Author name: Kristen Hartman

Knox DK, Berntson GG (2005) The potential role of the corticopetal cholinergic system in mediating anxiogenic states in rats. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 659.10. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Previous research has demonstrated that the corticopetal cholinergic system is important in mediating defensive tachycardia which suggests that this system may be important in mediating aversive […]

Stead S, Trottier N, Doering LC (2005) Characterization of an immunotoxin model of Parkinson’s disease in mice. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 664.9. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The primary event underlying the motor deficits of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is degeneration of neurons in the nigro-striatal system. The most widely employed laboratory rodent models of Parkinson’s

Fargo KN, Sengelaub DR (2005) Testosterone treatment prevents deficits in motor activation caused by partial loss of motoneurons. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 672.8. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: In male rats, motoneurons of the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) project to the bulbocavernosus and levator ani muscles (BC/LA). The SNB system is dependent on

Fraley GS (2005) Immunolesions of glucoresponsive projections to the arcuate nucleus alter glucoprivic feeding and luteinizing hormone secretion but not sex behavior in adult male rats. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 758.7. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Metabolic signals such as insulin, leptin and glucose are known to alter hypothalamic function. Although insulin and leptin are

Vijayakumar S, Masood A, Smith M, Clark JP, Nelson DE, Ding JM (2005) Immunolesion of p75 NGF receptor in the mouse SCN attenuated light-induced phase shift of the circadian wheel-running rhythm. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 766.18. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Mammalian circadian rhythms are regulated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus. Alhough

Greene DM, Castillo MR, Alexander KA, McMahan A, Raap DK, Bult-Ito A (2005) Neurotoxic lesions of serotonin cells in the dorsal raphe reduce compulsive-like nest building in mice. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 796.10. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Bi-directional selection for thermoregulatory nest-building behavior in house mice (Mus musculus) has resulted in a 40-fold difference

Truitt WA, Oberlin BG, Dietrich AD, Fitz SD, Shekhar A (2005) Neurokinin 1 receptor containing interneurons of the BLA are putative candidates for the inhibitory component of feed-forward inhibition from the mPFC to the BLA. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 796.12. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The amygdala and in particular the basolateral nucleus of the

Rinaman L, Maldovan V (2005) Experimental dissociation of neural circuits underlying anorexic and conditioned avoidance responses to LiCl in rats. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 529.7. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) receives viscerosensory input from noradrenergic (NA) neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST) and from peptidergic

Mattsson A, Schilstrum B, Svensson TH, Olson L (2005) Cortical cholinergic deficiency enhances amphetamine-induced dopamine release in accumbens. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 557.8. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Disturbances in cholinergic functions have been implicated in schizophrenia. We have recently shown that cholinergic denervation of neocortex produced by local injection of the immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin