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van Voorst TW, van Boven MA, Marinus KI, Colón-Mercado JM, Schretzmeir J, Haag C, Toonen RF, Koopmans F, Ward ME, Smit AB, van Kesteren RE, Verhage M, Cornelisse LN.
One-step induction of human GABAergic neurons promotes presynaptic development & synapse maturation.
bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Nov 30:2025.06.30.662293.
doi: 10.1101/2025.06.30.662293.
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van Berkel AA, Lammertse HCA, Öttl M, Koopmans F, Misra-Isrie M, Meijer M, Dilena R, van Hasselt PM, Engelen M, van Haelst M, Smit AB, van der Sluis S, Toonen RF, Verhage M.
Reduced MUNC18-1 Levels, Synaptic Proteome Changes, and Altered Network Activity in STXBP1-Related Disorder Patient Neurons.
Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci. 2023 May 30;4(1):284-298.
doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2023.05.004.
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Brunner JW, Lammertse HCA, van Berkel AA, Koopmans F, Li KW, Smit AB, Toonen RF, Verhage M, van der Sluis S.
Power and optimal study design in iPSC-based brain disease modelling.
Mol Psychiatry. 2023 Apr;28(4):1545-1556.
doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01866-3.
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Moro A, Hoogstraaten RI, Persoon CM, Verhage M, Toonen RF.
Quantitative analysis of dense-core vesicle fusion in rodent CNS neurons.
STAR Protoc. 2021 Feb 3;2(1):100325.
doi: 10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100325.
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Verhage M, Sørensen JB.
SNAREopathies: Diversity in Mechanisms and Symptoms.
Neuron. 2020 Jul 8;107(1):22-37.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.036.
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