Dr. Nirnath Sah

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Email: nirnathsah@gmail.com; nsah1@jhmi.edu

Qualifications

Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Visiting Fellow, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH), Baltimore, USA

Visiting Fellow, National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH), Baltimore, USA

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

M.S., University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

B.S., University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Publications (Selected)

1. Joo, Y., Xue, Y., Wang, Y., McDevitt, R.A., Sah, N., Bossi, S., Su, S., Lee, S.K., Peng, W., Xie, A. and Zhang, Y., 2020. Topoisomerase 3β knockout mice show transcriptional and behavioural impairments associated with neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity. Nature communications, 11(1), pp.1-18.
2. J Terreros-Roncal, M Flor-García, EP Moreno-Jiménez, N Pallas-Bazarra, A Rábano, Sah, N.,…. M Llorens-Martín, 2019. Activity-dependent reconnection of adult-born dentate granule cells  in a mouse model of frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neuroscience, 2724-18.
3. Shen, M., Wang, F., Li, M., Sah, N., ……Henriette van Praag, and Xinyu Zhao, 2019. Reduced  mitochondrial fusion and Huntingtin levels contribute to impaired dendritic maturation and  behavioral deficits in Fmr1-mutant mice. Nature Neuroscience, p.1
4. Sah, N., Peterson, B.D., Lubejko, S.T., Vivar, C. and van Praag, H., 2017. Running reorganizes  the circuitry of one-week-old adult-born hippocampal neurons. Scientific Reports, 7(1),  p.10903.
5. Moon, H.Y., Becke, A., Berron, D., Becker, B., Sah, N., et. al., 2016. Running-induced systemic  cathepsin B secretion is associated with memory function. Cell metabolism, 24(2), pp.332-340.
6. Sah, N. and Sikdar, S.K., 2014. Tonic current through GABAA receptors and hyperpolarization
7. ‐activated cyclic nucleotide‐gated channels modulate resonance properties of rat subicular  pyramidal neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 40(1), pp.2241-2254.
8. Sah, N. and Sikdar, S.K., 2013. Transition in subicular burst firing neurons from epileptiform  activity to suppressed state by feedforward inhibition. European Journal of Neuroscience, 38(4), pp.2542-2556.
9. Sah, N., Rajput, S.K., Singh, J.N., Meena, C.L., Jain, R., Sikdar, S.K. and Sharma, S.S., 2011.
10. L-pGlu-(2-propyl)-L-His-L-ProNH 2 attenuates 4-aminopyridine-induced epileptiform activity  and sodium current: a possible action of new thyrotropin-releasing hormone analog for its  anticonvulsant potential. Neuroscience, 199, pp.74-85.