Urban Lab
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Functional Ultrasound Neuroimaging
Gabriel Montaldo, Alan Urban, Émilie Macé
Annu Rev Neurosci., 45, 491-513, 2022
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Quantitative Hemodynamic Measurements in Cortical Vessels Using Functional Ultrasound Imaging
Clément Brunner, Emilie Macé, Gabriel Montaldo, Alan Urban
Front. Neurosci.,16, 831650, 2022, 2022
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Neural correlates of blood flow measured by ultrasound
Anwar O Nunez-Elizalde, Michael Krumin, Charu Bai Reddy, Gabriel Montaldo, Alan Urban, Matteo Carandini
Neuron, 110, 1631–1640, 2022
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Whole-brain functional ultrasound imaging in awake head-fixed mice
Clément Brunner, Micheline Grillet, Alan Urban, Botond Roska, Gabriel Montaldo, Emilie Macé
Nature Protocols (2021), 2021
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Optogenetic fUSI for brain-wide mapping of neural activity mediating collicular-dependent behaviors
Arnau Sans Dublanc, Anna Chrzanowska, Katja Reinhard, Dani Lemmon, Bram Nuttin, Théo Lambert, Gabriel Montaldo, Alan Urban, Karl Farrow
Neuron,109, 1-18, 2021
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A platform for brain-wide volumetric functional ultrasound imaging and analysis of circuit dynamics in awake mice
Clément Brunner, Micheline Grillet, Arnau Sans Dublanc, Karl Farrow, Théo Lambert, Emilie Macé, Gabriel Montaldo, Alan Urban
Neuron, 108, 861-875, 2020
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Whole-brain functional ultrasound imaging reveals brain modules for visuomotor integration
Émilie Macé, Gabriel Montaldo, Stuart Trenholm, Cameron Cowan, Alexandra Brignall, Alan Urban, Botond Roska
Neuron 100(5): 241-1251, 2018
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Evidence from fUS imaging of enhanced contralesional microvascular response to somatosensory stimulation in acute middle cerebral artery occlusion/reperfusion in rats: A marker of ultra-early network reorganization?
Clément Brunner, Marie Korostelev, Sushmitha Raja, Gabriel Montaldo, Alan Urban, Jean-Claude Baron
JCBFM, 2018
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Understanding the neurovascular unit at multiple scales: Advantages and limitations of multi-photon and functional ultrasound imaging
Alan Urban, Lior Golgher, Clément Brunner, Amos Gdalyahu, Hagai Har-Gil, David Kain, Gabriel Montaldo, Laura Sironi, Pablo Blinder
Adv Drug Deliv Rev, 119, 73-100, 2017
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Mapping the dynamics of brain perfusion using functional ultrasound in a rat model of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion
Clément Brunner, Clothilde Isabel, Abraham Martin, Clara Dussaux, Anne Savoye, Julius Emmrich, Gabriel Montaldo, Jean-Louis Mas, Jean-Claude Baron, Alan Urban
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 2015
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Functional Ultrasound Imaging of Cerebral Capillaries in Rodents and Humans
Alan Urban, Clément Brunner, Clara Dussaux, Francine Chassoux, Bertrand Devaux, Gabriel Montaldo
J J Mol Transl Med., 1(1): 007, 2015
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Real-time imaging of brain activity in freely moving rats using functional ultrasound
Alan Urban, Dussaux Clara, Guillaume Martel, Clément Brunner, Emilie Mace, Gabriel Montaldo
Nature Methods, 12, 873-8, 2015
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Cortical fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons enwrapped in the perineuronal net express the metallopeptidases Adamts8, Adamts15 and Neprilysin
J Rossier, A Bernard, J Cabungcal, Q Perrenoud, A Savoye, T Gallopin, M Hawrylycz, M Cuenod, K Do, Alan Urban, Ed Lein
Molecular Psychiatry, 20, 154-61, 2014
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Chronic assessment of cerebral hemodynamics during rat forepaw electrical stimulation using functional ultrasound imaging
Alan Urban, Emilie Mace, Clément Brunner, Marc Heidmann, Jean Rossier, Gabriel Montaldo
Neuroimage 101, 138-49, 2014
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In vivo targeted delivery of large payloads with an ultrasound clinical scanner
Olivier Couture, Alan Urban, Alice Bretagne, Lucie Martinez, Mickael Tanter, Patrick Tabeling
Med Phys., 39(8):5229-37, 2012
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Deciphering the neuronal circuitry controlling local blood flow in the cerebral cortex with optogenetics in PV::Cre transgenic mice
Alan Urban, Armelle Rancillac, Lucie Martinez, Jean Rossier
Front. Pharmacol., 3: 105, 1-8, 2012
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Genetic targeting of specific neuronal cell types in the cerebral cortex
Alan Urban, Jean Rossier
Progress in Brain Research, 196, 163-192, 2012
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Deficiency of the tRNATyr:Psi 35-synthase aPus7 in Archaea of the Sulfolobales order might be rescued by the H/ACA sRNA-guided machinery
Sébastien Muller, Alan Urban, Arnaud Hecker, Fabrice Leclerc, Christiane Branlant, Yuri Motorin
Nucleic Acids Res.; 37(4):1308-22, 2009
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RNA sequence and two-dimensional structure features required for efficient substrate modification by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA:{Psi}-synthase Pus7p
Alan Urban, Isabelle Behm-Ansmant, Christiane Branlant, Yuri Motorin
J Biol Chem., 284(9):5845-58, 2009
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae U2 snRNA:pseudouridine-synthase Pus7p is a novel multisite-multisubstrate RNA:Psi-synthase also acting on tRNAs
Isabelle Behm-Ansmant, Alan Urban, Xiaoju Ma, Yi-Tao Yu, Yuri Motorin, Christiane Branlant
RNA, 9:1371–1382, 2003
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