Author name: Kristen Hartman

Pokala VN, Fitz NF, Witt-Enderby PA, Johnson DA (2004) Septohippocampal cholinergic lesion and hippocampal alpha-secretase activity in rat. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 846.14. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Previously we have shown that selective cholinergic lesion of the septohippocampal pathway in the rat resulted in a significant decrease in hippocampal extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) concentration, […]

Pearson MS, Woods M, Whiteside GT, Garrison AE, Pomonis JD, Walker K (2004) IB4-SAP reduces IB4 staining in the spinal cord and prevents axotomy induced sprouting of Aβ fibers. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 858.6. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Peripheral nerve injury results in hyperalgesia and allodynia. It has been proposed that sprouting of

Chance WT, Dayal R, Friend L, Sheriff S (2004) Intraventricular injection of CRF receptor 2 antisense oligonucleotide reduces burn-induced hypermetabolism. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 890.22. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Following major burn trauma, mammals exhibit a prolonged hypermetabolic response proportional to the size of the burn. The ability to control metabolic rate would

Zhou D, Levin BE (2004) PVN anti-SERT-SAP injections reduce body weight gain, normal and glucoprivic feeding, and hypoglycemia- and stress-induced corticosterone responses. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 893.14. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Hindbrain serotonin (5HT) neurons are highly ramified with single neurons innervating several forebrain and hypothalamic areas such as the paraventricular nucleus (PVN).

Bugarith KH, Li A, Dinh TT, Ritter S (2004) Injection of the targeted-toxin, neuropeptide Y-saporin (NPY-SAP), into the basomedial hypothalamus (BMH) disrupts leptin and ghrelin signaling. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 893.17. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: NPY-SAP, a conjugate of the peptide NPY and saporin, a ribosomal inactivating toxin, specifically lesions NPY receptor-expressing cells.

Xu W, Zhu JPQ, Angulo JA (2004) Local striatal deletions of neurokinin-1 receptor-expressing neurons protect against methamphetamine-induced neural damage. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 908.8. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Recent collective evidence from our laboratory and others has implicated the peptidergic system involving the neuropeptide substance P (SP) and its receptor, neurokinin-1 (NK-1), in

Montoya DA, Pang K (2004) Modulation of late long-term potentiation in the hippocampus: Effect of cholinergic and GABAergic medial septal lesions. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 972.12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Long Term Potentiation (LTP) is an endurable change in synaptic efficacy produced by brief repetitive stimulation of specific afferents and is a cellular

Gravitt KC, Cai RS, Marson L (2004) Effect of removal of neurons expressing serotonin reuptake transporter on male sexual reflexes. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 998.2. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Ejaculatory reflexes are regulated by spinal circuits that are tonically inhibited or facilitated by specific regions of the brain. Serotonin can facilitate or inhibit

Cordova CA, Yu AJ, Chiba AA (2004) Attention, uncertainty, and acetylcholine: Effects of nucleus basalis cholinergic lesions on probabilistic inference. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 779.13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Animal investigations suggest that the basal forebrain corticopetal cholinergic system helps to regulate attention to unpredictable events. In light of these findings, computational theorists

Taylor CL, Rostron PR, Latimer MP, Winn P (2004) Behavioral characteristics of pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus lesioned and nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesioned rats in a test of vigilance. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 780.4. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Previous work has shown pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg) lesioned rats make more omissions on a vigilance task