Rodrigo Morales

Also affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicineNeuroscienceNursing

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Driven by 39 papers. Top paper: “Infusion of blood from mice displaying cerebral amyloidosis accelerates amyloid pathology in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease”.

Infusion of blood from mice displaying cerebral amyloidosis accelerates amyloid pathology in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease

Acta Neuropathologica Communications(2020)10.1186/s40478-020-01087-1

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28 citations

Claudia Duran‐Aniotz, Javiera Bravo‐Alegria, Lisbell D. Estrada, Mohammad Shahnawaz, Pingping Hu +5 more

Stress levels, psychological symptoms, and C-reactive protein levels in COVID-19: A cross-sectional study

Journal of Affective Disorders(2023)10.1016/j.jad.2023.03.019

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21 citations

Ritele H. Silva, Jéssica L. Fernandes, Camila O. Arent, Graziela Amboni, Laura A. Borba +14 more

Transmission of cerebral amyloid pathology by peripheral administration of misfolded Aβ aggregates

Molecular Psychiatry(2021)10.1038/s41380-021-01150-w

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29 citations

Javiera Bravo‐Alegria, Inés Moreno‐González, Claudia Duran‐Aniotz, Nazaret Gamez, George A. Edwards +2 more

Understanding and exploiting interactions between cellular proteostasis pathways and infectious prion proteins for therapeutic benefit

Open Biology(2020)10.1098/rsob.200282

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2 citations

Celso S. G. Catumbela, Rodrigo Morales, Kevin A. Morano, Unekwu M. Yakubu

Amyloid pathology arrangements in Alzheimer’s disease brains modulate in vivo seeding capability

Acta Neuropathologica Communications(2021)10.1186/s40478-021-01155-0

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29 citations

Inés Moreno‐González, Nazaret Gamez, Nelson Perez-Urrutia, Laura Vegas‐Gomez, Claudio Soto +2 more

Detection of CWD prions in naturally infected white-tailed deer fetuses and gestational tissues by PMCA

Scientific Reports(2021)10.1038/s41598-021-97737-y

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26 citations

Paulina Soto, Thomas Eckland, Robert O. Dittmar, Santiago Ramírez, Celso S. G. Catumbela +5 more

What is the role of microbial infection in Alzheimer’s disease?

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry(2021)10.1590/1516-4446-2021-0037

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8 citations

Vijayasree V. Giridharan, Clarissa M. Comim, Rodrigo Morales, Tatiana Barichello

Clinical significance and potential role of trimethylamine N-oxide in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders

Drug Discovery Today(2022)10.1016/j.drudis.2022.08.002

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58 citations

Narahari Koppa Vishwanath, Anilkumar Pillai, Rodrigo Morales, Sean P. Marrelli, Tatiana Barichello +2 more

Repetitive xenon treatment improves post-stroke sensorimotor and neuropsychiatric dysfunction

Journal of Affective Disorders(2022)10.1016/j.jad.2022.01.025

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27 citations

Xing Yin, Tao Peng, Sridevi Devaraj, Rodrigo Morales, David D. McPherson +2 more

Aged Cattle Brain Displays Alzheimer's Disease-Like Pathology and Promotes Brain Amyloidosis in a Transgenic Animal Model

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience(2022)10.3389/fnagi.2021.815361

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16 citations

George A. Edwards, Rodrigo Morales, Claudia Duran‐Aniotz, Gabriel Escobedo, M. Márquez +3 more

The Role of Circulating Aβ Seeds in the Progression of Cerebral Amyloidosis

Neuroscience Insights(2022)10.1177/26331055221123072

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4 citations

Rodrigo Morales, Nazaret Gamez

Altering Brain Amyloidosis by Intra-Lingual and Extra-Nasal Exposure of Aβ Aggregates

Cells(2022)10.3390/cells11213442

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3 citations

Javiera Bravo‐Alegria, Yumeng Huang, Nelson Perez-Urrutia, Deepa Dongarwar, Claudio Soto +2 more

Editorial: Protein Misfolding and Proteostasis Impairment in Aging and Neurodegeneration: From Spreading Studies to Therapeutic Approaches

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience(2022)10.3389/fnagi.2021.830779

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11 citations

Inés Moreno‐González, Danilo B. Medinas, Rodrigo Morales, Claudia Duran‐Aniotz

Sepsis exacerbates Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology, modulates the gut microbiome, increases neuroinflammation and amyloid burden

Molecular Psychiatry(2023)10.1038/s41380-023-02172-2

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34 citations

Celso S. G. Catumbela, Carlos Henrique Rocha Catalão, June‐Young Lee, Bhanu Priya Ganesh, Fabrícia Petronilho +4 more

Clinical evidence of human pathogens implicated in Alzheimer’s disease pathology and the therapeutic efficacy of antimicrobials: an overview

Translational Neurodegeneration(2023)10.1186/s40035-023-00369-7

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32 citations

Vijayasree V. Giridharan, Tatiana Barichello, Rodrigo Morales, Celso S. G. Catumbela

Plants as vectors for environmental prion transmission

iScience(2023)10.1016/j.isci.2023.108428

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24 citations

Samuel Thomas, Matthew W Keating, Paulina Soto, Nicole M. Gibbs, Haeyoon Chang +7 more

Ticks harbor and excrete chronic wasting disease prions

Scientific Reports(2023)10.1038/s41598-023-34308-3

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23 citations

Francisca Bravo‐Risi, Rodrigo Morales, D. Walsh, Daniel J. Storm, Joel A. Pedersen +3 more

Identification of chronic wasting disease prions in decaying tongue tissues from exhumed white-tailed deer

mSphere(2023)10.1128/msphere.00272-23

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12 citations

Francisca Bravo‐Risi, Rebeca Benavente, Stuart S. Lichtenberg, Mitch Lockwood, John Reed +2 more

Dynamics of CWD prion detection in feces and blood from naturally infected white-tailed deer

Scientific Reports(2023)10.1038/s41598-023-46929-9

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10 citations

Paulina Soto, Rebeca Benavente, Tracy A. Nichols, Rodrigo Morales, Francisca Bravo‐Risi

Two structurally defined Aβ polymorphs promote different pathological changes in susceptible mice

EMBO Reports(2023)10.15252/embr.202357003

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10 citations

Ujjayini Ghosh, Wai‐Ming Yau, Nazaret Gamez, Katherine Do, Carlos Kramm +10 more

PMCA screening of retropharyngeal lymph nodes in white-tailed deer and comparisons with ELISA and IHC

Scientific Reports(2023)10.1038/s41598-023-47105-9

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7 citations

Jake Reed, Mitch Lockwood, Rodrigo Morales, Rebeca Benavente

Nasal bots carry relevant titers of CWD prions in naturally infected white-tailed deer

EMBO Reports(2024)10.1038/s44319-023-00003-7

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10 citations

Francisca Bravo‐Risi, Carlos Kramm, Nazaret Gamez, Rebeca Benavente, Denise L. Bonilla +6 more

Therapeutic perspectives for prion diseases in humans and animals

PLoS Pathogens(2024)10.1371/journal.ppat.1012676

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5 citations

Rodrigo Morales, Rebeca Benavente

Elderly mice with history of acetaminophen intoxication display worsened cognitive impairment and persistent elevation of astrocyte and microglia burden

Scientific Reports(2024)10.1038/s41598-024-65185-z

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Rodrigo Morales, Celso S. G. Catumbela

Screening of Anti-Prion Compounds Using the Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification Technology

Biomolecules(2024)10.3390/biom14091113

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Isaac Schauer, Ananya Tupaki‐Sreepurna, Rodrigo Morales, Claudio Soto, Sandra Pritzkow

Adaptation of the protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) technique for the screening of anti‐prion compounds

The FASEB Journal(2024)10.1096/fj.202400614r

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Rebeca Benavente, Celso S. G. Catumbela, Uffaf Khan, Carlos Kramm, Claudio Soto +2 more

Misfolded amyloid-beta conformational variants (strains) as drivers of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology

Neural Regeneration Research(2024)10.4103/nrr.nrr-d-24-00699

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Rodrigo Morales, Salvatore Saieva

Alterations in Gut Microbiome Composition and Increased Inflammatory Markers in Post-COVID-19 Individuals

Molecular Neurobiology(2025)10.1007/s12035-025-04769-w

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12 citations

Bruno Kluwe‐Schiavon, Laura A. Borba, Lucas C. Pedro, F. Niero, Laísa N. dos Santos +6 more

Detection of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions in Raw, Processed, and Cooked Elk Meat, Texas, USA

Emerging infectious diseases(2025)10.3201/eid3102.240906

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3 citations

Fraser Brydon, Francisca Bravo‐Risi, Paulina Soto, John Reed, Mitch Lockwood +4 more

Altered patterning of neural activity in a neuropathology

Scientific Reports(2025)10.1038/s41598-025-08538-6

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2 citations

Jingheng Cheng, Rodrigo Morales, Daoyun Ji, Yuri Dabaghian, Clarissa Hoffman

Infectious prions in brains and muscles of domestic pigs experimentally challenged with the BSE, scrapie, and CWD agents

mBio(2025)10.1128/mbio.01800-25

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Fraser Brydon, Angela Chong, Kane Spicker, Justin J. Greenlee, Glenn C. Telling +5 more

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) prion detection in environmental and biological samples from a taxidermy site and nursing facility, and instruments used in surveillance activities

The Science of The Total Environment(2025)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179318

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2 citations

Nancy T. Ho, Mitch Lockwood, Austin Stolte, John Reed, Rodrigo Morales +1 more

Distribution of chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in tissues from experimentally exposed coyotes (Canis latrans)

PLoS ONE(2025)10.1371/journal.pone.0327485

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Reece McGinn, Paulina Soto, Terry R. Spraker, Justin W. Fischer, Kurt C. VerCauteren +3 more

Human and Mouse Alzheimer's Seeds Differentially Affect Amyloid Deposition and Microglia‐Dependent Plaque Response in Aged Mice

Aging Cell(2025)10.1111/acel.70094

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Cristina Nuñez‐Diaz, Kelly Do Huynh, Marie Minh Thu Nguyen, Celia Da Cunha, Francisco Cantero‐Molina +16 more

Innate immunity in the brain: ILC2s as modulators of CNS disorders

International Immunopharmacology(2025)10.1016/j.intimp.2025.115147

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Anilkumar Pillai, Rodrigo Morales, Vijayasree V. Giridharan, Jyotsna D Godavarthi

Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease: common molecular traits beyond the amyloid precursor protein

Aging(2020)10.18632/aging.102677

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85 citations

Rodrigo Morales, Vinicius Maracaja‐Coutinho, Valentina Parra, Melissa Nassif, Wileidy Gómez

Infusion of blood from young and old mice modulates amyloid pathology

Aging(2025)10.18632/aging.206319

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Ruben Gomez‐Gutierrez, Ariel Caviedes, Catalina Valdes, Ute Woehlbier, Cristian A. Vargas +4 more

The prion-like phenomenon in Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence of pathology transmission in humans

PLoS Pathogens(2020)10.1371/journal.ppat.1009004

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45 citations

Rodrigo Morales, Ruben Gomez‐Gutierrez

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) prion detection in blood from pre-symptomatic white-tailed deer harboring PRNP polymorphic variants

Scientific Reports(2020)10.1038/s41598-020-75681-7

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20 citations

Paulina Soto, Tracy A. Nichols, Rodrigo Morales, Carlos Kramm