Author name: Kristen Hartman

Bailey AM, Rudisill ML, Hoof EM, Loving ML (2001) The effects of 192 IgG-saporin lesions to the nucleus basalis magnocellularis/substantia innominata (nBM/SI) on two learning set formation tasks and open field activity. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 85.13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Male Long Evans rats (Rattus norvegicus) were used to investigate the role […]

Stahl CE, Kusayama T, Keep M, Elmer E, Watanabe S, Borlongan CV (2001) Cyclosporine-A improves performance in passive avoidance task in adult rats with basal forebrain lesions. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 101.11. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: While mainly used as an immunosuppressant, newly identified properties of CsA suggest its potential as a therapeutic

Works SJ, Wellman CL (2001) Differential dendritic atrophy in frontal cortex after cholinergic lesion in young adult and aged rats. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 101.17. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Previously, we demonstrated that plasticity of frontal cortex is altered in aging rats: three months after surgery, ibotenic acid lesions of the nucleus basalis

Helm KA, Han JS, Gallagher M (2001) Selective cholinergic deafferentation affects GR mRNA expression in the rat brain. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 175.10. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Two common features of the aging process include progressive dysfunction of both the basal forebrain cholinergic (BFC) system and suprahypothalamic feedback on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.

Burk JA, Herzog CD, Porter MC, Mahoney J, Bruno JP, Sarter M (2001) Interactions between partial cortical cholinergic deafferentation and aging on sustained attention performance in rats. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 202.5. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Previous studies have provided only limited support for the idea that aging alone impairs the functions of

Rinaman L, Wonders CP (2001) Targeted destruction of A2/C2 catecholamine neurons alters hypothalamic responses to vagal stimulation. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 131.4. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: Central catecholamine (CA) pathways participate in viscerosensory modulation of hypothalamic neuroendocrine function. Different brainstem CA cell groups may relay different types of viscerosensory signals to different classes

Gadd CA, Murtra P, Hall CN, Gana M, Webber MJ, De Felipe C, Hunt SP (2001) NK1-expressing neurons critical for morphine reward behaviors in mice: C-fos expression and ablation of NK1-expressing neurons. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 224.13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: We have previously shown using conditioned place preference (CPP) that mice lacking

Gu JG, Nakatsuka T, Tanaka E, Takeda D, Jennifer LX (2001) Capsaicin-sensitive inhibitory pathway in rat spinal cord dorsal horn. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 158.13. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: The inhibitory system in the spinal cord plays an important role in regulating nociceptive sensory inputs. Here we examined inhibitory synaptic activity in lamina

Nakatsuka T, Takeda D, Gu JG (2001) α,β-methylene ATP sensitive P2X receptor mediated enhancement of glutamate release from the central terminals of Aδ primary afferents onto lamina V neurons in rat spinal cord. Neuroscience 2001 Abstracts 158.16. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Summary: We examined the role of αβmATP-sensitive P2X receptors in modulating glutamate