Author name: Kristen Hartman

Datta S, Chatterjee K, Wiley R (2010) Decreasing abnormal nocifensive responses in the bilateral chronic constriction injury (bCCI) model of neuropathic pain: Effects of lumbar intrathecal CCK-saporin. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 175.22/MM12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The bCCI model produces long lasting -cold hyperalgesia (at least 100 days) along with decreases in staining

Li C, Back S, Lee J, Baek SK, Na H (2010) Gastrin-releasing peptide receptor in the spinal cord mediates mechanical allodynia following nerve injury. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 176.2/OO4. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) has been suggested as an itch-specific gene in the spinal cord (Sun et al., Nature, 2009).

Gulino R, Gulisano M (2010) The recovery of locomotion after lumbar spinal cord motoneuron depletion is affected by the modulation of Sonic Hedgehog and Notch-1 pathways. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 259.19/W12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Sonic hedgehog (Shh) and Notch-1 are involved in the regulation of stem cell function. Additionally, Notch-1 has a

Moore JT, Mccarren HS, Beck SG, Kelz MB (2010) Lesioning of the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus alters isoflurane-induced hypnosis in a time-dependent fashion. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 300.28/KKK36. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Despite 160 years of clinical use, the neural mechanisms through which general anesthetics act remain unknown. One possibility is that anesthetics exert

Sheikh A, Kanold PO (2010) Subplate neurons promote the formation of barrels within rat primary somatosensory cortex. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 33.1/E1. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Subplate neurons are a transient neuronal population present in the neonatal cortex. Subplate neurons receive thalamic afferents and project into the developing cortical plate. Selective removal of

Sorkin LS, Choi J-I, Koehrn FJ (2010) Carageenan evoked P-Akt in deep dorsal horn neurons is prevented by loss of neurokinin1 positive neurons in superficial dorsal horn. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 81.21/VV19. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: P-Akt expression increases in dorsal horn after prolonged noxious stimulation and participates in synaptic strengthening. Recent work

Zheng H, Rinaman LM (2010) Anxiety-like behavior in the elevated plus maze (EPMZ) depends on noradrenergic (NA) inputs to the anterolateral bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (alBST) in rats. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 90.7/FFF13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The a2 adrenoceptor antagonist yohimbine (YO) increases transmitter release from NA neurons, activates the

Weeden CS, Morris AM, Rossi CA, Roberts JM, Kesner RP (2010) The role of GABA-ergic interneurons in CA1 and dentate gyrus for sequence learning. Neuroscience 2010 Abstracts 99.26/KKK12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The hippocampus (HPP) plays an important role in temporal and spatial memory. Lesion investigations of the CA1 region of HPP