2026

• Lisa Tiebl, Hans Jürgen Solinski, Sara Belejova, Sabrina Soares, Claudia Pitzer, Roland Palkovacs, Gernot Poschet, Martin Schmelz, Beatrice Oehler, Richard Carr. Distribution of intranasal lidocaine and its effect on electrically-evoked calcium signals in mouse trigeminal ganglion neurons. Cephalalgia. 2026 Jun;46(6):3331024261453548. doi: 10.1177/03331024261453548. Epub 2026 Jun 24.
• Christian Casteel, Arya Pravinkumar Prajapati, Claudia Pitzer, Rolf Sprengel, Ahmed Eltokhi. SHANK2A overexpression in forebrain neurons induces early-life communication deficits in mice. Behav Brain Res. 2026 Aug 24:512:116295.

2025

• Merz J, Müller E, Darwisch W, Fairless R, Wang Y, Vorwald S, Darwisch S, Curticean ER, Shao F, Wacker I, Schröder RR, Pitzer C, Schultz C, van Klinken JB, Vaz FM, Kratzer F, Schwarz K, Okun JG, Feng Y, Hopf C, Islinger M. Local accumulation of very long-chain PUFA in plexiform layers associates with retinal dysfunction in a mouse model of peroxisomal ACBD5-deficiency. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2025 Dec 1;83(1):26. doi: 10.1007/s00018-025-05971-8.
• Franke F, Ertürk S, Maass JG, Kamionek D, Schubert T, Pitzer C, Theiß S, Fischer C, Gilmore RB, Dwornicki E, Bocke CR, Yosten GLC, Schaaf CP, Althammer F. In-depth behavioral characterization of a rat model of Schaaf-Yang syndrome. Sci Rep. 2025 Oct 30;15(1):37929. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-20958-y.
• Deshpande D, Velleman L, Schmitz J, Forster PM, Schinke C, Boulekou S, Düsedau HP, Krug SM, Mertens T, Gao X, Figueiredo C, Jarick KJ, Plum T, Sterczyk N, Leclère PS, Helfrich S, Tappe-Theodor A, Kotsch K, Steffen J, Voehringer D, Duerr CU, Hauser AE, Artis D, Pitzer C, Dunay IR, Klose CSN. Group 2 innate lymphoid cells regulate nociceptive and gait functions of the peripheral nervous system. Sci Immunol. 2025 Sep 26;10(111):eadp7092. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adp7092.
• Steffen J, Deshpande D, Düsedau HP, Schmitz J, Figueiredo CA, Velleman L, Pitzer C, Klose CSN, Dunay IR. Group 2 innate lymphoid cells drive inhibitory synapse formation with lasting effects on learning and memory. Neuroinflammation. 2025 Jun 23;22(1):163. doi: 10.1186/s12974-025-03485-5.
• Kamionek D, Maass JG, Pitzer C, Schaaf CP. Taylor Swift versus Mozart: music preferences of C57BL/6J mice. Front Behav Neurosci. 2025 Oct 15;19:1668278. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1668278. eCollection 2025.
• Maass JG, Kamionek D, Mantilleri A, Theiss S, Dötsch L, Franke F, Schubert T, Scheck JG, Pitzer C, Piovani P, Bertacchi M, Deschaux O, Singh A, Chen CA, Fröhlich H, Studer M, Schaaf CP. Models of Bosch-Boonstra-Schaaf optic atrophy syndrome reveal genotype-phenotype correlations in brain structure and behavior. Dis Model Mech. 2025 Oct 1;18(10):dmm052426. doi: 10.1242/dmm.052426. Epub 2025 Sep 22.

2024

• Helena Herzog, Sara Glöckler, Johannes Flamm, Simone Ladel, Frank Maigler, Claudia Pitzer, Katharina Schindowski. Intranasal Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery via the Olfactory Region in Mice: Two In-Depth Protocols for Region-Specific Intranasal Application of Antibodies and for Expression Analysis of Fc Receptors via In Situ Hybridization in the Nasal Mucosa. Methods Mol Biol. 2024:2754:387-410. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3629-9_21.

2023

• 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.
• 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.

2022

• Claudia Pitzer, Barbara Kurpiers, Ahmed Eltokhi. Sex Differences in Depression-Like Behaviors in Adult Mice Depend on Endophenotype and Strain. Front. Behav. Neurosci., 17 March 2022. https://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, Daniel Segelcke. The “WWHow” Concept for Prospective Categorization of Post-operative Severity Assessment in Mice and Rats. Front. Vet. Sci., 15 March 2022. https://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, 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

2021

• 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. https://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, 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, 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.

2020

• Kos-Braun IC, Gerlach B, Pitzer C. A survey of research quality in core facilities. eLife. 2020 Nov 26;9:e62212. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62212
• Eltokhi A, Kurpiers B, Pitzer C. Behavioral tests assessing neuropsychiatric phenotypes in adolescent mice reveal strain- and sex-specific effects. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 9;10(1):11263.

2019

• Hasan MT, Althammer F, Silva da Gouveia M, Goyon S, Eliava M, Lefevre A, Kerspern D, Schimmer J, Raftogianni A, Wahis J, Knobloch-Bollmann HS, Tang Y, Liu X, Jain A, Chavant V, Goumon Y, Weislogel JM, Hurlemann R, Herpertz SC, Pitzer C, Darbon P, Dogbevia GK, Bertocchi I, Larkum ME, Sprengel R, Bading H, Charlet A, Grinevich V. A Fear Memory Engram and Its Plasticity in the Hypothalamic Oxytocin System. Neuron. 2019 Jul 3;103(1):133-146.
• Jakobs M, Pitzer C, Sartorius A, Unterberg A, Kiening K. Acute 5 Hz deep brain stimulation of the lateral habenula is associated with depressive-like behavior in male wild-type Wistar rats. Brain Res. 2019 Oct 15;1721.
• Peleh T, Eltokhi A, Pitzer C. Longitudinal analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations in mice from infancy to adolescence: Insights into the vocal repertoire of three wild-type strains in two different social contexts. PLoS One. 2019 Jul 31;14(7).

2018

• Zhao K, Wang Z, Hackert T, Pitzer C, Zöller M. Tspan8 and Tspan8/CD151 knockout mice unravel the contribution of tumor and host exosomes to tumor progression. J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Dec 12; 37(1):312. doi: 10.1186/s13046-018-0961-6.
• Pitzer C, La Porta C, Treede RD, Tappe-Theodor A. Inflammatory and neuropathic pain conditions do not primarily evoke anxiety-like behaviours in C57BL/6 mice. Eur J Pain. 2018 Aug 11.

2017 & 2016

• Neureither F, Ziegler K, Pitzer C, Frings S, Möhrlen F. Impaired Motor Coordination and Learning in Mice Lacking Anoctamin 2 Calcium-Gated Chloride Channels. Cerebellum. 2017 Dec; 16(5-6):929-937.
• Pitzer C, Kuner R, Tappe-Theodor A. EXPRESS: Voluntary and evoked behavioral correlates in neuropathic pain states under different housing conditions. Mol Pain. 2016 Jun 15;12. pii: 1744806916656635.
• Pitzer C, Kuner R, Tappe-Theodor A. Voluntary and evoked behavioral correlates in inflammatory pain conditions under different social housing conditions. PAIN Reports: July 2016 - Volume 1 - Issue 1 - p e564.