Author name: Kristen Hartman

Yoder RM, Reuss SA, Pang KC (2001) Maze strategy in rats with GABAergic or cholinergic lesions of medial septum. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 418.7. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Cholinergic and GABAergic neurons are the two major cell types that project from medial septum to hippocampus. Although complete lesions of hippocampus or medial septum

Bartness TJ, Demas GE (2001) A novel method for localized sympathetic nervous system denervation of peripheral tissue using guanethidine. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 309.10. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: A simple technique for the functional deactivation of the sympathetic nervous system innervation of peripheral tissues is described using the local application of guanethidine. Multiple

Estacio MA, Tsukamura H, Reyes BA, Maeda KI (2001) Noradrenergic inputs to the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) is involved in estrogen receptor α expression in the PVN of 48-h fasted and 2DG-injected female rats. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 409.6. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Involvement of noradrenergic inputs to the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) in estrogen

Janczewski WA, Gray PA, Feldman JL (2001) Central origin of ataxic breathing after lesion of preBötzinger complex (preBötc) neurokinin 1 receptor expressing (NK1R+) neurons. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 243.2. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Pathological breathing results from near complete lesions of preBötC NK1R+ neurons in awake adult rats (Gray et al., FASEB J.,15,

Wiley RG, Kline IV RH, Lappi DA (2001) Dose-dependent effects of intrathecal substance P-saporin and SSP-saporin. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 281.11. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Selective destruction of lamina I dorsal horn neurons expressing the neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R) can attenuate responses to capsaicin injection and thermal hyperalgesia/mechanical allodynia in models of inflammatory, persistent

Gerashchenko D, Kohls MD, Greco MA, Waleh NS, Salin-Pascual R, Kilduff TS, Lappi DA, Shiromani PJ (2001) Hypocretin-saporin (Hcrt-sap) as a tool to examine hypocretin function. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 410.7. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The hypocretin (Hcrt) peptides are linked to narcolepsy. Humans with narcolepsy have decreased numbers of Hcrt neurons and

Mistlberger RE, Antle MC, Jones M, Kilduff TS (2001) Light- and food-entrained circadian rhythms in rats with neurotoxic lesions of hypocretin cells. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 410.8. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The hypocretins (Hcrt1 & 2) are lateral hypothalamic (LH) neuropeptides implicated in the regulation of feeding and sleep-wake states. Hcrt lesions attenuate

Blanco-Centurion CA, Salin-Pascual RJ, Gerashchenko D, Greco MA, Shiromani PJ (2001) Hypocretin B-saporin lesions of the brainstem increase rem sleep at night. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 410.9. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Loss of hypocretin (Hcrt) neurons has been linked to narcolepsy. These neurons project widely throughout brain, but it is not known which