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Scientific publications

  • article Kusik M, Paré A, Monteiro FDG, Nadeau S, Ferry J, Pineau I, Lessard M, Fortin N, Vallières N, Kerr B, Lacroix S

    Inflammatory monocyte-derived macrophages drive pain via their production of nerve growth factor after peripheral nerve injury in mice

    J Neurosci 46 (23), 2026.

  • article Bellio M, Allaeys I, Doré E, Vaillancourt M, Lévesque T, Monteil M, Vallières N, Desaulniers P, Bertrand N, Washington VA, Senis Y, Lacroix S, Fortin P, Belleannée C, Boilard E

    Immobilized IgG-containing immune complexes require platelets to recruit neutrophils during inflammation

    J Clin Invest 136 (3), 2026.

  • article Castellanos-Molina A, Ferry J, Boisvert A, Chamberland A, Vallières N, Lacroix S

    Rapid and reliable image analysis pipeline for semi-automated quantification of CNS cell types in MATLAB

    J Neurosci Methods 424 2025.

  • article Hammond BP, Zia S, Hahn E, Kapustina M, Lange T, Friesen S, Manek R, Lee KV, Castellanos-Molina A, Bretheau F, Cembrowski MS, Kerr BJ, Lacroix S, Plemel JR

    CSF1R ligands promote microglial proliferation but are not the sole regulators of developmental microglial proliferation

    Development 152 (20), 2025.

  • article Canet G, Da Gama Monteiro F, Rocaboy E, Diego-Diaz S, Khelaifia B, Godbout K, Lachhab A, Kim J, Valencia DI, Yin A, Wu HT, Howell J, Blank E, Laliberté F, Fortin N, Boscher E, Fereydouni-Forouzandeh P, Champagne S, Guisle I, Hébert SS, Pernet V, Liu H, Lu W, Debure L, Rapoport DM, Ayappa I, Varga AW, Parekh A, Osorio RS, Lacroix S, Burns MP, Lucey BP, Blessing EM, Planel E

    Sleep-wake variation in body temperature regulates tau secretion and correlates with CSF and plasma tau

    J Clin Invest 135 (7), 2025.

  • article Fazazi MR, Doss PMIA, Pereira R, Fudge N, Regmi A, Joly-Beauparlant C, Akbar I, Yeola AP, Mailhot B, Baillargeon J, Grenier P, Bertrand N, Lacroix S, Droit A, Moore CS, Rojas OL, Rangachari M

    Myelin-reactive B cells exacerbate CD4+ T cell-driven CNS autoimmunity in an IL-23-dependent manner

    Nat Commun 15 (1), 2024.

  • article Castellanos-Molina A, Bretheau F, Boisvert A, Bélanger D, Lacroix S

    Constitutive DAMPs in CNS injury: From preclinical insights to clinical perspectives

    Brain Behav Immun 122 2024.

  • article Distéfano-Gagné F, Bitarafan S, Lacroix S, Gosselin D

    Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models

    Nat Rev Neurosci 24 (7), 2023.

  • article Rieux M, Alpaugh M, Salem S, Siddu A, Saint-Pierre M, Denis HL, Rohweder H, Herrmann F, Bazenet C, Lacroix S, Cicchetti F

    Corrigendum to “Understanding the role of the hematopoietic niche in Huntington’s disease’s phenotypic expression: In vivo evidence using a parabiosis model” [Neurobiol Dis. 202…

    Neurobiol Dis 187 2023.

  • article Rieux M, Alpaugh M, Salem S, Siddu A, Saint-Pierre M, Denis HL, Rohweder H, Herrmann F, Bazenet C, Lacroix S, Cicchetti F

    Understanding the role of the hematopoietic niche in Huntington’s disease’s phenotypic expression: in vivo evidence using a parabiosis model

    Neurobiol Dis 180 2023.

  • article Bretheau F, Castellanos-Molina A, Bélanger D, Kusik M, Mailhot B, Boisvert A, Vallières N, Lessard M, Gunzer M, Liu X, Boilard É and Quan N, Lacroix S

    The alarmin interleukin-1α triggers secondary degeneration through reactive astrocytes and endothelium after spinal cord injury

    Nat Commun 13 (1), 2022.

  • article Laroche A, Soulet D, Bazin M, Levesque T, Allaeys I, Vallières N, Gunzer M, Flamand L, Lacroix S, Boilard E

    Live imaging of platelets and neutrophils during antibody-mediated neurovascular thrombosis

    Blood Adv 6 (12), 2022.