Publications

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Research Articles & Reviews Published

(in reverse chronological order)

1. (Accepted). Christoforidou, E., McLaughlin, M., Hafezparast, M. (2025). The role of TDP-43 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Biochemical Society Transactions.

2. ᵃSimoes, F.A., ᵃChristoforidou, E., Raphaelle, C., Dupuis, L., Hafezparast, M. (2024). Severe dynein dysfunction in cholinergic neurons exacerbates ALS-like phenotypes in a new mouse model. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Molecular Basis of Disease. ᵃco-first authors

3. Christoforidou, E., Moody, L., Joilin, G., Simoes, F.A., Gordon, D., Talbot, K., Hafezparast, M. (2024). The ALS-associated TDP-43M337V mutation dysregulates microglia-derived extracellular microRNAs in a sex-specific manner. Disease Models and Mechanisms.

   • Publically available dataset associated with this publication at ENA under accession PRJEB61796.

4. Christoforidou, E., Simoes, F.A., Gordon, D., Talbot, K., Hafezparast, M. (2023). Aberrant dynein function promotes TDP-43 aggregation and upregulation of p62 in male mice harboring transgenic human TDP-43. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration.

5. Christoforidou, E., Joilin, G. & Hafezparast, M. (2020). Potential of activated microglia as a source of dysregulated extracellular microRNAs contributing to neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 17, 135.

6. McDonald, M., Christoforidou, E., Van Rijsbergen, N., Gajwani, R., Gross, J., Gumley, A.I., Lawrie, S.M., Schwannauer, M., Schultze-Lutter, F., Uhlhaas, P.J. (2018). Using Online Screening in the General Population to Detect Participants at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45(3), pp. 600–609.

Open-Access Code & Software

7. Christoforidou, E. (2025). qPCR Replicate Analysis. Zenodo.

8. Christoforidou, E. (2023). Long-read RNA-seq Plotting Suite: A Collection of MATLAB Functions for Data Processing, Visualization, and Analysis of Long-read RNA Sequencing Data. Zenodo.

9. Christoforidou, E. (2023). COVID-19 Global Data Visualisation: A MATLAB GUI Application. Zenodo.

10. Christoforidou, E., Simoes, F.A. & Hafezparast, M. (2022). NMJ-MN Image Analysis Toolkit: A Comprehensive Tool for Morphometric and Protein Distribution Analysis of Neuromuscular Junction and Motor Neuron Microscopy Images. Zenodo.

11. Christoforidou, E. & Hafezparast, M. (2022). Cell Morphometry: MATLAB Functions for Analysis of Microscopy Images. Zenodo.

Other

12. Christoforidou, E. (2022). Investigating the contributions of impaired cytoplasmic dynein 1, TDP-43, and microglia-derived microRNA to the pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (PhD Thesis). University of Sussex, Brighton.

My CRediT contributions

(Associated with numbered articles above)

1. Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Visualization.

2. Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Review & Editing, Visualization.

3. Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Visualization.

4. Software, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data Curation, Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Visualization.

5. Writing - Original Draft, Writing - Review & Editing, Investigation.

6. Investigation, Data Curation, Visualization.

7. Conceptualization, Methodology, Software.

8. Software.

9. Software.

10. Methodology, Software.

11. Methodology, Software.