Plum T, Binzberger R, Thiele R, Shang F, Postrach D, Fung C, Fortea M, Stakenborg N, Wang Z, Tappe-Theodor A, Poth T, MacLaren DAA, Boeckxstaens G, Kuner R, Pitzer C, Monyer H, Xin C, Bonventre JV, Tanaka S, Voehringer D, Vanden Berghe P, Strid J, Feyerabend TB, Rodewal H. Mast cells link immune sensing to antigen-avoidance behaviour. Nature. 2023, 620(7974):634-642 53

Cirzi C, Dyckow J, Legrand C, Schott J, Guo W, Hernandez DP, Hisaoka M, Parlato M, Pitzer C, van der Hoeven F, Dittmar G, Helm M, Stoecklin G, Schirmer L, Lyko F, Tuorto F. Queuosine-tRNA promotes sex-dependent learning and memory formation by maintaining codon-biased translation elongation speed. EMBO J. 2023, e112507.

Claudia Pitzer, Barbara Kurpiers and Ahmed Eltokhi, Sex Differences in Depression-Like Behaviors in Adult Mice Depend on Endophenotype and Strain. Front. Behav. Neurosci., 17 March 2022 | doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.838122

Anke Tappe-Theodor, Claudia Pitzer, Lars Lewejohann Paulin Jirkof, Katja Siegeler, Astra Segelcke, Natascha Drude, Bruno Pradier, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Britta Hollinderbäumer and Daniel Segelcke. The “WWHow” Concept for Prospective Categorization of Post-operative Severity Assessment in Mice and Rats. Front. Vet. Sci., 15 March 2022 | doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.841431

Kos-Braun IC, Gerlach B, Pitzer C. Assessing and Improving Research Quality in Core Facilities. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques. 2022;33(1). doi:10.7171/3fc1f5fe.97057772.

Flamm J, Hartung S, Gänger S, Maigler F, Pitzer C and Schindowski K (2022) Establishment of an Olfactory Region-specific Intranasal Delivery Technique in Mice to Target the Central Nervous System. Front. Pharmacol. 12:789780. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.789780

Frank Maigler, Simone Ladel, Johannes Flamm, Stella Gänger, Barbara Kurpiers, Stefanie Kiderlen, Ronja Völk, Carmen Hamp, Sunniva Hartung, Sebastian Spiegel, Arghavan Soleimanizadeh, Katharina Eberle, Rebecca Hermann, Lukas Krainer, Claudia Pitzer, Katharina Schindowski.  Selective CNS targeting and distribution with a refined region-specific intranasal delivery technique via the olfactory mucosa. Pharmaceutics 2021, 13(11), 1904. doi.org/10.3390/ pharmaceutics13111904

Aynur Soenmez, Rasem Mustafa, Salome Ryll, Francesca Tuorto, Ludivine Wacheul, Donatella Ponti, Christian Litke, Tanja Hering, Kerstin Kojer, Jenniver Koch, Claudia Pitzer, Joachim Kirsch, Grzegorz Kreiner, Andreas Neueder, Denis Lafontaine, Michael Orth, Birgit Liss, and Rosanna Parlato. Nucleolar stress controls mutant Huntingtin toxicity and monitors Huntington’s disease progression. Cell Death Dis. 2021 Dec 8;12(12):1139. doi: 10.1038/s41419-021-04432-x

Ahmed Eltokhi, Barbara Kurpiers and Claudia Pitzer. Gait performance of adolescent mice assessed by the CatWalk XT depends on age, strain and sex and correlates with speed and body weight". Sci Rep 11, 21372 (2021).

Leonardo Restivo, Björn Gerlach, Michael Tsoory, Lior Bikovski, Sylvia Badurek, Claudia Pitzer, Isabelle C. Kos-Braun, Anne-Laure M.J. Mausset Bonnefont, Jonathan Ward, Michael Schunn, Lucas Noldus, Anton Bespalov, Vootele Voikar. Towards best practices in research: the role of academic core facilities EMBO Rep. 2021 Nov 4; e53824. doi: 10.15252/embr.202153824

Ahmed Eltokhi, Barbara Kurpiers, Claudia Pitzer. Baseline Depression-Like Behaviors in Wild-Type Adolescent Mice Are Strain and Age but Not Sex Dependent. Front Behav Neurosci. 2021 Oct 7;15:759574.

Eltokhi, A., Kurpiers, B. & Pitzer, C. Comprehensive characterization of motor and coordination functions in three adolescent wild-type mouse strains. Sci Rep 2021 Mar 22;11(1):6497.

Eltokhi A, Gonzalez-Lozano MA, Oettl LL, Rozov A, Pitzer C, Röth R, Berkel S, Hüser M, Harten A, Kelsch W, Smit AB, Rappold GA, Sprengel R. Imbalanced post- and extrasynaptic SHANK2A functions during development affect social behavior in SHANK2-mediated neuropsychiatric disorders. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 May 21. doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01140-y

 Wahis J, Baudon A, Althammer F, Kerspern D, Goyon S, Hagiwara D, Lefevre A, Barteczko L, Boury-Jamot B, Bellanger B, Abatis M, Da Silva Gouveia M, Benusiglio D, Eliava M, Rozov A, Weinsanto I, Knobloch-Bollmann HS, Kirchner MK, Roy RK, Wang H, Pertin M, Inquimbert P, Pitzer C, Siemens J, Goumon Y, Boutrel B, Lamy CM, Decosterd I, Chatton JY, Rouach N, Young WS, Stern JE, Poisbeau P, Stoop R, Darbon P, Grinevich V, Charlet A.Astrocytes mediate the effect of oxytocin in the central amygdala on neuronal activity and affective states in rodents. Nat Neurosci. 2021 Apr;24(4):529-541

Simonetti M, Paldy E, Njoo C, Bali KK, Worzfeld T, Pitzer C, Kuner T, Offermanns S, Mauceri D, Kuner R. The impact of Semaphorin 4C/Plexin-B2 signaling on fear memory via remodeling of neuronal and synaptic morphology. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Apr;26(4):1376-1398