Author name: Kristen Hartman

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

Ritter S, Flynn FW, Dinh TT (2004) Immunotoxic destruction of hindbrain catecholamine neurons impairs the vasopressin response to hypovolemia. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 660.4. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: In order to better understand the involvement of hindbrain catecholamine neurons in hypovolemia-induced vasopressin secretion, we lesioned these neurons selectively using anti-dopamine beta-hydroxylase (dbh) conjugated

Xu F, Zhuang J, Hernandez J, Shi S (2004) Apnea induced by stimulation of bronchopulmonary C-fibers (PCFs) depends on neurons expressing the neurokinin a receptor (NK1R) in the commissural subnucleus of the nucleus tractus solitarius (cNTS). Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 661.13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Stimulation of PCFs by right atrial injection of

Conner JM, Chiba AA, Tuszynski MH (2004) The basal forebrain cholinergic system is essential for cortical plasticity and functional recovery following brain injury. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 685.12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Localized damage to the motor cortex typically results in impaired motor function. Functional recovery following focal brain injury presumably requires the

Tait DS, Brown VJ (2004) Cell-body lesions of basal forebrain impair reversal learning but not attentional set-shifting in rats. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 779.12. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: There is considerable evidence for a role of basal forebrain acetylcholine in a wide range of attentional tasks (see Sarter & Bruno, 2000, Neurosci, 95:933-952),

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

Truitt WA, Dietrich AD, Fitz SD, Minick PE, Shekhar A (2004) Neurokinin 1 receptor expressing interneurons of the BLA regulate anxiety-like responses in the rat. Neuroscience 2004 Abstracts 782.5. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The Basolateral Nucleus of the Amygdala (BLA) has been implicated in the regulation and development of anxiety. In general,