Dr Richard Gordon
Advance Queensland Fellow
UQ Centre for Clinical Research
+61 7 334 66081
Book Chapters
Albornoz, Eduardo A., Woodruff, Trent M. and Gordon, Richard (2018). Inflammasomes in CNS diseases. In Mario D. Cordero and Elisabet Alcocer-Gómez (Ed.), Inflammasomes: clinical and therapeutic implications (pp. 41-60) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89390-7_3
Gordon, Richard and Woodruff, Trent M. (2017). Neuroinflammation as a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases. In Veerle Baekelandt and Evy Lobbestael (Ed.), Disease-modifying targets in neurodegenerative disorders (pp. 43-64) Boston, MA, United States: Academic Press (Elsevier Press).
Gordon, Richard and Woodruff, Trent M. (2017). Neuroinflammation as a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases. In Veerle Baekelandt and Evy Lobbestael (Ed.), Disease-modifying targets in neurodegenerative disorders: paving the way for disease-modifying therapies (pp. 49-80) London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-805120-7.00003-8
Journal Articles
Deora, Vandana, Lee, John D., Albornoz, Eduardo A., McAlary, Luke, Jagaraj, Cyril J., Robertson, Avril A. B., Atkin, Julie D, Cooper, Matthew A., Schroder, Kate, Yerbury, Justin J., Gordon, Richard and Woodruff, Trent M. (2019) The microglial NLRP3 inflammasome is activated by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis proteins. Glia, . doi:10.1002/glia.23728
Gordon, Richard, Albornoz, Eduardo A., Christie, Daniel C., Langley, Monica R., Kumar, Vinod, Mantovani, Susanna, Robertson, Avril A. B., Butler, Mark S., Rowe, Dominic B., O'Neill, Luke A., Kanthasamy, Anumantha G., Schroder, Kate, Cooper, Matthew A. and Woodruff, Trent M. (2018) Inflammasome inhibition prevents α-synuclein pathology and dopaminergic neurodegeneration in mice. Science Translational Medicine, 10 465: . doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aah4066
Neal, Matthew, Luo, Jie, Harischandra, Dilshan S., Gordon, Richard, Sarkar, Souvarish, Jin, Huajun, Anantharam, Vellareddy, Désaubry, Laurent, Kanthasamy, Anumantha and Kanthasamy, Arthi (2018) Prokineticin-2 promotes chemotaxis and alternative A2 reactivity of astrocytes. Glia, . doi:10.1002/glia.23467
Mantovani, Susanna, Smith, Simon S., Gordon, Richard and O'Sullivan, John D. (2018) An overview of sleep and circadian dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Sleep Research, 27 3: e12673. doi:10.1111/jsr.12673
Giacomin, Paul R., Kraeuter, Ann Katrin, Albornoz, Eduardo A., Jin, Shuting, Bengtsson, Mia, Gordon, Richard, Woodruff, Trent M., Urich, Tim, Sarnyai, Zoltán and Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. (2018) Chronic helminth infection perturbs the gut-brain axis, promotes neuropathology and alters behaviour. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 218 9: 1511-1516. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiy092
Chen, Weiqiang, Foo, Suan-Sin, Zaid, Ali, Teng, Terk-Shin, Herrero, Lara J., Wolf, Stefan, Tharmarajah, Kothila, Vu, Luan D., van Vreden, Caryn, Taylor, Adam, Freitas, Joseph R., Li, Rachel W., Woodruff, Trent M., Gordon, Richard, Ojcius, David M., Nakaya, Helder I., Kanneganti, Thirumala-Devi, O’Neill, Luke A. J., Robertson, Avril A. B., King, Nicholas J., Suhrbier, Andreas, Cooper, Matthew A., Ng, Lisa F. P. and Mahalingam, Suresh (2017) Specific inhibition of NLRP3 in chikungunya disease reveals a role for inflammasomes in alphavirus-induced inflammation. Nature Microbiology, 2 10: 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41564-017-0015-4
Deora, Vandana, Albornoz, Eduardo A., Zhu, Kevin, Woodruff, Trent M. and Gordon, Richard (2017) The ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate does not inhibit synuclein mediated inflammasome activation in microglia. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 12 4: 1-7. doi:10.1007/s11481-017-9754-5
Gordon, Richard, Neal, Matthew L., Luo, Jie, Langley, Monica R., Harischandra, Dilshan S., Panicker, Nikhil, Charli, Adhithiya, Jin, Huajun, Anantharam, Vellareddy, Woodruff, Trent M., Zhou, Qun-Yong, Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. and Kanthasamy, Arthi (2016) Prokineticin-2 upregulation during neuronal injury mediates a compensatory protective response against dopaminergic neuronal degeneration. Nature Communications, 7 12932.1-12932.18. doi:10.1038/ncomms12932
Gordon, Richard, Singh, Neeraj, Lawana, Vivek, Ghosh, Anamitra, Harischandra, Dilshan S., Jin, Huajun, Hogan, Colleen, Sarkar, Souvarish, Rokad, Dharmin, Panicker, Nikhil, Anantharam, Vellareddy, Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. and Kanthasamy, Arthi (2016) Protein kinase Cδ upregulation in microglia drives neuroinflammatory responses and dopaminergic neurodegeneration in experimental models of Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Disease, 93 96-114. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2016.04.008
Kim, Dong-Suk, Jin, Huajun, Anantharam, Vellareddy, Gordon, Richard, Kanthasamy, Arthi and Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. (2016) p73 gene in dopaminergic neurons is highly susceptible to manganese neurotoxicity. NeuroToxicology, 59 231-239. doi:10.1016/j.neuro.2016.04.012
Mantovani, Susanna, Gordon, Richard, Li, Rui, Christie, Daniel C., Kumar, Vinod and Woodruff, Trent M. (2016) Motor deficits associated with Huntington's disease occur in the absence of striatal degeneration in BACHD transgenic mice. Human Molecular Genetics, 25 9: 1780-1791. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddw050
Panicker, Nikhil, Saminathan, Hariharan, Jin, Huajun, Neal, Matthew, Harischandra, Dilshan S., Gordon, Richard, Kanthasamy, Kavin, Lawana, Vivek, Sarkar, Souvarish, Luo, Jie, Anantharam, Vellareddy, Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. and Kanthasamy, Arthi (2015) Fyn kinase regulates microglial neuroinflammatory responses in cell culture and animal models of parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neuroscience, 35 27: 10058-10077. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0302-15.2015
Khan, Nemat, Gordon, Richard, Woodruff, Trent M. and Smith, Maree T. (2015) Antiallodynic effects of alpha lipoic acid in an optimized RR-EAE mouse model of MS-neuropathic pain are accompanied by attenuation of upregulated BDNF-TrkB-ERK signalling in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Pharmacology Research and Perspectives, 3 3: 1-16. doi:10.1002/prp2.137
Brennan, Faith H., Gordon, Richard, Lao, Hong W., Biggins, Patrick J., Taylor, Stephen M., Franklin, Robin J. M., Woodruff, Trent M. and Ruitenberg, Marc J. (2015) The complement receptor C5aR controls acute inflammation and astrogliosis following spinal cord injury. Journal of Neuroscience, 35 16: 6517-6531. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5218-14.2015
Mantovani, S., Gordon, R., Macmaw, J. K., Plfluger, C. M., Henderson, R. D., Noakes, P. G., McCombe, P. A. and Woodruff, T. M. (2014) Elevation of the terminal complement activation products C5a and C5b-9 in ALS patient blood. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 276 1-2: 213-218. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2014.09.005
Gordon, Richard, Anantharam, Vellareddy, Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. and Kanthasamy, Arthi (2012) Proteolytic activation of proapoptotic kinase protein kinase Cδ by tumor necrosis factor α death receptor signaling in dopaminergic neurons during neuroinflammation. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 9 . doi:10.1186/1742-2094-9-82
Kanthasamy, Kavin, Gordon, Richard, Jin, Huajun, Anantharam, Vellareddy, Ali, Syed, Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. and Kanthasamy, Arthi (2011) Neuroprotective Effect of Resveratrol Against Methamphetamine-Induced Dopaminergic Apoptotic Cell Death in a Cell Culture Model of Neurotoxicity. Current Neuropharmacology, 9 1: 49-53. doi:10.2174/157015911795017353
Gordon, Richard, Hogan, Colleen E., Neal, Matthew L., Anantharam, Vellareddy, Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. and Kanthasamy, Arthi (2011) A simple magnetic separation method for high-yield isolation of pure primary microglia. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 194 2: 287-296. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.11.001
Conference Papers
Gordon, Richard, Albornoz, Eduardo, Kanthasamy, Anumantha and Woodruff, Trent (2018). C5aR1 is required for a-synuclein mediated NLRP3 inflammasome activation. In: 27th International Complement Workshop (ICW), Santa Fe, NM, United States, (229-229). Sep 16-20, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.molimm.2018.06.247
Magalhaes, Ricardo J. Soares, Giacomin, Paul, Sarnyay, Zoltan, Kraeuter, Ann, Urich, Tim, Bengtsson, Mia, Jin, Shuting, Albornoz, Eduardo A., Gordon, Richard and Woodruff, Trent (2017). GUT MICROBIOME CHANGES INDUCED BY EXPERIMENTAL TRICHURIS MURIS INFECTION ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN MICE. In: 65th Annual Meeting of the American-Society-of-Tropical-Medicine-and-Hygiene (ASTMH), Atlanta Ga, (585-585). Nov 13-16, 2016.
Deora, Vandana, Mantovani, Susanna, Yerbury, Justin, Clark, Richard, Atkin, Julie, Lee, John, Gordon, Richard and Woodruff, Trent M. (2017). Motor neuron disease proteins activate complement and generate C5a. In: 16th European Meeting on Complement in Human Disease (EMCHD), Copenhagen, Denmark, (168-168). 8-12 September 2017. doi:10.1016/j.molimm.2017.06.144
Gordon, Richard, Albornoz, Eduardo A., Kumar, Vinod, Zhou, Kiane, Garin-Michaud, Ashoka, Mantavani, Susanna, Kanthasamy, Anumantha G. and Woodruff, Trent M. (2016). Complement C5a activates microglial NLRP3 inflammasomes and drives neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease through C5aR1. In: The XXVI International Complement Workshop (ICW), Kanazawa, Japan, (1190-1190). 4-8 September 2016. doi:10.1016/j.imbio.2016.06.146
Li, R., Levin, S., Lee, J., Gordon, R. and Woodruff, T. (2016). The complement C5a receptor, C5aR2 contributes to motor deficits in mouse models of Huntington's and Parkinson's disease. In: International Congress of Immunology (ICI), Melbourne, Australia, (365-365). 21-26 August 2016. doi:10.1002/eji.201670200
Li, Rui, Lee, John D., Levin, Samantha, Gordon, Richard and Woodruff, Trent M. (2016). A pathogenic role for the C5a receptor, C5aR2, in mouse models of Huntington's and Parkinson's disease. In: The XXVI International Complement Workshop (ICW), Kanazawa, Japan, (1209-1209). 4-8 September 2016. doi:10.1016/j.imbio.2016.06.186
Mantovani, S., Gordon, R., Ngo, S., Pfluger, C., O'Sullivan, J., Noakes, P., Henderson, R., McCombe, P. and Woodruff, T. (2015). Peripheral immune complement activation in neurodegenerative disease. In: 25th Biennial Meeting of the International-Society-for-Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific-Society-for-Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australasian-Neuroscience-Society, Cairns Australia, (124-124). 23-27 August 2015. doi:10.1111/jnc.13188
Albornoz, E., Deora, V., Robertson, B. A., Cooper, M. A., Schroder, K., Woodruff, T. M. and Gordon, R. (2015). Paraquat activates the NLRP3 Inflammasome in microglia via the NADPH oxidase pathway. In: International Congress of Immunology (ICI), Melbourne, Australia, (1264-1264). Aug 21-26, 2016.
Mantovani, S., Li, R., Gordon, R., Kumar, V., Taylor, S. and Woodruff, T. M. (2013). Behavioural and pathological phenotyping of the C57BL/6J BACHD transgenic mouse model of Huntington’s disease. In: World Congress on Huntington’s disease, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (345-345). 15-18 September 2013.