1. Prolonged gaseous hypothermia prevents the upregulation of phagocytosis-specific protein Annexin 1 and causes low-amplitude EEG activity in the aged rat brain after cerebral ischemia, Joseph C, Buga AM, Vintilescu R, Balseanu AT, Moldovan M, Junker H, Walker L, Lotze M, Popa-Wagner A, JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM, 2012, Volume: 32, Issue: 8, Pages: 1632-1642.
2. Identification of New Therapeutic Targets by Genome-Wide Analysis of Gene Expression in the Ipsilateral Cortex of Aged Rats after Stroke, Ana-Maria Buga, Claus Jurgen Scholz, Senthil Kumar, James G. Herndon, Dragos Alexandru, Gabriel Radu Cojocaru, Thomas Dandekar, Aurel Popa-Wagner, PLOS ONE, 2012, Volume: 7, Issue: 12, Pages: e50985.
3. Cerebrovascular Disorders: Role of Aging, Aurel Popa-Wagner, Ana-Maria Buga, Ryan C. Turner, Charles L. Rosen, and Emil Toescu, JOURNAL OF AGING RESEARCH, 2012, Volume 2012, Pages128146.
4. C-reactive protein in intracerebral hemorrhage: time course, tissue localization, and prognosis, Di Napoli M, Godoy DA, Campi V, Masotti L, Smith CJ, Parry Jones AR, Hopkins SJ, Slevin M, Papa F, Mogoanta L, Pirici D, Popa Wagner A, NEUROLOGY, 2012, Volume 79, Issue 7, Pages 690-699.
5. Repeated PTZ Treatment at 25-Day Intervals Leads to a Highly Efficient Accumulation of Doublecortin in the Dorsal Hippocampus of Rats, Buga AM, Vintilescu R, Balseanu AT, Pop OT, Streba C, Toescu E, Popa-Wagner A, PLOS ONE, 2012, Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: e39302.
6. Novel putative mechanism to link circadian clocks to healthy aging, Aurel Popa-Wagner, Bogdan Catalin, Ana-Maria Buga, JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION, 2013.
7. Vascular cognitive impairement, dementia, ageing and energy demand. A vicious cycle, A Popa-Wagner, Ana-Maria Buga, BO Popescu, D. Muresanu,JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION, 2013.
8. Buga AM, Margaritescu C, Scholz CJ, Radu E, Zelenak C, Popa-Wagner A. Transcriptomics of post-stroke angiogenesis in the aged brain. Front Aging Neurosci. 2014 Mar 18;6:44. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00044.
9. Freret T, Gaudreau P, Schumann-Bard P, Billard JM, Popa-Wagner A. Mechanisms underlying the neuroprotective effect of brain reserve against late life depression. J Neural Transm. 2014 Jan 5.
10. Popa-Wagner A, Buga AM, Tica AA, Albu CV. Perfusion deficits, inflammation and aging precipitate depressive behaviour. Biogerontology. 2014 Jul 18.