Author name: Kristen Hartman

Likhtik E, Apergis-Schoute J, Pare D (2006) A selective lesioning method to probe the role of intercalated (ITC) amygdala neurons in the extinction of classically conditioned fear responses. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 370.19. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: The acquisition of conditioned fear responses (CRs) is thought to involve the potentiation of synapses conveying information […]

Iacobucci P, Colonnello V, Ricceri L (2006) Detailed analysis of ultrasound vocalizations emitted by 12-d-old rats during homing test: effects of a brief reunion with littermates in neonatal basal forebrain cholinergic lesioned pups. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 374.17. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: To evaluate the role of the developing cholinergic basal forebrain system on

McKay LC, Feldman JL (2006) Unilateral ablation of neurokinin-1 receptor-expressing (NK1R) neurons within the preBötzinger complex (preBötC) in adult rats disrupts breathing during sleep but not during wakefulness. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 455.4. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: In adult rats, as the number of ablated preBötC NK1R neurons increases, breathing becomes increasingly disrupted during

Li A, Nattie EE (2006) Lesions of neurokinin-1 receptor immunoreactive (NK1R-ir) neurons in the ventral medulla decrease chemoreception and ventilation. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 455.5. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: We injected SSP-saporin, a toxin specific for NK1R-ir neurons, into the cisterna magna in order to lesion a wide aspect of the ventral medulla. NK1R-ir

Shiromani PJ, Blanco-Centurion C, Xu M, Murillo-Rodriguez E, Gerashchenko D, Hof PR (2006) Adenosine and sleep debt in the basal forebrain. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 458.13. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: The waxing and waning of the sleep drive is hypothesized to be regulated by endogenous sleep factors acting on specific neurons in the brain.

Blanco-Centurion CA, Shiromani PJ (2006) Hypocretin-1 stimulates wake and decreases sleep in the basal forebrain of rats with 192-IgG-sap induced lesion of the cholinergic neurons. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 458.7. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: Hypocretin (orexin) containing neurons are located in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) from where they project to major arousal centers in

Abitoye PA, Li P, Gibbs RB, Johnson DA (2006) Steroid sulfatase inhibitor (p-O-sulfamoyl) – tetradecanoyl tyramine (du-14) enhances memory retention in rats with cholinergic lesion. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 163.15. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: Previous studies have shown that altering the metabolism of neurosteroids via inhibition of steroid sulfatase (SSI) would reverse scopolamine induced

Rivat C, Vera-Portocarrero LP, Ibrahim MM, Mata HP, Stagg NJ, De Felice M, Porreca F, Malan TP (2006) Ascending and descending pathways support fentanyl-induced pain hypersensitivity with and without a surgical incision. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 248.10. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: Acutely administered the analgesic opioid fentanyl has been shown to enhance mechanical hypersensitivity

Hayashida K, Clayton B, Ma W, Eisenach J (2006) Brain-derived neurotrophic growth factor from p75-expressing sensory afferents drives spinal noradrenergic fiber sprouting following nerve injury in rats. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 248.19. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: We previously showed that peripheral nerve injury in mice results in sprouting of noradrenergic (NA) fibers in the

Tait DS, Brown VJ, Farovik A, Theobald DE, Dalley JW, Robbins TW (2006) Lesions of the dorsal noradrenergic bundle impair attentional set-shifting in the rat. Neuroscience 2006 Abstracts 264.4. Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA. Summary: Rats with medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) lesions are impaired in attentional set shifting (Birrell and Brown, 2000, J Nsci, 20:4320-4324).