Rawien Balesar
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
40 Papers
223 Citations
Rawien Balesar is an academic researcher from Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Internal medicine & Hypothalamus. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 28 publications. Previous affiliations of Rawien Balesar include Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience & American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Papers
Distribution of MT1 melatonin receptor immunoreactivity in the human hypothalamus and pituitary gland: colocalization of MT1 with vasopressin, oxytocin, and corticotropin-releasing hormone.
Ying-Hui Wu,Jiang-Ning Zhou,Rawien Balesar,Unga A. Unmehopa,Ai-Min Bao,Ralf Jockers,Joop Van Heerikhuize,Dick F. Swaab +7 more
TL;DR: The colocalization of MT1 and CRH suggests that melatonin might directly modulate the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal axis in the PVN, which may have implications for stress conditions such as depression.
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Mature astrocytes in the adult human neocortex express the early neuronal marker doublecortin
R. W. H. Verwer,A. A. Sluiter,Rawien Balesar,Johannes C. Baayen,D. P. Noske,C. M. F. Dirven,J. Wouda,A.-M. Van Dam,Paul J. Lucassen,Dick F. Swaab +9 more
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that DCX is present in several cellular compartments of differentiated astrocytes in the adult human neocortex and that it may have a function in glia-to-neuron communication, and results indicate that in the adults' neocortexDCX is neither a reliable nor a selective marker of neurogenesis.
Estrogen receptor-alpha distribution in the human hypothalamus in relation to sex and endocrine status.
TL;DR: The present study reports the first systematic rostrocaudal distribution of estrogen receptor‐α immunoreactivity (ERα‐ir) in the human hypothalamus and its adjacent areas in young adults and suggested that most of the observed sex differences are “activational” rather than “organizational.”
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Changes in the expression and localization of the paranodal protein Caspr on axons in chronic multiple sclerosis.
Guus Wolswijk,Rawien Balesar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used triple immunofluorescence combined with confocal laser scanning microscopy to assess the integrity of paranodal junctions on myelinated axons in brain and spinal cord tissue from subjects with longstanding multiple sclerosis.
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A direct androgenic involvement in the expression of human corticotropin-releasing hormone.
Ai-Min Bao,David F. Fischer,David F. Fischer,Wu Yh,Elly M. Hol,Rawien Balesar,Unga A. Unmehopa,Jiang-Ning Zhou,Dick F. Swaab +8 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that androgens may directly affect CRH neurons in the human PVN via AR binding to the CRH-ARE, which may have consequences for sex-specific pathogenesis of mood disorders.
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