Rimer, Mendell Associate Professor

academic article

• Seaberg, B. L., Purao, S., & Rimer, M. (2022). Validation of terminal Schwann cell gene marker expression by fluorescent in situ hybridization using RNAscope. NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS.  771, 136468-136468.
  
• Rimer, M. (2020). Extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 regulate neuromuscular junction and myofiber phenotypes in mammalian skeletal muscle. NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS.  715, 134671-134671.
  
• Lee, Y. I., & Rimer, M. (2020). Wesley J. Thompson (1947-2019). Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.  13, 91.
  
• Rimer, M., Seaberg, B. L., Yen, P., Lam, S., Hastings, R. L., Lee, Y. I., ... Ko, C. (2019). Nerve sprouting capacity in a pharmacologically induced mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy. Scientific Reports.  9(1), 7799.
  
• Wang, S., Seaberg, B., Paez-Colasante, X., & Rimer, M. (2017). Corrigendum: Defective Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit Switch Precedes Atrophy of Slow-Twitch Skeletal Muscle Fibers Lacking ERK1/2 Kinases in Soleus Muscle. Scientific Reports.  7(1), 45420.
  
• Wang, S., Seaberg, B., Paez-Colasante, X., & Rimer, M. (2016). Defective Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit Switch Precedes Atrophy of Slow-Twitch Skeletal Muscle Fibers Lacking ERK1/2 Kinases in Soleus Muscle. Scientific Reports.  6(1), 38745.
  
• Seaberg, B., Henslee, G., Wang, S., Paez-Colasante, X., Landreth, G. E., & Rimer, M. (2015). Muscle-derived extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 are required for the maintenance of adult myofibers and their neuromuscular junctions. Molecular and Cellular Biology.  35(7), 1238-1253.
  
• Paez-Colasante, X., Seaberg, B., Martinez, T. L., Kong, L., Sumner, C. J., & Rimer, M. (2013). Improvement of neuromuscular synaptic phenotypes without enhanced survival and motor function in severe spinal muscular atrophy mice selectively rescued in motor neurons. PLoS ONE.  8(9), e75866-e75866.
  
• Rimer, M. (2011). Emerging roles for MAP kinases in agrin signaling. Communicative and Integrative Biology.  4(2), 143-146.
  
• Rimer, M. (2010). Modulation of agrin-induced acetylcholine receptor clustering by extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 in cultured myotubes. 285(42), 32370-32377.
  
• Ward, A. J., Rimer, M., Killian, J. M., Dowling, J. J., & Cooper, T. A. (2010). CUGBP1 overexpression in mouse skeletal muscle reproduces features of myotonic dystrophy type 1. Human Molecular Genetics.  19(18), 3614-3622.
  
• Vock, V. M., Ponomareva, O. N., & Rimer, M. (2008). Evidence for muscle-dependent neuromuscular synaptic site determination in mammals. 28(12), 3123-3130.
  
• Ellerton, E. L., Thompson, W. J., & Rimer, M. (2008). Induction of zinc-finger proliferation 1 expression in non-myelinating Schwann cells after denervation. Neuroscience.  153(4), 975-985.
  
• Rimer, M. (2007). Neuregulins at the neuromuscular synapse: past, present, and future. Journal of Neuroscience Research.  85(9), 1827-1833.
  
• Kang, H., Tian, L. e., Son, Y., Zuo, Y. i., Procaccino, D., Love, F., ... Thompson, W. (2007). Regulation of the intermediate filament protein nestin at rodent neuromuscular junctions by innervation and activity. The Journal of Neuroscience.  27(22), 5948-5957.
  
• Ponomareva, O. N., Fischer, T. M., Lai, C., & Rimer, M. (2006). Schwann cell-derived neuregulin-2alpha can function as a cell-attached activator of muscle acetylcholine receptor expression. Glia.  54(6), 630-637.
  
• Hayworth, C. R., Moody, S. E., Chodosh, L. A., Krieg, P., Rimer, M., & Thompson, W. J. (2006). Induction of neuregulin signaling in mouse schwann cells in vivo mimics responses to denervation. 26(25), 6873-6884.
  
• Ponomareva, O. N., Ma, H., Vock, V. M., Ellerton, E. L., Moody, S. E., Dakour, R., Chodosh, L. A., & Rimer, M. (2006). Defective neuromuscular synaptogenesis in mice expressing constitutively active ErbB2 in skeletal muscle fibers. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.  31(2), 334-345.
  
• Rimer, M., Barrett, D. W., Maldonado, M. A., Vock, V. M., & Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2005). Neuregulin-1 immunoglobulin-like domain mutant mice: clozapine sensitivity and impaired latent inhibition. NeuroReport.  16(3), 271-275.
  
• Ponomareva, O. N., Ma, H., Dakour, R., Raabe, T. D., Lai, C., & Rimer, M. (2005). Stimulation of acetylcholine receptor transcription by neuregulin-2 requires an N-box response element and is regulated by alternative splicing. Neuroscience.  134(2), 495-503.
  
• Rimer, M. (2003). Neuregulins: primary or secondary signals for the control of synapse-specific gene expression. J Neurocytol.  32(5-8), 665-675.
  
• Rimer, M., & Randall, W. R. (1999). Denervation of chicken skeletal muscle causes an increase in acetylcholinesterase mRNA synthesis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.  260(1), 251-255.
  
• Mathiesen, I., Rimer, M., Ashtari, O., Cohen, I., McMahan, U. J., & Lmo, T. (1999). Regulation of the size and distribution of agrin-induced postsynaptic-like apparatus in adult skeletal muscle by electrical muscle activity. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.  13(3), 207-217.
  
• Rimer, M., Cohen, I., Lmo, T., Burden, S. J., & McMahan, U. J. (1998). Neuregulins and erbB receptors at neuromuscular junctions and at agrin-induced postsynaptic-like apparatus in skeletal muscle. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.  12(1-2), 1-15.
  
• Rimer, M., & O'Connell, M. (1998). BioABACUS: a database of abbreviations and acronyms in biotechnology and computer science. Bioinformatics.  14(10), 888-889.
  
• Cohen, I., Rimer, M., Lmo, T., & McMahan, U. J. (1997). Agrin-induced postsynaptic-like apparatus in skeletal muscle fibers in vivo. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.  9(4), 237-253.
  
• Cohen, I., Rimer, M., Lomo, T., & McMahan, U. J. (1997). Erratum Volume9, Number 4 (1997), in Article No. CN970623: Ilana Cohen, Mendell Rimer, Terjo Lmo, and U. J. McMahan, Agrin-Induced Postsynaptic-like Apparatus in Skeletal Muscle Fibersin Vivo, pp. 237253:. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.  10(3-4), 208-208.
  
• Rimer, M., Mathiesen, I., Lmo, T., & McMahan, U. J. (1997). gamma-AChR/epsilon-AChR switch at agrin-induced postsynaptic-like apparatus in skeletal muscle. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.  9(4), 254-263.
  
• Randall, W. R., Rimer, M., & Gough, N. R. (1994). Cloning and analysis of chicken acetylcholinesterase transcripts from muscle and brain. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: international journal of biochemistry and biophysics.  1218(3), 453-456.
  
• Tsim, K. W., Greenberg, I., Rimer, M., Randall, W. R., & Salpeter, M. M. (1992). Transcripts for the acetylcholine receptor and acetylcholine esterase show distribution differences in cultured chick muscle cells. The Journal of Cell Biology.  118(5), 1201-1212.
  
• Rimer, M. Agrin-induced aggregation of acetylcholine receptors in muscles of rats with experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.  841(1), 546-549.
  
• Lee, Y. I., Mikesh, M., Smith, I., Rimer, M., & Thompson, W. Muscles in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy show profound defects in neuromuscular development even in the absence of failure in neuromuscular transmission or loss of motor neurons. Developmental Biology.  356(2), 432-444.
  
• Rimer, M., Prieto, A. L., Weber, J. L., Colasante, C., Ponomareva, O., Fromm, L., ... Burden, S. J. Neuregulin-2 is synthesized by motor neurons and terminal Schwann cells and activates acetylcholine receptor transcription in muscle cells expressing ErbB4. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience.  26(2), 271-281.