Author name: Kristen Hartman

Gray PA, Vandunk C (2007) Developmental origins of ventral medullary NK1r neurons. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 187.15/SS7. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Breathing is a fundamental neural behavior generated by neurons within the brainstem. In the adult rat, bilateral injection of substance P conjugated to saporin (SSP) in the preBötzinger Complex (preBötC) eliminates normal […]

Radley JJ, Sawchenko PE (2007) Noradrenergic denervation of dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) modulates paraventricular hypothalamic responses to acute restraint stress. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 198.4/ZZ13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The dorsal mPFC is implicated in restricting the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to acute emotional stress via its influence on neuroendocrine effector mechanisms

Sparrow AW, Lowery EG, Thiele TE (2007) Amygdalar neuropeptide Y (NPY) signaling modulates stress-induced reductions of food intake in Balb/cJ mice. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 270.10/X24. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The existing literature suggests that NPY signaling in the amygdala modulates anxiety-like behaviors and ethanol consumption in rodents, but does not modulate food

Hains BC, Zhao P, Waxman S (2007) ERK1/2 regulates microglia-neuron signaling and pain by PGE2 following SCI. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 287.16/LL14. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: We recently showed that microglia become activated after experimental SCI and dynamically maintain hyperresponsiveness of spinal cord nociceptive neurons and pain-related behaviors. Mechanisms of signaling between microglia

Coons KD, Wilson RE, Sengelaub DR (2007) Protection from dendritic atrophy with testosterone following partial motoneuron depletion: dose-dependence in males and efficacy in females. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 56.11/S5. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Partial depletion of motoneurons from the highly androgen-sensitive spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB), or the more typical somatic motoneuron

Ferguson AS, Sengelaub DR (2007) Dendritic atrophy following partial motoneuron depletion: time course of recovery and protection with testosterone. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 56.24/S18. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: In male rats, motoneurons of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) project to the bulbocavernosus and levator ani (BC/LA) muscles, and both the motoneurons

Cai L, Johnson DA (2007) Poster: Recognition of novel objects and their location in rats with selective cholinergic lesion of the medial septum. Neuroscience 2007 Abstracts 92.21/TT2. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The goal of this project was to determine whether cholinergic neurons projecting from the medial septum (MS) to the hippocampus play