Blanca Aldana

Blanca Aldana

Associate Professor


  1. Published

    Functional Metabolic Mapping Reveals Highly Active Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolism in Human Astrocytes, Which Is Impaired in iPSC-Derived Astrocytes in Alzheimer's Disease

    Salcedo, C., Andersen, Jens Velde, Vinten, K. T., Pinborg, Lars Hageman, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Freude, Kristine & Aldana, Blanca, 2021, In: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 13, 736580.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Generation of a set of isogenic, gene-edited iPSC lines homozygous for all main APOE variants and an APOE knock-out line

    Schmid, B., Prehn, K. R., Nimsanor, N., Aldana, Blanca, Poulsen, U., Jorring, I., Rasmussen, M. A., Clausen, C., Mau-Holzmann, U. A., Ramakrishna, S., Muddashetty, R., Steeg, R., Bruce, K., Mackintosh, P., Ebneth, A., Holst, B. & Cabrera-Socorro, A., 2019, In: Stem Cell Research. 34, 6 p., 101349.

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Glutamate homeostasis revisited - neuronal transport and metabolism

    Waagepetersen, Helle S., McNair, Laura M., Christensen, S. K., Andersen, Jens Velde & Aldana, Blanca, 2019, p. 19-19.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Glutamate metabolism and recycling at the excitatory synapse in health and neurodegeneration

    Andersen, Jens Velde, Markussen, K. H., Jakobsen, Emil, Schousboe, Arne, Waagepetersen, Helle S., Rosenberg, P. A. & Aldana, Blanca, 2021, In: Neuropharmacology. 196, 14 p., 108719.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Glutamate-glutamine homeostasis is perturbed in neurons and astrocytes derived from patient iPSC models of frontotemporal dementia

    Aldana, Blanca, Zhang, Y., Jensen, P., Chandrasekaran, Abinaya, Christensen, S. K., Nielsen, T. T., Nielsen, Jørgen Erik, Hyttel, P., Larsen, M. R., Waagepetersen, Helle S. & Freude, Kristine, 2020, In: Molecular Brain. 13, 1, 7 p., 125.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Golgi fragmentation: One of the earliest organelle phenotypes in Alzheimer's disease neurons

    Haukedal, H., Corsi, G. I., Gadekar, V. P., Doncheva, N. T., Kedia, S., de Haan, N., Chandrasekaran, A., Jensen, P., Schiønning, P., Vallin, S., Marlet, F. R., Poon, A., Pires, C., Agha, F. K., Wandall, H. H., Cirera, S., Simonsen, A. H., Nielsen, T. T., Nielsen, J. E., Hyttel, P. & 7 others, Muddashetty, R., Aldana, Blanca, Gorodkin, Jan, Nair, D., Meyer, M., Larsen, M. R. & Freude, Kristine, 2023, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17, 17 p., 1120086.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Hippocampal disruptions of synaptic and astrocyte metabolism are primary events of early amyloid pathology in the 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    Andersen, Jens Velde, Skotte, Niels Henning, Christensen, S. K., Polli, F. S., Shabani, M., Markussen, K. H., Haukedal, H., Westi, Emil Winther, Diaz-delCastillo, M., Sun, R. C., Kohlmeier, Kristi Anne, Schousboe, Arne, Gentry, M. S., Tanila, H., Freude, Kristine, Aldana, Blanca, Mann, Matthias & Waagepetersen, Helle S., 2021, In: Cell Death & Disease. 12, 11, 13 p., 954 .

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. E-pub ahead of print

    Increased glucose metabolism and impaired glutamate transport in human astrocytes are potential early triggers of abnormal extracellular glutamate accumulation in hiPSC-derived models of Alzheimer's disease

    Salcedo, C., Pozo Garcia, V., Garcia-Adan, B., Ameen, Aisha, Gegelashvili, G., Waagepetersen, Helle S., Freude, Kristine & Aldana, Blanca, 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Neurochemistry.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Inhibition of Glutamate Release, but Not of Glutamine Recycling to Glutamate, Is Involved in Delaying the Onset of Initial Lithium-Pilocarpine-Induced Seizures in Young Rats by a Non-Convulsive MSO Dose

    Pawlik, M. J., Aldana, Blanca, Belfiori-Carrasco, L. F., Obara-Michlewska, M., Popek, M. P., Czarnecka, A. M. & Albrecht, J., 2021, In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22, 20, 16 p., 11127.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Integrative Characterization of the R6/2 Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease Reveals Dysfunctional Astrocyte Metabolism

    Skotte, Niels Henning, Andersen, Jens Velde, Santos, A., Aldana, Blanca, Willert, C. W., Nørremølle, Anne, Waagepetersen, Helle S. & Nielsen, Michael Lund, 2018, In: Cell Reports. 23, 7, p. 2211-2224 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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