Author name: Kristen Hartman

Corley SR, Atkinson M, Cabrera S, Castillo A, Crawford D, Kitto M, Butt AE (2004) Cholinergic basal forebrain lesions disrupt acquisition of cued and uncued differential reinforcement of low rate responding. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 436.10. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The frontal cortex, medial septum/vertical diagonal band (MS/VDB), and hippocampus have been implicated […]

Arshad S, Li P, Fitz NF, Johnson DA (2004) Effect of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate on retention in passive avoidance in septal hippocampal cholinergic lesioned rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 436.11. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Infusions of 192 IgG-saporin (SAP) into the medial septum (MS) selectively destroys cholinergic neurons projecting to the hippocampus. Our previous

Fitz NF, Li P, Johnson DA (2004) Effects of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate on delayed match to position T-maze task performance in 192- IgG saporin lesioned rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 436.2. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Prior studies have shown that infusion of 192 IgG-saporin (SAP), a cholinergic neurotoxin, into the media septum (MS) of

Fletcher BR, Guzowski JF, Baxter MG, Shapiro ML, Rapp PR (2004) Hippocampal Arc and Homer 1a expression in behaviorally characterized 192 IgG-saporin lesioned rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 436.4. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Fornix lesions impair hippocampal dependent learning and block behavioral induction of the immediate-early gene Arc. The present experiment tested the

Kitto MR, Carbrera S, Corley S, Castillo A, Atkinson M, Andrews C, Casteneda M, Crawford D, Iliscupidez M, Monahan R, Rodriguez D, Salley T, Butt AE (2004) 192 IgG-saporin lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis impair biconditional discrimination learning in rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 436.5. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Previous results from

Ricceri L, Scattoni ML, Cutuli D, Calamandrei G (2004) Effects of neonatal cholinergic lesions on fear conditioning in 18-day-old rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 436.9. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: We have previously shown that neonatal intracerebroventricular (icv) injections of the selective cholinergic immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin on postnatal day (pnd) 7 induces behavioural alterations

Benassi SK, Blanco MM, Mello LE (2004) Electrophysiological profile of IgG192saporin-lesioned rats in the pilocarpine model of epilepsy. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 452.14. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: In order to investigate the importance of the basal forebrain cholinergic reorganization to the epileptogenesis process, adult male Wistar EPM-1 rats (180-220g) were subjected to status

Bailey AL, Bennett G, Ribeiro-da-Silva A (2004) Investigation of the functional role of non-peptidergic primary afferent sensory fibres in the transmission of pain related information. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 484.1. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: It is well established that small diameter, unmyelinated, primary afferent C-fibres can be divided into two neurochemically defined populations,

McGaughy JA, Koene R, Eichenbaum HB, Hasselmo ME (2004) Effects of cholinergic deafferentation of prefrontal cortex on working memory: A convergence of behavioral and modeling results. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 551.7. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: In humans, the prefrontal and medial temporal lobe areas are differentially activated during working memory dependent upon the

Stead S, Doering LC (2004) A novel mouse model for Parkinson’s disease using an immunotoxin directed at the dopamine transporter. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 563.1. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Current laboratory models of Parkinson’s disease utilize neurotoxins directed at midbrain dopamine neurons to mimic nigro-striatal dopaminergic neuron degeneration. To date, however, there is