Commons for preclinical spinal cord injury research (2019)  J Neurotrauma 2019 Dec 6. doi: 10.1089/neu.2019.6674. [Epub ahead of print]

• Reardon AJF, Karathra J, Ribbenstedt A, Benskin JP, MacDonald AM, Kinniburgh DW, Hamilton TJ, Fouad K, Martin JW (2019) Neurodevelopmental and Metabolomic Responses from Prenatal Coexposure to Perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and Methylmercury (MeHg) in Sprague-Dawley Rats. Chem Res Toxicol 19; 32:1656-1669

• Lin S, Li Y, Lucas-Osma AM, Hari K, Stephens MJ, Singla R, C J H, Zhang Y, Fouad K, Fenrich KK, Bennett DJ (2019) Locomotor-related V3 interneurons initiate and coordinate muscles spasms after spinal cord injury. J.Neurophysiol 1;121(4):1352-1367.
•  Lucas-Osma AM, Li Y, Murray KC, Lin S, Black S, Stephens MJ, Ahn AH, Heckman CJ, Fenrich KK, Fouad K, Bennett DJ (2019) 5-HT1D receptors inhibit the monosynaptic stretch reflex by modulating C fibre activity. J Neurophysiol 1;121(5):1591-1608.
• Lucas-Osma, A. M., Li, Y., Lin, S., Black, S., Singla, R., Fouad, K., ... & Bennett, D. J. (2018). Extrasynaptic∝ 5GABAA receptors on proprioceptive afferents produce a tonic depolarization that modulates sodium channel function in the rat spinal cord. Journal of neurophysiology.
• Torres-Espín, A., Forero, J., Fenrich, K.K., Lucas-Osma, A.M., Krajacic, A., Schmidt, E., Vavrek, R., Raposo, P., Bennett, D.J., Popovich, P.G. and Fouad, K., (2018). Eliciting inflammation enables successful rehabilitative training in chronic spinal cord injury. Brain.
• Torres-Espín, A., Beaudry, E., Fenrich, K., & Fouad, K. (2018). Rehabilitative Training in Animal Models of Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of neurotrauma, 35(16), 1970-1985.
• Torres-Espín, A., Forero, J., Schmidt, E. K., Fouad, K., & Fenrich, K. K. (2018). A motorized pellet dispenser to deliver high intensity training of the single pellet reaching and grasping task in rats. Behavioural brain research, 336, 67-76.
• May, Z., Kumar, R., Führmann, T., Tam, R., Vulic, K., Forero, J., ... & Moulson, A. (2017). Adult skin-derived precursor Schwann cell grafts form growths in the injured spinal cord of Fischer rats. Biomedical Materials.
• May, Z., Torres-Espín, A., Lucas-Osma, A. M., Batty, N. J., Raposo, P., Fenrich, K. K., ... & Fouad, K. (2017). Cyclosporine-immunosuppression does not affect survival of transplanted skin-derived precursor Schwann cells in the injured rat spinal cord. Neuroscience letters, 658, 67-72.
• May, Z., Fenrich, K. K., Dahlby, J., Batty, N. J., Torres-Espín, A., & Fouad, K. (2017). Following Spinal Cord Injury Transected Reticulospinal Tract Axons Develop New Collateral Inputs to Spinal Interneurons in Parallel with Locomotor Recovery. Neural plasticity, 2017.
• Li, Y., Lucas-Osma, A. M., Black, S., Bandet, M. V., Stephens, M. J., Vavrek, R., ... & Winship, I. R. (2017). Pericytes impair capillary blood flow and motor function after chronic spinal cord injury. Nature Medicine. 
• Batty, N. J., Fenrich, K. K., & Fouad, K. (2016). The Role of cAMP and its Downstream Targets in Neurite Growth in the Adult Nervous System. Neuroscience letters. 652, 56-63
• Wei D, Hurd C, Galleguillos D, Singh J, Fenrich KK, Webber CA, Sipione S, Fouad K (2016) Inhibiting cortical protein kinase A in spinal cord injured rats enhances efficacy of rehabilitative training. Exp Neurol 283, 365-374