Author name: Kristen Hartman

Kanju PM, Sims CM, Parameshwaran K, Huggins K, Josephson EM, Suppiramaniam V (2005) Medial-septal cholinergic denervation leads to synaptic glutamatergic dysfunction in hippocampus. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 157.2. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Accumulating evidences support the role of septohippocampal cholinergic projections in learning and memory mechanisms. Hence, a complete and selective destruction of the […]

Bailey AL, Bennett G, Ribeiro-da-Silva A (2005) Selective ablation of non-peptidergic C-fibers using IB4-saporin as a tool to identify the functional role of these fibers in pain transmission. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 169.14. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Non-peptidergic primary sensory afferents represent a sub-population of unmyelinated C-fibres implicated in the transmission of pain-related information.

Li X, Bynum T, Hayashida K, Eisenach JC (2005) Role of IB4-containing afferents in the effect of IT clonidine. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 171.22. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Alpha2 adrenoceptors diminish pain transmission in animals with normal condition. Our previous data demonstrated clonidine, an Alpha2 adrenoceptor agonist, inhibited calcium influx after an electrical stimulation

Buse JE, Kim I, Wilson RE, Wellman CL (2005) Contributions of NMDA receptors to cortical plasticity after cholinergic deafferentation. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 214.21. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Plasticity of frontal cortex is altered in aging rats: lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) increase both expression of the AMPA receptor subunit GluR1 and

Furlong TM, Carrive P (2005) Hypocretin/orexin neurons and the perifornical hypothalamus play a more important role in contextual fear than in restraint stress. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 304.11. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: We investigated the role of the neuropeptide hypocretin (Hcrt; also known as orexin) in two different types of stress: conditioned fear to

Kalinchuk AV, Stenberg D, Rosenberg PA, Porkka-Heiskanen T (2005) On the role of the basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in regulation of recovery sleep. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 308.8. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Basal forebrain (BF) is an critical site in regulation of propensity for sleep (Porkka-Heiskanen et al., 2000; Kalinchuk et al., 2003).We have

Coolen LM, Amstalden KAZ, Allard J (2005) Involvement of lumbar spinothalamic cells in relay of sensory cues related to vaginocervical stimulation in female rats. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 321.13. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: The rat lumbar spinal cord contains a population of galanin containing spinothalamic (LSt) cells, which in male rats play a pivotal

Xu, WZhu JPQ, Angulo JA (2005) Ablation of NK-1 receptor-expressing interneurons prevents methamphetamine-induced apoptosis but not dopamine terminal toxicity in the striatum of mice. Neuroscience 2005 Abstracts 337.9. Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC. Summary: Pharmacological evidence from our laboratory demonstrates that the neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor mediates methamphetamine (METH)-induced toxicity of the dopamine terminals and the