Author name: Kristen Hartman

Thankachan S, Kaur S, Blanco-Centurion C, Sakurai T, Yanagisawa M, Shiromani PJ (2008) Ventrolateral periaquaductal gray (vlPAG): Key area for REM sleep propensity. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 586.3/SS36. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: In an effort to determine how loss of hypocretin/orexin (HOX) increases REM sleep we have used the neurotoxin, hypocretin-2-saporin (HCRT2-SAP), to lesion […]

Lai YY, Hsieh KC, Nguyen D, Siegel JM (2008) The substantia nigra and the control of sleep. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 586.9/SS42. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: It has been established that the substantia nigra (SN) is involved in the control of motor activity. However, its role in the regulation of sleep remains unclear. We

Carter ES, Newman LA, Galler JR, Mcgaughy J (2008) Effects of cholinergic deafferentation of medial, prefrontal cortex on a cross-modal divided attention task. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 590.6/TT58. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Previous research has shown that cholinergic lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis impair cross-modal divided attention (Turchi and Sarter 1997). Cholinergically lesioned

Butt AE, Kinney-Hurd BL, Flesher MM, Amodeo DA, Horn LR, Greenfield V, Lladones R, Hernandez G, Loson L (2008) Selective cholinergic lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis disrupt attention in appetitive trace conditioning. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 686.14/SS65. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Pavlovian trace conditioning, but not delay conditioning, is a form of declarative

Sugiyo S, Uehashi D, Masawaki A, Ohyamaguchi A, Abe T, Yonehara N, Takemura M (2008) Intra cisterna magna and Rostral ventromedial medulla injection of anti-Serotonin transporter-Saporinpertussis enhanced somatotopically different c-Fos expression and pain related behaviour in the medullary dorsal horn in rats. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 369.11/KK23. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The rostral ventromedial

Moreira TS, Takakura AC, Stornetta RL, Guyenet PG (2008) Selective lesion of retrotrapezoid Phox2b-expressing neurons attenuates the central chemoreflex in rats. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 383.3/RR70. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Injection of the neurotoxin saporin-substance P (SSP-SAP) into the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN) attenuates the central chemoreflex in rats. Here we ask whether these deficits

Mack SO, Wu M, Xu G (2008) Chemoresponsiveness of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) is influenced by neuropeptide Y. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 383.7/RR74. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) initiates autonomic responses to stress and behavioral changes. Neuropeptide Y-containing neurons primarily from the arcuate nucleus and, to a lesser extent,

Holland PC, Angeli N, Lasseter H, Wheeler DS (2008) Unilateral lesions of lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons impair surprise-induced enhancements of learning. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 387.16/SS63. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Recent evidence indicates that hypothalamic orexin (hypocretin) neurons are importantly involved in arousal, aspects of learned motivational function, and the cholinergic mediation of sustained

Lecourtier L, Leroux E, Cosquer B, Cassel JC (2008) A synergistic role for GABAergic and cholinergic neurons of the medial septum in spatial reference memory processing: assessment with the Morris water-maze and a novel double-H maze in rats. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 389.10/TT38. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The medial septum – from which GABAergic

Burjanadze M, Beselia G, Chkhikvishvili N, Kotaria N (2008) Learning strategy selection in the water maze in medial septal electrolytic and selective cholinergic neurons lesioned rats. Neuroscience 2008 Abstracts 389.5/TT33. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: In this experiment the ability of medial septal electrolytic, selective ACh lesioned (by immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin) and sham-operated rats,