Research groups
Colleges
Margaret Esiri
DM FRCPath
Emeritus Professor of Neuropathology
Research Summary
Research activities are mainly in fields related to the use of brain tissue in the Thomas Willis Oxford Brain Collection, including many cases of dementia and elderly controls and multiple sclerosis. In dementia current interest centres on determining to what extent, and in what way, cerebrovascular disease contributes to dementia. In multiple sclerosis I collaborate with Dr DeLuca in understanding the manner in which genetic variables in multiple sclerosis translate into pathological changes in the brain and spinal cord in that disease.
Sources of Funding
- Alzheimer’s Brain Bank UK 2008- 2013
- Austica 2009- 2012
Awards Training and Qualifications
- BA Physiology Oxford 1963
- BM BCh Oxford 1967
- Bsc Oxford 1969
Recent publications
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Anterior optic pathway pathology in CNS demyelinating diseases.
Conference paper
Pisa M. et al, (2022), Brain
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Vascular disease and multiple sclerosis: a post-mortem study exploring their relationships.
Journal article
Geraldes R. et al, (2020), Brain, 143, 2998 - 3012
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Perivascular astrocyte expression in the multiple sclerosis motor cortex
Conference paper
Yee SA. et al, (2020), NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY, 46, 44 - 44
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Cell Senescence and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in the Brains of People Aged 80 Years and Older.
Journal article
Norton EJ. et al, (2019), J Neuropathol Exp Neurol, 78, 1066 - 1072
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Relating diffusion tensor imaging measurements to microstructural quantities in the cerebral cortex in multiple sclerosis.
Journal article
McKavanagh R. et al, (2019), Hum Brain Mapp, 40, 4417 - 4431