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Brad Morrison

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Boise State University
Verified email at boisestate.edu
Cited by 3312

Endocannabinoid hydrolysis generates brain prostaglandins that promote neuroinflammation

DK Nomura, BE Morrison, JL Blankman, JZ Long… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Phospholipase A 2 (PLA 2 ) enzymes are considered the primary source of arachidonic acid
for cyclooxygenase (COX)–mediated biosynthesis of prostaglandins. Here, we show that a …

Parkinson's disease and enhanced inflammatory response

…, BM Wagner, BE Morrison - … biology and medicine, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the first and second most prevalent motor and neurodegenerative
disease, respectively. The clinical symptoms of PD result from a loss of midbrain …

Restorative justice: Pedagogy, praxis, and discipline

BE Morrison, D Vaandering - Journal of school violence, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In the ongoing effort of designing school contexts in support of proactive discipline, a range
of practices and theoretical frameworks have been advanced, from behaviorist approaches …

PGC-1α rescues Huntington's disease proteotoxicity by preventing oxidative stress and promoting TFEB function

T Tsunemi, TD Ashe, BE Morrison… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by CAG repeat expansions in the (huntingtin htt) gene,
yielding proteins containing polyglutamine repeats that become misfolded and resist …

[HTML][HTML] Contributions of VPS35 mutations to Parkinson's disease

AA Rahman, BE Morrison - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a multi-system neurodegenerative disease where approximately
90% of cases are idiopathic. The remaining 10% of the cases can be traced to a genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Chemokine-mediated recruitment of NK cells is a critical host defense mechanism in invasive aspergillosis

BE Morrison, SJ Park, JM Mooney… - The Journal of clinical …, 2003 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Invasive aspergillosis is a severe pneumonia that is usually fatal despite currently available
therapy. The disease disproportionately afflicts immunocompromised patients, indicating the …

[HTML][HTML] Opposing effects of sirtuins on neuronal survival: SIRT1-mediated neuroprotection is independent of its deacetylase activity

JA Pfister, C Ma, BE Morrison, SR D'Mello - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Growing evidence suggests that sirtuins, a family of seven distinct NAD-dependent
enzymes, are involved in the regulation of neuronal survival. Indeed, SIRT1 has been …

Regulating safe school communities: Being responsive and restorative

BE Morrison - Journal of Educational Administration, 2003 - emerald.com
This paper will introduce a whole‐school approach to regulating safe school communities,
based on principles of restorative justice. The idea is to move beyond regulatory formalism to …

HDAC4 inhibits cell‐cycle progression and protects neurons from cell death

N Majdzadeh, L Wang, BE Morrison… - Developmental …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
HDAC4 is a Class II histone deacetylase (HDAC) that is highly expressed in the brain, but
whose functional significance in the brain is not known. We show that forced expression of …

Mutual exacerbation of peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor γ coactivator 1α deregulation and α‐synuclein oligomerization

…, K Müller, H Bayer, A Scheffold, BE Morrison… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Aggregation of α‐synuclein (α‐syn) and α‐syn cytotoxicity are hallmarks of
sporadic and familial Parkinson disease (PD), with accumulating evidence that prefibrillar …